Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1917 — DRAFT TO GIVE ORDER OF GALL [ARTICLE]

DRAFT TO GIVE ORDER OF GALL

Numbers Are to Be Drawn for All Registrants. LIABILITY FIXED BY ORDER Kach Man Will Know the Order in Which He Is Liable to lie Called for War Service. Washington, July 13. —Secretary Ba 4 ker announced that in the drawing td select men for draft Into the war army; numbers will be drawn representing 1 every one of the nearly 10,000,000 registered, so that each man juay know) the order In which he is liable to ba called for service. May Exetnpt Fifty Per Cent. Liability will he fixed by the order In' which the names come out. There aro some 6,000 districts with nuruberedi registration cards, so the first number drawn will represent the lirst 0,000 men to appear before the exemption boards. It Is estimated that 00 per cent of? the men examined will he exempted or fall to pass the physical examination,' so that more than a million men prob-' ably will appear before the boards before the 087,000 or more Wanted on tliflj first call are obtained. Why Details Were WithheldPersistent Inquiries from all parts of| the country for Information about tile method to be followed in selecting men for the national war army caused war! department officials to explain that] President Wilson's determination to have absolute fairness govern the process was responsible for the decision! to withhold announcement of the exact plan until the very eve of the drawlngj The exemption regulations and all] other moves in the making of the newts army have received the approval of the president personally, and the draft regulations also will come from the White House. All that Is known now Is that the drawing will be from serial numbers corresponding to numbers on registra-, tlon cards and that it will take place In Washington, probably at the capltolj Baker to Draw First Number. Secretary Baker or some other high! official will draw the first number and then the process of selection will bo pushed forward until there Is flashed by telegraph to every community in the country the numbers of the men drawn. It is understood that the system planned Is so simple that the work will be done in a few hours. Unofficial estimates of the quotas for the six central western states are ns follows, all 'based-on the new census estimate, which gave Illinois a bleb rating: Illinois . .* 49.419 Indiana lowa - 13,255 Michigan ..................... 30,790 Minnesota 15,091 Wisconsin 17,388 Total ...142,776 As soon as the local organizations are complete appointment of the district exemption hoards will he announced. These boards, one or more in each federal judicial district, will pass upon appeals from the local bodies arid will have jurisdiction over claims for exemptions on account of employment in industrial and agricultural or other necessary enterprises. Nominations for the boards proposed from 45 states already have boon sent to the president by the provost marshal general’s office. Some fear was felt at the war department that the delays in organization might cause further postponement of the draft.