The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-22
Most of the Work Eliminated.

Provost Marshal General SrOWOer
| issued this statement:
| with the completion of the draft
! of the first army of 687, 900 men. a
new system will be installed for the
| creation of succeeding armies. which
will greatly lessen the labors of the
local and district boards. So far has
lteved that under the new system 80
per cent Of the work will be elimin-
ated, while the forms to be used
| will not exceed 20 In number as
compared with approximately 1872
,, forms, which the present system re.
Quires.
Along with the reduction of labor
there will be provided a system which
will classify each of the nine mil
lions Of men who have not yet been
indicted into military service. And
each man will have been given his
place In the national scheme Of de-
tense.
ITO do this 1t has been determined
to obtain from each man complete in
formation OF a character which will
fix his economic worth as compared
with his fellow registrant, and from
the information thus obtained to
place him in one Of five classes, each
to be called in turn as the need
arises.
Class One Called First.
"The method of obtaining this in.
formation is through question
naire.' series Of questions calculat-
ed to produce the information re-
quired. This document will be mail
ed to every registrant not yet in
service on a day to- be fixed, seven
days being given to each reg1strant
to complete and return the same.
Every opportunity will be offered to
each man to complete his question
naire fully and without error.
THE local boards will then exam.
inc each questionable and assign
each registrant to one OF five classes
These classes will be/based upon
every conceivable condition for the
family or occupational standpoint
that should properly be advanced by
man desiring to be excused from
military duty. Glass one will be the
first called for physical examination
and service and when it Is exhausted, |
if the nations needs are such as to
make it necessary, class two will
follow, and thus each man registered
will ultimately take his place If
needed.
Every opportunity for appeal from
such classification by the local board !
has been retained and perfected, but |
proceedings have been greatly simpli- |
fled.
The tedious work of the local |
boards virtually has been eliminated |
by the production of form to be
known as No. 1000, which will be the |
foundation stone Of the new system
Through its use all the laborous
work of making and posting lists has
been eliminated. All of the old |
docket sheets and records Will De |
made unnecessary and by the ar
of its columns the work |
of the local board will be reduced to |
a minimum.
Complete History of Men.
"On this new form the complete
history of each mans case will ap-
pear at glance, beginning with his |
order number and ending with his |
induction into military camp, while
at the close of each days work the |
local board Is enabled to complete |
in a few minutes with rubber stamp
what has hitherto taken hours to com.
plete. The system is such that it
will present each case almost auto
matically to the local board.
THE completion Of the new system !