Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-07-27
HOW SELECTED MEN
ABSENT FROM HOME
MUST ANSWER CALL

be considered. but only the serial num-
Der. If you do not know your serial
number YOU should go to your proper
division and find out what 1t is.
NO. 3. The serial numbers have al
ready been drawn and the names have
been published in the papers. The pub
Iication is probably correct. but II you
want TO he accurate about II you should
go or send a reliable person TO your
Iproper division headquarters and find
out whether your name is drawn
WILL ISSUE CALL.
NO. 4. As soon as the official lists OF
the drawing are furnished to the boards
/ i'm charge of the several divisions they
will issue an official call to the persons
drawn and will post up the lists in their
offices Accurate and reliable informa-
ton makes it advisable to go or send
and examine these lists. But the boards
will also mail to each person called a
letter notifying him when and where to
appear. The government does not guar
Iantee your receiving this notice; it is
sent solely for your convenience You
must find out for yourself whether you
are called.
III YOU are a resident of the city OF
Atlanta and happen to be in Detroit. or
Kansas City. or Birmingham, or any
where else away from home. and happen
TO be called in your proper division in
Atlanta, you should find out JUST AS
PROMPTLY AS POSSIBLE. whether
Iyou are called and when and where you
are ordered to report for physical ex'
ANIMATION There are many ways in
which YOU can do this. but in any event
you must find II out.
IF YOU have a reliable and dependa-
| Bile friend at home, you can get him tC
find il out for you. and he should do Sc
as promptly as possible and notify you
"If you are a resident of Birmingham
or New York, or Chicago, or any other
city, and happen to be now in Atlanta
you should find out from the place
where you registered the same informa-
tiOn as is above indicated. that is &c
say:
Find out whether you were in the
call.
Find out when and where you were
ordered to report for physical examina-
ton.
Find out the number of your divi-
sion IL IT is a city.
Find out the name of your county
board il IL is not in a city.
EXAMINATION FIRST.
'If YOU have been called the first
thing to be attended TO is your physical
examination. If you do not report fol
your physical examination at the time
and place as ordered, or at such other
time or place as may be permitted in ac-
| cordance with instructions which L am
going to set out later. THE BOARD
WILL FIND THAT YOU ARE PHYSI-
CALLY QUALIFIED.
The local board will call for physi-
cal examinations about two or three
times as many names as the quota which
the division must furnish. Let US sup
pose that the division must furnish
/ $50 men. In that event they will prob
ably call about $50, so as to have enough
/ to get $50 out of the call. One-third OF
| this number, or $50 men, will be called
to report at the office of the local
board for physical examination on the
fifth day following the call They viii
call like number. or $50. to report or
the sixth day. They will call like
/ number to report on the seventh day
liz ANY PERSON so CALLED is ABB,
| SENT FROM THE JURISDICTION OF
THE BOARD BY WHICH HE is CALL
/ ED. OR IF ANY SUCH PERSON is
/ SICK AND CAN NOT RESPOND, HE
MAY REPORT FOR PHYSICAL Elk.
| ANIMATION ON OR BEFORE THE
TENTH DAY.
But 1t may happen that a person
who is absent will find IL impracticable
! to come back to his home board for the
| physical examination. tt may be thai
i IL will be too expensive for him; IL may
be that IL will too seriously interrupt
his business. Provision is made for such
cases, and / will now state what that
I provision is.
RULE FOR ABSENTEES.
/ IF you are absent from nome whel
/ the call is made you may file an appli
cation or a petition with the board tina
I has jurisdiction of your card for leav'
! to take your physical examination befor
some other board. No particular form
! has been prescribed for this petition o.
| application. but il must be accompanies
by satisfactory proofs of the facts whicl
\ you set UP.
1 Without undertaking to state every
i thing that must be in the petition,
would say that by all means either tn
petition or the affidavits. or both to
i gether should show the following facts
1 u. Where you now are.
Il y. Why you are there.
Il - The name or number of the loca
Il board where YOU are to which you de
! sire the jurisdiction of your case trans
ferred.
"a. The facts making it necessar,
for you to be where you are.
%. What the difficulties are and wha
the expense would be for you to go bac
to your place of registration.
ATTACH AFFIDAVITS.
&c. Such affidavits from yourself o
other persons as will throw light on tn
subject should be attached to your petit
tion.
-. Mail II to the local board whicl
has Jurisdiction of your card and lie