Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-15
FASTENING PLANS
FOR SECOND DRAFT
approximately $500 D. C.
Registrants Today Receive
the Questiohnaires.

approximately ,500 registered men
Of the District, the first per cent of
| the entire number of $4,000 not yet
| called to the colors, received question
naires today.
Officials of the eleven local exemption
boards We'd with each other in putting
into the mails the first per cent of
the questionnaires, which will go out in
such installments for twenty days.
Before the last mail delivery is made
this afternoon, city post Office officials
stated, practically every one Of the / 500
men included in the first per cent will
have received his questionnaire
First to Reach the Mails.
Boards for divisions No. and No. 5
were the first to get their question:
naires in the mails. Postmaster Chance,
chairman of the board for division
No. 8, from his. strategic position, had
his set of questionnaires in the city
post Office exactly at midnight last
night Clifford Lanham, chairman of
few minutes later. Both sets Of ques-
tionnaires, however, received the 1890
am. postmark, so both chairmen may
claim the honor of having been first.
Boards for divisions No 6. Z. 9 and
II put their first per cent of ques-
tionnaires into the post Office this
morning before noon. and boards for
divisions Nos. ], 2, A. and IL had them
| in N ref 0ff in lima fOr dnI
on the last mail. 1t was possible that
some few questionnaires of the first
mailings might not be delivered until
Monday, 1t was stated, but city post
Office officials are to make the deliveries
their special care for the next twenty
put out the entire first 5 per cent be-
fore the sun goes down.
Registrants whose order of liability
falls between 1 and 800, approximately,
received questionnaires today Returns
must be made in seven days, but as the
cluded from the calculations, those re-
ceiving questionnaires today or Monday
will have until Monday before Christ
mas in which to MI them out and re-
turn them to the several local boards
Throughout the nation today the
questiennaires went out to approx
mate1y per cent of 100000 men.
Classification will begin Immediately.
The day after Christmas probably Will
SEQ local boards begin work upon the;
actual classffcatf6ns, and the work viii
be continued thereafter as the ques-
tlpgaaises come II.
Early Ca1I for New Draft Inspected.
Presaging an early cali for the sec<
ond National Army. instructions went
to the District draft boards today to
call for physical examination all regis
trants as fast as they are placed In
class T.
There Is every prospect that large
number of men will have been classi-
fed. examined and recorded as avatl2-'
BILE for military service by New Year or
shortly thereafter.
sonnel of the boards which are to con-
duct the new draft were announced to-
day by acting Adjutant General Dono-
van for the District.
District. has been relieved as mem,
ber of board No. Z. of which he was
chairman. and DIR. Elmer s. Newton,
principal Of Western High School. has
been appointed to the vacancy
On account of his being named chair
man of one of the new medical advis-
ory boards. DIR. Sterling Ruffin also has
oeen relieved as a member of the board
for division 3, his place being filled by
Or. Elisha White Titus.
DR.. Ross McC. Chapman has been re-
placed by Charles r. Ely on the board
for division II.
Final Instructions for Mailing.
Final instructions regarding the
mailing of the missionaries were re-
ceived by Mr.. Donovan this morning
from the Office of the provost marshal
general. and their contents cornmuni-
Gated to the local boards. The War
Department has called for a report. to
he Ia rHnr 1 e.
the questionnaires have been sent out
by all boards. in accordance with in
structions-
Local boards also have been advised
by the War Department that it Is of
the utmost Importance to the seIective
features of the draft and to the eff
fective employment of the manpower
of the Army that the occupational
forth with precision in his question
naire. Registrants' answers. according
to the instructions, must without fail
specify his particular job within his
Industry. by answering, for example,
not merely railroad man, but track
| layer or trainman or earshop repairer.
! II questionnaires flied are not specific
| enough. it is directed. boards should
secure adequate answers under sec
| tion one hundred paragraph three, be-
| fore proceeding to classify.
On the eve of initiating the mailing
Of the questionnaires, Provost Marshal
Gen. Crowder issued the following
statement:
| The plans have been made, the ma
chine has been built and with the loyal
cooperation of the local boards, SO
amply demonstrated by their past ac-
accomplishments. the millions of regis
ltrants will. within the space OF. sixty
days. stand marshaled for their place
! in the worlds war. each in the class
to which his economic worth entities
him.
General Praise for Plan.
Il have not the slightest hesitation
| in predicting the absolute success Of
the classification system. From every
part of the country has come praise
for the plan. 1t will provide armies in
Ia steady stream: armies built from the
body polite by the body polite.
| Never before in the history of the
| world have armies been chosen with
the scientific precision of the new sys-
1 TEN. Men will shoulder the gun first
! who should by all the laws of reason
4 offer themselves first to their country.
4 and only grim necessity will compel us
\ to invade the more deferred classes; but
IL such necessity does arise. 1t will find
the country ready.
i Through the governors of the states
! L. Hxrs@N rxf boo ri fn scf.