The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-20
Find it Difficult to Give the
Answers to Long List
of Questions
SEVERE PENALTY
FOR FALSE OATH
Persons Outside Local Board May Pre-
sent Facts Concerning Registrars
w R. Daley Appointed Appeal Agent
for Windham County

LUZ w 1uulldlu SOt1lCy.
Registrars under the selectiye serv- |
ice law who are now receiving question
naires to be filled out, signed and sworn /
to i'll order that local draft boards may
fix the class to which they are to be as
signed find their task a pcrplexing one.
Right in the beginning il is advisable
for every man to understand that the
long list of questions absolutely must
be answered truthfully. Otherwise they
are subiecting themselves to severe
penalty for taking 4 false oath II
anyone thinks for a minute that he can
Imisreprescnt actual facts to his advan-
/ tage it is well too, TO bear in mind that
/ he is surrounded by an army of watch
dogs, SO to speak and regulations com.
/ piled by the provost marshal general
/ provide that any person, other than the
local board, can present facts in their
/ knowledge which indicate that an cx-
cmption or discharge by said board is
not for the best interests of the nation
or that il iniuriously affects other reg
istercd men.
To this end and to the end that ap-
reals in dependency cases may be
promptly taken, a government appeal
agent has been appointed to appeal all
discharges or exemptions on the ground
OF dependency and TO appeal partic-
ular cases eli discharges or exemptions
by local boards on other grounds
states Attorney W. r. Daley has
been designated government appeal
agent for this county, and he is di-
ERECTED TO appeal every case of cxcmp-
/. tion or discharge by the local board on
the ground OF dependence When men
: are assigned to a deferred class on
grounds OF dependency the lists must b,
published by the local board Hence
il Is well for registrants to understand
that cvcu after their names appear as
having been discharged or exempted by
the board, if they see that appeals hay,
been taken, an attack Of heart -failur,
is not necessary, because every one OF
u similar eases must he appealed accord
/ ing to law
such cases then 90 TO the district
, board for final disposition, but il doe.
not necessarily mean that the decision.
: OF the local board viii he reversed,
Regarding dependency eases Proves
Marshal General +. ii. Crowder has is
!, sued the following ruling: 1.-THE prin
= cipal grounds for exemption or dis
= charge in the local boards is that Of dc
lpcndeuey. These questions should nm
qucstionablv be passed upon by the loca
boards where more or less complete III
formation OF the circumstances OF cacI
is available. and this arrangement
~ would doubtless be sufficient and idea
: save for the single consideration that
!. with 4,557 local boards, there are cen
y tain 10 be some decisions that viii faI
- far outside the uniform result to b
- expected from the application Of tn
President s regulations. Since all O
the la,oO0,Vuo reglstrants stand on a
equality of obligation and duty, I'll
lie execution Of the law ought to be accom-
plishcd with absolute uniformit
throughout the nation. There is onl
{ one method Of accomplishing this an
70 that is by providing for central board
re- which shall standardize the result c
L the labors Of local boards. To accom-
i pliSh this the regulations provide for a
le automatic appeal TO the district boar
p Of all eases Of discharge by local boarC
he on the ground of dependency.
Of 1t is not expected that distrit
Of boards viii reopen each dcpendcnc
or case IN these automatic Appeals, but
is intended that each case be scannc
with n view to determining whether i
he result is in consequence with the EXPIRE
ne sion Of the principles of the regulation
X that IS found in the rulings Of III
er office and the decisions of local boar,
er in similar cases throughout the cou
ut try.
Where such is not The ease the san
should be reversed or modified, TO Il
ut end that the sclcctive service law ms
il lac applied with even Justice througho
nd the nation
TX. The government appeal agent i'll i
ne, own Judgment may appeal any 9th