The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-11-16
NJ. T. LEWIS MAKES
REPORT TO COUNCIL
WELL KNOWN CITIZEN EX-
PLAINS LIBERTY BOND SUB
SCRIPTIONS TO BOARD

L. F. Parsons, chairman of the
Latah county council of defense, gives
the following report of the work OF
the council at special meeting hello
last night. Mr.. Parsons says:
The county council Of defense met
last night for the purpose of hearing
| the matter of the classification and
! bond quotas Of M. E. Lewis and the
deferred classification of John Jack
sha, Jr.
The case of M. E. Lewis has caused
great deal of comment on the streets
and has been referred to in the press
and considerable interest has been
generated therein, owing to the fact
that Mr.. Lewis has been rated by the
public as a very wealthy man, and
the subscriptions made by him as
published have not been in accordance
with his supposed wealth.
Mr.. Lewis appeared before the
council and made detailed statement
in reference to his financial affairs.
1t was shown that Mr.. Lewis opera
tions and all the holdings in his name
were the interests of corporation of
which he was manager and stock
holder. That the most of the property
of this corporation was unstable,
productive land, and was liabil-
ity instead of a resource at this time
That there was heavy Indebtedness
against the property of the corpora
ton and that the quota of $500 Of
bonds which had been assigned to him
which he took, was greater than he
should be required to take. He stated
that he had about $3.50 in war Sc
curities and had taken all that he pos
sibly could.
After a full discussion of the mat
ter it was moved, seconded and unani-
mously voted that it was the sense
of the council that Mr.. Lewis had
taken more than his full share of war
securities in accordance with his fin
ancial ability.
The matter of the classification of
John Jacksha, Jr., was taken up for
consideration. Complaints on the
classification of Mr.. Jacksha have
been coming to the council for sew
eral months past and was referred to
the chairman for modification some
weeks ago. The chairman made his
report which showed as follows:
That MIR. Jacksha was registered in
the first draft and was placed in
class one. He appealed to the district
board for agricultural exemption and
his appeal denied. He then appealed
to the president and his appeal was
again denied He was called for serv-
ice and went to Camp Lewis for train
ing in the fall Of 1917.
His father then appealed to the
exemption board at Camp Lewis ask
ing for his release on agricultural
grounds, setting forth that the young
man had leased the ranch the year
previous and that he, the father, was
unable to manage the same. The mat
ter was, heard by the board at Camp |
Lewis and it recommended his dis
charge on the ground that he was
more valuable to his country as man
aging head of sos acre farm than
IS soldier.
His return home Immediately start
ID discussion. The why or wherefore
vas not understood by the public. 1t
vas intimated that money had been
lsed and the boy was accused of being
Stacker and pro-German. Consid-
rable feeling was produced. A few
lays ago the young man was caused
o kiss the flag at Uniontown, Wash.
lie came to Moscow yesterday and
sked the council to take action.
The chairman stated that in making
lis investigation he considered that
he right of Jacksha, Jr. to deferred
depended solely on the
act whether or not he was lessor