Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-09

in protest: through your valuable pa:
per. IN regard to The labor situation OF
There are only. a few negroes left on
,hs farms to-day. and unless some
thing fsw is do, done for us, there win only be
left. The public works at Newport
New; News and Jamestown arc paying. as
horer draws from So to $3.50 per day..
,oItl n double aD. pay for SUNDAY; wss
at work oyer there that the least that
they DO. the better they are liked. II
e' smnIy 70 ea Sss on 10 60 to MoIfoik
time to answer TO roll call and gets
his pay the Same as II no were thsre.
you can readily see under What stress
W Tnrm are 9borT."E to keep them on the
when, when they have 70 work only eisht
to Work from 1y twelve to bo sem
lef! has been. drafted into the army.
the Eastern Exemption Board refused,
TO grant tho request: This negro had
hsiay Seor Titf for SIS monh and
because he was afraid OF being draft.
ed In into to. the army, but because he had
these wages. On the day that ne got
notice OF the refusal Of his request Tor
exemption on account Of agricultural,
he, saw n" necessity in his trying q
raise stuff. or trying to help any. for
i from per n, moa n r. when he coula draw
working on Sundays. T very readiiy
saw saw the justice OF his claim. and al.
lowed MIN to go where he pleased. "
There is lying on my farm. and
farms adjoining mine Irish moi a. ono
that were left oyer from the sprins
gro crop that are Just rottine in the ground
IN tho past. darkies with families OF !,
IRON, ron eight to ten, have been doing
tam a @ora are n %sk, the s heads Of such
these works that the remainder OF Their
families tar wili do nothing at ali; and.
they have done in the the p mnrk'n ,s Is ~
nothing for them to send money orders
tor $40 and SEQ at the time.
-, DO not know whether you can do
or not not but II we submit to these con-
a tb.r. without any any, protest whatever.
to reese omr a W be 9o,hins done
any farmer In this section how much
foodstufr no expects to raise. or to
-: II do not know whether ] shall BE-
able to raise anything or not. Tho
lab or question is such tina. Il ! plant
become OF them" have ave" conn MAJ 70 T tba
opinion that the best thing for one
aer my 80 pant ana Just ,n what Gan look
my farm will have to lay idle.
vaip habnein sG,c you Sesy much for this
not taken up too much of It. am.
DIR. PEYToS +. NoT @
Carrollton. Va, September s, 1917
Ffr"t-Yenr Students md the Draft.
To the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
SILT is genuine relief TO all In
tional preparedness to Know tina,
way has 1t last been announced where
ny second. third and fourth year meti'-
ms for future ccrvice. Firnt-year med,
,cal students are not included. doubt
w ,sss oeenaan Of the fear that; Il they,
refuge for slackers.
1t would indeed seem that there can
be no other reason for this failure 20
the only valid and conclusive argument
lot Keeping any medical student at hia
W im. d Il tina, , there should be at no
It is ever, diminution In the output
OF medical schools The demand for
ing, OF every branch OF the Drofession
WIN an adequate supply OF men train. "
cd IN modern medicine Will continue
war was declared. the output w7s not
quite equal 10 the demand. The de-
HlHuu VIII De BTclter-not leSS-aftcr
In medicine recognise to-day that tho
medical resources OF America will be
rehabilitation OF war devastated Fu-
rope. For this reason. IL for no other.
II I. most desirable that there be no
hi, his year; II possibie, ,his numhsr
s Of ine Tnsnf an s b.
servic" OF these men when they are
graduate feur years hence. In tho
War. Department in providing for :hs
continuance OF medical students n their
work VIII tell chiefly In lettering men
,cine this year. Many cauaes will con-
tribute to this result. ono OF the most
important being the natural hesitation
years of study with no assurance that
It will be uninterrupted Ordinary
Icy to keep this loss OF first-year stu.
dents to 4 minimum.
Now. granting that II is better to
keen the medical schools free from
go In for medicine who have the ap-
titude and taste therefor as a pro-
s session; there is a class of first.year
put against whom no Just charge of, !
being slackcrs can be preferred: name
~ ~, those msn who. prior TO the decla
Gress; had declared their intention Of
entering upon the study OF medicine
IN the fall of 1917. In many colleges
there are premed!cal courses In which
students are formally registered: other
college students can show that they
hao given their names to the deana
OF medical schools as candidates for
entrance; still others can show that :
their entrance credits had been APP
proved for admission. These men are
as truly in the medical ranks as tho
man who has finished the first year
Of his medical course. why should
they not be included in the order BY
which drafted medical students have
the privilege OF cnlisting in the on
listed reserve CORPS of the medical de.
partment. and so of being discharged
from the National Army to continue
me study Of medicine? They will be
needed four years hence: 1t may be
that they will be needed as England
needs medical graduates to-day.
When. last May. college authorities,
nj the urgent request OF the medical
board Of the Advisory Council Of Ma F.
ttonal Defense. discouraged not only
medical but premedical students as
well, from leaving their studies to vol.