The Alaska daily empire., 1918-01-15
Will Get 30 Cents for Each Registrant Who Is Classified by the
 : Board.
NEW REGULATIONS HERE
The Former Method of Compensation Is Re- peaIed in Favor of
 a New Plan.

General on January 9th, repeals the former provisions of the Selective
 Service Regulations relative to com
 pensation for members of local
 boards. Section 195 provided that
 members of local boards might be
 paid at the rate of one dollar per
 hour, or seven and one-half dollars
 per day, for time actually expended
 in the performance of the duties of
 the board; the total compensation
 however, not to exceed one hundred
 and fifty dollars for any one month
 By the provisions of the new regula
 tion, local boards are to be paid
 thirty cents for each registrant to
 whom the questionaire is mailed and
 who is finally classified by the board This regulation was placed in effect by a telegram from the Provost Marshal General received at the Governors office today. The telegram from the Provost Marshal General announcing the change in the regulations reads as follows:
 This office has been urged re- peatedly and insistently by members of local boards and by other per sons in authority throughout the country connected with administra ton of the selective service law to place the salary and expense fea-
 ture of the classification system on
 unit cost basis so far as possible. | These requests have been heartily | endorsed by every state official, con-
 nected with the administration of the law, with whom it has been dis cussed; particularly the effort has been made to Gnduce) local boards | furnish calculations and estimates of | the cost of their work. Many mem | bers of local boards and other per sons have renewed their offers and
 pledges of gratuitous service; many others have made estimates which indicate a careful investigation of the work to be performed and the sea- sonable cost thereof; but consider able number, regardless of the size of registration in their respective jurisdiction have made their esti-
 mates on so extravagant a scale that the total cost could not be paid
 out of any appropriation which Con- gress would be willing to make or would approve. It is necessary not only that every person connected with the administration of the selec- tive draft service law shall be con servative in the expenditure of pub lie funds. The nation is at war, personal sacrifices are being made
 on every hand The soldiers who are being selected by local and dis
 trict boards have given up comfort
 able homes, have severed home ties,
 in many cases have been delighted
 to sacrifice large incomes in order
 to work and fight for their country
 twenty-four hours a day for thirty
 dollars per month. Most of these
 men are willing to serve for even
 less or for nothing. They are now
 suffering and hardships and in many
 cases compelled to sacrifice their lives or their health. Therefore it
 is not unreasonable to request the great army composed of local board members to meet the government and cooperate with it in the matter of minimum cost This is their country, they are part of it's army, and it is confidently expected that they will give the government in
 the future, as they have in the past. the best that is in them, and that they will receive compensation only to the extent that may be necessary in their condition of life. In con- putting unit cost, this office has endeavored, after consultation with
 many board members and state of- ficials, to fix upon a unit cost, the total of which will equal the com pensation which would have been proper charge under the regulations. Therefore, a regulation has been ap- proved by the President fixing the aggregate compensation to all the
 members of "a local board upon the
 basis of thirty cents for each regis trant finally classified. It will be observed that in absence of other distribution thereaof among the mem bers which may be determined upon oy unanimous vote of local board,
 the aggregate of the unit cost will
 be divided into equal portions be- tween the members of the board. It
 will also be observed that the board
 may by unanimous vote change this
 proportionate distribution so that one or more members may receive more than his proportionate fraction while
 others may receive less. This pro-
 vision is made not for the purpose
 of permitting boards of which some
 members are rendering gratitous ser
 vice to vote an amount which may
 have been received by them to the
 other member or members, but it is
 intended to be applied by boards
 only in those cases which for one