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DRAFT REALLY “SELECTIVE”
As announced by Provost Marshal (.tenoral C lowdei
and approved by the President, the next draft will* be
what the first draft was not, namely, selective in the true
sense. In the first draft, 10 per cent of the registration
was taken by lottery. Out of this 10 per cent the selec
tions were made.
The next draft will not be a lottery. It will take the
men who can best Ik? spared tor the second line, and these
will be taken from all the remaining 00 per cent, not from
10 per cent of them. This principle, it is asserted, should
have been applied to the first draft: that is to say, the men
who could best be spared should have been selected from
the entire registration to go first, and then have other
classifications of those who should go second, third and
later.
The new plan provides for this principle. Registered
men will be classified in horizontal columns according to
the question of dependency, and in vertical columns, ac
cording to their need in war industry. Those included in
i he frst call will be those who stand first in both respects,
that is. those having no dependents at all and belonging
to occupations least imperative for the war. In the next
line will be those having few or remote dependents and
engaged in occupations one degree nearer to war necessi
ties. In the last list will be those having numerous and
helpless dependents and engaged in occupations impera
tive to the prosecution of the war.
General Crowder, with the president s approval, has
published a statement that a system will be provided which
will classify each one of the 9,000,000 men who have not
yet been inducted into military service, and give him his
place in the national scheme of defense. Each man will
be required to give information of a character which will
definitely fix his economic worth as compared with his fel
low registrants.
The method of obtaining this information is through
a “questionaire”—a series of questions calculated to pro
duce the information required. This document will be
mailed to every registrant not now in service on a date to
he fixed. When the questionaire is filled in and returned,
the local boards will examine each document and assign
each registrant to one of five classes.
These classes will be based on every conceivable con
dition from the family and occupational standpoint that
should be properly advanced by a man desiring to be ex
cused from military duty. The right to appeal from the
classification made by local boards is retained and the pro
cedure greatly simplified.
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Under the new plan, the arbitrariness and injustice
of the original plan will have disappeared. Instead of a
lottery we shall have a genuinely and positively selective
draft.
Isn’t it about time to get ready for winter sports in
Seward? And, by the way, looking back in the tiles of
■ the Gateway there is mention made ol a great mid-winter
carnival to be held in Seward from Christmas to New
vears! What about that carnival? Who was the leader
and what is doing?
Go down to the steamers as they come in and Seward
people will get all the good cheer they need. The trav
el’s say that Cordova is a good little town, \ aldez isn’t
half bad, but “what a real town Seward is and how busy
|everybody seems!” It’s the same thing over and over
again, Seward is the best town west of Juneau and all
classes of people agree to this.
The loss of the steamer Al-Ki will not he felt by those
in Southwestern Alaska but will be by those in Southeast
ern Alaska. The Al-Ki, during the past four years, has
been the cut-rate steamer and thousands have made trips
up and down the coast at cheap rates, no matter what the
combination was against the “one steamer line."
G.W. PALMER
KNIK, ALASKA
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Alaska .Oct. 21
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SAILINGS
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Phono: Main 81
SPOKANE Nov. 5
Captain A. McKay
ADMIRAL EVANS .Nov. 16
Captain C. A. Glasscock
SPOKANE Nov. 25
Captain A. McKay
Spokane (joes to Kodiak on this trip.
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