The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-21

W uoiihbAohf Juif - TA'pbA dAtcl
midnight this morning he drawing Of
the first 100000 young men from the
registered list Of 10,000,000 was com
pleted, the machinery Of the vast
lottery running with a smoothness
and efiicinecy that was the product of
weeks Of preparation. War depart
ments officials and members OF the
Senate and House military commit
tees, with representatives OF the
press present, began the drawing at
4.49 o'clock yesterday morning, in Il
committee room of the Senate office
building. All through the day and
evening the work continued until ,he
10,500 slips bearing numbers CORES
ponding with the serial numbers o.
each registrant in tine largest istrict
in the country were drawn. From the
| 1,370,000, the local exemption boards
will select $4,000 for the first draft
army of the 100000 and to fill va
cancies I'm the national guard and the
regular army.
Reports from all sections Of the
country indicated an intense inter
est, but accompanied nowhere with
disorder. The country's young mell
were apparently submitting to a sys
TEN which they considered with its
authors, the most common-seuse way
of effectively placing the nation i'll
condition to perform the stern duties
of the moment The silent accept,
ance of the situation, as conveyed i'll
dispatches from every state, was in
itself grim commentary upon the
work this country has set Itself tC
perform.
Fun hours after the drawing
stared about 24O0 numbers Lad Jeed
'Glawr and the tellers we're slowing
down il their work. This placel the
estimates as to the time of closing at
close to dawn this morning. But as
the day wore on the system acquired
smoother running and at 8 o'clocl
last night with the 1000 mark passed
and 10 numbers a minute beins
drawn, it was evident that the draw
ing would be finished soon after mid
night, as in fact was the case.
Not since the tragic times OF th'
civil war has there been day of sucl
vital and far reaching interest as tina
! of yesterday. Late in the forenoon
the Banner began receiving a repor
of the drawings and as rapidly as tn,
names could be located on the coun
ty registration list they were poste,
| on the bulletin board in front of th
Office. Soon the walk was blocke,
by men and women and even children
indicating how the draft was reach
ing into every home in the land
During the afternoon more name
were received and posted and tn
process was continued till late a
night but the interest did not flag NJ
iii close to midnight Early thi
morning people again began to gath
er about the bulletin board and ther
hasn't been minute during the da
when registrants, their fathers
mothers. brothers, sisters and swee
hearts have not been scanning tn
lis;
There are published in the Banne
this afternoon about five hundre
names. Out OF this number It
: probable that Bennington county
! quota of 1913 men will be draw
Many of the men who have reglstere
| will he rejected becauge of inabilit
to pass the physical examination
others will be exempt because Of Il
= pendent relatives and probably fe
{ because the work they are doing vi
A be considered of more importan'
o than the duty they could perform
Y the army. Men who are drawn al
a called to the service In the order thu
n their names appear In the publishC
list IL the first name In the list
that of q man who fails TO pass Il
examination or who is exempted i'
any reason he Is given no iurth'
5 consideration. II the third ma
passes the examination and is not G
empted then there are only l22 mt
left to be secured for the coun
quota
, The list as published must nece
sarily contain errors Conducted
. II was and transmitted by telegral
and telephone mistakes could not
avoided Some namef may apne'
twice but this Is not strange whit