Perth Amboy evening news., 1917-11-23
STATEN ISLAND
VOLUNTEERS ASKED
BY DRAFT BOARD
Welfare League to Assist Lo-
cal Exemption Board in the
Next Call to the Army.
3y Special Correspondent.


TOTTENVILLE, Nov. 23:-Volun-
teers to assist the local district ex-
emption board in the next draft to be
called under the QUESTIONABLE system
were asked for at the meeting of the
Fifth Ward Home Welfare League
held last night at the Aquehonga Ath
letic Club house. President Stuart i.
Ritz was in the chair and after the
reading of the minutes of the organ
ization meeting held some time ago
by Secretary James A. SimonSon and
of the object of the league, Augustus
G. Marscher, chairman Of District
Exemption Board No. 1S9, member
of the organization, presented the
facts of the next draft and of the
questions to be asked Of those to be
registered.
Mr.. Marscher read extracts from
the law with regard to the draft and
what a complicated affair the ques-
tionnaire seemed to be and Of the time
he thought 1t would take to have q
man answer the questions properly
and correctly. After a general dis
cussion a committee was named from
each section to sit at various places
for the period until the work was
completed. Mr.. Marscher stated that
there were 1880 to be registered from
Rosebank to Tottenville that are in
cluded in the local district. He said
that five per cent. of the names would
be sent out each day for their ap-
pearance at the various places of reg
istry. This would start on December
Is and would at that rate consume
about twenty-seven days from the
time the first list was sent out. Prin-
cipal N. j. Lowe, of the TottenVllle
school, offered the use of the school
for the purpose and other places
similar in the ward would be asked.
Members of the league are enthusi-
astic for the work to assist Captain
Marscher in the new draft and many
volunteers will be asked so as to
make the work much easier. Several
other matters came before the league
at this time, one Of which was the
drive for 1900 members in the fifth
ward before the first of the year. Mr..
Ritz explained that this organization
was the only one of it's kind on the
island and probably in the country,
that looks out for the welfare of
those in the service and those that
are left behind. Mr.. Marscher told of
his letter from the adjutant general
in reply to one he had sent to him
complimenting the league on the
work it was doing. Mr.. Lowe report
ed the case of a family of a young
man who had enlisted and where tb>
father had gone away and left the
mother with seven other children and
that they were in need. Mr.. Marscher
and the investigating committee will
take the matter up and the mother
will be taken care of under the law
by the government when the ctrcum-
stances are placed before the proper
authorities. A collection to buy shoes
for the children SO that they could go
to school was taken uD,
The committee named at this time
to assist in the draft are as follows:
Tottenville-Stuart l.. Ritz, James A.
Simonson, James Laing, G. A. Mar
shall, Leonard Wait, Allison Andro-
vette, N. ]. Lowe, e. Brunskill, James
A Tate and William j. Dempsey;
Prince Bay and Pleasant Plains
William X. Porter, Alfred Cawse,
Harry Hayward and DR.. f. w.
Schwerd kreischerville - Charles
Nielsen, Albert Killmeyer and Charles
Winant; Huguenot-Walter House.
man; Rossville-W. MacWinant, w.
j. Mead, G. e. Vaughan and Joseph
Velenza; Great Kills-Else Randolph
and L. David Cohen; New Dorp-
James M. Talbot. Mr.. Dempsey will
take care of the Copper Works, and
Mr.. Hayward the Dental plant.