Word: localizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...high order number necessarily guarantee that its holders would not be called soon. Many factors (age, dependents, occupation, health, etc.) determined each registrant's chances. Most vital factor (and least clear to registrants last week) was the composite make-up of the registered group in each local draft district. For example: The Army intends to call up 800,000 one-year trainees by next June 15 (the first 30,000 are to be called Nov. 18). Last week Selective Service headquarters first allotted gross quotas to each State, then deducted from these totals the number of men from each...
...each local board in effect has to set up its own list (from the "master list") of the order numbers held by registrants in its area. In the sequence in which these numbers appear on the local list, the board then sends out detailed questionnaires to prospective draftees. From the answers to these questions, each board then classifies registrants in four main groups: 1) those apparently eligible and fitted for service; 2) three groups of "deferred" men who are ineligible, unavailable or unfitted...
...classified in "necessary" occupations and thus deferred. Result: in such an area a registrant with an order number above 1,000 may find himself called ahead of his neighbor, with No. 20. Last week registrants could not know what their chances of being called actually were until their local lists were set up, the first batches of questionnaires had been answered...
Something that had happened to all the 17,000,000, whether or not they were marked for armed service, was new in U. S. life: continuous, detailed responsibility to local draft boards. The members of these boards in fact had become among the most potent of U. S. citizens...
Registrants must henceforth notify their local boards of any important change in their ways of living: a new job, discharge from an old job, a new baby, marriage, divorce, the death of a dependent, a change of address, even a prolonged visit to another locality. A registrant who wants to leave the U. S. must get his local board's permission beforehand. Reason: such changes would probably affect a registrant's liability or availability for service. Penalty for willful failure to "tell your local draft board" is the same as for any other violation of the Selective Training...