New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-07-19

Ihere are 4,501 exemption OlSLTlCLS
with an average of about 5000 reg
istrants in each. The largest has
more than 10000 men registered and
the smallest only about 1855. In each
district each registrant has been Civ
en- a serial number written upon his
card in red ink.
For districts with not more than
1000 registrants the drawing of 1000
numbers will fix definitely the place
upon each districts list the name of
each man. Where a district has
more than 1000 the master key will
have to be applied, thus: ,...~
'The key will fix the order in which
each group of thousands is to be
placed on the liability list, which will
run from number 1 to more than 1O,-
900. For instance, if nine should be
the first number drawn for the key all
registration numbers in the nine
thousand group would go in a block
at the hand of the list arranged in
the order which the numbers one to
one thousand come out in the second
drawing. Districts with less than g.
900 registrants, therefore, would dis
regard this first block entirely and
would be affected only by the position
of the key numbers for the blocks
corresponding with the number of
thousands Of registrants they have"
Out of the 1O,000,0Oo registered,
$4,000 are wanted now for the war
army AS it is estimated that SO per
cent. of the men called before the
boards will be exempted, each board
will be directed to call double the
number of it's quota for examination,
in the order their numbers appear on
the district list after the drawing.
General Crowder announces also
that local boards will be instructed
to call 200 per cent. of their quota
at the first call to provide for prob
able exemptions. That means that
1874, 900 men will be notified to ap-
pear for examination within the next
few days. If more are necessary, they
will be called for as needed by the
local boards in the order provided for
in the drawing.
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 in
every case to continue calling for men
until the district quota is filled. Each
state governor is alloting to his dis
tricts their respective portions of the
states quota.
Cards Given Serial Numbers.
In each of the Asst exemption dis
tricts among which the ten million
registration cards have been divided,
the cards have been given serial num-
bers. The number of registrants in
each district varies from about 1875
in the smallest to more than 10000 in
the largest, 80 that the serial numbers
to be dealt with in the drawing range
from one to between nine and ten
thousand.
In order to reduce the mechanical
process and make 1t possible for the
1000 numbers drawn to reach every
man in every district, a o-called mas
ter key has been devised. This will
be obtained by drawing slips num-
bered from naught to ten, which will
be listed in the order they are drawn
to form the key.
Then will begin the drawing Of the
numbers one to one thousand. For
the district with not more than one
thousand registrants there will be no
problem to determine the order Of APP
pearance 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
1S5 registrants, the 1so Will be lia BILE
for appearance in the order in which
their numbers are drawn and when
a number higher than that appears