Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1917 — Many Boards Are Not Providing Draftees With Required Papers. [ARTICLE]

Many Boards Are Not Providing Draftees With Required Papers.

The following telegram has just been received from the Provost Marshal General, Washington, D. C.: “Washington, D. C. Governor of Indiana, Indianapolis, Ind. Some reports received from mobilization camps indicate that local boards are permitting men to go forward without sending the necessary papers in charge of one of their number. Of course, this creates great cqpfusion and makes it difficult, if not impossible, to credit the board for a portion of its quota. The deputy commissioner of naturalization advises this office that thousands of alien registrants who were not declarants

on June sth, have declared their intention to become citizens of the United States since that day. If such persons were registered on June sth, and if, since that day, they became declarants, they are subject to the draft. In particular cases local boards can determine whether or not persons have declared their intention by writing to the deputy commission- I er of naturalization, Washington, who will Be glad to furnish the information very promptly.—Crowder.” We believe no local board in Indiana can in any way be criticised along the lines of first paragraph ' above. The federal government did ‘ not have supply of forms in the possession of local boards to enable them , to comply with regulations at this time. —— j