Show FORMAL DRAfT ORDER ISSUED BY PRESIDENT Wilson Rallies Men Around the Flag v 1 ON THE FIRST CALL Official Allotment Shows What Part of Total Must Be Furnished by Each State and Territory In the Union A Washington A formal order by President Wilson drafting Into the military service under the selective the thc conscription law was gated by the w war war r department together with an officIal allotment showing what part of ot the total must be furnished by I each state and territory The only steps now remaining are distribution by the governors of state quotas among the local exemption tion districts cod and the great lottery which probably will be held next week and which will establish the order in which registrants are to present present present pre pre- sent themselves for service or tion The men summoned for service will be used to fill the regular army and National Guard to war var strength and to organize the first of the tile new national army Total to Be The total of ot these three forces will be men Later another will be called out supplemented by sufficient men to make up losses and maintain reserve reserve re re- re- re serve ser battalions Following is Secretary of ot War Var Bakers Baker's announcement of the order By virtue of ot UI th the authority vested In him by an act of congress entitled An Act to Authorize the President to lo Increase Temporarily the Mill Military tal Establishment of the tile United States approved May 13 1017 1917 the president of the United States has ordered the aggregate number of men to be raised by ly y draft for the military service of the thc United States in order to bring to full strength the tile organIzations organ organ- of the regular army and the theor or organizations embodying the tile mem mern- hers bers of ot f the National Guard drafted Into tile the mill ry service of the United States and to create the tile national army nimy rInd find has caus caused d said aggregate number to be apportioned to the tile several several sev sev- eral oral states and territories and the tile District of Colum Columbia ia as set forth fortis in III the schedule hereto appended The Tile governor of each state stale und and territory territory territory ter ter- and the commissioners of the tue I District of ot Columbia acting for and by the direction of the president and andIn andIn andIn In accordance with said suld act of congress a and d rules and regulations prescribed pursuant thereto shall shaH apportion the quota so apportioned to such state territory territory ter ter- territory ter- ter or district and shall shaH communicate communicate cate to each ench local board established In such state territory or district notice notice notice no no- tice of the net quota to be furnished b by such board and such net quotas shall thereupon be furnished by the tile respective respective respective re re- re- re local boards as required by said act of congress and rules and regulations regulations reg reg- prescribed pursuant thereto In computing the number of men to tobe tobe tobe be r required from the various states the government put to the credit of each state every man It now ha haS In Inthe Inthe Inthe the National Guard and every man It has contributed since April 1 ns us a war volunteer to the regular arm army Computation Method Placing on the debit side of the tile ledger ledger ledger led led- ger the national army of the entire National Guard at war strength and the number of war volunteers needed on April 1 last to bring the regulars up to the war strength the tile grand total was apportioned according to population This Tills gave a gross quota for each state from which a net quota was computed computed com coin by checking off the tile number of National Guardsmen available for federal federal fed fed- eral service and the number of ot men inca given by hy the state to the regular army since April 1 The Tile apportionment was made on the tile basis of an estimated grand total for forthe forthe the tile United States and Its possessions of ot 10 Inhabitants This Is a paper estimate computed from registration returns which comes within the law requiring distribution of ot quotas b by population but which equalizes In a great grent measure the burden burden burden bur bur- den that Is to fall upon the 45 9 exemption ex- ex emption districts Total of Each Elch will vill furnish under this apportionment apportionment apportionment the men Its total registration would l indicate as a fair proportion rather than titan the number the actual popUlation population population pop pop- of the district would indicate The Tue total of these gross quotas Is 1 8 men Credit is given to th tho states for a n total of oC voluntary enlistments enlistments enlist enlist- ments meats in the National Guard and nud regulars reg reg- ulars tanking making the total net quota for all ull states men Illinois which was the tue first big state to fill flU its quota f for foi- r the tile regular army reduced its gross quota of H to |