The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-19
METHOD ADOPTED
 IN DRAFT PLANS
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 In order to reduce the mechanical process and make it possible for the 1,00o numbers drawn to reach every man in every district, so-ealled will be obtained by drawing slips numbered from naught to 10, which will be listed in the order they are drawn to form the key.
 Then will begin the drawing of the numbers nothing to 999. For the. dis trict with not more than one thou sand registrants there will be no problem to determine the order of ap- pearance before the exemption board. The number drawn first will fix the men whose card bears that serial number as the first to appear before his board. In the district with only 1855 regtstrants, the 1855 will be lia11e for appearance in the order in which their numbers are drawn and when a number higher than that appears the district, of course, will not be affect ed.
 Application of the master key makes 1t possible to apply fairly each of the one thousand numbers drawn to districts with more than one thou sand registrants. As number is drawn 1t will be added to each of the thousands in excess of one thousand in each district
 For instance, if 25fis the first num- Der drawn, 1t will represent 25. 1925. 2025, 8025, 4025. 5026. 6o25, 7025, 8025, and 10,o25.
 By applying the master key the order in which these numbers will be listed in each district will be deter mined. If the drawing of Il numer- als for the key should result this way: g, z, 1, 5, 9, 3, 0, 8, 4. 6, 10 < Then the drawing of 25 as the first number of the thousand would fix the first men to appear before the exemption boards in this order;
 se25, 7025. 1925. 5025. 2025, so25. 25, s025, 4025. and 10,025. The district with more than nine thousand regfstrants thus will have ten of its assigned to their places at the head of its list, with 10,025 on top. The district with less than one thousand men will have one number, 25, at the head of its list. This pro- cess will be continued until every man of the ten million has been asr signed his place on the roster of his district.
 In his exp1atfon of the process and of the reason for fixing the order of liability for all the men when only 6S7, 900 are needed, General Crowder says:
 The Order of Examination.
 .'If we were dealing with the an cient draft. we should take every fourteenth man. But we are not con- scrapting. We are selecting for nin- tary service those whose civdl service |can best be spared. Therefore the question is no Who shall go first ? But who shall be first called up for examination? and what we must do is to make q list showing the order ot |exandnation.
 Now no one knows how many men must be examined to yieHd 6S7, 600 sol diers. Therefore no one can say just how many men 1t Is absolutely neces- sary to put on this list.
 "A moments reflection will prove that the whole 10.oo0. .oo0 must be given their places on the list of order o1 examination.'
 tsEvery registered man is in a state | of uncertainty. He does not know when he will be called. He hesitates to plant crop for fear he will moi reap 1t. Employers hesitate to en- gage his services, 6earing they will be but temporary This condition ought to be cured for the repose o1 the public mind. It can be cured t,