The sun., 1917-07-22
STATE PLANNING
CONSCRIPT CALL
Officials at Albany to Sum
mon Twice as Many Men
for Its Quota.

Further progress of the national
draft schedule in this State waits upon
Albany. The next duty of the local
exemption boards Is to mail notices to
men called for physical examination.
Such a notice will go to twice as many
men in each district as are needed to
fill the districts quota, the 100 per cent.
| extra being the allowance for those
| likely to be discharged for medical or
other reasons.
| The boards cannot prepare the sum-
monses until they know just how big
their district quotas are. The quota is
| determined by the Adjutant- Generals
Office and announced when approved by
| the Governor. The Adjutant-Generals
stan was trying to finish the apportion-
ments last night. but Gov. Whitman was
not expected back in Albany until to-
| day. 1t Is now expected that the num-
Der Of men each district will supply to
the National Army will be ready for
publication in tomorrow mornings 5
new spapers.
A few of the boards in this city could
begin sending out notices tomorrow II
they knew the required quota. Many
others are still in the thick of prelim-
| mary work or are so tired after their
exhaustlng preparation for the draft
that they need rest.
city boards Ready Thursday.
Roscoe S. Conkling representing the
Adjutant- General in the office of the
Mayors Committee on National Defence
said yesterday he thought it would BE-
about IT ursday before all the city boards
wo1.'d be ready to call the draft candi-
dates before them. 1t is unlikely thai
any great number Of boards will issue
the call before then. However, the man
whose number in Fridays drawing ir
Washington is so low that he stands any
chance Of being drafted should keep ir
touch with the board headquarters OF hi:
district, where the names of those sum
moned for examination will be postec
at the same time the notification h
mailed 1t cannot be repeated too OTTER
that the responsibility for responding Il
the summons rests upon the man.
Even II his notice to appear neve
reaches him he can be punished for no
appearing on tho specified day II hi
name was posted in board headquarter
in the list OF those called for examina
ton. The only exceptions to this rul
are set forth in the Presidents regula
tlons:
ANY person, who, when called, !
J temporarily absent from the jurisdiction
OF the board by which he is called, o
: who is prevented by sickness from re
, porting for physical examination at tn
, time fixed in the notice in his case, ma
report for physical examination on
, before the tenth day after the mailing
, the notice"
big Job for the Doctors.
: MANY persons have been wonderin
gf,fa m ~
. in a single day the 200-odd men that ar
e likely to call for that purpose in eac
r district on each of the three days desig
e mated for physical examination IN
= answer is that he can't.
s II is generally estimated that 1t WI
e take twenty minutes on the average
e examine each man called AT that rat
e It would take single doctor more ina
sixty-six hours of continuous work I
Y mass on 200 men The regulations pre-
$ vide for this situation by saying that !
d addition to its medical member eac
n board may appoint another examinin
e physiclan from a list designated by IN
3 Governor =,
o other additional physicians may b
appointed as follows: One IL the nun
ber OF persons to be examined IN
single day exceeds so. two II II exceed
100 three II IL exceeds 100, and other
member Of the board and the additions
physician who may be appointed Il
RESPECTIVE Of the number of examine
9 tions. as many as six doctors may
. at work at a single board headquartel
II there are 200 men day to be e.
amined. II any physicians are hear
! protesting that they cannot comply VII
"a the regulations 1t means that they hay
!. not read them carefully.
~ Ten Cents an Examination.
IN Mr.. Conkling said yesterday that
" the physicians request II they will
1e allowed a fee Of ten cents for each mi
IN examined. Medical members OF exem
to tion boards with whom SUN report
a. talked yesterday hadn't heard of II
n end chuckled when they did hear
ts They said they couldn't imagine al
great number of doctors asking for
a taking a fee for helping out In the dra
to One thing that does disturb the
Is however, 10 the matter OF apparatus
s. the examinations. Each board mu
hsye scales, measuring standards, Stst
oscopes and all sorts OF testing par
I,hernalia. The Government isn't &
ing to supply them.
They must be begged or borrowe
IN One board doctor said that he would
Siad 10 take ms own SSdles W HSouH u"
ters II he had any. which he hadn
oh He called up several agents OF sca
r. manufacturers and asked for patrio
~ loan. The agent saiG they were patrio
81 but had no scales to lend. This doct
=. doesn't know yet row he is going
s equip the boards examination room.
So far as reported. only one board
~ the city, 1853, which sits in Hunter c.
lege, has obtained scales already.
as brand new one and measuring star
~ ard as we'll was delivered at its hea
Oh quarters yesterday. Where they cal
A. from nobody on the board knew. tn
just came.
a Another question that has been a
We tating or Irritating the boards Is
OF matter OF pay for assistants, The GC
ernment originally hoped that enou
ry volunteers would appear. In last m
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