The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-30
PRESIDENT WILSON
RATS

connect NJ with the recent Selec
| tive Service Regulations.
In pursuance of this Governor Dor.
sey has nominated Mess. U. V. Whip.
pie, Cordele, chairman, H. d. Lawson,
Hawkinsville, and Hal Lawson, Able
vile, as Committees for the Fourteen
tn Senatorial District, to bring the
Presidents request to the attention
of the members of the board and has
sent to them a letter which explains
! itself
The lawyers will gladly give their
services in this behalf and all inter-
ested parties will be glad to call on
| them.
The Governors letter follows:
Hon. U. V. Whipple, Chairman,
Cordele, Ga.
H. D. Lawson, Hawkinsville, Ga.
Hal Lawson, Abbeville. Ga.
Dear Sirs:
i. The New Solective Service Reg
u,aticns promulgated by the Presi-
dent, under authority of the Act of
Congress Of May IS, 1917, directs the
Governor TO constitute Legal Advis-
| cry Boards within such districts as
may be convenient to every registra-
Mt who is required by the Regulat-
ions to- appear before a Local or a Dis
trict board within the state, to which
LegalAdvisory board such registrants
| may apply for all necessary advice
and assistance in preparing claims,
questionaires and any other papers
required by the Regulations to be sub
mitted by such registrants.
2. The Governor is further requir-
ed to nominate for appointment by
the President three representative
lawyers in each district to be perma
nent members of such boards, and to
take charge OF this work within such
districts and to be held responsible
that there shall always be a compe-
tent force of lawyers and laymen to
advise these registrants at all times
when the local or district boards with
in such districts shall be open for
business.
g. The Governor is further direct
ed to call upon all members CT the
Bar within this state, and if neces-
sary upon competent laymen, to offer
their services to such Legal Advis-
Try BG rds for the purpose Of being
prese; { t the headquarters OF the 10
cal boz dis to render aid and advise
to registrants. Such persons are to-
be known as associate members of
the Legal Advisory Boards, and no
formal appointment of such members
| by the President is necessary.
4. In accordance with these regu-
lations, I have nominated you for ap-
pcintment by the President as a mem
Der of the Legal Advisory Board for
your Senatorial District You will
be furnished with copies of the Sc
'oot'--o Service Regulations and full
instructions. You will call to your
assistance the members of the Bar
Of each of the counties CT your dis
trict, and if necessary, competent
laymen, whom you will appoint as adj
visory members Of the Board; and
you will so apportion and divide the
work among these members that ev-
cry registrant may at all times have
competent advice and assistance in
the preparation Of papers, question
aires, etc, and that the local boards
| may be given such assistance as may
be necessary in the discharge of
their duties.
5. AS the new regulations go into
effect on December 18th, it is highly
important that the Legal Advisory
Boards be organized at once. You
will therefore please communicate
with each other Immediately on re-
ceipt of this, and without waiting for
your formal appointment by the Pres
ident, and organize your Board en-
listing the services Of all lawyers in
the several counties of your district.
In the event the member designated
Chairman is unable to take charge of
the organization at once, please let
the other members undertake the
work, so there will be no delay.
6. You will also give wide public
ity to your appointment and to the
organization of the Legal Advisory
Beard in your District as is possible
using the newspapers and other APP
propriate means for this purpose.
7. In the organization of these
Legal Advisory Boards the President
has been rendered the active cooper
alton and assistance Of the American
Bar Association and the machinery
CT that Association in the several
states has been utilized.
s. The Central Committee for
Georgia is composed of Hon. Clifford
Walker, Attorney General; Judge
Samuel B. Adams, Vice-President for
Georgia of the American Bar Asscci-
aticn, Judge J. H. Merrill, of Thomas
lille, member of the General Council
NCf the American Bar Association, and
OrviIle A. Park, ESD, of Macon, Pres
ident of the Georgia Bar Association
and Ex-Oficio member of the Gener
u NP A Do