Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-07-31
MILITARY DRAFT
FURTHER DELAYED
Intricate Details Present Big Prob
lem Of Work
MUCH WORK is INVOLVED
And Drawing May Not Begin Unit
The Latter Part of the
Week

The work in connection with the
military draft is proving such stu
pendous task, owing to the several in
tricate problems involved. that it is
unlikely that the exemption board for
Anne Arundel county will be able to
/ begin the drawing of the names before
the latter part of the week This is
the gist of statement made today by
a member Of the Board.
The exemption officials have been
working day and night for the last sew
eral days in order to shape up mat
ters and while they realized they had a
big task before them, it has proved to
be even greater than was anticipated.
1t is a painstaking and exacting job, to
say the least and the local board is de-
termined that the drafting process
will be completed in good order, re-
gardless of the amount of time that is
consumed thereby. Furthermore, the
members of the board have been be-
sieged with a multitude of requests
form the young men who are subject
to the draft and the attention given to
such matters have also proved a set
back to the routine work in preparing
the lists incident to the formal draw
ing of the names.
Exemption boards throughout the
country will receive this week, on
the eve of the beginning of the ex-
aminations of the men in the first
20. ho
word from the provost marshal gen.
eral on the care which must be exer-
cised by the boards in handling each
case which comes before them. The
communication was sent out last
night.
"The selected man offers his life" !"
says Gen. Crowder "It will strength
en- you to remember that for every
exemption or discharge that is made
for individual convenience, or to es-
cape personal loss or money or prop
erty, or for favor or affection, some
other man, whose time would not
have otherwise come must incur the
! risk of losing his life.."
The boards are told they are not
courts to adjust differences between
two persons in controversy. You,
acting for the government" says the
communication, ARE to investigate
each case in the interests of the ma
ton and never in the interests of an
individual"
Gen. Crowder closes with the dec
laration that the nation needs men
quickly and the board will receive
little praise and some blame" Your
only reward" he said, must be the
knowledge that at great personal sac
rifice you are rendering your country
an indispensable service in a matter
of the utmost moment
Gen. CrOwder's Statement.
The communication follows:
"You are entering on difficult
task. the gravity of which is beyond
anything that can be said in the way
of discussion. You realize the sig
nificance of what you are to do, and
YOU know that a responsibility heav-
ier perhas than any you have ever
faced, is upon you.
war demands individual sacrifice
TO the common cause, No people
ever approached war with calmer
appreciation of that sacrifice or a
firmer resolve to bear it and to pre-
sent themselves to be classified for
I service in the place of which it shall
best serve the common good to call
them. This calm determination could
not exist were it not for the conf
denee of the nation in its institutions.
I'm this public confidence is found
the very spirit of the selective SER
| vice law. The most sacred rights OF
| country. home and family are in
| trusted for adjudication to local citi-
zens and officials, nominated by state
| governors and appointed by the Pres
ident. The most equitable rules thai
1 could be devised have been prescrlb'
| cd for guidance, and the administra
ton ofthese rules and the sacrific'
that is offered by your neighbors il
intrusted to your hands.
Sacrifice Demanded From All.
From every one is demanded
sacrifice. But there is one though
to be kept always in mind. The Sc
lected man offers his life There Il
no greater giving than this; and tina
thought should guide you always
There may be few who will urg'
upon you claims of exemption OF dis
charge that, whatever, may be you
inclinations or sympathy or affection
YOU will know ought not to be grant
ed 1t will strengthen you to re
member that for every exemption o.
discharge that is made for individual
l convenience, or to escape persona
loss of money or property, or for ia
vor or affection, some other mai
whose time would not otherwise hav'
come must incur the risk of losing hi
| life
ssThere can be no room for hesita
ton in such a case.
"Another fundamental thought Il
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