The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1918-07-27
TO ENFORCE WORK
OR FIGHT ORDER
LOCAL BOARDS WILL GO OVER DE-
FERRED CLASSIFICATION LISTS
MUST GET USEFUL EMPLOYT
Men Failing To Comply With Order
Will Be Put Into Class / and
Called Into Service

Following instructions by Maj A.
Z. Petermann, Judge advocate general
of Michigan at Tuesday evenings
meeting OF the upper peninsula draft
boards, with the district board at the
court house in Houghton, each local
board will get busy on the work or
fight" order.
Each board will go over It's lists OF
men given deferred classification,
They will learn from these lists OF
otherwise the occupations in which
these men are now engaged. II they
find that any OF the men are engaged
in non-essential or n-productive
employment such men will be ordered
forthwith to get into some such es-
sential employment Failure to com
ply with the order will mean that
they will be put into Class 1 and
called insS military service.
Major Petermann talked to the
board members at some length on the
Importance of keeping their records
strictly in accordance with regula-
tions
"we want a perfect record OF every
man OF draft age who has gone into
the service or who has stayed out OF
H." said the major. "The record Of
the man who has been exempted from
the service or given deferred or spec
ial classification is just as important
as the record of the fighting man.
Twenty years from now some fellow
of the latter class may make certain
claims about what he did in 1918,
These records should show just what
he did so that his word will not have
to be taken for IT,"
More Work for Physicians.
The medical advisory boards were
present at this meeting as also were
the medical members OF the local
boards, and Major Reuben Peterson OF
Ann Arbor medical aide to the COVER
nor, was present and instructed them
He was particular in his request for
more careful medical examinations
He deplored the hasty examinations
early In the draft and the conditions
under which examinations were made
Major Peterson suggested a maximum
of twenty-five examinations for one
I. physician per day. He advised the
renting OF proper rooms for examina-
tions because the lack Of them has
meant too many heart reflections al
camp. lie declared a physician could
not make proper heart examinations
in crowded rooms because OF the con-
fusion.
Major Peterson forecasts more work
for local board physicians in the fu-
ture, because they will be unable tc
secure as much assistance as former
ly. The physicians left to work among
the civilian population before long
will be the old men and the cripples
he declared, because II the army is e
be 100000 men 1t will require about
all OF the able bodied physicians IL
the country.
The local boards questioned the jus
tice OF some OF the reflections at camI
and Major Peterson agreed that prob
ably some mistakes had been made. Ii
any event he Instructed the loca
boards 20 call in all men who have
been rejected at camp and have then
re-examined. so that II any are found
act, ,i4ly 10 be fit for military servic'
frrord may be made OF the fact.
Following the addresses by Majori
Petermann and Peterson the boarc
members asked questions on knott!
points, examined the records OF othei
boards and generally enlightened
themselves on the finer details OF thei
work.