Atlanta semi-weekly journal., 1918-02-05
8B2 III LOCAL QUOTA
COMPOSED Of NEGRO
SELECTMEN MOSTLY
'Deferred Percentage" viii
Complete the Original Quota
Assigned to Each Board Un-
der the First Summons

Approximately nine thousand men in
Georgia will be called to report for mill
tary service on or Immediately after
| February 10.
OF this number Atlanta will be CALI
ed upon to furnish $40 men, according
to figures Obtained from each of the
seven local boards in the city Monday.
These men. composing the deferred
percentage" will complete the original
quota assigned to each board under the
first call. All, if possible, will be taken.
according to their order numbers, from
Glass One. under the QUESTIONABLE sys-
tenn.
To secure these men, local boards OF
| Georgia, all of which Saturday were or
dered to delay the physical examination
of men in Class One until the receipt
of new medical regulations, Monday
morning were instructed by Major Joel
5. Mallet, officer in charge of the selec-
tive service law. to resume physical eX-
aminations Immediately.
Provided a board cannot secure enough
men under the QUESTIONABLE system to
fill its quota by February Is, il will
summon men certified under the old
system. 1t is not anticipated, however,
: that this will be necessary in many
| cases. Every effort is to be made to se-
| cure all men under the new regulations.
Major Mallet's instructions, sent in
response to a telegram received Sunday
| from Provost Marshal General Crowder,
order the boards to lose no time in ex-
amining enough men IN the order OF
| their liability to fill the deferred per-
| centageS of their current quotas, plus
a reasonable surplus po care for cases
| tnat may be rejected upon appeal. Aft
| er it is certain enough examinations
| !, AanW, do - ,IoAn u
the boards will wait for the new physi-
cal regulations before proceeding fur"
ther.
Information that the call for the re-
mainder of the first quota will come
soon was contained in a telegram frorA
General Crowder saying that "mobiliz ~
tion of the deferred percentage of the
first quota for your state may be ex-
pected on shortly after February 15.~
Every effort should be made to have
enough men in Glass One so that the
call may be filled from this class with
out drafting men who are now in more
deferred classes, but who remain liable
to induction in the order of liability
heretofore fixed by their order numbers.
| provided sufficient number of men has
not been classified in Glass One"
| Therefore" says Major Mallet, in his
| instructions to the boards, "you will sec
that if you do not expedite the physical
examination of men in Class One, you
will cause the deferred percentage Of
your quota to be made up under the
first draft regulations"
5000 From Georgia
1t is possible for each board to tell
| just how many men it must send By
subtracting from the net quota first as
signed some time last summer, the num-
Der of men already sent to camp and
finally accepted. Boards will not re-
ceive credit, however, for any Registrars
sent to camp and subsequently dis
charged from the camp TO which he was
originally sent or from any camp to
which he was later transferred.
Registrants will, of course be called
February Is in accordance as their
order numbers run. Major MaIIet esti,
mates that Georgia will be required to
furnish about 5000. Just where these
men will be sent is a matter of con-
lecture, since, under the revised regula-
tions, they may be ordered to any poiub
desired 1t is possible. consequently, that
only a part may be ordered to Camp
Gordon and that the rest may be ap-
portioned among other camps, as
needed.
The percentage Of negroes and white
men will depend Major Mallet saws.
upon the way they happen to stack up
in the order numbers Each registrant.
independent OF race, will be taken just
as his order number is reached.
Most of the men remaining in Atlanta
to fill the first quota of $50, it Is
stated, are colored men and are com
posed Of those who were not sent to
camp last September, because army Of
ficials instructed the boards to send
white men.
Atlanta Boards Quota
Local board No. 1, 81 Inman building.
]. r. Seawright chairman, announced
that II must send eighty men to COM
plete it's first quota of $50.
Local board No 2, room SIS Central
building, l. Press Huddleston chairman,
stated that it must send only seven
teen men to fill it's quota Of no. while
board No ). second floor Of the build
ing at 179 Grant street, Aldine Cham
bers, chairman, stated it must furnish
but thirty-one of it's quota of 10.
Local board No. 4, fourth floor. Hurt
building, C. T. Nunnally, chairman. an
nounced it must furnish III men of the
September quota of 154. J. r. Nut
ting, chairman of local board No. 5,
ninth floor FIatiron building, stated his
division is expected to furnish forty
three men to fill its original quota OF
1876.
Local board No. 6. Lee and Gordon
street, W. Z. McCalley. chairman, has
remainder of twenty of it's quota of IS
VINO were hOI sent 10 camp ON Ihe 1lTSL
call, but claims a credit for twelve men
who entered the officers training camp.
Local board No. z, Georgian Terrace,
COurtland 5. Wlnn, chairman, is debited
with remainder of thirty-two men of
its quota of 129, although the board
claims credit for practically all of its
quota in that probably that many men
did not report and are considered mem
bers of the army as deserterS.
Not the boards certain
when it would begin examinations of
the men in accordance with the new reg
ulations, since the latter have not ar
rived. but stated they would, after com
municating with Major Mallet, probably
call the men who have not been ex-
amned under the old regulations at
once.