Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-25
DRAFTED MEN IN
STATE WILL GET
CALL NEXT WEEK
Delay in Getting War De-
partment Lists Will
Hold Up Work
OFFICIAL NUMBERS HERE
Will Be Sent to the District
Boards as Soon as
Reprinted

There is small chance of call for
drafted men in Pennsylvania before
the middle of next week, it is belicv-
ed here. Although the official draft
numbers have been received by the
newspapers from Washington, most
OF the lists having been delivered by
mall this morning, the War Depart
ment's list for the Pennsylvania Reg
lstration Board has not yet reached
headquarters. When it is received
Colonel Frank G. Sweeney, in charge,
VIII send ii Immediately to the print
er, in order to have published the
2S2 copies necessary to supply the
district boards. Until these are mail
ed and received in the outlying dis
tricts of the state no men can be
called, for the boards will have no
official knowledge as to the numbers
ana names OF men to be summoned.
Colonel Sweeney said to-day that
in view of the fact Washington aai
not been able to rush the work more
rapidly than it has, that it is scarce
ly to be expected that the state regis
tration board will be able to accom-
plish it in less time. The board is
in the midst of tremendous mailing
difficulties. Practically one-tenth of
all the drafted men will come from
Pennsylvania, and the work of COW
Gus forms required by the War De-
partment is immense. Seventy five
sacks of forms, to be subdivided and
allotted and then remailed, arrived
from Washington to-day and more
are on the road.
Protest Quotas
The state board is still receiving
letters from various counties where
residents believe the credits allotted
them were too small Colonel Swee-
ney is checking over the quotas as
compiled in accordance with instruc-
tlons from Washington in order to
see if any clerical errors were made.
If not, the quotas will have to stand
unless changed by Washington. 1t
is conceivable, according to members
of the boards, that some inequalities
do exist, for the reason that men who
enlisted in the Guard or the United
States service residing in county dis
tricts may have given the town in
which they enlisted as their resi-
dence. In this manner some county
districts have lost advantages which
have gone to cities, but it is not
thought this is true to any great eX-
tent. The state board insists that
any change from draft quotas not due
to clerical error must be made by
Washington.
County Boards Get orders
Draft boards all over Dauphin
county received instructions to-day
from the Governor to recommend
physicians to be appointed who Will
assist the exemption boards to eX-
anime drafted men for the army. In
the city the extra physicians will not
be needed at once, because Harris
burg'S volunteer enlistments number
ed more than the quota the city was
required to give in the first draft, but
recommendation will be made
nevertheless so that the physicians
will be available when they are need
ed The county boards will need sew
eral physicians and probably will fol-
low the instructions to recommend
one physician for each allotment of
eighty men drafted. The first dis
trict board likely will suggest Drs.
Fl. H. Rhodes, Middletown; w. r.
Kirkpatrick. Highspire. and ]. r.
Plank. Steelton. and the second coun-
ty district board probably will sug-
sest DR.. S. n. Traver, PaXtang.