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into quarters in which painters and
electricians still are at work. The
task of expanding this nucleus of
about 20 members to an estimated
270 cannot be completed until after
the new administrator takes over his
duties.
At Work Since 1926.
The nucleus OF the new Selective
Service Administration is the Joint
Army and Navy Selective Service
Committee. which has been work.
ing out the organization plan for
the administration and a set of reg
ulations for operation of the selec-
tive service law since 1926. These
regulations will govern the work of
registrat ton boards in every State,
county and city on October 16 and
the work Of approximately 5000 local
selective boards
The committee is headed by 1t.
Col Lewis B. Hershey, Personnel
Division, War Department general
staff. Since its creation, this COM
mittee has been composed. in ad-
dition, Of three War Department
representatives, two Navy Depart
ment representatives and two men,
bers from the Joint Munitions Board.
Besides Col Hershey, the War De-
partment members, since creation of
the committee, have been Reserve
officer from the Personnel Division,
General Staff. with experience in
lyAf H4t u
officer from the Personnel Division.
and Regular Army Office from the
Adjutant Generals Office. Navy
members have been an officer from
the Bureau of Navigation. Planning
Division, and a Marine officer from
headquarters, commandant of the
Marine Corps. The Joint Munitions
Board members have been an Army
officer from the office of the Assis-
tant Secretary of War and a Navy
officer from the Office of the Assis-
tant Secretary Of the Navy, shore
establishment division.
Instrument for Planning.
The Joint Committee serves both
as the nucleus for national head
quarters of the future Selective
Service Administration and as the
instrument for planning wartime
personnel procurement" in accord
ance with the National Defense Act.
There have been allocated to the
committee approximately 100 Re
serve officers of the Army, Navy and
Marine Corps. who are expected to
be called into active duty within
the next few days. some to serve in
Washington but most of them in the
field
The War Department has called
out members of the State staffs of
the National Guard to assist in
setting up local selective service
boards. The number in each State
will vary from two officers in the
less populous States to 10 in such
States as New York and Penn
sylvania
The officers called include the
State property and disbursing Off
GER, State medical officer, and. in
the case of larger States, a men,
Der of the judge advocates Office.
In assisting in setting up the State
draft boards, the Guard officers will
act only as advisers to the Gov
ernor, 1t was said.
The Joint Committee has had the
responsibility of keeping abreast OF
changing problems of mobilization.
studying draft procedure. blank
forms ond 0thor nhUSino1 ror0h1ov,oc
of the draft with view to simplifi-
cation and time-saving in emerg-
ency operations Of the type now
beginning, maintaining Selective
Service Regulations of the type soon
to be promulgated and maintaining
plan for the national headquarters
of which it has formed the peace
time nucleus.
"Fishbowl" Publicity Policy.
Members of the Joint Committee
have outlined "fiishbowl publicity
policy which is intended to keep
every man of draft age, his family
and friends fully informed to eacn
step taken in selecting men for COM
pulsory military service
In an effort to minimize discrimi-
nations and favoritism and to win
public support for conscription, the
projected rules call for the entire
draft process-iocal, State and
Federal-to be opened to the full
light Of public scrutiny.
When the estimated 16,5O0.000
men register at local voting
precincts, every mans name and
registration number will be fur
nished to his home newspaper and
posted outside the registration place
Nation May Listen in.
When the draft lottery is drawn
III Washington to establish the
order in which the men will be
called to duty, the entire Nation
may listen in by radio and the
lottery numbers will be furnished
to the newspapers Immediately.