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Show bit urai lr Federal Machinery Arranged Ar-ranged for Determining Order of Induction. 4 J " ! Drawing to Take Place , Publicly in Senate Office Building. 'WASHINGTON', Sept. 27. Monday. , September was set by Provost Mar- j slm! General C'rowder today as the date for the national draft lottery to determine deter-mine the order, in the classes to which they are to be assigned, of the 13,000,000 men from IS to 45. who registered for selective service September 12. The drawing Vill take place publicly in the senate office building, and the numbers num-bers will be given to the press and the country'by district draft boards as quickly quick-ly as the list ran be printed and put into - the hands of the boards by mail. I It v. id be necessary this time to draw ' one at a time approximately K.nOO cap-j cap-j sniei containing the serial numbers, and ; It will require approximately twemy-elx i hours to complete the task, j The creation of the classification sys tem lias so altered the situation since the first drawing- that the order of numbers now onlv indicates a man's order in his .'last, and several considerations decide his class. Example Is Given. As an example, the first number out of the bowl might be 24$. Number 2-iS ! might be held by a man 43 yArs old, 1 i mimed and having children. The fart 1 hat his number is the first drawn stairos for notliim; at all. He would automatically automatical-ly go in the fourth class for dependency, and unless the government reverses its policy of not invading the deferred classifications classi-fications he never would be called for service, ser-vice, i Similarly, number f.276 might be the verv last capsule drawn, N and the holder might be a man 19 ears old. unmarried and foot-free. He would be practically certain to be called to duty soon, despite the fact that his order number was at the bottom of the list. Then added tt the effect upon the order j of service which has been worked by the i classification is the deferment because of a .man's occupation, which may be considered con-sidered more essential to the winning of the war than actual service with troops. '. The government' lias made, it very clear that in this draft it does not want a sin-. sin-. gle man in the army who actually s ' needed at home. ' All these considerations reduce the relar tive importance of a man's position in the drawing to his likelihood for service. Boards to Distribute. When the question of telegraphing the . order of the numbers all over the , United States was fully investigated it was found that to do so would have en-f en-f tirely occupied all the facilities for dis- I tributing news for at least twenty-four hours continuously, j It meant that for twenty-four straight j hours, possibly more, not a single ""word ' of news of the war or events at home I could have been published by the news papers. The plan of having the government govern-ment use its own machinery through the boards to distribute the numbers was then evolved and it brought the added advantage ad-vantage of making the list when finally published an official one on which boards and registrants could absolutely depend. The provost marshal general's office j will distribute the official complete mas- : ' ter list of numbers to the district boards ; by mall as fast as they can be turned ! -out. The boards wilt be instructed to give them out to the newspapers and the public as fast as they receive them, ! which will be a few days after the drawing. - |