Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-06-12
Redistribution of Registrars
Ordered.

service regiments WILL 1mmeQidCely
be corrected, according to a telegram
received today by Governor Manning
from Provost Marshal Gen. Crowder.
Deferred classes will be %canvassed by
local boards, government appeal
agents and legal advisory boards, for
the purpose of transferring regis
.trants to class 1, where there are
manifest injustices wrought in the
deferring.
The telegram said that in many
States of the Union the number of
registrants placed in class l is alb
surdly low, and it is believed that the
new order will cause many men not
in deferred registration to be advanc-
ed to the head of the list. According
to Governor Manning and Capt. W.
E. Carwile, in charge of the selective
service headquarters here, however,
South Cardinals percentage in class
/ is exceedingly high.
The telegram states that no local
board in South Carolina falls below
20 per cent in class 1 of it's entire
registration. Charleston, Nos. l and
2, and the county of Charleston, and
the county of Richland and the city
of Columbia are among those boards
which placed over 35 per cent of
their total registration in class l. The
new ruling provides where there is
excessive percentage of reglstrants
in class i that this class shall be in
vestigated, with the view of seeing II
some of the registrants are not en-
titled to deferred classificatlons.
Local boards are instructed to set
aside a certain week this month, to
be known as "Class l Week." when
doubtful registrants are to be inves-
tigated and possibly reclassifed.
The provost marshal generals tel
egram follows:
when the new quota bill, appor-
tioning quotas on the strength of
class l, was in the committee and be-
fore the House for discussion the
strongest argument made against 1t
was the charge of unfairness in bas-
ing the quotas in class one, be-
cause of the inequality of the work
of the boards showing wide variance
in strength of class l among counties
and other jurisdictions where condl-
tons were substantially equal.
This argument was met by the
statement that the War Department
proposed taking corrective procedure
nationwide in it's application for the
purpose of removing this inequality
where it was not justified by unequal
conditions.
In your State the following boards
show a gross class 1 percentage as
follows: Under Is per cent, none;
below 20 per cent, none; above 2o
per cent but below % ITO per cent,
Anderson No. 2, Anderson No. 8, Cal
houn, Hampton, Horny, Kershaw, Lee
Oconee, Orangeburg No. 1, Orange
burg No. 2, Spartanburg No. l, Will
liamsburg, York No. 2; above IS per
cent, Aiken, Barnwell, Beaufort,
Berkeley, Charleston No. 1, Charles
ton No. 2, Charleston County, Chero-
kee, Chester, Clarendon, Columbia,
Dillon, Edgefeld, Fairfield, George
town, Greenville 2, Greenwood, Jas
per, Laurens, Marion, Marlboro, New
berry, Richland, Spartanburg No. 3
and Union.
After conference with representa-
tives of eight of the States adjacent
to Washington this office has reached
the conclusion that the corrective
procedure can be made most effective
by revision of the local boards, with
the hearty and active assistance OF
government appeal agents and men,
bers of local advisory boards. 1t IS
realized that not only have the local
boards had an enormous amount OF
work and have rendered conspicuous
service, but that this is also true OF
the governments appeal agents, and
that during the period of the return
of the qu%estionnaires members of the
legal advisory boards rendered IN
calculable service.
"You should Immediately instruct
government appeal agents and per-
manent members of legal advisory
boards to assist in the work of re-
examining the missionaries and
other records along the lines herein
after stated. 1t may be that the same
government appeal agents for n rea
son or another are unable to render
the full measure of service, which
must be Immediately undertaken and