The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1918-08-10
DEFERRED CALLED
FROM HARvESTS
MILITARY SITUATION ACUTE
SAY INSTRUCTIONS TO LOCAL
BOARD-CLASS l WANTED
Twenty-six to Go August 25---Clerk
Says Demands More Imperative
Than Ever Before

The local board of Stevens county.
has received orders to entrain 26 men
of class l., physically fit for general
military service, to report at Colville
for entrainment for Camp Lewis Aug.
25, under call number 1141. The in
structions are to clean up the 1917
class of registrants who have been
placed in class 1. Regarding defer
ment of men heretofore made by the
local board for agricultural purposes,
the order reads:
"It may be that you have some
class 1 men Of the class Of 1917 who
have been and still are assiduously
and completely engaged in the culti-
walton of crops, and to whom you have
hitherto granted temporary deferment.
If SO, you will now call such men.
The military situation is now so acute
that no further deferment of call for
agricultural considerations can be al
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cesned that harvesting will suffer
through taking them, and it is inn
material whether harvesting suffers
or not. Such men must be sent on
this call. Other agencies of the
government are now organized to
supply any farm labor needs incident
to the completion of the harvest. 1t
is further immaterial whether you
may have promised these men de-
ferment to September 1st, 18th or
October 1st. Such promises when
made by you, were made in good faith,
but the military situation could not
then be foreseen, and you will simply
have to withdraw such promises ami,
induct such men,"
Demand Becoming Imperative
John B. Slater, clerk of the local
board, states that the demands of the
selective service department for SOL
diers is more imperative than ever,
and that this demand will become
more important from military stand
point as time goes on and the army in
creases in size. At present there
have been more than one million men
landed in France, and how many there
are in training no one knows, but SOL
liers must be had and the inhabitants
of the United States must be pre-
pared to make the sacrifice in order
that the army may be kept in motion
and at full strength.
Of late the local board has been
swamped with letters from registrants
and their dependents. Letters by
the hundreds come in entreating the
board to defer this one or that one
For lack of time and clerical help
these communications must be laid
aside until such time as the more i'm
portant business Of gathering an army
has been attended to. The govern
ment urges on the local boards that
private demands must wait and all en-
ergies be employed in the interests of
the government. By this, people
may know why they are sometimes
unable to get prompt reply to their
inquiries.
Under Call No. 972 the Stevens
county local board on Wednesday sent
to Camp Fremont, California, the fol-
lowing men: John Michael Kennedy,
Daisy; Winton Frank Bryant, Rice;
William Shafer Christman, Cedonia;
James William Clark, Colville; Err
nest Harold Clark, TumTum; Leo
Shodle, Bossburg; Alva Staley, Che
welah; Percy Raymond Mcmillan,
Ione;. Alvin Fred Babcock, Pullman;
Grover Hazard Clark, Tum Tum; Ed.
Samm, Northport; Urban R. Burk,
Clayton.
There are four more men to be sent
under this call to Camp Fremont.
These must come from men of Class 1,
physically qualified for military SER
vice. Call No. 972 was held open un-
til August for those who wished to
volunteer who were in classes 2, and
who could qualify for general or
full military service who would want
to go to the colors, but none seemed
disposed to avail themselves of the
opportunity. Many in deferred class
es who could have availed themselves
of this chance to serve may now be
shifted into class 1.