New-York tribune., 1917-07-23
o.ferred Until Quota of
Each District Is
Announced
Medical Examiners
Ready for Malingerers
s,.ns to Detect Those
Claiming Poor Eyesight
and Hearing Taken

Practically eNt4I
.i,n,rters in New York City was
.. one time or another yesterday
-, convenience Of the considerable
..-b.r of men of draft age who had
:, ,,eyiously had opportunity to find
=, tssir red serial number,
Iva, evident from the large proper
=, n the city's SGT exemptors who
-, NJ their holiday to keep the draft
.,l. moving that the lately disor-
.,;,.S boards are settling into their
a, and becoming resigned to the per-
,..,l aerifces which the government
.u,nds CT them.
An the exemptors could do. though,
-, TO throw the headquarters doors
80, and sit by their lists. The rush
!. ,,ristrants had so Stacked off that
.,,v found in the doldrums their first
l srs to make a close study of the
,-ulstons by which further proceed
"a are to be governed.
1 Busy Day at Albany
n, biz activity of the day was at
. s.py. where the county and district
cS.ss for the state are being worked
-bya species of higher mathematics
M has the heads of a hundred clerks
s,,ing. Until this work is finished
/ ID each exemption board is notified of
4, number Of men which Governor
nI.nsn expects its district TO supply
/ n u. National Army of $4,000 there
/ ,a Thing exemptors or registrants
MM
Dssutv Attorney General Roscoe S.
4 Crtag. who became the city's one
s,7 news source on matters per-
u,f,o the draft when the Governor
q, II here a week ago to get the
iNaf kards organized, spent the day
ABsny helping Adjutant General
eszbury and Captain F. F. Hutchin-
1 !. head Of New York's Federal Reg
l rzhon Bureau, on the quotas.
r:e final figures probably will be
nv not later than Tuesday. They
N be completed to-day. however.
ztrnor Whitman announced at the
as Of a conference with General
ss,abury that there would be no
sIy in turning over the quotas for
xsieation in the newspapers.
Nsx York City exemptors had been
i nG 10 prepare 10 send out their no.
rs 70 registrants to appear for ex-
I-.rltion as soon as they were IN
.1-sd Of their districts quota, but an
r:sr wired 20 each board by the Ad-
.zrt General last night directs them
shold OF until the official lottery list
uzes from Washington.
On Watch for Malingerers
As the time Of physical examination
Z registrants draws near medical
,szbers Of the local boards are de,
F. rsiEg and exchanging schemes 70 deal
'as Eases Of malingering. That many
I u, physically fit for service. and not
sttled b7 vocation or circumstance
4 > exemption. will try to evade the
tzfi on their medical test is not to
!. doubted. Indeed. the opening para
4 Erps Of the regulation which the sur,
lsse general Of the army has prepared
= the guidance Of examiners deals
na tnis probability. ..,
Il is important, TO begin with,
HH the surgeon general, that the
r1=ining physician should realize
e here will be certain proportion
! zen among those presenting them
k1a for examination who will en-
ts7or 10 obtain exemption by dis
.szlstion, varying from exaggeratlon
1, existing condition not disquallfy-
/ 90 downright malingering, and ne
n'.a prepare 10 protect the govern
sGi and himself against such at
I s.iis a. deception
1 Y. suggestion about the 6esirabllity
1 rlotseting himself" holds no trifins
rAesnee for he medical examiner
IN told in the regulations that the
he disqualifies are 20 be re-eX-
1,ee perhaps in al cases by govern
~ physicians, and, in a way, he may
- hs professional reputation staked
1n hadings.
AaIgering OF certain sorts is haro
.1.sa % detect in the most pains,
g examination, yet the medical
.;;1ssfs Of the exemption boards are
~ the government they must pass
hs condition OF no less than eighty
1 E'snti each day. When IT IS con;
1H that no less than eighteen
( s--a must be covered and written IN
4 I0fn Of answers 20 printed ques'
- On the examination blanks, th'
4 .huas o. the task Of detectinS
ts.rng and keeping pace with tn
'~al schedule may be realized.
1 Expect Eyesight Troubles
~ :! J. Cosgroye. Of Local Boarc
i ~ saote district takes in the mos
,.Fs stretch Of Park Avenue, eI
-. nat the examiners will have nos'
=. ss ~ Ioubles with men whose eye.
'siis when their vision il tested
4 ~. s1smptors' charts.
~, hafd 20 detect this kind oi
s,.sgsfing, even on extended anC
r.'. Examination" said DR.. Cos
go, IN the time ne have % devote
4 49, t,sgistrsnt II will prove almost
ot Rather than run the rlsl
.TIlnntling slsckers 20 eysde ser
e .Mirk shall refuse 20 disqualify
s,,.sS.isn, bad eyesight, leaving th'
-, be decided later on by exam
'.eit tine IL not 70 limited"
a..,,.ygs,'ion that sounds somewhat
ss,,' but which may prove itl
:, :. vas made by the medical mem
4. another board. who foreseesi
i,s.,. tas!sttd qssfnefE will be another
~ ne slAeker
ls,,, V.ting the Egppossdly deaf reg
~ sbosf an sn&sthetic for a sec
ts, "o,' be said, III would b,
~ = establish hon good his ear
Haa - ne could hear AZ all he woulc
s,us.,,s noise after he had beer
n ''slbility that stlll other slack
,E4s - ~rd physically unfit su5.ti.
h S,,st L. t.kt their examination and tc
&'ihsd 10 their names il an,