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Show DRAFT BOARD TALES WILL BE RECORDED Human Interest Yarns to Find Place in U. S. Records. I II unt a it interest stories contain nu; pat iiis, humor or patriotism that came i to the attention of the draft board men during their activity In connection w.th the selective service should be compiled com-piled for hratomal reasons, saf a message to l'. i plain tordnn hiiow. Iraft execiaive i iticer fir I'tah, liotn Cent ral Knoch II. t'rowdcr. hi the draft law, moie than In any of the great War Ktatutt s enacted ly concrisM, there has heen a liumau e--mep'." ; rieri 'rowtter wnt-w. "This hum. in t'lt nient is not to he found by a dry st uly of the dttcurmnts ctntam-inc ctntam-inc the statute, the renul.-tl-ais, the tei-em tei-em a ins toot the repel t of statistics. It lies in the nieinori-s of the men who have administered the l.-iw. It is matie up of the scenes in ym.r board rooms, the cunver sat ions In the homes, the shopK, the factories, ths thoughis of the registrants and their families - all of the pussiug flrnmii of daily life, as influenced y th- tremendous war task of raising' the army pursuant to a na-tio na-tio ui law foundctl on egulty utul ne- h ilnicri niiit run he allowed to , unrt'cortled. The future historian i!nai not )e iillowetl to search tn vain for its traces. We must take onie , pr-csutiotis against . hs. The sptrit I tif the M -stem is Hm fine to be b-ft in j danger of men's forgetting. We nuiM , try tti recortl Its essi ift e wliilr we urej still in the nrlM of it. and while the j svst of It st ill is unaiated and the memories are attlHrcVn." i |