The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-09-24
BOARD IS SENDING
OUT MISSIONARIES
REGISTRANTS NINETEEN TO
THIRTY-SIX WILL BE FIRST
CALLED TO SERVICE.


Wednesday mailing questionnaires to
the 1857 men who registered on
Sept. 18th for army service, and are
sending out rs daily. They must be
returned in seven days after their re-
ceipt by the registrants, With all ques-
tons answered. Patriotic and skilled
lawyers are again contributing their
services in helping registrants fill out
their questionnaires. Every regis
trant will have access, free of charge,
to the services of these lawyers.
Printed leaflets giving information
relative to the new regulations are
being inserted in all the question
naireS.
The revised regulations are built
around the provision of the act of
congress that no registrant will be
entitled to deferred classification on
industrial, occupational or employ
ment grounds, including agriculture,
unless he himself, or the person or
persons who make claim in his be-
half, can convince the district board.
Must Bare Life.
Registrars will either waive claim
for exemption or deferred classical
ton or will claim deferred classified
ton. Claim for deferred classical
ton may be made by relatives of reg
istrants or by other interested per-
sons.
A man who claims exemption must
tell everything about himself from
the color of his eyes to the amount
of money he made last year, and how
he spent it; what he owns and how
much he owes; whether he owns or
rents his own home or lives with his
or his wife's parents; the date
of his marriage and birth of a child,
and the date their dependency upon
him began. These are just a few;
there are many others.
The men from 10 to sc, inclusive, /.
will be classified and indicted into
military service ahead of others who
registered on September 18th.
AS the October calls will be filled
in part with the registrants of Sep
TENDER every possible effort Will Oe
made by the local board to speed up
the work of classification.
AS to Filling Out Questionnaires.
At special meeting of the Terrell
county legal advisory board called by
Chairman H. A. Wilkinson at the
court house Friday afternoon it was
decided that missionaries now be-
ing mailed out by the local board will
be filed out after a different plan
than that which has prevailed in the
past.
In the case of previous registra-
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some lawyer as to advice about fill
ing out his QUESTIONABLE. This time
all missionaries which registrants
or their employees cannot handle will
be filled out at the court house by
a selected committee.
According to the plan agreed upon
at the meeting the committee of law
yers and business men will be at the
court house at certain hours each
week day during the time the ques-
tionnaires are being mailed out to
give registrants such advice as they
may need. This committee is not eX-
pected to fill out these missionaries
except as a matter of last resort. A
man of ordinary intelligence can fill
out one himself without particle
of trouble, and the average employer
Of labor can and is expected to fill
out the missionaries of his labor
without troubling the committee.
Registrars who feel that they require
the help of the special clerical COM
mittee are urged to read their ques-
tionraires over carefully and be
ready to answer all questions prompt
ly, before appearing before the com
mittee
The hours designated are: from
$3.50 till II in the mornings and from
2 till in the afternoons.
-> The legal advisory board expects
enough volunteers from the business
men, bookkeepers, stenographers and
others with clerical knowledge to dis
pose of the work without any hard
ship on any one Those desiring to
render a real patriotic service are
earnestly requested to give their
names 10 Chairman Wilkinson, even
though they can only give an hour
or two Of their time each day.
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