Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-13
NOT To CLASSIFY
MEN Of 81 To 40
Boys I8 to 1e and Men Up to
36 Win Have to Complete
Classification

Mayor John F. TenBroeck received
a telegram from Adjutant General
IGnkyson this morning in which he
local draft board is ordered TO dis
| continue all work OF classification OF
lall men between the ages of thirty
seven and forty-hve who registered
on September -, but are ordered to
classify all men of eighteen years
who have not yet reached their nine
teenth birthday. Further orders will
be issued covering the classification
of these young men.
The mayor and the members Of the
board are highly praised by the adj
jutant general for the great work
they have done in the draft and class
ification work.
The telegram in full follows:
Local Board No. /. Perth Amboy.
The following telegram received
from Crowder:
1. The Secretary Of War
has today issued the following order:
To the Provost Marshal General:
You will at once instruct state head
quarters and local n district boards
immediately TO discontinue all work
| connected with the classification of
men who on September IL. 1918. had
attained their thirty-seventh birth
day. You win further instruct said
boards to continue to completion as
expeditiously as possible the classih-
cation of all registrants who on Sep
TENDER IL, 1918, had attained their
nineteenth birthday and had not at
tanned their thirty-seventh birthday.
You will, finally, at the earliest APP
propriate moment direct all local n
district boards to issue questionnaires
to all registrants who on September
IL, 1918, had attained their eigh-
teenth birthday and had not attained
their nineteenth birthday and to pro-
coed with and complete as early as
possible the classification of such
registrants"
Paragraph 2. Further orders will
be issued later covering the matter
of sending questionnaires to n
classification OF eighteen-year-old
registrants.
Paragraph 3. In entering pursuant
to the foregoing Instructions upon
| what seems in view of the mighty
events of tho day to be the Anal work
OF this character to be done by the
the members of that system my per-
sonal congratulations upon their
truly great achievements OF the past
year and a half. achievements that
have taxed to the utmost the time,
the ability, and the endurance of all
those engaged in the work, and that
have furnished the army TO which in
large measures must be given the
credit for saving to the world both
civilization and government by the
people. To you, members OF that
system, must come a sense OF duty
we'll done which only a loyalty, patri-
otism. and devotion such as our
can bring. The country and the world
knows hat 1t owes to you a debt of
thanks and gratitude which cannot
be measured by words, but only by
the affection, the respect, and the
esteem, now yours, of those among
whom you live and from whom you
have taken tina which was beyond
price.
Paragraph 4. In undertaking the
completion of your work under the
orders above given, I bespeak of you
the same interest and t~ireless energy
which has characterized your work
in the past.
GILKYSON.
The clerks of the local draft board,
Privates Seaman and Costello. did not
receive word yesterday about cancel
ling of the classification of men be-
tween the ages of thirty-seven and
forty- ! and as a result they, assist
ed by a number of lawyers and citi-
zen were at City Hall last night from
Z o'clock until midnight and Allied
cut hundreds Of Questionnaires.
1t Is expected that they will cease
this work at once now and that no
more classihcations of these men will
take place.