Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
ATTORNEYS GIVE
LEGAL ADVICE
TODRAFT MEN
Curtroom to Be Open Day
and Night For Reg
iStrantS

About twenty lawyers were on
duty in courtroom No. l this morn
ing, giving free legal information to
men in the draft age limits who have
received their questionnaires and
find themselves in need of advice
when filling them out. Nearly all
the prominent members of the Dau-
phin county bar, who have head
quarters in the city, were present at
the Courthouse this morning, trying
to take care of the great number OF
registrants who are congregating in
the courtroom in ever increasing
numbers. The attorneys who are
working with the regularly appoint
ed draft advisory boards, are. vol
unite eriDg their services and time
TO the men who will be called to
fill the next National Army quota.
Attorneys said this morning that
the most pleasing feature of their
work with the draft resistrants Is the
eagerness with which they try to
master the details of the question
naires. and their anxiety to. have
them properly filled out, and sworn
TO. The attorneys who are adVts-
ing the registrants are aided by q
number OF notaries from the city
who swear the statements in the
questionnaires free of charge. Some
of the attorneys have power of no
taries, and are swearing the men.
Judge Kunkel was present part OF
the morning, personally giving his
aid, and recruiting the services OF
every attorney that drifted through
the corridors of the Courthouse.
Work Day and Night
There will be attorneys present
from nine in the morning until mid
night every day except holidays uIl-
til the missionaries are all hlled
out. Enough lawyers are being Sc
cured to allow the men to work IN
shifts, and have someone present in
the courtroom all the time to give
their aid to the registered men. Many
of the men are foreigners, VINO are
unable to write. In some cases the
lawyers write the answers to the
uuestionnaires and when they are
sworn. the registrants make their
mark, which is witnessed by the man
who swears them.
Some of the registrantS como to
the advisory board accompanied ny
their wives. The attorneys urge all
Iegistrants who claim exemption on
the grounds of dependents, to bring
their dependents over 16 years mem
III lIlClI pltd lOl C<ANiAA pNAOtNf
to the board with them, and their
aifidavits will be taken free, by the
notaries or attorneys who swear the
registrants. This will save lot ol
trouble and the necessity of going
before a notary twice, as no lues-
tionnaire will be accepted unless
properly sworn by the registrants
and the dependents over Is.
Many Volunteer Aid
: l. ,nnntnnp1 that
of the aldermen and notaries in the
city have volunteered their services
free to the registrants who come
TO their offices to have their ques-
tionnaires sworn. Deputy Sherlft
Speas. who is also justice of the
peace at Fairview, will swear free
of charge, all who come to him at
his home in the evenings; DurlnS
the day he is present at the Court
house aiding the advisory board
there.
The need of the free legal advice
has been emphasized in number of
cases by the incompletely filled out
questionnaires which are returned to
the draft boards, and cannot he ac-
cepted. Some have returned with
. out being signed at all, others with
out having been sworn to, and still
others with the questions filled out in
the wrong places. Incomplete ad-
dresses, or change of addresses, con-
tinue to hold up the delivery Of some
of the missionaries Nevin Bruce
Hoy, who gave his address at 629
Geary street when he registered, mas
not been located, and if he does not
notify the board in seven days, will
be placed in the first class.
County Board
The county legal advisory boards
have not been so busy. The board
for the first district composed of
Frank B. Wickersham, j. Dress Pan
nell and Harry l.. Dress, will meet
in an office adjoining the draft board
at 40 North Front street. Steelton.
The PaXtang board, composed of
Harry b. Saussaman, William II.
Earnest and Robert T. Fox, will meet
in the office adjoining the exemption
board office on the third floor of the
Dauphin building. Harry l.. Lark,
NJ. Z. Stroup and S. S. Bowman, will
advise reGistrantS in the upper end
of the county. They will have lep
representatives. in the various towns. H.
Elizabethville District Attorney
Stroup and Senator Bowman will
meet the registrants. They will De
assisted by w. l.. Stevenson and Har-
vey M. Miller. L. G. Carl and Charles
Rank will do the legal advisory work
at Williamstown. At Wiconisco
George Keen will meet the regis
trants; at Halifax, Charles Baker and
Charles Shope at Pillow. There Will
also be an associate at Lykens.
"PACIFIST" PREACHER QUITS
Los Angeles. Cal, Dec. 20.-The Rev.
Il. p. Ryland. removed last Monday
as superintendent of the Los. Angeles
district of the Southern California
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church by Bishop Adna w. Leonard
for alleged ''pacilist IDEAS" announced
Yesterday his withdrawal from the
ministry.
81 love the, Methodist Church and /
sincerely regret it has become neces-
sary for me to withdraw from the
ministry in which | have served
twenty-siX years" said Doctor Ry-
land.
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