The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-10-25
DRAFT MACHINERY
HAS BEEN CHANGED
PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL AN.
NouNcEs PLAN WHICH Is APP
PROVED BY PRESIDENT.
LESS WORK FOR LOCAL BOARD
Complicated Machinery Of the First
Act Will Be Done Away With.-Reo.
istrants to be cIassed According to
Liability.

Liability.
WashingtOn.-A sweeping change h
the machinery Of the selective' draf:
based on division Of the 100000 re
naming registrants into five classes
in order of their eligibility for mill
tary service. was announced by Pro
vost Marshal General Crowder De
tails Of the plan, which have been ap
proved by President Wilson, are no.
disclosed. It is calculated, however, tc
do away with virtually all the compli
Gated machinery of the first draft and
, to make the operations of the local
boards hereafter little more than rub
Der stamp proceedings.
The plan was worked out at con
ferences with local and district board
officials and approved by the various
state authorities. It's chief features
are that every registered man will
know his exact position and be able
to arrange his affairs accordingly,
and that no man deemed necessary in
any important industry Or needed at
home to support his family will be
called to the colors unless the mill
tary situation is desperate.
crowders Statement.
Provost Marshal General Crowder
issued this statement:
with the completion of the draft
of the first army of $4,000 men a
new system will be installed for the
creation of succeeding armies, which
will greatly Essen the labors of the
local and district boards. So far has
this been accomplished that it is be-
lieved that under the new system 80
per cent of the work will be eliminat-
ed while the forms to be used will not
exceed 20 in number as compared
with approximately 1872 forms which
the present system requires.
"AlOng with the reduction of labor
there will be provided system which
will classify each one 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 it has been determined
to obtain from each man complete
Information Of a character which will
definitely fix his economic worth as
compared with his fellow registrant,
and from the information thus OBJ
tained@ to place him in one of five
classes each to be called in turn as
the need arises
'"The method of obtaining this in
formation is through a questionable
series of questions calculated to pro-
duce the information required This
document will be mailed to every
registrant not yet in service, on a day
to be fixed, seven days being given
to each registrant to complete and
register the same.
Assigned by Glasses.
"The local boards will then examine
each questionSire and assign each reg
istrant to one of five classes.
''These classes will be based upon
every conceivable condition, from the
family or occupational standpoint,
that should properly be advanced by
a man desiring to be excused from
duty. Glass one will be the
first called for physical examination
and service, and when it is exhausted,
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-
fed.
''The tedious work of the local
boards has been practically eliminat-
ed by the production of a form to be
known as No. 1000, which will be the
stone of the new system.
Through it's use all the laborious work
OF making and posting lists has been
All Of the old docket
sheets and records will be made un-
necessary and by the arrangement of
its columns the work of the local
board will be reduced to minimum
con this new form the complete
history Of each mans case will ap-
pear at a 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
III lew mlHuCeS WIFI FuDDeT stamp
what has hitherto taken hours to
corlplete. The system is such that
it will present each case almost auto
matically to the local board
"The completion of the new. sys-
teJa will solve problems which have
confronted the provost marshal gen.
eral and caused him much concern.
zone Of the mosF serious of these
has been keeping together the great
organization of the local and district
boards which from numerical view
point is of the strength of an army
division; many Of these officials have
been clamoring for relief on account
Of the drain on their time, and the