The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-14
Draft Boards VIII Send Out
7 OuestiOnnaires Tomorrow.
Five Per Cent VIII Be Mailed
Each Day.
20 DAYS TO COMPLETE TASK
5.766 Registrants in the City
and County.
Ninety-Six Lawyers Have Of-
fered Their Services.

T., aocordance with the national
r,iing draft missionaries Will To-
morrow be mailed by the three diVl-
sional boards to five per cent OIL IN, me
men in Shawnee county lhSluu 4iiS -.
neka. subject to military selecIVe ser
lvice These missionaries Will be tne
initial ones mailed. Each day. tol-
lovine. Saturday, Sundays exempted
an additional five per cent OF one
twentieth of the remaining registrants
y,i1 he mailed their questionnaires.
\ There are 5,766 registrants who VIII
receive the missionaries. The tlrst
divisional board tomorrow Will seno
mt 81. the second divisional board
122 and the county Doard o {, H I-.l.s
a total of 27O. From all the boards,
it was announced today, the ques-
tionnaires will go out according TO
ssorder" or draft numbers. as they
were drawn in the Washington lottery
last summer. ,..o
the mailing of the questionnalres-
Each registrant must fill out his ques-
tionnaire and return it to his local
board seven days after 1t is malIeo,
Responsibility of receiving 1t is placed
1Ipon the registrant. And, should the
Tegistrant, because of illness or other
valid reason, find it impossible to re-
turn the QUESTIONABLE in the stated
time he must obtain special permls-
sion for an extension of time from ms
by heads of the draft boards.
Doran Establishes Office.
t F. sDoran, chairman of the legal
advisory board, which will help reg
fstrants fill out their questionnaires
when that help is needed, announced
TODAY that the board will be perma-
nentiy located at the first division
~ the district court on the secones
floor of the court house after Monday
morning.
I seThe entire bar association has been
drafted by the advisory board to help
registrants answer their questions
said Doran today. Lawyers working
under the boards direction will be on
the Job in the first district court room
early Monday morning and any one
seeking advice should call there and
get such advice free of charge. Regis
-trants may also get advice free OF
charge from any lawyers that they
NAV know and are permitted to go to
any lawyers office if they want to.
The central place, however, will be at
the court house. We will have enough
lawyers on the job there to answer all
Questions.
.'Registrants securing advice should
come to the legal advisory board and
not bother the draft board as it has
enough to do.
The legal board at the court house
will serve for all three divisions in
Shawnee county and any one living
here or registered somewhere else will
he given advice just as freely as any
one registered here"
Legal Board Meeting.
3 The legal board will hold meeting
saturday morning at the court room to
work out final plans of action.
w. G. Tandy, chairman of the first
divisional board, stated today that
work of classification of the registrants
will begin as soon as the first ques-
tionnaires are returned. This would
make the work begin a week from
Monday. BY February Is, each reg
fstrant will know his classification and
the order in which he will be called
into service.
Il Ninety-siX lawyers, nearly every one
in Topeka, have agreed to serve on the
legal advisory board for Shawnee
county. T. f. Doran is chairman.