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Show SECOND DRAFT FOR SOLDIERS IN JEjjRUARY Classification Will Begin On December 15. Citizens To Help WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. President Presi-dent Wilson foimally put tho now machinery for tho carrying out 6f tho selective draft bill Into operation with tho publication of tho 'fore-woid 'fore-woid he has written to tho regulations regula-tions under which the second call wilt bo mado. Tho regulations lliciii-sehes lliciii-sehes nnd the uuestlonaires, which moro than D, 000.000 registrants will bo required to fill out, are being forwarded for-warded to local boards, but huo not yet been mado public. War department officials estimate that tho whole process can bo completed com-pleted within sixty days. This means that no second call will be mado on tho draft foices beforo tho middlo of next February, as tho period for classification will not begin until December 15. Tho prosidont describes tho new plan of dividing all registered raon not already mobilized into five classes, class-es, subject to military servlco by classes, as being Intended to produce "a moro perfect organization of our man power." "Tho selective- principle must bo carried to Its logical conclusion," tho president said, "and ho nddqd that there must ho made a comploto inventory of tho qualifications of each registrant in order to determine determ-ine "the place in the military, industrial indus-trial or agricultural ranks ol' nation In which his experience and training can best bo mado to servo tho common good." Tho inquiry projected in tho questionnaire ques-tionnaire will go deep into tho qualifications quali-fications of each of nearly ten million mil-lion men. Tho success of tho plan nnd its completion within tho estimated tlmo rests on tho wholo hearted support sup-port given by the peoplo, especially by tho doctors and lawyers of every community, and the president calls upon them for that unstinted aid. o |