Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-10-17
To the People Of Iron County:

| have been appointed Agricultural
to District Draft Board No. 3
of the Eastern Division OF Missouri.
stated, my duty is to present
to the District Board information
will enable it to fill the draft
quota Of each county with the least
loss in agricultural output.
This means that | must try to keep
out all necessary farm labor until
the men in less necessary occupations,
measured In military value have been
drawn. In this district, in which the
great majority of people are engaged
in farming, the draft quotas must
necessarily ba drawn largely from the
farms, and it becomes my duty to give
Information to the District Board
which viii enable it to leave on the
farm those who produce the greatest
crops, and draft for the army those
who produce the smallest crops.
1t is evident that no man can know
the people Of this great district well
enough to make an intelligent de-
cisiou as to whether a man is OF more
value to his country in the army or on
the farm, and that the answers in the
questionnaires give this information
very imperfectly. Only Il personal
knowledge Of the productive capacity
Of each individual will enable the
Board4o make a correct decision, and
I shall try to get this personal
knowledge for the Board thru a rep
resentative committee of citizens i'll
each community. with this lnforma-
ton the District Board will draft some
men to the farm who want TO go into
the army and some men into the army
who want to stay On the farms. lu
neither case will it necessarily repre-
sent anything in a mans character
Or even of the quality Of his farming.
The military value Of quantity output
must guide the Board in its decision.
To get this Information the services
of the District and County Agricultural
Agents and Of the State Farm Help
Specialists have been placed at my
disposal. In counties organized under
the farm bureau system | shall get
this information from the Community
Committee. In counties covered by a
District Agent special committees Will
be selected on the advice of repre-
sentative citizens. In the other coun
ties the selection OF committees viii be
made by the State Farm Help Special
lists in the same way.
These Committeeman will be called
together at the county seat and vii!
classify the registered farm men in
their community on the basis OF thei!
war value measured in farm output.
These committeeman will under
take this responsible work from {
sense OF patriotism solely, and it i
the duty of all good citizens to heil
and uphold them. | shall receive
nothing for my time and expenses il
this work, but | shall put my whole
time on it while it lasts and will visi
all the counties | can and still put Thu
work thru in the shortest time pos
eible. ask the cooperation OF ever,
man and woman in the district ant
| will give my best attention to Gil sug
! gestlons by mail or personnel inter
! view which will add TO my etiicienc,
in helping win the war.
I will be at the court house Octobe.
. 90, at 10 o'clock.
The post OF honor for every farIne
is where he will do the most good.
... XENopnoN CAvERNo,
Agricultural Adviser District Boart
, No. 3, Eastern Division of Missouri.
y. 0. Address, Caua!ou, New Madri'
County, Nc. :,