New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-15
Questionnaires To Be Sent
to Men Preparatory to
Calling Next Quotas
$4,000 Included
In New York Board,
Five Per Cent to Get Que.
tions in First Lot-Task
TO Take 10 Days

ed States begins at noon TO-DAY. !,
New York City alone the new ou.,.
tionnaires will be sent 70 the 54O0s
registrants who were not certified 70,
service in the first draft
Each of the l89 local boards b,,
has been instructed 20 send out 4.
questions to-day to 8 per cent Of "a
registrants, and will mail the remain.
der at the same rate on the nine;s.,
succeeding business days When u,
task is completed, draft officials exps,
to know every pertinent fact abe.,
economic and physical conditions .,
every man subject 10 call 70 the eolors
+ Those pioneers who receive the Sin.
teen-page questionable in the mails
tonight will have seven days in vksa
to study the inteTrogat.ons and deter.
mine the answers. After they relgn
/ the QUESTIONABLE. which includes Al.
davits and in most cases al the coeu.
ments necessary 10 nle q claim fQg
temporary discharge, the tafee men.
bers Of the local board viii have Eve
DAYS in which % decide in which q
the five classes each lHd.yidga. xh0
has replied 20 the queries be.ongs.
Then the registrant, II dissatisfied, E.l
have four days in which TO Ole an sp.
peal to the district board.
Questions Called Staggering
To the ordinary young man beiwess
the ages OF twenty-one and tnlriy-ohs
the extenslveuess and lntrcacy OF ne
QUESTIONABLE will be staggering, Y Is
believed. The provost marsnals oies
rea lied that In some cases none ogI
lawyer could hope 20 tacH4e me PROB
lem of answering the Questions exact
ly. and therefore President Wilsoa
called upon the lawyers of the land 70
mobilize their specia. talents TO meet
the national need. IN New York CgI
the registrant Will find his partieips-
tion in the workings Of the new cra:I
system will be facilitated By me ae'
vice of 5000 attorneys organized mo
local law boards IN each OF ine l~
local exemption districts.
Henry ". lat, JOHn Bowers an!
Charles A. Boston, forming the lega
advisory board for this city under ap
nolntment Of the President, d!ree;e;
he organization Of the attorneys sni
Yesterday, when they moved INTO mex
Headquarters on the sixth door Of ne
Hall Of Records, reported mat me
LAWYERS were ready for the bomoarl'
ment of questions from muddled regis
trants.
"Registrants of the city" said w.
Taft. SHOULD be Informed that tael
should pay no money TO notary pubic.
or 70 lawyers. as they did IN the lis
draft. The lawyers who nave folun,
teered their services as members q
the local law boards will not only 50,
wise registrants as 10 their rignH
under the draft law and help them .
answer the QUESTIONABLE, but VII! 81"
administer the oath. - they are a.
thorized 20 act as notarles. ne Jaw
vers under the legal advisory boan
should save rcgistrants from y,
swindlers who worked IN the hn,
draft. As far as possible, the loes
law boards have established thef
headquarters in the same building
the local exemption boards, but ~nen
that is impossible they have lass'
quarters nearby. Every man VINO r.
ceives a questionna.re g eniitlea
receive their advice free
Auxiliary Board Appointed
Besides the central legal adviser
board. an auxiliary board has been a.
pointed in each borough 20 supert"
the local law board. For Manhaiia.
the auxiliary board consists Of
Snowden Marshall, Walter ;. Iay''
ard Ernest Baldwin.
The attorneys are not 20 act as reP'
resentatiyes Of the government so.e9'
according TO the regulations. but N t,s
interest Of both the individual and I'
government. 10 help ascertain the us'
facts about the registrant Simlsf4'
physicians all over the country hA',
been organized 70 make the me'noc q
raising an army more exact. epeeA
lists in common diseases have be.n
formed into medical advisory ooara
20 which local boards can refer tolo'
ful cases for further physical eSam'a''
tior.
Major Charles North Dowd, who rs
been appointed medical aid Tor w'
state. said last night that the pefso,.
mel OF the medical advisory ooai.
was nearly complete In New YORK y
this city. he said. there viii be s.1is.,,
such boards. and in the remainder q
the state twenty more. The size Of %,
boards. according 20 DR.. Dowd' y"
vary from seven 20 twenty members ID,
The medical advisory boards ".
begin 20 sit as soon as the local oo''e'
begin 20 make physical eXam'nalolh
The exact procedure Of the local ooals'
in regard 10 the time OF phy.ieai s.
aminations is still In doubt. ho"s,s''
most local boards are expected 70 el'5.
ify the men first. and then concehu'.
their physical examinations on ."
who fall in Class T.
At an informal meeting OF me
trict Board yesterday morning u ".
pointed out that Section 100 Of the ~ ,',
selective regulations provides W'
members Of the District Board ~
hereafter receive salary. The insl.
mum fixed for the District Board ~
bers is 5000. and the maximum
local board members $50. Mos' o. ~
District Board members nf0rmaH} =
nifed their intention 90 decline ."
airy.
Eligible Men on Board
The disclosure yesterday Of me 70.
that thirty-seven members or e.eiS
draft boards are Of conseripiloh
will probable lead 20 the reni,o'ssiI
those men. according 20 Philip ); ~.
representative in this city OF Aalu"
General Sheriff. ,...
After announcing that an inves'yy,,
ton Of the report had been s,srteo !,
McCook said: at is our intsu'
eliminate men Of draft age Nao
members Of local boards as fast a' ~
can be done without affecting the WV
Of the board"
Morgan J. O'Brien Improves