The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-19
AT $50 A. N. TOMORROW GREAT
DRAWING Of NATIONAL ARMY
BE MADE At CAPITAL Of NATION
FULL DETAILS OF METHOD OF LOTTERY ARE GIVEN
OUT TODAY-EACH BOARD IN ALL STATES
DIRECTED TO CALL DOUBLE NUMBER
OF ITS QUOTA

Washington July l9-At $3.50 o,cloc,,
tomorrow morning in a committee
room Of the senate office building has
been fixed as the time and place for
the drawing of the national army.
Just how the drawing is to be con.
Quoted to establish the order of liabil.
ty for appearance before the local ex.
emption board of each of the ten mir
lion men registered for war service, was
disclosed today for the first time by the
provost marshal generals office.
There will be two drawings, one Of
numbers from one to one thousand. and
another Of from cipher to ten to form
so-called master key by which the
thousand numbers drawn will reach
every man in every district.
There are 4557 exemption districts
with an average Of about 1000 regis.
trants in each. The largest has more
than ten thousand men registered and
the smallest only about 1856.
For districts with not more than /.
900 registrants the drawing Of one
thousand numbers will fix definitely the
place in each districts list, the name Of
each man. Where a district has more
than 1000, the master key will be ap-
piled thus:
The key will fix the order in which
each group Of thousands is to be placed
on the eligibility list, which will run
from one to more than ten thousand
For instance, If nine should be the first
number drawn, for the key all registra
tion numbers in the nine thousand
group would go in a block at the heal
of the list, arranged in the order ir
which the numbers one to one thous-
and come out in the second drawing.
Districts with less than 900 registrants
therefore would disregard this first
block entirely and would be affected
only by the position Of the key numbers
for the blocks corresponding with ths
numberof thousands OF registrants they
have.
Out of the ten million registered, 6S7,
600 are wanted now for the war army.
As it is estimated that fifty percent Il
the men called before the boards will be
exempted, each. board will be directed
TO call double the number of its quota
for examination. in the order their num-
bers appear on the district list after the
drawing. Originally, the master key
numbers were fixed at from cipher 20
nine, on the assumption that the lar6.
est district in Detroit reported more
than ten thousand registrants, making
1t necessary to have the key numbers
run from cipher to ten.
Washington. July 19.-Ten million
men are registered in the United States
for war service-6S7,OOO are needed in
the first call for the national army.
who shall go first?
This question is asked and the meth.
cd by which it is TO be answered out.
lined by Provost Marshal General
Crowder in an explanation issued To-
night Of the great drawing about 70 be
held in Washington The scheme
evolved is so simple that the drawing
of one set OF a thousand sumerals
and another OF II will fix with abso.
lutte equality Of chance the order IN
which every one of the ten million reg
istrants shall report to his local board
for examination and subsequent eXem1.
tion. discharge or acceptance for mill
tary service.
Since the average exemption district
registration is 5000 anc there are 4,55i
the average number Of men
listed with each operation Of the draw
ing machinery win be about 10000.