The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-08
Appeal Board Shows More
Leniency During Last Week.
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Heads of Families Win Over
Plea of Farmers.
PLENTY LEFT TO TILL FIELDS
Call to War Gives Retired
Farmers an Opportunity.
Topeka Learns of Conditions in
Rural Communities.
APPEAL BOARD RECORD.


The district appeal board has been
sreasonable" during the last week. OF
the 223 applicants before the board
during the last week, rs won exemp-
lions. Temporary exemptions We're
granted in eleven other cases and 1877
men were selected for service Elk
eraptions have been granted to 267 of
the O01 men whose appeals have
seen considered since the boai d began
holding sessions in Topeka four weeks
ago
Exemptions allowed during the last
week totaled more than 40 per cent of
the allowances during the previous
three weeks. When the board re-
cessed last Saturday it showed but
192 exemptions against 542 selective
soldiers To date the district board
has provided Uncle Sam with 734 SOL
oiers. So of whom we're given extern
IONS of time in which to report for
service.
Family Heads Fare Well.
Many of the claims approved during
the last week have been for heads
of families. In fact the men with
dependents have Jared better at the
hands Of the board than have the
men from the rural districts who
preferred patriotic exhibitions with a
rlow rather than with a musket.
Records of the week have been
certified to the adtutant generals Of
flee Thru the local boards, men with
appeals will be advised concerning
final action on their cases. Inc tlrst
forty per cent of the selectiVe men
will be reported in time to order them
into governm ent service September
10.
Local Board Takes Hand.
During the last few days the dis
trict board has received a number of
statements from exemption Doard
mem bers in various counties. Ihese
statements indicate clearly that the
desperate conditions painted by GER
tain politicians and men Jealous for
class exemptions, are mere ldle
dreams Such conditions do not eX-
list, according to reports which snow
that farming conditions are not SUI
fefing heavier losses thru the selec-
tive service provision than are other
classes of industry.
Labor conditions will not be dis
turhed at all by this call" declared
Simon Coats of Wilson county we
do not think the different plants or
that agriculture will be hurt in the
least by this call"
Call for Retired Farmers.
There are a great many middle
aged retired farmers in the cities and
towns of this county who could help
on the farms if necessary said w
S. Kaufman of Nemaha county.
.-They would do so if needed
l.. B. Burt of Wabaunsee county
wrote:
''As far as we know the labor ques-
ton In this county has taken care of
itself. OF course. in all farm commu-
mites there is more or less shortage
OF labor in the summer months and
there are more laborers in the win
ter than there is employment for.
I'VE haven't any conditions here in
regard to agriculture but that can
be handled without doing injustice to
anyone" wrote J. w. Hartman of
Bourbon county.
There are plenty of men here to
DO all the work. wrote Sheriff Walter
A. Woods of Greenwood county. but
they demand big wages and some of
them don't work much.
Getting Its Bearings.
Conditions here are not such as
would warrant any wholesale eXemp-
TONS" wrote w. B. Sharpless Of At
Gibson county.
Based on the reports from tho var
tous counties, the appeal board is get
ting its bearings concerning actual
Conditions. And the farmer who wins
the privilege to stay at home must
chow beyond doubt that he is more
handy with a cultivator and corn
new style rifles.