Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-08-31
REPLIES TO ATTACK ON BOARD
C. x. EIIingson Answers Recent Ar
ticles in Rusk Co. journal

| tary age who ask exemptions. can
he be expected to be appropriated
in acting on their cases.?
In answer to Mr.. Maloney l want
to say. Il was drafted to be a mem
Der of the Local Exemption Board
rust as much as recruits to the ar
my and navy of the United States
are drafted, and when SO called |
was advised in positive language
that refusal to act, or resignation
would not be entertained, that the
local board as well as board Of de-
Tense serves without pay, remuner-
alton. or reward of any sort, just
for the good of our country.
But Maloney does not half state
the case when he says / have two
married sons of military age. Why,
| I have three sons and son-in-laW
married and registered for service
and besides that have number OF
| splendid young married men In my
employ in whose welfare l am deep
lly interested. Further l have
fourth son who l am drilling lin hay
fields and shop to make an eff
cient defender Of our democ-
racy. Now if Maloney can get the
Federal Government, who drafted me
for this duty to relinquish its grip
on me l shall gladly step out, and
| if he can accomplish it, l will in
return again subscribe for his paper
and promise to read some of his
twaddle.
According to later issue of his
paper our board has evidently Of
Tended the Political Judge by not
asking his advice before granting
exemption to James Van Patter and
Mr.. Smart. the only married men
from this county who applied to cur
board for exemption. / thought OF
asking his advice in this matter be-
fore taking any steps but when | re-
membered that Mr.. Maloney, to my
knowledge never lived in any schooi
district town or city but what ne
tried in his feeble way to keep the
officers of said district, town or
city in hot water by his acrimonious
charges, l felt slurs, insinuatlons
and misrepresentation from that
source would only be badge OF
honor among the people and so
proceeded as my conscience dictated.
From his past record for being con-
trary he would have tried to raise
Hades if the Board without his con-
sent had refused to exempt these
two young married men, and had Jet
other single men Of no dependents
stay at home. Verify ours is a case
of being damned if we do and
damned if we don't.
Editor Bell says of recent school
meeting in Ladysmith, that it was
remarkable because of the absolute
absence of eliminating charges, such
as had charterized the meetings
of other years. When we of the
back woods read that statement In
he News Budget we all agreed that
MaEoney could not have been at that
meeting or it never would have been
SO harmonious. Later we found this
to be the fact. At last years school
meeting Maloney was there. After
making strenuous pleas for the dear
people all the year, as he wished to
have the impression go out, and at
ter attacking the school board in
nearly every issue of his paper, he
became candidate for an office on
the school board. The school dis
trict which according to his ideas
was SO badly managed gave him
three votes while the officer charged
with the awful misconduct was re-
elected nearly unanimously.
When | was boy OF 10 years |
was driving logs on the upper waters
Of the wisconsin river and while
sacking logs off of the sand bar on
a bitter cold April day, and in wa
ter above my knees with chunks OF
ice floating about my feet the fore
man came along and said, Chris
what do you think of this?" L said
that | think that l am a - fool
The foreman replied, young man,
that discovery, at your early age, is
going to be of immen"e value to
you l have often thought of the
wisdom of that remark. l leave it
to the readers of MalOney's paper
whether or not similar discovery
would have been valuable to him. II
le had made such discovery he
Guild have refrained from referring
to the literature of our Federal GOV
eminent in regular copper head style
as "such stuff" and "damnable lies"
nd he would not have failed to I'M
derstand that this or any other great |
nation cannot carry on great war |
without the general public's assist |
ance, each doing his mite, morally, |
physically and financially; nor would |