The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-06
LOCAL BOARDS TO DECIDE
What Is Non-Essential Work During
Period of the War.


; Gov. II. f. Graham has received thu
r following telegram. the first part o
which lauds the district and local boards
, for the excellent work they have don't
} and then informs them that they are tC
set as a board of decision in deciding
who are doing non-essential work during
: the period of the war.
please Immediately expedite commu.
} nication of the following TO all local and
} district boards and give to the press for
publication on morning and evening OF
Wednesday, June 8.
"0ne year ago occurred the first regis
traton for military purposes OF the
young manhood of the nation. Ten mil
lion men responded in a single day. This
accomplishment was nothing short of
marvellous. The task of utilizing this
enormous force seemed unbelievable.
But the work of classification of this
great mass of msnpower in such way
as to permit of its organization and
moulding into an effective army was. EN-
trusted to 1868 local boards and 1856 dis
trict boards constituting board OF near
ly $1,000 of the leading citizens Of every
community, who, assisted in their work
by more than 100000 equally patriotic
volunteers, have performed a work that
challenges the attention and excites the
admiration of all our people.
well may we praise to-day, while
another million of our youths enter the
lists, and survey the results of the years
work. Each registrant has been exam
ined and his availability for military
service has been determined In other
words these millions of men have been
classified in such a manner that the ma
ton may now call for them to come for
ward into the army. No call can be so
large that it will not be filled immediate
-ly whether the number such as may be
filed by those who have been found to
stand in the first rank of avaiables or
so great that men standing in the second, |
third or fourth ranks of availability |
must 90 forward. In other words all
these millions of men who one year ago |
were an inert mass have become a mobile
army. Each has found his place and each
in his proper turn has marched or waits
the order to march.
these results could not have been &C
except through the devoted
and unseifish labor of patriots. The To-
cal and district boards have scored an
triumph and have earned
the undying gratitude of the nation.
Their achievement is one of the great
successes Of the war. They have already
sent into camps, including those under
orders for June mobilization, an army of
more than a million and a half men.
They have already produced as soldiers
0ne man out of every go registrants and
the world stands in profound astonish
nent as it views this accomplishment
"Statistically stated. the local boards
nave sent and are sending 70S.
Compensated poorly if at all except
~ the gratitude and affection of their
leighbors and of the nation at large, the
boards have labored incessantly through
he enervating heat Of last summer only
o find still greater task awaiting their
Inceasing devotion throughout the rigors
# the following winter Then having
accomplished the classification. they
ound themselves confronted with the
of millions of men and &C
urately and promptly they have per-
ormed and are performing this labor.
iuch work yet remains. To-day the
ew men of 81 are being registered and
lust speedily be classified. On the first
/ next month the local and district
cards will be invested with the still
lrther responsibility of preventing idle
ess and of unproductive employment
hich is not effective to the nation in the
mereency. Some boards viii review
1eir work and correct those inequalities
hich have been unavoidable in so ire
endous an undertaking.
THE nation, however, with full CON
ience in the men who have performed
iese great tasks in the past, faces the
,ture without foreboding. The splendid
ork of our local and district boards and
the other great volunteer army of as
stants has filled us with admiration.
hev have been tried and found true and
, long as the war may last our people
e happy in the complete assurance that
lis great organization will send their
gistrants to camp in the following
imbers:
September general, 2e6,67s; October
neral, l63, ga: November general, 3d.
Il; December general, 20320. Total
Finished to Jan. |. 1918. 5l6,36S Jan
Lry specialists 2,024, general 2l .2e4, to-
/ 23.2ss; February general 1852, spe-
lists 5.lO7. total s3,779; March general
l.el5. specialists 1850, total ls2, 4s4;
,ril general l66.343. schools { 1874. spe
lists 700, total l74,377; May general
5 .s62. school 1915, specialists l7026;
tai. 373.O63 Total furnished TO June
1918, l.S03,354. June general 252.46s.
hools 25.073. specialists lf,sl3. total
2. 354. a grand total, l.5a5,O00. Do
{ fail the nation. Crowder."
Bv direction Of Governor Graham,
Herbert T. Johnson, Colonel.
Acting Adiutant General