The Washington herald., 1918-09-28
GREAT DRAFT \
MACHINERY TO
MOVE MONDAY
Service Liability Of New
Registrars Will Be
Determined.

Monday, september 30, VIII mark
date of profound interest and pride
to the 10000 American citizens en-
rolled In the nations civilian army Of
reserves.
On that day-which will further
mark a date of deep menace and COM
plete disaster to Germany's world
ambitions and remaining war hopes
the national drawing to determine the
order of liability to military serv-
ice of every one OF the newly regis
tered Americans. between the ages
of is and As. will be held.
Thirteen million citizens. as vet un-
uniformed, are practically standing
at attention from coast to coast. in
eager expectation of the event
Order Numbers For All.
Although only registrants between
the ages of 10 and 20 and - and 81 are
subject TO immediate service, Mon
days drawing will give to every man
who registered on September Il an
order number which determines his
order of liability in any future call
of the government.
1t is not improbable that President
Wilson, as Commander-in-Ch Chief OF
the army and navy will draw the first
number from the same glass bowl
that was used upon the two previous
occasions.
The wooden ladIe. with which the
capsules containing the numbers will
be stirred, has been fashioned from
a section of the original rafters OF
historic Independence HaIl-%the birth
place of American freedom and hal
lowed in memory as the sanctuary Of
the Liberty Bell
An Historic Frnme.
Around the edges of the table, on
which the bowl will stand, will be
wooden frame made from pieces
OF original timbeTs Of the old fri
gate Constitution. likewise revered
in the memory of American pa
tTiots.
4 marked departure. however,
from former proCedure-Of imme-
diate interest to the registrants
themselves-will be a change in the
method of making public the actual
order" numbers. Only the first
100 numbers will be announced
from Washington on the date of
the drawing. All the remaining
numbers-and they will range from
l to 17.0O0-will be sent directly to
the 154 district boards. which have
been instructed to make them avail
able to the newspapers within their
jurisdictions Immediately upon
their receipt.
Means Slight Delay.
This. of course. means some
slight delay in the information
reaching the'registrant, but General
Crowder explained today that the
arrangement is necessitated by the
mass OF figures and the time re-
quired in the drawing, and has met
with the approval Of the news as
sociations OF the country, who were
consulted before its adoption.
By direction of the Provost Mar
shal General the newspapers are
required to withhold publication of
the lists until their release by the
district boards, with the exception
of the first hundred numbers that
are selected from the bowl
The work of picking out the
numbers, one at a time, will con-
sumo approximately twenty-siN
hours. 1t will begin at noon and II
will require continuous and unin-
terrupted drawing to complete the
task by 2 o'clock Tuesday after
noon. The first great draft lottery
occupied sixteen and a half hours.
General Crow der explained that
he was enabled to fix the date by
the fact that each OF the 4.557 local
boards had finally assigned to their
respective registrants the individual
serial number of each registrant.