Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-12-29
QUEST|0NNAIRES
Are Fatally Incomplete
in Many Cases
Supporting Atfidavits Not Filled Out
and Required Oath Not Taken-FaiI-
ure Makes Extra Labor for Regis
trant as Well as Exemption Board

Each day the members of local board
for Division No. 1s kennebec county.
are asked by many ,registrants who
a not received their missionaries,
why they have not received them.
QuestionnaireS We're sent Friday to
registrants under the Jurisdiction of
the local board, whose order numbers
are between 1101 and 1910 inclusive.
The local board is sending out the
questionnaires 10 a day, and men of
draft age who have not yet received
them, may know hat it is because
their order numbers are between 1910
and 200. misunderstanding on the
part Of several of the registrants has
arisen from confusing their order
numbers with their serial, or red ink
numbers, and this misunderstanding
has caused surprise that in some cases
that a person with a high number re-
ceived the papers before a registrant
with a low lumber In these cases the
serial numbers, which have no bearing,
We're compared.
Chairman Plaisted of the local board
said that the missionaries now be-
ing received are in many cases fatally
incomplete, due TO the fac that the
supporting at1idavits were not filled out
and that in many cases the registrant
had failed to take the oath at the end
of the questionable o. page is. The
provost marshal general has ruled that
such affidavits must be filed il the ex-
emption board is to assign the regis
trant a deferred classification. Fail
ure to properly fill out the question
naireS not only entails additional la
Dor upon the exemption board, u
makes needless trouble and expense to
the registrant himself. because if he
is to secure the deferred classification
to which he is entitled, it will now b.
necessary for him to come to Au-
gusta and in some cases bring his wife
with him, in order to make out the
affidavit prescribed, as the question
naire cannot again leave the office of
the local board. The fault. Ex-Governor
Plaisted said, Is largely due to care
lessness on the part of certain mem
bers of the legal advisory board. whose
duty it is to instruct registrants in
the proper method of filling out the
missionaries. He further said that
too much praise could not be given to
~O VI NiS vi lut
legal advisory board, who were per
forming splendid service without COM
pensation as a patriotic duty. The
members OF the exemption board ex-
ceedingly regret that they are obliged
70 infiict an unnecessary hardship upon
registrants by compelling them to
make a trip to Augusta in order to
correct their qu~estionnaires, but thev
have no option in the matter, and are
obliged to follow instructions received
from the provost marshal general, No
tlccs are now being sent out to reg
lstrants whose questionnaires have
been improperly filed out, asking
them TO report at once at the office OF
the local board in Augusta. Should
such registrants fail. TO report they win
lose all right to deferred classification.
Questlonnaires are being sent to ey-
cry man of draft age, who registered
on June 5 in accordance with the regu-
lations. In the case of registrants who
are already IN the service of the Unit
Cd states by reason of voluntary en-.
llstment, it is necessary that some
MI of the soldier bows family
send an affidavit to the local board
stating that the registrant has entered
the military service OF his country
giving the name of the regiment and
company Of which he is a member in
order that the affidavit my be filed with
the questionable. Such registrants ar.
fhen placed in class ) which will show
that they are already in the militar
service. In the case of the death of a
registrant, his questionable should be
returned to the local board signed by
some membe Of his family. or some
other interested person. giving tho
date Of his death. Jan. / will be regard
Cd as a holiday, and no q~uestionnaires
Will be sent out on that date.
The following is a copy of nbtice be-
ing mailed TO l~egistrants who have
failed to properly fill out their question
nairos:
LOCAL BOARD FOR DIVISION NO. I
For the County of Kennebec. State OF
Maine. Room 2o4. second floor, Post
office building, Augusta, Me.