The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-18
MISSIONARIES NOW
BEING MAILED OUT
YOU WILL HAVE SOME JOB ON
HAND WHEN YOU TRY TO
FIND OUT WHAT TO DO.

The Terrell county army board has
begun mailing out the questionnaires
to registrants.
The questionnaires are to be mail.
ed out. in the period of December Is
to January 9, inclusive, and answer
ed questionnaires are to be mailed
back to local boards within seven
days after having been mailed out to
registrants.
Every Man Affected.
This QUESTIONABLE affects every
man who registered and who has
not already entered the service. Ev-
cry exemption granted by the local
board for every cause is revoked and
each registrant stands just as he
did before he was called for exemp-
ton.
Registered men who have changed
their places of address since thew
registered on June 5 are required by
law to notify their local boards of
this change, in order that they may
receive a copy of the QUESTIONABLE
promptly. Failure to receive the
QUESTIONABLE will be no excuse on
the part of the registrant to fail in
furnishing the information sought
through this medium Those who
fail to fill out the QUESTIONABLE are
subject to arrest and immediate in
duction into the military service of
the United States government. They
will be put at the head of the list
In the first class, thus insuring their
immediate induction.
No Examination Now.
1t therefore behooves all register
ed men who have changed addresses
since their names were enrolled last
June to spend three cents with the
nearest postofice in notifying their
local boards of the present point of
delivery for their mail This will be
quite a different proposition from
the first call, last August, when many
failed to show up for physical ex-
animation, and were allowed to ap-
pear later and stand the examina-
ton. There will be no later examina-
ton at this time. The men will be
divided into classes, and those who
don't send in their copies of the
questionnaires will automatically be-
come members of the first class. SUBJ
ject to immediate call. When the
call comes, and they do not respond,
the machinery of the United States
army and government will be set to
work bringing them in.
Instructions TO Local Board.
The instructions received here by
the local board say in part:
mo names are to be stricken off
classification list except names of
registrants who have actually been
indicted into military service before
December Is through the draft pro-
cess, namely, those who have been
selected, sent to camp and accepted,
and registrants whom your board has
reported as deserters.
Local boards shall not draw red
ink lines through names of regis
trants who have enlisted in some
branch of the service, notwithstand-
ing such enlistment may be person
ally known to members of the boards,
as may have been proved during pre-
vious examination of registrant. A
QUESTIONABLE must be sent to all such
persons and the rights protected by
exercise of authority of section 90
and by procedure prescribed in sec
ton 1871. Status of enlistment can
not be presumed to continue, as
many enlisted men have been dis
charged for one cause or another
Boards cannot act upon any presump-
ton of death, insanity, enlistment or
any other matter, but all such must
appear to the satisfaction of boards
as to each registrant, in conformity
with regulations.
"All exemptions and discharges
heretofore granted, whether perma-
nent, temporary or conditional, and
whether known by term "furlough,"
or any other term, are absolutely
revoked as of December Is, and all
registrants heretofore exempted dis
charged or furloughed shall be car
ried on classification list, mailed
missionaries and classified, begin
ming December Is without waiting
for expiration of period of previous
exemption, discharge or furlough, so
called"
Names of Deserters.
By December Is the office of the
adjutant general will have supplied