The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-11-15

ing a systematic physical eXamina
tion of registrants.
| Duties of Police.
1T is important that police Off
cials of every grade and class should
be informed of their duty under Sc
lective service law and regulations
to search for persons who do not re.
spond promptly and to serve the sum.
mons of local and district boards
Newspapers can be of great assist.
ance in giving wide publicity to the
requirements of the law and regula.
tions, and to the numbers and names
of those who are called to present
| themselves to their local boards
from day to day. Finally, ask that
during the time hereafter to be speci-
fed as marking the sixty-day period
for the classification, all citizens give
attention to the task in hand in order
that the process may proceed to a
conclusion with swiftness, and yet
with even and considerate justice to
all"
Supplementing the Presidents call
to the nation, Provost Marshall Gen.
Crowder issued the following state
| ment:
Con Croxyder'S Statement
The QUESTIONABLE, which is the
basis of the new system, is collec-
tion of questions bringing out the
essential facts upon which all classi-
fications are made. 1t is the only
printed form which any registrant
needs to use, either in making claims
or fling proof.
"At first sight it may Seem a little
formidable, but reading of the
questions show that they are simple
for any person who can read and
write understandingly to answer.
The Presidents message lines up
the whole legal profession of the Uni
ted States as assistants of the select
i've service system, and as impartial
advisors to registrants in filling out
their questionnaires. In the new reg
ulation>a place is to be provided con-
venient to every local board, where
registrants may go for free advice
and assistance in making out this
document. The county Judge or 9TH
er judicial officer of similar court is
placed at the head of committee of
lawyers in each vicinity, and this
committee is charged with the duty
of seeing that there are always plen-
ty of lawyers and other volunteers
present to help registrants in filling
out the QUESTIONABLE.
Questionnaires Mailed Daily.
"Questionnaires are to mailed by
the local boards to per cent of the
registrants each day. The principal
work of the legal advisory boards will
thus be over in twenty days, by which
time all the questionnaires should be
returned to the boards. Every man
has seven days in which to return his
QUESTIONABLE fully made out. The
process of classification will begin
about December Is. Eight days later
the boards will begin the great pro-
cess of classification, which becomes,
in the words of the President, ma
tional war undertaking of such sig
nifcance as to challenge the atten-
tion and compel the assistance of
every American.
''Not since the war began has an
opportunity been offered for practi-
cally every person to take an active
and vigorous part in so important a
war measure as the actual raising of
our armies. The Presidents foreword
offers this opportunity. 1t gives a
definite place for the doctors to work
in making the physical examination.
For the first time it assigns every
lawyer to active duty in building up
the national army. In the legal ad-
visory board it gives everyone who
responds to the Presidents call a
place in the ranks of the army behind
the army.
The nation already has re-
markable record of efficiency in ad-
justing its political machinery to the
resignation of ten million men with
in eighteen days after the enactment
of the law authorizing registration.
1T is now proposed to better this
record by classifying ten million men
in period of sixty days"