The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-09-19
EVERY WHIT MAN
CERTIFIED TO GO

Atlanta. Ga, Sept 14-Based en-
che records in the adjutant generals
sAlce. covering the State as a whole,
ana acting on direct instructions from
Washington, each local exemption
EbarG is being instructed today to re-
euire every white man in the state
: Vie has been certified back to the
leeal beard by the day of movement,
to be called int the service, with
their eatire remaining white regis
trants up to the full 100 per cent. The
percentage figures fer the county. ba-
SeS on their original quota, is not to
centred, but when the movement
starts on the 10Th each county beard
is to order to the mobilization camp
whatever white mea they ave, whe
are PASSED upon by the district beard
and certified sack 10 the local board
Must Observe Order.
Another important feature Of the
orders being sent out from General
Daniels sfice to-day is instruction to
the LEGAL Boards that the order desig-
mating the date OF movement the
heuf OF entrainmrnt and the specific
train en- which the men are to move
must be risidly adhered to, and no de-
Walton whatsoever is to be made from
the directions in that respect
This means, for instance, that every
white man in the city Of Macon who
has been passed upon and certified
back to the local beard by the 10Th
must be called into service by the To-
cal board OF that city and ordered to
na0ve eff the mobilization camp the
2Oth en- specific train designated by
the department.. This is regardless of
the fact that the city's 40 per cent
quota is emily eighty-three men.
.Ordecs Sent Local Boards.
Quoting from the detail orders be-
ing sent 10 every beard in the state
today:
"You are hereby directed to issue
the notice on form 164-b (Which di-
reefs the men called to be ready in
"a hours and the order to report for
military service on form l64-c (Spec-
flying the day and hour each man is
expected to report) to every white
man in your county whose order num-
her is SO low that it is assured that
he will be in the first 100 per cent of
. the quota Of your county. whether
this number OF white men exceeds or
falls below the 40 per cent OF the
quota from your ceunty."
Every White Man Needed
Furthermore the instructions say
Records compiled i'll this Office
show that it will be necessary to or
der every white man who has been
certified back by his district board
and whose order number shows that
lac is in the first 100 per cent of the
quota ier his county to report for mil
itary duty.
Therefore you should lose sight of
Nae fact that the number of white men
iii your county exceeds or falls below
40 per cent and order every man to
report fer military duty as he is GER
tilted back by the district board, if his
order number shows that he is assured
that he will be in the quota for your
county This direction is hereby
given under the authority and under
the orders received by this department
from the provost marshal general.
You have no authority whatever to
defer the call Of an individual"
Men Should Have Been Posted
The military authorities take the po-
Sition that the selectmeu should have
known themselves from their regis
tration numbers approximately their
individual order Of liability. and that
prudence should have dictated the
shaping OF h S affairs for the purpose
Of closing them up quickly" whenever
his order to enter the service might
have come
j is the hope OF the authorities. and
they are working to that end, that by
September 10 the district boards will
have passed on every white man with