The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-07-19
Numbers From I TO 1000
Will Be Taken From Recep-
tacle, With Key System
From 0 to 10 Representing
Each Thousand In District,
DETAILS ARE MADE PUBLIC
Each Number as Drawn viii
Summon About 10, ,000I
Men; Every Registered Man
10 Get Definite Place.

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WASHINGTON. July ip--Nine-thir.
ty o'clock, eastern time, which 10 $50
o'clock Oklahoma City time, tomorrow
morning In 4 committee room OF the
senate office building, have been fixed
- the time and place for the army
drawing.
Secretary Baker and other cabinet
officers and members OF the senate and
house military committees will witness
the drawing. Provost Marshal General
Crowder counts upon finishing In little
more than an hour the entire process.
Details Aals xaewA.
Just how the drawing 10 to Be con-
Quoted here, TO establish the order Of
liability for appearance before local ex.
emption boards OF each Of the ten mil
lion man rsgistsrsd for service, was
Disclosed today for the first time BY the
provost marshal generals office.
There will Be two drawings, one oi
numbers from ! to 1000 and another
o( irem cipher to ten 70 form . co.
called master key BY which ths thou
Ssnd numbers drawn will rsssh every
nao0 II oyasy 6letsjet. -, .s.ss.... !.
An 1penD&iea Dislrista.
Th~S ast 4,SN sxemDlion distslets
With On average of abost 1000 regis
traats In each. The largest hes more
than ten thousand men registered and
the smallest only about lS In each
district each registrsnt hss been given
: serial number written upon HE card
In red Ink. Each drawing therefore,
will summon about 10000 men.
For districts with not more than 1000
registrants the drawing OF one thousand
numbers will fix definitely the place
upon each districts list the name OF
each man. Where q district has more
than one thousand the master key will
have to be applied, thus: 9
II the number 500 should be the first
number drawn, Il would represent Sos
IN districts with that many men and
less than 1000; It would represent 90
and 1893 in districts with more than
1000 and less than 1000, and 20 On.
The master key will establish the order
In which the 800 added TO 1000, 1000
and so on, up to the largest number Of
thousands in the district shall be placed
on the local lists when the number 8o0
10 drawn.
Out Of the 100000 registered, 6s7,-
600 are wanted now for the war army.
A 1t Is estimated that 50 percent OF the
men called before the boards will be
exempted, each board will be directed
to call double the number OF Ito quota
for examination, In the order their
numbers appear on the district list
after the drawing. Originally the mas
ter key" numbers were fixed At from
cipher to nine, on the assumption that
the largest district in the country would
have less than 10000 men. Today a
district in Detroit reported more than
10000 regi,trants, making II necessary
to have the key numbers run from ci-
pher TO ten
Must Keep on Calling.
In some districts the 100 percent a.
lowance Tor exemption may be too large
and in others too small, but the local
boards will be instructed In every case
TO continue calling for men until the
district quota is filled Each state
government Is now allotting TO ts dis.
tricts their respective portions Of the
states quota.
In his explanation Of the process
and OF the reason for fixing the order
OF liability for all Of the men when
only 687 are needed, General Crow
der says:
The Order Of Examination.
III we were dealing with the ancient
draft we should take every fourteenth
man. But we are not eonscriptins We
are selecting for military service those
whose civil service can best he spared. |
Therefore, the question Is not who
shall 90 first" but who shall be first
called up for examination'' and what
we must do 10 to make a list showing
the order OF examination.
Now no one know, how many men
must be examined to yield $4,000 SOL
diers. Therefore. no one can say Just
how many men II Is absolutely neees-
sary to put on this list,
"A moments reelection will prove
that the whole ten million mist be
given their place, on the list Of order
Of examination
Every registered man Is in q state
Of uncertainty He doe. no, know
when he will be called. He hesitates
TO plant . crop for fear he will not
reap H. Employers hesitate TO engage
hi, services fearing they will be bu,
This condition ought TO b. J