Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-20
Geeat Lottery to Fix Order
Of Liability In Prog
ress Today.
SECRETARY BAKER
DRAWS FIRST NUMBER
First Slip Taken From Great Glass
Jar Bears Number Ex-senator
chamberlain Withdraws Second
Number, 2522-Estin1ated That Ap-
proxim.t .tely 100000 Men Are Rep
ssnted ia Drawing First Two Hours.

terry to hx the order Of the liability for
nailitaty service Of each Of the 10.000. 900
men Of the United States registered for
the war, began at 9:4s o'clock this
morning. BY some time tonight every
man will know whether he Is among
the first 1.s74.ooO to be called before
local exemption boards.
From the 1,s74,000 the boards are to
select 687 900 for Americas first draft
army OF 100000 and to I'LL up vacancies
In the national guard and the regular
army
In q committee room Of the senate
once building. with representatives of
the press present, war department Of
f5cials and members Of the senate and
house military committees began the
drawing Of 10,500 slips bearing num-
bers corresponding with the serial
numbers o6 each registrant In the lars-
ezt district N the country.
0aleer Draws First Number.
d Secretary Baker was the first man to
uttAdaR q capsule enclosed slip from
a7sreak glass bowl Blindfolded. he
dr6w number 25S.
fHnirInan Chamberlain. OF the sem
'atoNn nlAl4eaEy committee. drew the Sec
- heR 1:11S. Clairman sDont d
4 k1ntafy coIntdftteegr with
1fSH tf4 third number, s.s13.
eenator Warren and Representative
Kahn. ranking minority members Of
I the senate and the house military conn
mittses, drew the next two numbers,
l,s37 and 1913. -.
The drafting was then turned over to
the appointed tellers, who. blindfolded.
took from the bowl numbers as fast as
the announcer and the tally clerks
could keep pace.
They drew the numbers from high
wide-mouthed bowl set on an oak table
in front Of the tally clerks desk. The
bits Of paper, blackened on the back
80 that from the outside none could
determine the number stamped there
On, were curled into gelatine capsules.
To Build Great Army.
The drawing Of lots II the climax Of
the nations effort to build up great
military force on the principle Of uni
versal service.
After tho muster roll is made only
the simpled tasks Of examination for
exemption, mobilization and training
win remain. For this work lonk estab-
1iGl,ed rules can be followed, but in the
stsps taken heretofore the government
has been forced to make a way Of it's
own.
President Wilson has formally order
"a 70 the colors $4,000 Of the men for
whom lots are drawn today and most
Of them win be in training by mid
September at sixteen cantonments un-
$y~xy
10 provide that many physically fit
ana without incumbrance calling for
exemption, the war department will
summon for examination the 1,374,000
who are found after the drawing to
stand at the head Of the muster roll. '
II more are needed to provide a net
quota OF $4,000 soldiers those stand
ing next In order will be summoned.
50, too. will the choice pass on down
the line when future increments are
ordered to the colors by the president
Military men estimate that about every
other man summoned will be exempted
and on that basis the 100000 whose
order OF liability is to be determined
today should yield close to 100000
soldiers before the roll is exhausted.
First Drawn to Regular Army.
The nrst Of the $4,000 men to be
actually called into service - those
standing at the very top Of the liability
list probably will go to fill the ranks Of
the regular army to war strentgh.
something like 10000 will be needed
for that and they may be called be-
fore September. Then large number
next in order probably will be assigned
10 fill the national guard to war
strength, and the remainder-abou
: b0O, 900 - assembled as the national
lrmy.
Every precaution was taken to make
me drawing absolutely fair. An elab-
+ prate scheme worked out in weeks of
ytudy to save time and labor and crowd
! the entire process into an hour, was
abandoned last night when it was dis
severed that registration boards in
D0n,A sections had misunderstood the
Instructions for numbering local regis
tration cards, making some inequalities
possible.
rcnerars Office declared today that the
ca,ange to simpler but more labori-
90 system left no possibility of fraud.
Il was unoff1cially estimated that ap-
prcximately 100000 men were repre-
eenfed ia the first 1000 numbers which
i IA been drawn at 1852 o'clock. q lit
I lie over an folr and a half after the
s1faMtng began.
a the first two thousahd numbe.s
Y Y ~ thsJs were 27o numbers which