The Parker post., 1917-11-24
LEGAL AII)
FOR SOLDIERS
GOVERNMENT STARTS MOVE TO
PROVIDE LEGAL ADVICE TO
ALL MEN CALLED TO THE
C0LO2S.

For the purpose OF providing com
petent legal advice and assistance
| free OF all charge, TO every man of
/ military age who has been drawn for
| service in the national army. legal
advisory boards are to be formed in
every local district in the country.
These boards are to assist the men
IN the preparation OF all papers that
are necessary IN the future, that no
man shall suffer for the lack of proper
advice and help
! Especially is the assistance of this
/ legal advisory board necessary In the
filing out OF the new "Questionaire,
/ he pamphlet which every registrant
will receive, according to the new reg
al0tions just prepared by the military
/ board The following instructions re-
Earding the new advisory board have
been received by Colonel Fred 8.
Breen:
All members Of the bar should
make their services available to the
LEGAL advisory boards in such num-
/ hars and within such districts that
they shall be convenient to every reg
lstrant who is to appear before
Coal or district board within the
state, legal advisory board to which
such registrant may apply for all ne
| cessary advice and assistance In pre-
pairing claims, questionaires or any
other papers required by these regu-
| lattons to be submitted by regis
rant
| After determining the number and
| location of legal advisory boards ne
| -os5ary to accomplish this purpose,
! the governor shall nominate, for ap-
continent by the president, three
representative lawyers to be perma-
Ieut members Of such boards to take
charge Of this work within each such
district, and to be held responsible
that there shall always be a compe
tent force Of lawyers or laymen
available to such registrants at any
time during which the local or dis
trict boards within such district are
open for business,
The governor shall nominate one Of
such three persons to be chairman OF
vices to such legal advisory, boards
member so nominated shall, whenever
practicable, be a Judge Of the county
court, or Of the common pleas. court.
or of court of similar Jurisdiction.
The governor shall call upon all
competent laymen. to offer their SER
vices to such legal advirory boards
sor the purpose Of being present at
the headquarters of the local boards
md rendering aid and advice to reg
5trants. :.
Such persons shall be known as as
s0Ciate members. and no formal ap
9olntment by the president shall be
necessary. -.
For his assistance in this work, the
governor has the active cooperation
and assistance of the American bar
association.
It should be the pride of every law
YER that no registrant within his dis
trlct is without competent legal ad-
vice and assistance in preparing all
/ papers that such registrant Is reQuir-
I'd to submit in the process of the
selection Of citizens Of this nation
or duty in the present emergency.
It is intended to utilize the CO.
operation of the American Bar asso-
citation In the following manner
In every state the American Bar
. association has resident vice presi-
dent; elected member of its general
council, and in every state where the
president Of the state bar association
is q member Of the general council
I request that you appoint:,a cen
tral committee composed preferably
Of said three officers of the American
Bar association and state attorney
general to plan the organization of
the several legal advisory boards
throughout the state -.
Full Instructions are being mailed
to an members of the: American Bar
association and you are requested to
confer with it's above mentioned Off
GERS as promptly as possible. 1t
may be necessary. to delay few days
until they receive instructions.
The elected member of the general
council Of the American Bar ~associa-
/ tiOn in your state, who will inform
you Of name and address Of the resi-
dent vice president and ex-oflcio
member of the, general council is R,
z. Lee Saner, Dallas CROWDER.