The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-13
Bar Association win Give Ad-
vice to Draft Men.
Every Member VIII Give Assist
ance Without Charge.
DURAN ISSUES STATEMENT
He Sets Forth Services Offered
to Registrars.
All Must See They Get Own
QuestiOnnaires.

The entire Topeka Bar association.
of approximately 100 lawyers has
been drafted to assist men in Shaw
ness county subject to the selective
service law in filling out the ques-
tionnaries wrich will be mailed to reg
istrants beginning Saturday, it was an
nounced today by T F. Doran, chair
man of the legal advisory board APP
pointed by President Wilson,, Besides
Doran there are two other members
of the advisory board proper. They
are j. J. Schenck and Eugene Quin-
ton, both prominent Topeka attorneys.
The three attorneys have. named the
remaining personnel of the bar asso-
citation as advisory or assistant mem
bers.
Doran stated today that a plan to
put the Topeka bar at the disposal of
registrants who need advice in filling
out the missionaries will be worked
out Immediately and will be an
nounced tomorrow. This announce
ment will include the place or places
the lawyers will be stationed or To-
Gated. Under government regulations
any registrant that needs help in fill
| in his QUESTIONABLE may obtain legal
advice thru the advisory board free
of charge. No lawyer should be paid
fee for such advice or assistance.
DOfan Makes statement.
| Doran today issued the following
statement for the advisory board set
ting forth the service the body will
i tender to registrants:
| "All persons registered under the selec-
| tive service law, whether heretofore ex-
empted, excused, or indicted into the army
or navy or into the service of. the state or
| United States, are required to make full
answer to all questions set out in the
QUESTIONABLE in the manner therein pro-
vided, and to file the same with the local
board within the required time.
| A QUESTIONABLE will be mailed by the
| local board to the last known address of
| each registrant, and each registrant is re-
quired. under penalty of imprisonment for
| ferred classification and of. immediate in
! ducuon into military service, TO make, out
| local board within seven days after notice
| is posted in the office of his local board
and the questionable is mailed to the reg
Notice is. given to the registrant of the
time N which he must answer his ques-
First. BY posting his name in Form
No. 1002 in the office OF the local boaEd.
Form 1901. to every every registrant included
within such posted notice; and notice of
every subsequent action taken by the local
date of such action on the classification
! list in the office of the local board, and in
! registrant. or to other claimants in his be-
| half, notice of such action.
registrant and the date H Of " posting the the
same in the classification list in the office
Of the, local board, or mailing the ques-
and charges the reRistrant and all con-
cerned, with notice of the day of the be-
ginning of the time within which the
QUESTIONABLE must be answered or any
privilege claimed. and this notice will be
binding regardless or whether or not a
received by the registrRnt other per
son.
Don't Count Sundays.
Sunday and legal holidays are moi
counted in reckoning the time in which any
duty is to be performed
The local board begins mailing notices
| to registrants on saturday. the 18th day OF
December, 1917; five. per cent, or one
trict are mailed the first day, and five
per cent each succeeding day until the
entire list of registrants has been thus
'Registrants will be notified in the
order in which their number appears il
the muster list, or the order In which they
ny appointment of the president of tbs
United States the entire bar association OF
Shawnee county will act as legal adviser:
to all registrants, and each registrant vii
have the advice of a lawyer, where needed
questionable, free of charge.
There are three local boards in Shaw
First The first is designated Division
No. 1, and comprises the Third. Fifth ant
this board. with offices on the second fIoo
of the City building.
Second. The second is designated Divi
sion No. 2. and comprises the First. Sec
ond and Fourth wards of the city of To
peka Joseph HanIon is chairman of thi
board. which has its offices in the Cit.
Third. The third is designated Division
No. 3. and comprises all of Shawnee
county outside of the city of Topeka: Scot
Kelsey is chairman of this board whicl
has its offices in the Shawnee count!
| court house.
''The place or places to which regis
trants may apply for legal assistance il
making out their answers to the ques
tionnaire will be published tomorrow. an'
| further information will be published later
!. T. f. DORIAN
f. s. QUINTON
J. !. SCHENCK.
| Il n