Evening star., 1940-10-25
Formula Announced
For Establishing
Quotas in Draft
1882 D. c. Net Quote;
5 Days Notice Must
Be Given Men Called
By HAROLD b. ROGERS.


Regulations for establishing the
quotas of drafted men from each
State and the District of Columbia
to be called for selective service
training between November Is and
June 80 were issued today by ma
tional selective service headquar-
ters.
Briefly, the complicated formula
for estimating quotas is explained
as determined on the basis OF the
registrants in each State classified
IN Glass la, who are those imme-
diately available for military serv-
Ice, plus the men from each State
already in the Nations armed forces
when a quota is fixed
Five Days Notice Required.
Meanwhile. detailed regulations
for induction of registrantS into
selective service, including a provi-
sion that no man be called TO active
duty without at least five days
notice, we're published today in the
Federal Register by order OF Presl-
dent Roosevelt.
The f1ve-day notice proviso appar-
emily was designed to enable a
selectee to put his personal affairs
in order before reporting for assign
ment to military camp. The order
further specifies that no call shall
be made for men with Special
qualifications and no call can be
made on a local board for more than
the boards net quota.
The net quotas already announced
by National Selective Service Head
quarters. which include 1892 for the
District to July l, was said to have
been calculated on the basis Of the
formula disclosed today.
The problem OF dividing the quota
for the first call among the different
local boards within a State or the
District is left up to the local au-
thorities. Informally, it was indl-
Gated by a selective service official
that two of the factors to be used in
allocating the first quotas to the
various local boards would be both
the population and the registration
in each board area.
Regulations In Pamphlet.
The regulations for calculating
quotas were issued in the form OF a
pamphlet of II pages, known as Vol.
4, Selective Service Regulations, on
the subject of Delivery and Induc-
ton" 1t outlines in comprehensive
and technical form the procedure by
which quotas will be corrected from
time to time. For instance. the
credit to be given each State and the
District because Of men already IN
the armed forces is expected to be
corrected again on November 80
Briefly, the net quotas in the fu-
ture are to be determined by taking
a gross quota and subtracting from
it the credit for men already in the
service, thus arriving at the net
quota. The figures already an
nounced last week for quotas of the
District and the various States are
the first estimated net quotas.
System Is Explained.
In q formal statement explaining
the operation of the quota system.
national selective service headQuar-
ters said:
The first step in the determina-
ton of net quotas is to take the
percentage of the available man
power of a State as compared with
available man power of the Nation,
which is an estimated 100000 men.
If the State of Northwest for eX-
ample, had $4,000 available men it
would have 1/10O of the national
man power.
1T is expected that by June Is,
1941, the armed force of the United
States will approximate 100000
men, including Army, Navy, Ma
tional Guard, Reservists and select
i've service trainees.
consequently, the State OF
Northwest used as an example, be-
cause it has 1-100 of the manpower
will be required to furnish 1-l00 OF
the 100000 in the armed forces, or
10000 men. This is 'Northwest's'
gross quota"
However" continues the explana-
ticn, each State is to be given
credit for the men it has already
furnished in determining the num-
ber of trainees to be inducted into
the armed forces under the Selective
Service Act. Northwest being
used as an example, has 10000 men
in the armed forces, Who will be
credited against its gross quota.
Consequently the number North
west must furnish under the Sc
lective Service Act, or its net quota,
Is 5000.
THE quota for each local board
will be figured by following the same
procedure
d. c. Gross Quota Unannounced.
Thus far Federal authorities have
not announced the Districts gross
quota, nor its credits, though it is
assumed these figures were on hand
as the net quota has been an
nounced. The method local officials
might employ to determine how the
Districts credits should be divided
among the "a local boards has not
been figured out in detail.
The detailed credit for the Dis