The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-12-14
Local Board to Start Mailing
Copies to Registrants
Tomorrow Morning.
5 FER CENT TO Be Sent OUT DAILY
Men Required to Fill in Blanks and
Return to Board Within Seven
Days or File Affidavits.
Legal Advice Given.

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NOTICE TO REGISTRANTS
This is to inform you that there x
will be members of the Valley
County Bar Association on duty
in the court room in Glasgow for
the express purpose of aiding you
in filling out your "Questionnaire." y
The Bar Association has volun-
teered for this service and make
NO charge for it. $
You are not obliged to avail
yourself of this service unless you
care to, as you can go before any X
Notary Public or Postmaster in
the county for the purpose of ac- =
acknowledgement. =
Local Board Of Valley County
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Beginning tomorrow, Saturday, Dec.
Is, the local board for Valley county
will begin sending out questionnaires
to every registered man under its jur-
isdiction.
The questionnaires will be sent out
at the rate of $50 of the total regis
tration daily, until all have been
mailed. Judging from the number of
registrants, about 1875 will be mailed
out every day.
It is very important that the ques-
tionnaires be completely filled out
and returned to the local board within
seven days from the date of notice of
mailing. Unless the registrant files
an affidavit asking for an extension
of time, he will be liable for immedi-
ate induction into military service if
the QUESTIONABLE is not returned on
schedule time.
No man registered for the selective
draft who is not actually in the mill
tary service of the United States is
exempt from regulations requiring
him to fill out one of the question
naires to be mailed out by local boards
December Is, according to announce
ment by board members. Men who
were called in the first draft, sent to
a training camp and rejected for ply
steal reasons also will be required to
fill out the blanks, it is pointed out.
All men rejected for physical or
other reasons in the first draft will be
required to fill out the questionnaires.
Their qualifications for acceptance on
physical grounds will again be gone
over, provided they are included in
class or later as the various classes
are called. Men classed as deserters
or slackers under the first draft will
not be free from arrest by filling out
the questionnaires under the second
draft.
Every agency of the government
will be brought into use after Dec. Is
to apprehend men who have evaded
the regulations of either the first or
second draft systems. In notice sent
out to all postmasters the postal en-
ployes of the government are ordered
to give preference to the handling of
mail of local boards and to give local
boards every aid possible in locating
men who have moved away without
leaving forwarding addresses with
the boards.
Requests have also been sent to all
police departments of the country to
put men at the disposal of local boards
and to have all patrolmen and detec-
tives keep strict watch for possible
draft evaders.
The order issued by Postmaster
Burleson follows:
"Postmasters should exercise every
effort to make delivery of letters ad-
dressed by local or district exemption
boards to registrants under the selec-
tive service act and particularly the
notices which those boards send to
registrants calling them to places of
entrainment.
Serious consequences ensue to a
registrant who fails to respond to the
latter call, as the law classifies him as
a deserter, and unless an explanation
is made he must be dealt with as such.
1t is therefore of the greatest import
ance that postmasters see that such
notices reach the addresses if possi-
ble."
Pursuing his policy of discussion of
the new regulations in order that the
fullest possible information may be
given to the draft officials and to
the public, Provost Marshal General
Crowder has announced the general
classification rules which will govern
all claims for dependency. This state
ment covers dependency alone and is
in no way to be confused with claims
on account of industry or agricul-
ture.
Class l. Dependency.
Rule vi. In Class shall be placed: