Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-09-20
Fear of Shortage in Kansas is
Groundless, Reports to Ex-
empti0n Board Show.
FARM WORK WILL NOT SUFFER
or No Effect on Conditions
in the State.

Who is to blame for seemingly con-
certed and widespread effort in Kan
sas to discredit the draft by represen-
tations that agriculture and labor In
Kansas is in desperate condition!
The claims are persistent and, seem
ingly, they come from some source ac-
lively at work, that there are not
enough men in Kansas to perform the
work, and that desolation and starva-
ton are near and inevitable if a few
men are held for service in the army.
A member of the First District
Board at Topeka explains that there
is, at all times, and possibly always
will be, dearth of competent work
ers in all lines. But conditions are
not desperate in Kansas This is
made clear by the statements of rep
resentative men in different parts of
the state.
The Kansas board has been particu-
larly besieged by men who desired to
press some personal claims, or to be
heard individually. The Kansas idea
always is to 'send some one to To-
peka," and have the situation ironed
out" by influential friends. The board
desires that the widest publicity be
given to the fact that it is forbidden
by the regulations to hear oral state
ments, arguments or explanations in
reference to claims for exemption.
The board is composed of F. D. Co
burn, H P. Farrelly, S. J. Crumbine,
George w. Blakley, E. E. Brewster.
One member of the board says to
all: Stay away from Topeka and
from the district board, and thereby
make it possible for the board to con-
duct the work for which it was ap-
pointed"
The board also announces that draft
ed men who have been exempted upon
pleas for dependents of any kind will
be expected to perform that obligation
of support If at any time they fail,
the board will call them into the SER
vice. Dependents or others knowing
of any failure to give such support will
confer a favor by notifying the board.
In all its rulings there has not been
a division of the board in any case.
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How to Send Mail to Camp.-The
distribution of mail for the national
army is going to be one of the most
difficult things the division officers
will have to contend with. The regi-
mental and company rosters will not
be complete for possibly six weeks.
and meantime those already here must
have thteir mail.
Capt John C. H. Lee, acting chief
of staff, has asked that all mail for
men of the national army be addressed
as follows:
John Jones, Jackson County, Kan
sas, Camp Funston, Kas.
The men will be assigned with ref
erence to the communities from which
they come and all of them from each
state, or from certain sections of their
home state, will be together. So if
the home town or county and home
state is placed just below the name in
brackets the mail clerks will send the
mail to the regiments composed of
men from that community, and the
mail will be sorted and distributed
there.
First Greeley Settler Dead.-Mrs.
Kate Sutton, 80 years old, is dead at
Greeley. She came here in 1854 and
was the first settler in the county.
Friend of Harrison's Dead p
Mcknight, captain of Company G, One
Hundred and Seventy-ninth Illinois In
friend and companion of Gen. Benja-
min Harrison, is dead at his home in
Hiawatha.
BeIoit Man in Ordnance Department.
Jay H. Bracken of Beloit, commits
stoned first lieutenant at Riley, is now
in the ordnance department and is sta
toned at Frankfort Arsenal, Phila-
delphia-
Fell From Hospital Window.-A fall
from the second story of the Simmons
hospital in Lawrence brought death
to Mrs. w. Bergman of that city. Her
neck was broken in the fall and she
died within three hours.
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X. IT, Professor Resigns.-J. Vain
wright Evans, associate professor in
the department of journalism at the
University of Kansas. has resigned to
accept position on the staff of The
Nations Business, the publication of
the United States Chamber of Com
merce at Washington
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Well Causes Typhoid.-One well in
Atchison is blamed for seven cases of
typhoid fever, four of which include
two children were taken to local
hospital. The well was condemned by
the local health officer