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RULES GOVERNING BOARDS
OFFICIAL STATEMENT BY PROVOST
MARSHAL GENERAL.
Queries From Individuals Are to be
Addressed to Local Exemption
Boards.
The following official statement
the office ol* the provost marshal general
at Washington has been given
en to the press with the request that
it be given publicity:
'Thousands of letters reach the
provost marshal general's office every
day concerning the application of
the selective service law to individual
cases. Some of these letters come
from local boards. A vast number
of them come from individuals, and
the question in the latter case is us
ually *My circumstances are so and
so; am I exempt?'
"There are very good reasons why
neither of these classes of questions
can be directly answered from the
provost marshal general's office, and
some other provision must be made
to furnish the information.
"The selective service law places
the determination of exemptions within
the exclusive jurisdiction of exemption
boards. Individual cases
may not, therefore, be decided by
this office. Opinions given on the
merits of such cases and without any
opportunity to investigate the true
facts would not be justified and might
be used to influence the action of lonol
K/-vor-rVc- T?nrthArmnro sin att<amnt
to decide individual cases in this office
would be an invasion of the exclusive
function of the boards.
- Rulings should Go to all Boards.
'Somewhat the same considerations
govern the questions that come dii
rect to the provost marshal general's
office from the local boards. The
same sort of questions arise in each
board. There are 4,557 boards. There
is only one way to answer such questions
in a way that will convey the
answer to the largest number of
boards, and that is by rulings on
cases as they arise, but these rulings
ought to be communicated to all
boards. An answer to boards singly
and directly would have to be repeated
thousands of times and would
leave the center of the system in each
State uninformed. Partly to avoid
multiplication of correspondence the
whole system was devised on the
present plan.
"The whole nation is organized under
what might be termed a system
of supervised decentralization. The
local boards in each State comprise
a separate unit, responsive to the
central control of the governor. Local
boards should address their questions
to the governor, who will daily
summarize questions that he cannot
answer and present them to the provost
marshal general's office for his
whole State. Bulletins will issue
from the provost marshal general's
\ office giving the rulings on these
questions, and these bulletins will be
sent, to every board in the nation. In
this way the operation of the law will
f be systematized and made uniform.
Distribution of Information.
"For these reasons the following
|s announced to the public and the
local boards as the rules that will
. govern the dissemination of information
from the provost marshal general's
office:
"1. Questions by individuals
should be asked of the local board
nearest them. If the board is unable,
after, consideration of the regulations
and rulings, to answer the
question, it should forward the question
to the governor for decision.
"2. Questions from local boards
should never be addressed to the prok
vost marshal general's office, but in
all cases should be forwarded to the
governor of the State.
"3. In no case will opinions or
rulings be given on-individual cases
that have not yet been presented to
the proper local board.
Answering of Questions.
\ "In order to enforce these rules
the provost marshal general's office
announces that it will answer 110
questions from local boards which
are addressed direct to this office, but
will in each case return the questioner's
letter or telegram with a request
that it he forwarded to the governor
of the State. Questions from individuals
will not be answered direct from
, 7 the provost marshal general's office,
but the letter will be returned to the
writer with the request that, he ask
his quesjion of the local board nearest
him.
"It is not desired to inject formality
into the correspondence of local
boards, but the requirement of uniformity,
consistency and convenience
make it neceaary tA insist on these
rules. The large number of persons
affected requires that there should
be an information office in each locality.
These rules are designed to
make the office and the local board
answer this parpose, and every effort
will be made to make prompt ralings
and disseminate rulings of a peneral
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character to ever* iuwi uu?iu m
United States."
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YOrXG DEFENDS NEWSPAPERS.
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Tells of Sacrifices of Publishers.
Space Should be Paid For.
George -M. Young, representative
from Xorth Dakota, is prepared to
take up cudgels for the newspapers
if any, further attack is made upon
them looking to discriminatory taxation.
Speaking recently in the house
against the proposed changes in second
class postal rates, Mr. Young
pointed out the injustice of the pro-*
posnl as follows:
i "It is true that the amount paid
by the publishers of newspapers direct
to the government, if consideied
by itself, may appear insufficient.:
but if what the publishers do for the
public free of charge is taken into
account I believe it will be found tiial
they pay their full share of the cost
of the handling of the mafls.
"Sound and efficient government
must rest upon an intelligent, educated
public opinion. For that reason
it is highly desirable that the citizens
of the country should be well inform- j,
ed upon all public questions and all
details of government. In this field
the newspapers give space worth (
many millions. Almost every public (
official from the president of the
United States down to a forest ranger
secures valuable publicity.
"The cabinet officers send out im- ;
mense quantities of publicity matter, ,
telling of the activities of their respective
departments. And they are (
quite imperious about it. The post- ,
master general himself, who discusses ,
thic snhiect in one of his annual re- 1
ports now before me, gets for the
government advertising of immense
value, covering on,e of the greatest
business enterprises in the world, the
postoffice department.
"Then the newspaper gives to the
public without charge a very large
amount of valuable advertising space
in support of State, county, city, charitable,
religious and other activities,
which if taken into account, would
run into very large sums of money.
And this class of citizens, upon whom
the catalogue house men would descend
with the idea of wringing-from
them rates sufficiently increased to
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enable the government to giVe them
a reduced rate upon first-class ma'tter.
"It is a well established principle
among large business concerns that j
certain lines must be handled at lit- ^
tie or no profit. In the conduct of
the great postoffice department
thoughtful people cannot fail to real- ^
ize the wisdom of encouraging circu- ,
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lation of mediums of publicity. There ^
is no telling to what extent letters are
written carrying first-class postage ^
about matters advertised in news
papers, big and small. They stimulate
all kinds of business. Advertising
is the backbone'of the postal department.
Cripple it, and its sources ^
of revenue from the sale of first-class
postage will be tremendously reduced.
The prudent business man will
not thoughtlessly cause a radical reduction
in hi? chief source of income.
The proposed change in second class >
rates displays a lack of statesman- ]
ship.
Value Xot Appreciated
"The value or puhiicity to tne departments
of the government is lit- 1
tie appreciated by those who hate not <
stopped to think about it. Almost I
every government activity requires j
publicity. The president of the Unit- :
ed States appreciates this, if some ]
other officials forget it. In a recent ]
address he used tlieee words:
"I beg that all editors and publish- 1
ers everywhere will give as promi- ]
nent publication and as wide crrcula- ;
tion as possible ot this appeal. * t
"What is worth asking for is worth *
paying for.
"I find, after looking it over, that
if the United States government had
paid to the publishers of the Ho- J
quiam Daily Washingtonian a fair '
price for all the advertising given to
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send this paper o*t by first-class pos- 1
tage. .
"There is a Red Cross item of 33 4
lines. Papers in North Dakota , of
the character of this paper would
charge .more than 10 cents a line for
reading matter, but we will figure it j
at 10 cents a line. That would make
$3.30. There is an item on crop ,
stimulation, very important at this
r
particular time, 24 7 lines. That
would be $24.70. There is an announcement
there of 54 lines by a
United States* representative, the ,
county agent. That would be worth
$5.40. Then there is another Red
Cross item of four lines. Then the (
county agent malceo a very complimentary
stat An wit with respect to
the activity i? in that lo
cality. That wontd matoe $6.20. There
is an article on tire sale of war
bonds?27 Tine*. *2.71. There is||
another Red Cf?j? litem of four lines,
40 cents. There ? a statement pre- pared
by the Unifoi *tates depart- (
ment of agriculture-?a very import- '
ant statement?wiifa respect to food
conservation, find this particular
statement wai given a place in the
editorial columns erf this paper, 60 (
lines. That wotri'i be $'6.00. These '
itenfs total up to '
There are a number of other arti
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RKCORI) BREAKING CROPS.
Grain Increase Over Last Year More
Than Billion Bushels.
A billion bushels increase over
last year's production in the principal
food crops is the response American
farmers have made to President
Wilson's mid-April appeal saying that
upon theiy "rests the fate of the war
and the fate of nations."' ,
The extent of the farmers' response
was disclosed when a production of
6,093,000,000 bushels Otf principal
food crops was made in the department
of agriculture's July crop report
which shows this year's corn crop
will he the largest in history except
one, and that four, and possibly five,
other crops will make new high rec-i
ord;..
The corn crop, which with favor-1
able weather from wow 011 may equal
the bumper yield of 1912, shows-an
increase of 541,000,000 bushels overi
last year with a total of 3,124,000,- j
000 bushels. The acreage is 14 per
cent, larger than last year.
The combined winter and spring
wheat crops will be 38,000,000 bushels
more than last year's, with a total
of 678,000,000 bushels.
Barley, with prospects of the third
largest crop ever grown, will exceed
last year's production by 33,000,000
bushels, with an output of 214,000,000
bushels.
Oats promise to exceed last year's
crop by'201,000,000 bushels, the total
production being forecast at 1,453,000,000
bushels. That is slightly
under the record. Improvement
between now and harvest, however,
may result in. a record crop.
White potato production on a 22
1-2 per cent, increase in acreage, will
be a record crop with 452,000,000
Dushels, or 167,000,000 bushels more
:han last year, not taking into account
the home garden production
svhich this year is estimated to be
much larger than ever before.
Rye, another record crop this year,
vill amount to 56,100,000 bushels, or
$,700,000 bushels more than last
rear.
Sweet potatoes will register a new
ligh total, with. 82,000,000 bushels,
)r 11,000,000 bushels more than last
rear.
Rice production will be 34,400,000
3ushels, the second largest crop ever
moduced.
Production of tobacco wijl break
mother record with a crop of 1,215,)00,000
pounds, which is 64,000,000
pounds more than was grown last
rear.
In a statement explaining condi;ions,
the department of agriculture
j .
>a,iu:
"A heavy increase in acreage of
iom is noted, amounting to over 14
per cent, of last year's crop, much of
:he increase being on land not formerly
cultivated and the bulk of the
remainder on abandoned wheat lands
ind acreage formerly devoted to hay."
GO TO FRANCE IN WINTER.
Baker Says Guardsmen Will Be
Ready By Then.
Washington, July 20.?In response
to protests against training of Northern
National Guardsmen in Southern
States, a letter from secretary Baker
read today in the Senate, said the arrangements
had been made for climatic
reasons, and that troops could
aot be sent to France before winter.
He said it is planned to send divisions
of the guardsmen to VFrance,
probably during the, winter as soon
as they are through training, and
nonage is avanaoie.
Recognizing Genius.
Merchant (to detective)?"Some
fellow has been representing himself
as a collector of ours. He's been taking
in more money than any two of
the men we have, and I want him
collared as Quickly as possible."
Detective?"All right. I'll have him
arrested in less than a week."
Merchant?"Good heavens, man!
r don't want to put him in jail?I
want to engage him."?Puck.
cles in this paper that I think ought
to be paid for too. I have not, however,
itmeized them."
"here are a number of other artimight
be a good thing to discontinue
the publication of reading matter if
it were not profitable, Young said, "If
all of the newspapers should suspend
publication tomorrow that are not
profitable, that are not making money
aside from the job printing, the
United States would ba in a difficult
positron."
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