Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-07-23
TO SW|FTEST
Race Now for Raising
State Contingents
Copies Of Master List Will Be Sent to
Local. Exemption Boards Beginning
Not Later Than Tuesday

Washington, July 22.-Despite the
fact that officers and clerks of Provost
Marshal General Crowders olflce
worked all Friday night to complete
the drawing that fixed the order of
military liability of 10,ooo.000 regis
trants, the tally sheets had been com
pared and corrected before dark Sat
urday night and the master list was
in the hands Of the printers. Copies
will be sent to local exemption boards.
beginning not later than Tuesday ana
the summoning of the first draft OF
6s7. 900 men can begin.
General Crowder Saturday night is
sued the following statement
THE drawing is complete and has
apparently been successful. The Off
cial tally sheets have been compared,
sent to the printer and the proof is
now being received. Final copies will
be ready for distribution not later than
Tuesday.
No Further Drawing
THE next step will be the certiflca-
ton Of the results Of the drawing to
1857 local boards and the application
by each board of its chart to its seri-
ally numbered list. This need con-
sumo but little time and, when done,
the order OF priority Of the nearly TO-
o,o0c ree1strants to report for exam
ination will be revealed. Such addi-
tional drafts az may be ordered by
the President will be filled by calling
men in the order of this established
priority, and no further drawing will
ever be necessary.
Each local board upon receipt OF
its chart and upon notification by the
Governor Of the quota to be raised by
it, may proceed at once. under regula-
lions already promulgated, to summon
men for examination.
1--WE now have passed the stage in
the execution of the selective act when
we must have concert of action by the
states. In raising state contingents the
race Is to the swiftest.
Praises the Press
Il cannot let this opportunity pass
without adverting to the very great
value Of the assistance which has been
earnestly and efficiently rendered by the
press.
without the systematic campaign of
public information that prepared the
country for the registration. the enroll
ment of ten million men on the fifth
day of June would have been impos-
sible The generous support of the
newspapers through the period since
registration day is appreciated. and only
the most thorough efficiency could have
placed upon the streets w:.hin few
hours after the first number was drawn,
lists for each registration district show
ing the names of the persons who would
he summoned for examination at the
first call Of the local boards
General Crowder also made public the
text of the regulations for the applica
ton which will accompany the master
lists. The only new feature shown is
the plan for handling cards that are
found to have duplicate numbers or are
otherwise confused, and also of dealing
with those received since July 10. when
the local boards closed their lists to be-
gin numbering.
BY the plan worked out, these addi
tional cards will be given an order of
their own by lot and will then be added
| to the list of districts from which they
come and be affected by the drawing
precisely as though they had been re-
ceived and numbered before the board
lists were closed. Where several cards
bear the same serial number. one will
be drawn from the group and retain
the duplicated number. while the others
will be regarded as unnumbered and the
process Of adding them to the lists will
be followed
Another step accomplished during the
day was appointment of district boards
for 80 of the states and announcement
Of the names of the FIVE men who will
compose each of them.