The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1917-11-16
MEDICAL AND LEGAL ADVISORY
BOARDS WILL BE
CREATED
IMPORTANT POST
THAT OF MAJOR
TION OF REMAINDER or
DRAFTED MEN

The creation of illegal advisory
boards" throughout North Dakota
In numbers sufficient to serve all
the boards in the community, and
to insure that there will always be
one of these boards convenient to
submit a Questionnaire. and which
probably will mean such q board for
every county In the state, is one Of
the new measures to be inaugural
ed by the war department under the
new selective service classification
system.
According to Information receiv-
ed in Bowbells, the governor is to
decide the number and location of
these boards and to name three
to the adjutant general, shall con-
which can be grouped all the law
yers in the district served by the
board. The chief object of this
plan is to create an organization for
the state which will absorb all
members of the legal profession
and assign to each a definite place
and duty in the winning of the war.
Duties Advisory
The duties of this board will be to
advise registrants of theil rights
and their duties under Inc draft act
and registered men who are In
doubt of what course to take or
how to make the statements or
claims they are asked or desire to
make.
1t is proposed that the permanent
board will maintain a sort of roster
Of lawyers 80 that there will always
be present at the Office of the board
q force of competent legal advisers
to whom registrants may apply for
advice on any matter concerning
selective service law.
Instructions from Provost Mar
shall Crowder state that az soon az
the state organization is complete
the local boards are to send out to
all registered men a blank form of
QUESTIONABLE, which answers the
purposes of practically all the forms
hitherto used by registrants in pre-
senting their claims to local and
district boards. but in addition re-
quires answers to questions which
search the entire economic. indus
trial or agricultural relation to the
registrant.
The answers are to be returned
and will be compiled by the salar-
led clerks to be provided by tho
government in such way that de-
cisions Of the local boards will be
almost automatic in most cases and
their work will be greatly lessened
and shortened.
Major TO be Named
Governor Lynn ]. Frazier has
been asked by Provost Marshal
General Crowder to recommend
three men who have shown aptitude
in the handling of the draft, one OF
whom Is to be chosen by the war de-
partment and commissioned for the
work of a major and is to be attach
ed to the adjutant generals oface
or other appropriate state depart
ment.
This major. the letter states. re-
quires that this Office shall act a.
disbursing Office, snd It 10 the thot
Of the war department, that. in
giving him position and pay 1t
will enable him to devote his entire
time to this work. An adequate
clerical force Of men under govern
ment pay for the assistance of both
the local and the district boards in
the new classification examination
Of drafted men, is also one of the
intentions of the government to al
leviate the labors Of the local
boal DIS throughout the state.
Medical Advisory Board
Another change which the war
department contemplates making.
according to announcement from
the state war department, Is new
plan for medical examination IN
the creation of medical advisory
boards of physicians especially re-
commended as experts in physical
examination with view to military
needs. These boards are to be ap.
pointed in districts throughout the
state whose number and jurisdic.
ton are to be decided upon by tho
governor.
The governor is to have the A.
sistance in this work OF physicians
designated by the American Nedi-
cal association and the medical $50
ton OF the Council Of National d.
fense and he is to select physictans
for membership in these boards
and telegraph their names to tho
provost marshal general.
/ It is stated that examinations
will be conducted as heretofore ~
the local draft m .dical examination
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