Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-11

sOnal convenience and a pressure oi immediate necessity which imposed great sacrifices. Yet the services of men trained by the experience of the | first draft must of necessity be re- | tained and the selection boards must provide the directing mechanism for ! the new classification. The thing | they nave done Is scarcely one-tenth of hte magnitude of the thing that re mains to be done It is of great i'm portance, both to our military and our economic interests, that the elsa sificatlon be carried swiftly and accu- rately to a conclusion. An estimate of the time necessary for the work leads to the conclusion that it can he accomplished in 60 days, but only if this great marshiling of our resources of men is regarded by all as a na- tiOnal war undertaking of such signi- ficance as to challenge the attention and compel the assistance of every American.
 Asks Citizens Aid.
 "1 call upon all citizens, therefore, to assist local and district boards by profering such service and such ma terial conveniences as they can of fer and by appearing before the boards either upon summons or upon their own initiative, to give such informa- tion as will be useful in classifying registrants. I urge men of the legal profession to offer themselves as as sociate members of the legal advisory boards to be provided in each com munity for the purpose of advising registrants of their rights and obliga- tions, and of assisting them in the preparation of their answers to the questions which all men subject to the draft are required to submit.
 ''I ask the doctors of the country to identify themselves with the medi- cal advisory boards, which are to be constituted in the various districts throughout the United States for the purpose of making a systematic phys ical examination of the registrants.
 Tt is important also that police of ficials of every grade and class should be informed of their duty under the selective service law and regulations, to search for persons who do net re- spond promptly an dto serve the sum- mons of local and district boards.
 Newspapers Help.
 Newspapers can be of very great assistance in giving wide publicity to the requirements of the law and regulations and to the numbers and names of those who are called to pre- sent themselves to their local boards from day to day.
 Finally, 1 ask that during the time hereafter to be specified as marking the 60-day period of the classifica- tion, all citizens give attention to the task in hand, in order that the pro- cess may proceed to conclusion with swiftness and yet with even and con. siderate justice to all"
 Supplementing the presidents Call to the nation Provost Marshal Gen eral Crowder issued the following statement:
 The Questionnaire.
 "The questionnaire which is the ba- sis of the new system is a collection of questions bringing out the essen tial facts upon which all classified tions are made. It is the only printed for mwhich any registrant needs to use, either in making claims or filing proof. At first sight it may seem little formidable, but a reading of the questions shows that they are simple enough for any person who can read and write understandingly to answer.
 "The presidents message lines up the whole legal profession of the Unit ed States as assistants of the selec- tive service system and as impartial advisers to registrants in filling out their questionnaires. Under the new regulations a place is to be provided convenient to every local board where registrants may go for free advice and assistance in making out this docu- ment. The county judge or other ju- dicial officer of similar court is placed at the head of a committee of lawyers in each vicinity and this committee is charged with the duty of seeing that there are always plenty of lawyers and other volunteers present to help registrants in filling out the question naires.
 The System
 "Questionnaires are to be mailed by the local board to five per cent of the registrants each day. The principal work of the legal advisory board will thus be over in 20 days, by which every man has seven days in which to return his questionnaire fully made out. The process of classification will begin about December 18th. Eight days later the boards will begin the great process of classification, which becomes, in the words of the presi- dent, "a national war undertaking of such significance as to challenge the attention and compel the assistance of every American
 Not since the war began has such