The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1917-08-08
OFFICIAL BOARD MEET
FIRST DRAFTED REPORT
j irst Section to be Examined on
Thursday. Finals Friday Second
Call About August Is

The local Board of Examiners
have completed arrangements for
the work of examination which will
commence this morning. Notices
have been sent to all who are to
undergo this examination and the
first twenty-six called must respond
to-day. Those subject to second no.
tice will report Thursday and the
final quota will be examined on Fri
day.
On account of telegraphic advice
that his father was at the point of
death Chester A. Dimond was eblig-
ed to leave for Oregon last Saturday
and the board of examiners met in
order that Dimond could undergo
examination, thus entering his name
first on the list of those examined.
Mr.. Dimond filed an affidavit for ex-
emption this being signed by Rev.
j. A. Wachob.
Names Of those directed to res
pond to the second call to furnish
,he first quota will be posted on or
about August ID and adyiees from
Washington are to the effect that
one hundred and ten per cent of the
names in the list of those drafted
will be the basis for the call for ex-
fs,Hr Eal,T "A ha In
mind that according to the official
ruling that a notice shall be mailed
10 each person on the drafted list
1hat the posting of the list at the
office of the board will constitute
sufficient notice.
Sheriff Mary L. Wildes is in re-
ceipt of the following telegram from
Lieutenant Governor Maurice j. Sui
liyan:
7 he following telegram has just
5een received from the Provost Mar
shall General. Please call attention
of all local boards Immediately by
wire to the following ruling: Re-
ports reaching this office recently,
indicate that in some quarters the
belief prevails that friendly aliens
who have not declared their nten-
tons to become citizens but are
ready and willing to serve. are dis
qualified from entering the military
service of the United States and there
lore that they must first take out
papers before they can be accepted.
1t s to be regretted that such a mis-?
understanding should have arisen.
The qualifications for voluntary SER
vice in time of war are no more res
tricted for enlistments in the New
National Army than for the regular
army. Such alien nondeclarants are
virtually volunteers. The selective
act provided for their registration,
but ii did not regard them as being
under any liability to serve and 1t
therefore gave them full liberty TO
claim exemption when called by the
local boards. Now that information
reveals their willingness n large
numbers to decline this exemption
and to accept service in this war
against the common enemy of our
civilization, ii would be fully un-
derstood that their service is hearth
ly welcomed and they should be &C
cepted whenever upon summons
they fail to claim their right of ex-
emption. They are assisting the
cause of their own country by aid
ing the United States to triumph in
this war. The more of them that
enter the service the better. for in
this way will be removed the cause
of dissatisfaction heard in some
quarters that although the quota
was based on total population, in
Guiding aliens, the actual draft
reached only citizens and declar-
ants. Local boards are directed to
facilitate in every way the accept
ance of friendly aliens, non-declar-
ants for military service and thus
to enable them to do their share to
assist the country, which is giving
them a refuge and an honorable liv-
ing.