Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-08-02
CONDUCT.
DRAFT WITHOUT BIAS
Tanx M@ % Exe@pHsa Boards
TsMg Thy MuSS Be Faithful
T. Thsir CSzztry and
CozSnence
SAcKFICE FROM EVERYONE
there Is No Rae@ 80 Hesitate fer
Yeu Duty 70 the Nation COszes
First is HIS Warning

WASHINGTON. JAY 50. - ~FrOa
evg-oas IS demanded q saerihee,-
P-vvost Marshal 6szeral C-owdsr
sd Saturday in = lsstEr addressed
% MANNERS Ct LEGAL sxernpeoa boards.
Bat there IS NJ thought to be
ksvs zlwAvs II y0zr mind the gen
erals letter continued The select
es zzz offers his Life. Thsre is no
greater giving than this; and that
tAo1EhT sh0ala guide you always.
Tere ray be s few who viii urge
voc claims for exsznption Of dis
charge that whatever may be your
aIizaoa q sympathy or affection,
voc VII know ought not 70 be grant
ed.
1T VII strengthen ySu 70 remember
that for every exemption or dis
charge that is made for individual
co~uvsnienoe, o. 70 escape personal loss
Ct ronsy or property, or for favor or
zfTSaon. some other man, whose
tine would not otherwise have coma,
INST incur the risk Of losing his life
No Room to Hesitate
There can be no roo for hesitz-
ton in such s case; you are entering
o. q difficult task, the gravity Of
which Is beyond anything that can be
said n the way Of discussion. You
realize the significance Of what you
are 70 do, and you know that a re-
s~po1sibiHty, heavier perhaps than any
you have eyer faced, is upon you.
@wsr demands individual sacrifice
20 the common ezuse. No people
ever approached war with a calmer
appreciation Of that sacrifice or q
hruer resolve TO bear it and to pre-
sent themselves to be classified for
service IN the place 70 which it shall
hes: serve the common good TO call
them. This calm determination
could not exist were it not for the
! confidence Of the nation in its in
st-uctionx.
an this public confidence is found
the very spirit Of the selective ser
vice law. The most sacred rights Of
country, home and family : in
trusted 70 local citizens and officials,
nominated by State governors and ap-
pointed by the President. The most
equitable rules that could be devised
have been prescribed for guidance, and
the administration Of these rules and
the sacrifice that is offered by your
neirhbors is i~nerusted to your hands.
Duty to Nation First
you are not a court for the adjust
ment Of differences between two per-
sons in controversy. You are agents
Of the government, engaged in select
ing men for the government, and there
is no controversy.
@You, acting for the government,
are 70 investigate each case in the in
~terests Of the nation, and never in the
inerests Of the individual. There is
not one exemption or discharge in the
law Of regulations that is put there
for the benefit of any individual. All
are there for the benefit Of the nation
and to the end that the whole nation
may be a team in which each man
shall play the part for which is best
fitted
Therefore, no one has a vested
right by himself or by attorney to
urge, by argument or pleading, his
! individual case upon you. You should
rigidly exclude this. Ordinarily you
should act on the affidavits. II yoh
proceed to get it. If you doubt the
, affidavit, you may intorregate othel
!. persons. If you desire more proof
D you may get it. But no claimant has
a right to submit other proof thar
/ that called for by regulations or thai
4 that you may call for.
p Sacrifice to Be Great
There should be no rules like thos'
of court procedure, no technical rule
of evidence. You should proceed +
investigate cases about which you ar
a not satisfied exactly as you, as a
: individual, would proceed to inforr
"a yourself of any fact about which 20
are in doubt.
"The nation needs men, and need
them quickly. The hours will then b
long, and the work absorbing. TIL
duty is always to take and never t
: give, and human nature is such Their
will be little praise and some blame
The sacrifice Of many Of those who's
cases are to be decided is no create
:. than that of the men who are to d.
eide them, and your only reward mui
be the knowledge that, at great pc
sonal sacrifice, you are renderin
your country ar indispensable serviC
: in a matter Of the utmost moment. +"
:, As will be seer from the above d
~rections, nc attorneys Or legal re-
= resentatives will be permitted to a
!, pear before. exemption boards to re
= resent any n drawn for service.