Weekly journal-miner., 1917-08-01
BOARD FIGURES II CAN PASS ON 100 MEN
 EACH DAY
GETTING THE MACHINERY IN READINESS FOR FIX ING LIABILITY ORDER OF THE MEN IN THIS COUNTY; ACTION NOW AWAITS ARRIVAL OF THE MASTER LIST.
(From Tuesdays Daily)

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 Preparations for the final steps in securing soldiers from Yavapai coun- ty were begun yesterday by Harry w. Heap of the local exemption board and C. II. Hinderer, one of the clerks, when they surveyed the copy of the master list received from the Associated Press by the Journal Miner and decided upon course of procedure. In order to facilitate ref erences, the registration cards, bear, ing the names, addresses, ages and all other available data about the reg istrants, will be marked with the lia- bility order, as found in the master list, and applied to Yavapai county
 A supplementary registration list was added yesterday, when the board received the cards of 10 men, regis tered in other counties but giving their residences as Yavapai county. This brings the total registration of lavapai county up to 345S. Before, the total was 3442. Adding these names decreases each mans liability by small fraction.
 It is becoming more and more evi- dent that the draft for the first war army will take from Yavapai county all the resident citizens, not encum- bered with families or physical ail- ments. The percentage of aliens seems larger in the Yavapai list than was at first estimated It is probable that 40 per cent of the registrants arc not available for military duty. This leaves about 2075 from which to choose. Of these, about 1000 will be found without dependents, and, ap- plying the army statistics which show that one in four is exempt on account of physical disability, this leaves but 25O men, more or less, to fill quota of 397.
 The approach of the draft has about quadrupled applications for enlist ment in the army and navy. Local recruiting stations report business is rushing. In practically every case the applicant seeks to enter branch of the service from which he can be reasonably sure of transfer to some department for which he has special training or qualifications. In the army, for instance, men are seeking admission to the quartermaster's corps, engineers. signal corps, motor truck division, etc. The navy offers more branches, in which trades can be applied.
 Some applicants for enlistment seek merely to know whether or not certain physical defects are liable to exempt them from the draft.
 A Heap of Work.
 The local exemption board spent SOlllt lliiiC NNSlSiudN SSAbiiS oNiuoiht cd with the tools with which it will have to work It found about ton of stationery from the war depart ment, containing forms for every sort of case that is likely to come up. | There are affidavits, applications, cer~ tifcates of discharge for all grounds, ! certificates to show the acceptance of the individual, blanks for lists, the latter for publication, posting, record | ing and transmission to the war de- partment and to the State.
 More evidence of the almost com Dlete decentralization of responsibility | turned up yesterday when it was learned that under a strict interpreta- ton of the rules, the posting of notice | at the door of the Superior court | room will be deemed sufficient to | reach even the registrants living ih
 (COnti-ued on Pace Eiye)