Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1918 — SUNDAY AUTOIST PUT IN CLASS 1 [ARTICLE]

SUNDAY AUTOIST PUT IN CLASS 1

COLUMBUS MAN WILL GO TO WAR FOR JOY-RIDING ON GASLESS SUNDAY. Columbus, Sept. 18.-—George Webber Daughtery, a wealthy young fanner living'in Bartholomew county, has been transferred from class 4 of the military draft to class 1 by the Third Indiana district appeal board, which has its headquarters at •Indianapolis. Action was taken after protests had been made when Dauhtery drove his automobile on the first Sunday that the federal fuel administration had requested that machines not be used for pleasure purposes, so that gasoline might be conserved. One petition that he be reclassified was signed by a group of military registrants, who left here for camp on the following day. Another petition also was circulated among residents of the county. Following-; the circulation of the petitions Daughtery published in one of the Columbus papers a signed statement in which he said that he felt that because of his large land holdings he could do more toward winning the war by remaining at home and looking after his farms than -he could by entering the service, adding, however, that he was “willing and ready to go at any time.” When the local board received Daughtery’s questionnaire from the district board yesterday with the notification that he had been reclassified and placed in class 1, a notation was found attached to the questionnaire saying: “There is no time like the present.” It is understood that affidavits were submitted with the general petition showing that Daughtery’s land is held in trust for him, and the management of his land has not been in his hands, he receiving the income from them through the trustee. At the time Daughtery drove his automobile he is alleged to have said that as long as he could buy gasoline he would use his car as he pleased. It is understood that he will go to camp with the next group of registrants to leave this county. Daughtery is not married.