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IHIRTY-.MNTH TEAR.
ELABORATE SYSTEM IS
DEVISED TO ASSURE
FAIRNESS IN DRAWING
Military Draft to Occur Friday
Morning in National
Capitol
MECHANICAL PROCESS
SHORTENED OV NEW PLAN
Every Facility Afforded For
Efficient Operation of
Intricate Machinery
WASHINGTON, D.'c., July 19.
(Bulletin) —The drawing under the
provisions of the military draft act
v.’ill occur Friday morning in the capi
tcl building.
Absolute Fairness.
WASHINGTON, D. C.. July 19-
Plans for the draft drawing provide
that the name of every registrant is to
be drawn, and they will appear before
exemption boards in the order in
which their names are drawn.
Exemption boards are directed to call
two hundred per cent, of each quota,
because of exemptions expected to be
allowed, and if not enough be summon
ed first then to summon others in their
order.
Cer%l numbers dealt with in the
di awing of names for service range
from cne to the highest number in the
most populous districts, and to reduce
the mechanical process of selection a
master key has been devised to obtain
many names at the first drawing. Slips
are numbered from naught to ten, then
the drawing is begun, serial numbers
being from one to one thousand.
The key will fix the order in which
each group of thousands is to be plac
ed on the liability list, which will run
from Number One to more than ten
thousand. For instance, if Nine be the
first number drawn for key, all regis-j
traiicn numbers in the Nine Thousand
group would go in the block at the
head of the list, arranged in the order
in which Numbers One to a Thousand
come out in the second drawing. Dis
tricts with less than nine thousand reg
istrants would disregard this first block
entirely, and be affected only by the po
sition |)f key numbers for blocks cor
responding with the number of thous
ards of registrants they have.
The number first drawn fixes tha*:
man as the first to appear before the
exemption board in his district. If. j
however, the number higher
than the whole number registered inj
any one district then such district i 3
not affected. For example, key num
bers are drawn this way: Nine, seven J
cne, naught and so forth. The first
serial number drawn is, say, twenty -
five; then the first men summoned to
appear before the exemption boards'
are those whose registration cards are j
numbered 10,025; 7,025; 1,025; 25 and,
so forth. Districts with more than '
ton thousand registrants ’ mid have'
eleven men, heading the list with Num-j
ber 10.025, and districts with less than
a thousand registrants would be headed
by number 25. This method will
continued until every rigistrant’s num
ber is placed.
Arrangements Complete.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 19.—_
Advices to Brigadier General Crowder,
the provost marshal general, indicated
that the national lottery to determine
the order of liability of 10,000,000 men
registered for military service could
be held Friday. Preparations to make
the drawing on that day went ahead
rapidly, although a final decision as to
the date cannot be made, until the last
governor has actually reported that the
local exemption boards in his state!
have finished their task.
Details of the mechanism to be cm- 1
ployed in the drawing have not been!
revealed. Present plans are for the,
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lottery to take place in the capito!
building, with the members of the sen
ate and house military committees as
v. itnesses. The entire proceeding is
r.ot expected to take much more than
one hour.
General Crowder has been in con
ference with the newspaper correspon
dents over arrangements for the draw
ing. The press is relied upon to carry
to individuals throughout the country
the information as to when they will
be required to appear before exemption
boards, and every effort is being made
to suit the convenience of the papers
q.k to details.
The task of transmitting the long
lists of numbers by telegraph is a
' problem of considerable proportions,
'but the press associations and tele-
graph companies are making efforts to
insure both speed and absolute accu
racy in transmission. There is more
concern over the task of the individual
newspapers after they receive by wire
the results of the drawing. In the se
rial numbers with the names of the
men they represent in each district at
-1 tached is one of staggering proportions.
I In New York City, where there are
1 189 of the 4,557 local exemption dis
tricts, a list of the names and numbers
: would fill several hundred newspaper
I pages. Even to give sufficient names
j and numbers to cover those likely to be
1 tailed to the colors immediately means
enormous work.
While the provost marshal general’s
office is busy clearing up the last de
tails of the drawing, the problem of
* alien registrants, other than enemy
1 aliens, -is before the senate in a reso
lution introduced by Senator Chamber
lain, chairman of eht military commit
tee. it provides for the drafting for
military service of citizens of coun
tries at war with Germany who are
■ now residing in the United States upon
the same terms as American citizens
are liable under the national army bill.
BRITTAIN SCORES
TOON BITTERLY
ATLANTA, Ga., July 19.—Probably
the most severe excoriation of Thomas
E. Watson ever delivered in a public
pieeting in Georgia was that by Hon. M.
L. Brittain, at Beaufort, Gwinnett coun
ty, yesterday.
Quite recently a meeting was held in
Gwinnett county to "protest” against
the selective draft law, and for some
time there has been a more or less con
siderable agitation in that section
against the policies of the national
democratic administration in connec
tion with the war.
.Mr. Brittain was invited there to
speak or "Education and Citizenship,”
and in the course of his remarks said:
“It is with a sad heart that I have
responded to your request to address
you on ‘Education and Citizenship.’ I
have a son, Marion L., Jr., through the
soft light of whose brown eyes there
shines his mother’s gentle spirit. He
left this morning for Port Royal to
joiu the marines and to serve his coun
try in this time of peril. But in the
sadness there is a pride in his response
to his country's call, and I would not
change places with those of you in
Gwinnett who have been led into trea
son through following that combination
of Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold
called Thomas E. Watson. Always a
common liar by nature and character
assassin by trade, he first abused Pres
ident Wilson for his long patience uner
der German injuries, and now that war
is declared tries to weaken his arm by
counselling his deluded followers to
resist the law of the land which has
shielded their slacker hides. Will you
follow any such yellow dog?”
Air. Brittains’ remarks were received
with vociferous applause.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 19, 1917
!UNITED SMS WILL
| NOT BE REPRESENTED
WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 19.
The United States, it is announced to-
has declined an invitation to parti
cipatc in the allied conference to be
held in Paris this month, it being de
cided such action was not necessary,
but it is explained this should not be
taken as indicating the permanent pol
icy of the American authorities.
CITY COURT STILL
DN IM CALENDAR
The City Court continued in session
•today, considering the civil calendar,
the case on trial being that of Airs. H.
J. Bagley .vs. Mrs. T. B. Westbrook.
This action is brought to recover rent
alleged to be due from the defendant.
Yesterday the entire session of the
court was taken up with the trial of
the case of J. J. Kinard vs. E. P. An
dersen, the jury being unable to agree
upon a verdict after long deliberation.
The consideration of the civil calen
dar will consume the balance of the
present week, while many cases have
also been set for next week.
GUARDS WILL GET
RIFLES JTONIGHT
At the regular meeting of the Sum
ter Light Guards to be held tonight at
8 o’clock in the armory, the question of
securing uniforms for the organization
will be discussed, with the probability
that the matter will be definitely ar
ranged.
Representatives of a well known uni
form manufacturing house are in this
city to enter into negotiations with the
Light Guards. The details of the ques
tion have not yet been fully entered
irto hut at the meeting tonight every
phase of the matter will be fully dis
cussed.
The rifles with which the Light
Guards will be armed will be at the
armory tonight, the weapons having
been brought down from the Americus
High school building, where they have
been stored since the closing of school
in May. The Krag-Jorgensen carbines |
used by the Cadet corps are to be used
by the Light Guards until arrange
ments can be made to secure guns from
the federal government.
It is particularly necessary that ev
ery members of the organization be
present tonight.
HAMPSHIRE ASSOCIATION
WAS ORGANIZED TODAY
The Georgia Hampshire Breeders’ as
sociation was organized this morning
a the Arles plantation, where cccur
ied one of the most important hog
sales £ver staged in this section of the
state
W. T. Calhoun, manager of the Arles
plantation, was elected president ofi
the new organization, while Paul Rob
erts, of Eastman, was named as secre
tary-treasurer. The charter member
ship is over 50 and this number will
be greatly increased within, the next
few days, as many breeders! unable to
be present at the sale today have signi
fied their intention of joining the or
ganization.
One hundred registered Hampshire
hogs were sold at auction during the
hours of sale at the Arles plantation,
many of the animals bringing fancy
prices. Over 300 hog breeders and
farmers from all over this section of
the state were in attendance at the
sale and thoroughbred animals were
purchased to be distributed throughout
south Georgia.
A barbecue lunch was served at noon
on the second story of the sale pavilion
and free automobiles carried visitors to
the plantation during the entire fore
noon.
GALICIAN DRIVE
NOT CHECKED AH
FIRST REPRRTED
NEW YORK, July 19. (Compiled by
the Associated Press from European
cables during the day.)—While the
world waits to hear the maiden speech
of ttte new German chancellor, ex
pected to be delivered before the reich
stag today, important military opera
tions are occurring in Galicia. The
Russian reports are encouraging and
statements that the drive had appar
ently been checked in eastern Galicia'
yesterday are nullified to some extent
by the Petrograd report that Russians
took part of the village of Noviea and
are still holding it.
Provisional government authorities
are reported in control of the uprising
at Petrograd, where foreign aid has
been promised, if necessary.
German forces attacked French po
sitions near Verdun last night, with
out success.
t
SAIIAINAO IN
TOOK PiRT IN
IMJSUIING
SAVANNAH, Ga.. July 19. —A graph
ic description of the world war by J.
R. Whalley, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. J.
Whalley, of Savannah, who was in the
trenches eleven months hefore his hor- j
rible wounds made it necessary for
him to be sent away, brings the great :
conflict home to the American people, -
and puts them in close touch with the
horrors cff warfare and the suffering
and privations that are being gone ,
through by the allied soldiers.
The Savannahian is at home on a
four-months’ furlough, is a member of ,
the Twentieth-sixth infantry battalion
of the Canadian expeditionary forces,-
his number is being 70066. His bat
talion is known as the “Fighting Twen
ty-sixth,” and the bravery of the Can
adians during several of the big battles
has won them world-wide fame.
The Savannahian took part in four
of the biggest battles of the world con- ,
flict. The first one was at the battle of ,
Kemmel, and the second wis probably
£he bloodest ifi the war. It was called ,
the Bloody Battle of Eloia. The Can- ,
adian infantryman describes the hor- ,
rors of the battle by telling that 600,-
000 men were lost and the ground was
covered with blood for a radius of five
miles. He also took part in the second
and third battles of Ypres, which bat-1,
ties go down iii bistcry as two of thej
most important in the world struggle.!
In the third battle of Ypres practi-j
cally the whole of the Twenty-sixth j
was lost, the Savannah soldier stating j
that only twenty-three men and three !,
officers of his own battalion returned
from the battle.
It was in this battle that Whalley
lay in an unconscious condition on the
battlefield with gun fire in progress all
around him. He was severely wound
ed, and his companions, thinking him
dead, cut off his pendant from his
neck, as is always done to a dea sol
dier. After lying in the battlefield four
days, a. bomb exploded near him and
threw him many feet into the'air, and :
affected by the explosion, he began to
utter groans, which resulted in atten- i
tion being attracted toward him and t
his being removed to a hospital. Hisji
condition is such that it is impossible ’<
for him to ever return to the battle-!:
field, but he has been ordered to re-j
port at Canadian headquarters. i
While the American people were
reading of the gas battles, Whalley was i
in’he midst of them He speaks of hand »
grenade fighting as the most horrible i
feature of the war. j
He says Europeans believe the en- <
trance of the United States into the I
war will hasten the end. :
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♦ PROBABLY LOCAL THUNDER 4- £
4- SHOWERS TONIGHT AND FRI- 4- i
4- DAY. 4- (
PARDONS SUFFRAGETTES
JAILED FOB PICKETING
WASHINGTON. D. C, July 19.
President Wilson today pardoned six
teen suffragists who were serving six
teen days for picketing about the white
house. Secretary Tumulty announcing
the pardons said no statement of rea
sons for his action would he given out
by the president.
GEN. WOOD DECLARES
FOR EOEE PUBLICITY
THOMASVILLE, Ga., July 19. — :Pub
licity for every policy and effort of the
federal government, except those that
might be of value to the enemy, was
urged by Major General Leonard A.
Wood, commander of the southeastern
military district in an address here
yesterday before the annual meeting of
the Georgia Weekly Press association.
He ade a strong plea for universal mil
itary service, saying “such training
places all men on an equality and pro
duces a higher type of manhood.”
The speech of General Wood was list
ened to by an immense crowd, many
coming from Florida and other nerby
sections,
HARDWICK WOULD
CONTROI COTTON
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 19.
While many southern congressmen are
fighting stubbornly to prevent cotton
from being retained in the food bill,
Senator T. W. Hardwick takes the po
sition, according to what he said on the
tioOjf of the senate, that cotton growers
should have no exception made in their
case. He was presenting the resolu
tion of the Georgia legislature urging
that cotton be eliminated from the bill,
and said:
“With the resolution of the legisla
ture of Georgia I am in complete sym
pathy, yet if I favored this bill as it
now stands, I should not be for the
resolution.
“It is utterly useless, in my judge
ment, for the people who grow cotton
to expect that the people of every other
section of the country will submit to
governmental control and regulation of
heir products and be willing to make an!
exception of cotton, unless, indeed, the i
exception be made along lines that are
clearly demarked by the application of
general principles.
‘ Ot course,' if the bill should be con
fined to food, or to food and fuel alone,
j the n there would be no excuse for in
j eluding cotton in its provisions. But j
j if steel and iron and copper and every- j
| thing else are to be included, there is!
|no reason on earth why the cotton
I grower should expect a different treat
| ment from what is accorded to these
other products and commodities.”
MACON GETS REMOUNT
CAMP FJJEW ARMY
MACON. Ga.. July 19.—Additional
good news came to Macon yesterday in
the form of an announcement that
there will be a remount station estab
lished in connection with Camp Wheel
er. The government asked the military
c mmittee of the Chamber of Commerce
|to secure a site. Within an hour the
' committee had three available sites
j selected, and is now after options
j which are expected to be closed late to
day.
The men who have been working to
secure a camp or cantonment were not I
t peeting a remount station. A tract of:
nearly 4,000 acres has been offered the
government free of charge by Atlanta
citizens, and it had been understood
that Atlanta would get the remount
stations for the Atlanta, Augusta and
Macon camps. Atlanta had figured on
taking care of 30,000 horses and mules
and the information received in Macon
yesterday war to the effect that 10,000
animals would be kept in this city. This
is taken to indicate that Atlanta, Ma
con and Augusta will equally share .in
remounts.
iAIENT TO FRANCE
BUT DIONT KNOW IT
/ Henry Dan Stevens, one of the
Americus boys who enlisted in the
United States navy a few months ago
and who is now home on a furlough
which expires in a day or two, made a
tirp to France a few weeks ago, but
didn’t know it until he returned to
this country.
He was assigned to duty as a mem
ber of a naval gun crew on board a
merchant vessel, but none of the men
were informed as to tile destination of
the ship. Everything was kept secret,
even on the way across the Atlantic,
and on reaching a certain port, the
crew were not allowed to go ashore
All avenues of information were closed
to the men comprising the gun crew
and the vessel sailed out of the harhpr
without the crew finding out where
they were. On their return to the
United States they discovered that they
had paid a visit to France.^/
charge defection
AMONG AUSTRIANS
LONDON, July 19.—Tlie Vienna cor
respondent of the Deutsche Tages Zei
tung. according to a Reuter’s news dis
patch from Zurich, accuses the non-
German party in Austria of being in
alliance with the Entente.
NEGRO CAUGHT IN ORCHARD
WITH SACK OF PEACHES
Honor Biaecen, a negro well known
in this city, was arrested yesterday af
ternoon in the aof. of carrying away a
sack of fine peaches from the orchard
on the p'aiit'ation owned by W. P. Wal
lis, of Americus. The negro had been
suspected of previous thefts of fruit
and a watch was kept to apprehend
him. with the result that he was caught
in the act.
PERSONS EXEMPT
PROM DRAFT ACT
Following are the persons, subject to
exemption from the present draft proc
lamation of President Wilson:
These now serving in the United
I States military and naval service.
Officers of the United States, of the
[several states. Alaska and the Island
! Possessions, and of the District of Col- 1
umbia.
Regularly ordained ministers of re
ligion.
Students of divinity preparing for
the ministry on May 18, 1917.
Subjects of Germany residing in the'
United States —alien enemies.
Employees of the federal customs *
| service.
All alien residents who have not tak -,
cn out first papers of American citi-i
zenship.
State, county and municipal offi j
cials. Men employed in the govern-!
, ment mail service.
United States navy yard, arsenal and
armory employes and workmen.
Special United States employes to be 1
I designated by the presidents.
Pilots for steamers and steamships'
jat American ports.
Mariners actually employed in sea'
re-vice on ships owned by an American'
citizen.
Any married man whose wife or child J
is dependent solely on his labor for
support.
Any son of a widow dependent solely i
on bis labor for support.
Brother of a child or children under
16 years of age, who has or have
neither father or mother, and Is or are
solely dependent on his labor for sup
port.
Any person who Is a member of a
recognized religious sect organized or
existing May 18, 1917, whose creed for
bids its members to participate in war
All persons morally deficient.
COY
MAT MOVE SEAT
OF GOVERNMENT
FROM PETROGRAD
PETROGRAD, July 19.—An extraor
dinary session of council to discuss
a proposal to move the seat of the pro
visional government to Moscow was ad
dressed today by Minister Postiloff,
who said the general assembly of
workmens’ and soldiers’ delegates
should be held there, away from inter
ference by irresponsible factions in
the Petrograd garrison.
Government forces are bivouacing to
day about the winter palace, where
guns have been posted, and the gen
eral feeling here is that a decisive
stage between the forces of order and
disorder is rapidly approaching. The
government does not want to use
force until such action becomes abso
lutely necessary, but is seemingly pre- *
paring to do so if further outbreaks
occur. Sporadic fighting occurred in
the streets today.
*
No Demonstrations at Moscow.
MOSCOW, July 19.—The local coun
cil of workmen’s and soldiers’ dele
gates today \y>ted against allowing ‘
street demonstrations here.
HMDffiBLOCKS
AVIATIONJOIEJSORE
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 19.
Passage of the $640,000,000 aviation
bill by the senate was blocked yester
day afternoon by objections raised by
Senators Hardwick, of Georgia, and
Owen, of Oklahoma. Hardwick offer
ed an amendment to prevent the use of
tiie draft in recruiting men for flying.
Provision for draft of the aviation
forces was the principal objection rais
ed in the debate, although Senator
Chamberlain explained that the war de
partment planned to have fliers volun
teer and to draft only “ground” avia
i.irp forces.
Senators Hardwick, Vardaman and
Reed, all of whom vigorously opposed
the army draft law, objected to the
draft clause. The Georgia senator sai
|he favored the declaration of war
against Germany and was willing to do
even thing to prosecute it vigorously
but he opposed raising armies by con
scription “and drafting any men for
service on foreign soil.” He thought
inclusion of a draft clause in the avia
tion bill would mean drafting just that
many more men into service. With
the draft clause out, he said, he would
willingly vote for the bill,
j The draft clause, he said, is “unwise,
i unnecessary and un-American. I can’t
| vote for the bill if that principle re
mains in it.”
The Georgia senator said the war
I department had declared that it was
| not intended to use the draft to enlist
I aviators, and asked:
"Then, why give them the power
when they don’t want it?”
In declaring that he was against the
draft principle, Senator Hardwick pro.
tested against “Prussianizing America
to win the war, and did not believe it
was necessary to hrfve conscription,
food dictatorships and other dictator
ships,” but believed in “fighting the
war as we have fought those in the
past.”
Senator Hardwick offered an am<T
ment to strike out the clause authoriz
ing aviation conscription.
Senator Vardaman declared he would
not vote for any measure that “con
tains a conscription provision.”
HUGE EQUIPMENT FOR
EfiCR OVERSEAS SOLDIER
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 19.
In emphasising the need of great stor
age facilities, the storage committee of
[the Council of National Defense today
reported equipment needed for each
overseas soldier amounted to five and
! a half ions.
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