Evening star., 1918-06-24
DRAWING IN DRAFT
BEGINS THIS week
Selection of New 21-Year.
0Ids Similar to Ceremony
Last Year.
SLIGHT CHANGES NOTED

Wednesday or Thursday is to be Sc
lected by the Secretary of War as the
date for the drawing for the order
numbers in the draft of the twenty
one-year-old men registered June 5.
Owing to the failure of eleven local
boards Of the nation to send in their
lists of new registrants. the Office Of
the provost marshal general has been
unable definitely to fix the date. but
announced that either Wednesday or
Thursday will see the drawing.
Drawing to Be Real Ceremony.
The ceremony Is to be similar to
the great lottery of last year. when
numbers were drawn for 10000 900
men. Although not one tenth of that
number are included in the registra-
tion of 1918, officials will spare no ef-
fort to make the drawing a real cere-
mony.
Seven local boards of New York.
two Of Colorado. one of Georgia and
one of Wyoming are holding up the
program of the provost marshal gen.
erals office by failure to send in their
lists Of the men of the class of 1918
with the numbers of convenience
given each man.
Waiting on Missing Lists.
Until these missing lists are all in
the drawing will not be held. Tele-
grams demanding the lists at once
Upnf n ho OF
day.
The drawing. either Wednesday or
Thursday. will be held in the confer
ence room at the Senate Office build
ing. where the great lottery Of last
year was staged.
1t is planned to have Secretary
Baker, Provost Marshal General
Crowder and members Of the House
and Senate military affairs commit
tees present.
To Use Big Bowl Again.
The drawing will be conducted
practically as the one of last year.
with a great bowl, from which the
numbers, printed on paper black on
containers, will be drawn.
As the numbers are drawn. the con-
tainers will be opened, and the num-
bers read by a clerk. A blackboard
will be used for the presentation Of
the numbers.
Questionnaires to Go Out.
Questionnaires will begin to go out
to, the twenty nty-one-year-olds tomor-
Registration of a board to receive
questionnaires each day.
| Local boards of the District will re-
ceive their supplies of the new second
edition" of the QUESTIONABLE this aft
ernoon, and the mailing will begin to-
seven days to complete the filling out
of the documents and will be given
aid by members Of the legal advisory
board. mobilized last week for the re-
classification work, which is now
about finished.
! tionnaire has been revised completely.
and simplified considerably.
Changes in QUESTIONABLE.
For instance, the very first question
| in the questionnaire contains a de.
mand for a registrant's nearest rela-
| tive" Last winter registrants were
much perplexed as to whether a wife
or a father was the nearest rela-
| tive"
The new questionnaires plainly state
that wife may be named. There
are many other helpful suggestions
throughout the document. The ques-
tionnaire is still sixteen pages. al
1 though some new questions have been
added. This size is attained by the
insertion Of a key list" of occupa-
tions as a separate insert.
| The registrant will read the list of
| occupations in the key list" and
will select therefrom the occupation
at which he is most skilled, second
best skilled and third best skilled.
He will then take the key letters and
| insert them in the proper place in
| the proper question in the question
! naire.
Five Glasses the Same.
The five classifications remain prac-
| tically the same as in the first edf-
| tion. One addition is that providing
| for skilled but unnecessary agricul-
| tuEal workers, there formerly being
no separate classification for a man
| who might be skilled but not regard
| ed as necessary.
Three hundred white registrants of
| the District will be inducted into
| the military service Of the United
| States tomorrow night at the city
post Office preparatory to entrain-
| ment Wednesday morning for Camp
Meade.