Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-12-07
LAWYERS PLAN TO
HELP DRAFTED Men
FREE ADVICE TO BE GIVEN IN
MAKING OUT NEW QUEs-
TIONNAIRES,

All the lawyers or the county have
been notified to attend q meeting at
the courthouse at 1880 Saturday
evening, to confer with the legal ad-
visory board for this county appoint
ed by Governor Lister under the new
draft regulations and arrange the
details of the plan by which local
registered men are to be given assist
ance free in making out the new
questionnaires.
At this meeting each lawyer will
be assigned certain hours of certain
days each week when he shall help in
such work, the attorneys being vir-
tually drafted. The advisory board
will have an Office in the courthouse
and every registrant who desires in
formation or help in answering the
inquiries in the QUESTIONABLE will be
given all the assistance he may need.
Start in . Week.
Distribution of the new question
naires. which must be made out ~
every registered man in the county
not now actually in the military nr
naval service, is to begin Saturday Of
next week. For 20 days thereafter
the new forms will be mailed to 8
per cent of the registrants each day
and must be made out and returned
to the board within seven days after
the date Of mailing. Failure to do
80 Is made misdemeanor and the
penalty may either be years i'm
prisonment or a court-martial snlR
Immediate induction into the milf
tary service.
The local draft board calls partic-
ular attention to the war depart
ment's rule placing entire RESPONSE
bility upon the registrant regard
less of whether or not a mailed ho-
tice or QUESTIONABLE is actually re-
ceived by the registrant." and ad-
vises all registrants to notify the
board II their address has been
changed and to keep in touch with
1t after December is. Failure to re-.
ceive notice Is no excuse.
The QUESTIONABLE is the principal
document in the new draft regula-
tions, under which all exemptions
and discharges previously granted
are revoked and every registered man
is assigned to one Of five classes, ac-
cording to circumstances of depend
ency and physical condition. The
questions to be answered cover 16
pages and call for detailed informa-
tion of the life history and present
circumstances of each registrant.
May Consult Copy.
H. N. Sticklin, a member Of the
local draft board announces that
copies of the questionnaires may be
consulted by registered men If they
call at the information bureau ad-
joining the assessors Office in the
courthouse.
The board specifically advises reg
istrants to study the questionnaires
CdICi uAiy upOA ICCCIpI anu uOt " az
tempt to make them out individually,
but, after becoming familiar with
them, to go to the legal advisory
board for assistance in making them
out. Otherwise. the board says, the
chances are they will make some mis-
take.
The members of the legal advisory
board for this county are Superior
Judge Mitchell, Prosecuting Attor-
ney Thos. l.. OLeary and City Attor-
ney Geo. r. Bigelow. Meetings ex-
planning the new regulations and the
severe penalties imposed on anyone
failing to conform to them, are being
held in different communities and
logging camps of the county under
the auspices of the County Council of
Defense, the talks being delivered by
Thomas M. Vance, John M. Wilson
and Mr.. O'Leary.