The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1918-10-01
NEW DRAWING Of DRAFT WILL Be
D|FFERENTFROM PREVIOUS ONES

Under lhe plan as perfected, the
Provost Marhal Generals office will
distribute the official complete master
list of numbers TO the district boards
by mail as fast as they can be turned
out OF the government printing office.
The boards will be instructed to give
them out to newspapers ard the public
as fast as they receive them. News
papers can make their own arrange
ments TO get the lists from the boards
and the registrants can depend on the
lists as published in the newspapers.
which will be few days after the
drawing.
In his statement announcing the
date and arrangements for drawing.
General Crowder said:
Because OF the time and the mass
of figures involved the press associa-
tions of the country have united in
informing me that it viii be impossi-
Bile for them to undertake the sending
Of the numbers over their wires as
they did on the occasion Of the first
and second awnings They have
agreed upon and proposed. to me a
plan whereby copies of the master
list as determined by the drawing.
will be sent as promptly as possible di.
rect from this office to the 154 dis
trict boards, which will be instructed
/ to make them available Immediately
upon receipt to the newspapers with
in the area of their Jurisdiction
This plan have approved upon
representation from responsible heads
of these associations that they have
individually canvassed the opinion OF
their respective clients and have found
them all, with possibly one exception.
! favorable to the idea of not attempt
ing to handle them by wire.
81 take this occasion, therefore, to
request of the newspapers of the coun-
try that none of them individually at
tempt to carry these numbers from
Washington but will withhold publica-
tion of the list until it has been re-
leased to them by the district board
having jurisdiction in the area in
which the respective newspapers are
! located. | make this request in order,
as far as possible, TO place the news
papers in the several localities of the
| country on an equal footing as far as
obtaining the list is concerned. This
is not intended, however, to debar cor
respondents, in writing their accounts
OF the drawing from using the first
100 numbers drawn.
"Apart from this the procedure OF
the drawing will coincide identicaliy
with that followed on the two prev.
ious occasions. The numbers will be
drawn from a glass bowl by officers
blindfolded. These numbers have been
printed on small slips and rolled up
before being inserted in the containers
in such way that only the reverse side
of the slip which is blue, will be visi.
BILE from the outside. Xxx Xxx
Fortunately for the historical as
poets of the drawing. we have been
able to secure for the occasion the
same glass bowl that was used at the
first drawing of July 90. 1917. This
bowl. the property of Captain Charles
X. Morris, of this office, was present.
ed by him after the first lottery to In.
dependence Hall in Philadelphia. The
custodian of Independence Hall has
contributed for the occasion wooden
ladle made from the original rafters
of independence Hall. Around the
edges of the table upon which the bowl
will stand will be wooden frame
made from the timbers of the old frig.
ate Constitution.
THE officers and enlisted men who
will handle the drawing will work in
three relays of one hour on and two
off in order that there may be no in
terruption in the drawing Cots will
be provided for those off duty, as well
as food. One officer, blindfolded, will
draw the numbers from the bowl. Four
! others, receiving them from him in ro-
tation, will break open the containers,
open up the slip containing the serial
number and will call out the number
to the three officers manning the tally
sheet and to the one who records the
numbers on the blacllboards. After
teller has called out number, he
passes it to another officer who veri.
fies 1t and strings il on thin wire in
the order in which it had been drawn,
impossible for any mistake to be made
than cannot be checked for correction.