The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-10-18
NEW COMPREHENSIVE
PLAN FOR APPLYING
DRAFT WORKED OUT
Is Intended TO Establish Various
Grades of Dependency and In
dustrial Value from Which Flu.
ture Selections Would be Made.

Washington. Oct. 1S-A new COM
pr,hcnsi,r plan for applying the army
.,iori.N, draft which would take first
cal, men without dependents n Of
200 particular value 20 war industries.
ANA establish various grades OF de-
pendcncy and Industrial value from
which future drafts would Bee made
strictly ON tho sclcctivc basic. has
boon worked out tentatively by the
provost murshal generals office and
discussed with the president
The plan. 1t WAS learned, was sub
mittcl recently TO e. conference of
civilians who directed exemption
D osrd activities iu e number Of tatcs
Ut received the endorsement of mast
of them who now are discussing the
proposed plan with their state gov
,rnors
10 Be- proposed to formulate In each
local draft district % table Of AN regis
tr1uts. placing each ion 1 column de.
notiuE his dependents and Industrial
,alu, boz the wars prosecution
For instance. horizonal columns
classifiodtions would bee based on de-
pc%uteucy Men with NO dependents
would Doe placed in the first class,
those with dependent distant relatives
Boo the second class those with wives
iu me 'hird class those with q wife
and uu, child .u the fourth. and So
ON.
similarly. tho vertical columns
might represent certain Industries age
ranged Iccordt gg TO their respective
m,ri' tr war necessities. Industrial
classics uud,r consideration lu this
connection are farmers, ship yard ouI-
plu,c-. muuitluu workers railway and
transportation employees, miners steel
plant and motor Iudu-tr, workmcu
and certain otu.r Individual plants or
industry branches Geo ho designated
from time 20 time hN the president
cog the war department us temporarily
essential The latter classification
might include plants muliur military
cluthiur. harness FIRST aid materials
ur professions. such la chemists and
other scientific men more needed Tor
war research than TO carry arms
Thus the table with horizontal de-
]pcndoncy Considerations and vertical
industrial class. fcations would hold ID
place for each roriStruut iu accord
aucc with his dependency or indus
trigl value claim. ln selecting mel
cor examination boards would first
Jake AN mon physically cit. having
neither dependents nor value in cs-
sentiul war industries when this
class was exhausted. draft authorities
would draw ON the classes having
the slightest dependency claims and
the least value in essential industries
-Thcurctically. ,hc draft would work
down through M. table. 90 the yilsso,
with mos, dependents and hirhcst 90.
dustrial value
No class would Dee exempted as such
but tho valuable rarn would bee placed
So that they would no, bee called unit
tho need FOR soldiers became NOR,
argent aud nl tho less cssontia
GLASSES were exhausted
n iS understood the cutir" pro.
gram will hc made known ls soon a..
% i- completed Gud approved %,
. President Wilson Too JllaN IA, tuNiot,
prevailing throughout many indus
tries over tho nest draft which ha,
been planned fur ls early a- Dccrm
bor before 'h. new plan was pro
posed but which NOW may uc delayed