The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-07-19
Plan Outlined.

Plan Outlined.
The method by which the drawing
will be made was outlined by Pro-
| vost Marshal General Crowder in an
explanation issued today. The scheme
is so simple that the drawing of one
set of 1000 numbers and another OF
10, will fix with absoiute equality of
chance, the order in which every one
OF the 10000, 900 registrants shall re-
port to his local board for examtna-
ton and subsequent exemption. dis
charge or acceptance for military
service.
Since the average exemption district
registration is 5000 ana there are
1857 districts. the average number of
men listed with each operation of
the drawing machinery will be about
10000
General Crowder announced also
that local boards will be instructed
to call 200 per cent of their quota al
the first call to provide for probable
exemptions. That means that 1874
900 men will be notified to appear
for examination within the next few
days. II more are necessary, they
will be called for as needed by the
local boards in the order provided
for in the drawing.
Will Fill Quota.
In some districts the 100 per cent
allowance for exemption may be too
large, and in others too small, but
the local boards will be instructed to
continue calling for men until the
district quota is filed. Each state
governor is now alloting TO his dis
tricts their respective portions Of the
states quota. " ..-s
In each of the 1857 exemption dis
tricts among which the ten million
registration cards have been divided,
the cards have been given serial
numbers. The number Of registrants
in each district varies from about
IS5 in the smallest to more than 5000
in the largest, so that the serial num-
bers to be dealt with in the drawing
range from l to between 5000 and
10000.
In order to reduce the mechanical
process and make 1t possible for the
/, 900 numbers drawn to reach every
man in every district. a so-called
master key has been devised. This
will be obtained by drawing slips
numbered from naught to nine, which
will be listed in the order they are
drawn to form the key.
Then win begin the drawing Of the
numbers one to one thousand. For
the district with not more than 1000
registrants there will be no problem
to determine the order of appearance
before the exemption board. The
number drawn first will fix the man
whose card bears that serial number
as the first to appear before his
board. In the district with only 1856
registrants, the 1S5 will be on the
table for appearance in the order in
which their numbers are drawn, and
when a number higher than that ap-
pears, the district. of course, will not
be affected.
Application of the master key
makes IL possible to apply fairly each
OF the 1000 numbers drawn TO dis
tricts with more than one thousand
registrants. AS a number is drawn,
IL will be added to each of the thous-
and in excess OF 1000, in each dis
trict.
For instance, II 25 is the FIRST num-
ber drawn. it will represent 20. 1.o25,
2.025, 3,O25, 4,025, 5,025. 6,025, 7,025,
s,025 and 9,025.
BY applying the master key the
order in which these numbers will be
listed in each district will be deter
mined. II the drawing of 10 numerals
for the key should result this way:
8, q, /, 5, 2. 3, 0, s. 4, s.
Then the drawing of 25 as the first
number Of the thousand would fix the
first men to appear before the exemp-
tion board in this order:
9.025: 1925; 1,025; 5,025; 2,025.
S,O25; Is; s.025; 4.O25 and 6.02s
The district with more than 1000
registrants thus win have 10 Of its
men assigned 70 their places at the
head Of its list with 9,025 on top. The
district with less than 1000 men will
have one, number 25. at the head Of
its list. This process will be continued
until every man Of the 10000. coo has
been assigned his place on the roster
OF his district.
The Explanation.
In his explanation Of the process
and Of the reason for fixing the order