Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1917 — All Registrants Drawn for Draft. [ARTICLE]

All Registrants Drawn for Draft.

Judging from the questions asked, it appears that there is a general misunderstanding about the effect of the draft drawings. It should be borne in mind that ALL who had to register have been drawn by the drafting officials in Washington. In other words. EVERY man in Jasper county who had to register has been drawn. The object of the drawings was, in plain language, to PLACE THEM IN LINE FOR SERVICE. Obviously it would not have been faitjo have called on the men for service according to the numbers on their registration cards. Consequently the drawings had to be gone through with to see which men were to be called on first.