Weekly journal-miner., 1918-04-24
LOCAL LbOARDAND CO[. HARRIS IN
 WORDY WAR
ADJU TANT GENERAL OF ARIZONA COMES HERE TO BAWL OUT MEMBERS BUT GOES HOME AFTER INDIFFERENT SUCCESS.
(From Saturdays Daily)

The question as to who paid the
 rent for Mrs. Rip Van Wrinkle while
 the old man was away, or where
 Robinson Crusoe went with Friday on
 Saturday night, isn't exciting half as
 much interest locally as is the query
 as to which side is going to come out
 on top of the beautiful row which
 began popping here yesterday after
 noon between the members of the
 Gavapai county exemption board and
 Adjutant General Harris.
 Feeling that the local board has been usurping his prcrogatives in the
 matter of having the final say as to
 whether certain of the registered men
 should be iuductcd into the army, Col.
 Harris waxcd wroth while seated in
 his offices at Phoenix Yesterday he
 packed up his tomahawk in his alliga-
 tor bag and boarded the train bound
 for Prescott, bent upon administering q chastiscment upon the rccreant board members. The reception which the Colonel received from the board
 was apparently not at all in keeping with the sort of a reception which he imagined would be forthcoming. In
 stead of the board listening atten
 lively to what the Colonel had to say. 1t seems that the two members oi that organization who were present at yesterdays meeting were more or less inclined to talk back to the Phoenix official, and having had lot oi things saved up to tell Mir. Harris, the air was soon charged with lot of cpithcts which might or might not have been intended as being compli-
 mcntary to Governor Hunts military representative.
 It is understood that the trouble between the local board and the adJu- tant general has been brewing for several months. According to the statement made last night by Mayor Harry Heap, secretary of the board, the Phoenix official has been spend- ing a large part of his time in attempt ing to get number ot drattces exempted from war service, much against the will of the Prescott board. It is stated that upon several occa- sions Harris has intcrvcned in behalf of some young men who were very much adverse to going to war, with the result that the men were enabled to escape going into camp on some prctcxt O. other. The board, says NIr. Heap. has been engaged for scv- eral months in aiding the government in building up an army, rounding up alleged slackcrs and getting them in- ducted into the ranks of the fighters Harris, on the other hand, says Heap. has busted himself turning loose al number of Yavapai county boys who went to him with long face and de- mandcd a deferred classification be- cause they had hang nails, prickly heat. ingrowing toc-nailS or some other visitation equally as distressing.
 Several months ago a young man named Ed Weston of Prescott was called on to report for duty. The youth at first made affidavit that he was physically unfitted for military duty. The local physicians who cX- amincd him, however, found him phy- sically fit and certified his name toI the district board. The district board sitting at Phoenix also passed the young man. and he was ordered in- ductcd into the service. Thcreupon. it is said. Weston circulated a peti- ton asking that Harris grant him q! deferred classification because of the fact that he was engaged m agricul- tural pursuits and that his presence m Yavapai county was a necessity m, order that food production be main taincd during war time. Shortly alter this. Harris instructed the Prescott board to discharge the young man, because of his physical inability toI work, and also that his presence here was necessary to produce farm crops This happened several months ago, and the local board after receiving the cdict from Col. Harris, promptly told that official to take several good runs around the block, or words to that effect, and furthermore, informed him that young Weston had been called to report for service on Sat urday next, April Eth, and that the board proposed 10 get the young tcl- low over to Camp Funston along with the rest of the boys in spite of Helen Iliehwatcr. As the time for the time for the cutrainmcnt of the quota m which Weston had been called drew near. Harris noted that the Prescott board had developed no signs of from its original attitude. and it was then that he decided that he ought to come mp to Prescott and have heart to heart talk with the beard members, assert his authority and incidentally hammer them into a frame of mind which would preclude the possibility oi the organization be- ing inclined to question his authority m the future SO far as military mat tcrS were concerned.
 Harris landed in this city ycstcr- day afternoon on the same train which was hauling Secretary McAdoo : party. Not waiting 10 get an cariul of the speech which the cabinet mem- Der delivered. he made a bcc-llue for the board offices in the Masonic Tcm- ple. After Dr. Finn and Mayor Heap, the members of the board who were in the city yesterday, had reached the offices, Harris began his verbal assault on the abovc-namcd 1 gentlemen. It k said that hc StrOnslyi