The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-07-25
MEN LIKELY TO Be
CALLED THIS WEEK
Dr.. Robert Wilson, Jr., OF Charles
ton, Member Of Eastern District
Board of South Carolina.

fact that officers and clerks OF Pro-
vost Marshal Gen. Crowde's office
worked all last night to complete the
drawing that fixed the order of mill
tary liability of 100000 regis
trants, the tally sheets had been
compared and corrected before dark
tonight and the master list was iii
the hands of the printer. Copies Will
be mailed to local exemption boards,
beginning not later than Tuesday
and the summoning of the first draft
of $4,000 men can begin. .
Gen. Crowder tonight issued the
following statement:
"The drawing is complete and
has been apparently successful. The
official tally sheets have been COM
pared, sent to the printer and the
prof is being received. Final copies
will be ready for distribution not
later than Tuesday.
The Next Step.
The next step will be the certifica-
ton of the results of the drawing to
4.557 local boards and the applica-
ton by each board of its chart to its
serially numbered list. This need con-
sumo but little time and when done,
the order of the priority of the near
ly ten million reg: j;rants to report
for examination will be revealed.Su
additional drafts as may be ordered
by the President will be filed by
calling men in the order of their es-
tablished priority and no further
drawing will ever be necessary. Even
a local board upon receipt of its
chart and, upon notification by the
Governor of the quota to be raised
by it, may proceed at once, under
regulations already promulgated, to
summon men for examination.
"We have now passed the stage in
the execution of the Selective Ser
vice Act when we must have concert
of action by the States. In raising
State contingents the race is to the
swiftest.
Press Thanked.
'I cannot let this opportunity pass
without averting to the very great
value of the assistance which has been
so generously and efficiently render
ed by the press.
"Without the systematic campaign
of public information that prepared
the rountry for the registration, the
enrolment of ten million men on the
9Th day of June would have been I'M
possible. The generous support OF the
newspapers through the period since
registration days is appreciated and
only the most thorough efficiency
could have placed dpon the streets,
within a few hours after the tlrst
number was drawn, lists for each
registration district, showing the
names of the persons who would be
summoned for examinations on the
first call of the local boards"
As to Duplicates.
Gen. Crowder also made public the
text of the regulations for their ap-
plication which will accompany the
master lists. The only new feature
shown is the plan for handling cards
that are found to have duplicate
numbers or are otherwise confused,
and also in dealing with those re-
ceived July 10, when the local boards
closed their lists to begin numbering.
By the plan worked out, these ad-
ditional cards will be given an order
of their own by lot and will then
be added to the lists of the districts
from which they come and be af-
fceted by the drawing precisely as
though they had been received and
numbered before the board lists
were closed. Where several cards
bear the same serial number, one will
be drawn from the group and retain
the duplicated number, while the
others will be regarded as unnun-
bered and the process of adding them
to the lists be followed.
District Boards.
Another step accomplished during
the day was the appointment of the
district boards in thirty-two of the
States and announcement of the
names of five men who will compose
each of them. Some States have six
or eight boards to ease the task, fed
eral judicial districts, the areas used
for geographical distribution of the
boards being divided into two or
three sections for that purpose and
a separate board named for each.
These district boards will have no
function until the local boards in
their territory have begun to certify