The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-09

out what your red ink serial number i
as soon as your board has finished mum
bering the cards.
Watch for the drawing in Washington
Then find out whether you were drawn
and the order in which you must appear
After that learn when you must ap
pear for physical examination.
In case of doubt as to any point ask
your local board about it.
Washington, July 9.-All the details
have been worked out for putting into
effect the drafting of young Americans
between the ages of Il and 81 for service
in the national army, and all that re-
mains is the announcement of the date
on which the draft will be applied. The
basic principle of the system of making
selections for active duty from among
the 100000 men registered under the
law is to assign each man number and
then to draw these numbers by lot, the
drawing to be done in Washington under
the supervision of the war department.
The assignment of numbers will be
made by the local boards in each of the
1000 odd districts in the country. Lists
of the names of the registrants and the
numbers assigned them will be forwarded
to Washington before the drawing is be-
gun Each registrant will be given a
card bearing a number and duplicate
of this card will be forwarded to the war
A registrant holding a card
that corresponds in number to number
drawn must report for service. If he
claims to be exempt, the local exemption
board will consider his case. 1t is imma
terial to the war department how the
cards are numbered as long as they are
numbered serially without the skipping
Of any number.
Those lists are coming into Washing
ton slowly. In some districts the names
IN the lists were arranged alphabetically |
md were then numbered in that order. |
we're shuff1ed and were then numbered |
we're shu ed and were then numbered |
rom No. forward until each card had
been given its number.
If there are $500 men registered in a
New York City district, the list sent in
" the board in that district must con-
ain the name of every man registered
md these names must be numbered | to
800 serially. If another district has
400 registrants, they will be numbered
rom ! to 2,400. So on throughout the
ountry.
If the first number drawn is q every
nan throughout the country whose card
ears the number 81 will be taken I'M
er the draft. This means that in more
han 1000 local districts the 2l's will be
hosen.
The lists for each local district must
lso be in the hands of the provost mar
nal general, officially complete and
worn to, before any man is drafted.
he numbers picked from the jury wheel
: by some other process yet to be de-
,rmined, will not be known to any local
1ard until after it has officially sent its
,rrectly numbered list to Washington
As the local boards will have no meth
of sscertaining what numbers are to
, drawn, it win be absolutely impos-
bic to manipulate the registration
imbers in the various districts.
The district lists based on the serial
of the registration cards, are
be made out in qusdruplcate. One
ply will be kept by the local exemption /
ard. The second copy will be posted I
the local board in conspicuous place q
cessible to public view. This posting is j
enable each registrant to know what {
J number will be. 6
The third copy of the serially num- C
red list of registrants will be made
silable by each local board for publica-
m in the press.
The fourth copy will be sent by each =.
al board to the provost marshal gem :,
Il in Washington. :,
When this has been done, President :,
lson will by proclamation prescribe :,
method, time or times and place or q,
ees of drawing numbers, and after do A
this he will apportion to the various II
ties and territories and the District of d,
umbia the quotas to be apportioned III
them, and so notify the governors or G
er authorities. These quotas will be I'll
ed on population. nc
after the quotas have been fixed for 70
h state, the president will authorize o.
governors TO spportion for him the
'tss to be demanded and furnished by
various local boards within each
te. Each governor will be permitted -,
illot to counties and to cities Of 10000 =,
ulation and over the credits. that is,
deductions in men TO which such
mites and cities are entitled for en- 8,
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