The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-10-03

will be appointed by the board upon
the recommendation of the Secretary
of Agriculture. The advisers are not
members of the board but may, when
invited, attend its meetings.
How Agricultural Adviser Will Aid.
The duties of the agricultural adj
wiser will be to furnish to the board
facts relative to farm-labor REQUIRE
ments, not only of his own district.
but OF the whole country. He should
be the repository of all facts having
relation to the deferment of agricui-
tural workers, whether these be ne
cessary farm larborers, managers or
operators. He will be expected to adj
wise the district boards as to a short
age or surplus of necessary farm
workers for any given district, as well
as for the entire Nation. Such infor-
nation will be supplied to the advisers
by the Department of Agriculture.
This will make it possible to have
necessary workers transferred from
districts in which they may not be
necessary to other districts in which
they are sorely needed.
The adviser may also concern him
self with individual cases that come
before the district board. He will
have the right, under certain condi-
tons, to examine the questionnaires
and other records in the files of the
local board for the purpose of ascer-
tanning whether persons entitled to de-
ferred classification have actually
claimed it. In case he finds the names
OF such registrants he may file for
them a claim for deferred classical
ton with the district board, which, in
turn, may require the local board to
certify the QUESTIONABLE and record of
any such registrants for consideration.
Reasonable time will be given for The
purpose of obtaining information and
supplying the affdavits required. If
a local board determines to consider a
case for deferred classification be-
cause a registrant is engaged in a
necessary occupation, Notwithstanding
no claim for deferred classification on
that ground has been made, it shall
endorse the recommendation on the
QUESTIONABLE of the registrant and
forward it to the district board hav-
ing jurisdiction. The district board
will thereupon consider the case and
proceed to classify the registrant, not
withstanding the fact that no claim
for deferred classification by or in re-
spect of the registrant has been made.
Claims In Behalf of Necessary
Employees.
A further duty with which the ad-
wiser is charged is to confer with en-
ployers of necessary farm workers,
and to instruct them as to their right
under the regulations to file a claim
for deferred classification in respect Of
any registrant who has failed or refus-
ed to file claim for deferred classifi-
cation in his own behalf. This, in the
opinion of the War Department, is a
very important matter. The apparent
injustice of placing many registrants
in Class is often due to the f
that employers have failed to make
Gains for deferred classification on
behalf of necessary workers. 1t is to
avoid a repetition of this trouble that
farmers should see that all of their
necessary employees, whether sons or
other laborers, of the draft age have
made for them just claims for defer
red classification. "a
One important explanation is made
in the new Selective Service Regula-
tons in connection with the express
sion Skilled farm laborer.' The ques-
tionnaire provides deferred classified
ton for the necessary skilled farm
laborer in necessary agricultural en-
terprise." The new regulations pro-
vide that in Class II shall be placed
any registrant found to be engaged In
a necessary" agricultural enterprise,
and found to be necessary to such en-
terprise in the capacity of farm la
borer-" especially fitted for the work
in which he is engaged" This quoted
phrase constitutes an explanation of
what is meant by skilled" as applied
to farm laborer. The expression will
make easier the determination OF the
status of many registrants.
War Service in Right Place.
The purpose in the appointing of ad-
visers is to place men where they can
do most to help win the war. These
advisers will be able to help greatly
the district boards to keep in agricul-
ture the necessary workers. These
workers, whatever may be their in
clination to enter military service,
should stand ready to serve in any
capacity in which they can contribute
most toward speedy ending of the
war. In order that this may be done
frank statement should, in each case,
be made to the boards. 1t is believed
that it will frequently require as much
courage on the part of many men to
remain in their civilian occupations
as to waive deferment.
This effort to keep men in industry
rather than to send them to the camps
and the trenches, should not be abused
so as to permit the Stacker to escape
military duty. The necessity for
raising an army are paramount. Every
man that can be spared will be needed