The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-12-20
OTHERS CONE REGULARLY
Boards Continue to Send Quota of Cues
tionnaires- Few Returned as Yet and
Congestion Increases as End of
First Seven Days Approaches.

Don It put off till tomorrow what
you can do today is the message
which must be burned into the minds
of hundreds of Kenosha County reg
istrants if they avoid the penalty for
a late return of their questionaires,
properly filed out according to law. The
documents must be returned to the local
boards within seven days after the mail
ing date and failure to file completed
questionable will automatically place
the registrant in the first class to 60
to the National Army, no matter what
his claims to exemption may be. At
noon today only fifty of the first $50
questionaires mailed by the city board
had been returned and the County
Board had much lower PERCENTAGE.
With three days Of the seven already
past and with more registrants added
each day to the list to report, it APP
pears now that some men are going
to find themselves too late when they
try to report on the very last day al
lowed them.
These men said a prominent mem
Der of the city board this merning,
"who are counting On fling their
questionnaires in the eleventh hour are
going to be badly fooled and they will
have no one to blame but themselves.
A man this morning told me that there
was no hurry--he still had five more
days to get his QUESTIONABLE filled
out; that is the thing which is going
to clog the wheels and place scores of
Kenosha men in the first class while
they might rightly claim deferred class
ifcation if they had only not waited
until it was too late.
"After December 26th,n he contin-
ued, Hevery day will be the last day
for one quota of Kenoshans and with
all the help we can get / ON lawyers
it will be q physical impossibiIity to
fill out all who are now trying to wait
to the last day. 1t takes at the best
calculation thirty minutes for each
QUESTIONABLE and anyone can see that
we will not have time for two hundred
to the last day. The thing for each
man to do, no matter when his seven
days is over, is to get busy and get
busy now.''
The County Board reported even
worse state of affairs. not because there
are so many to report, but because
thus far only a very small percentage
have paid any attention to the ques-
tionnaries. The first QUESTIONABLE re-
turned was improperly filed out and
will have to be returned to the regis
trant and again filed which may be
impossible to be accomplished by mail
within the seven allotted days. Farm
er5 are warned that the safe way is to
present the QUESTIONABLE in person and
do it Immediately. Every registrant
is warned that there is at present no
intimation on. the part of the officials
of an extension of time and no matter
what the circumstance the responsible
ity of completing the QUESTIONABLE
rests on the registrant and not on the
beard.
The local boards in charge of send
ing out the QUESTIONABLE to- the regis
trants are working like clock work now
and every morning is seeing the regul-
lar five percentage of the blanks mailed
to the men.
The call today from the County board
was numbers 1877 to 251 inclusive with
the exception of numbers 1877, 235, 239,
24O, .241, 243, 245, $50.
The list called by the city board
today was from 7O1 to 900 inclusive,
with the exception of 7o3, 705, 708, 7Oa.
713, ia, 715, no, 721, 742, 743, TAG,
766, 77O, III, 7S7, SOP, 813, S37, S48,
$50, 8S7.
The call of the city local board on
Tuesday was from 451 to 700 inclusive,
with the exceptions of m1mbers 452,
453, 454, ass, 459, 461, 462, 465, Ago
40, 472, AIS, AT, 47s, 492, 4e4. sos.
sos, SIS, 526, 52s, $50, 537, $50, 544
$40, 547, 54s, 553, 55S, $50, 562, 564,
$50, 5Ss, $50, 593, 594, 500, 500, coo
$50, 5ss, $50, 59S, 594, 59n, 5ee, 900
sos, COS, GIT, 626, 629, 633, 634, 637.
$40, 641, 643, 645, GAS, 654, 655, 65s,
65S, 661, 6e2, GA, 675, CTS, 679, $50,
6S3, 684, 6Ss, 800, 694, 695, 696, 697,