Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-08-02 | Page 2 | P. O. Employes Not Exempt because of Position

r. r Ii I J YES N OT OJ- EXEMPT 8 AU f frO rO Men Must Be Absolutely tely N Necessary to P Departments Department's Departments Department's Depart Depart- part part- ments ment's Efficiency t to G Get t tInto Into Deferred Cl Classes J MODIFICATION FICA Tl N of the regulatIons regulations regu regu- INI lations with regard to registrants securing deferred classification by reason of service in ill the postoffice department is ordered in instructions received by Captain P. P V. V FitzGerald state draft executive of officer ticer from Provost Provo Marshal Marshal Marshal Mar Mar- General Enoch Crowder Postmasters er in first and and second class offices the instructions read are hereby authorized to file affi affidavits davits with local exemption e boards for the purpose of securing deferred classification classification in class 3 for the following following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing only Supe Supervisory officials in postoffice clerks whose services cannot cannot cannot can can- not be dispensed with without materially materially materially ma ma- lowering the efficiency of of the the service drivers of government owned automobiles mechanics and skilled skilled laborers whose services are absolutely telY necessary clerks an and substitutes fern fern- at military branches GO AFTER SLACKERS Procedure to be followed in obtainIng obtainIng obtaining obtain obtain- obtain obtain- ing information concerning am all ge i d and delinquents is ordered in hi a bulletin from General Crowder The haphazard procedure at present present present pres- pres pres pres- ent followed in obtaining information regarding alleged delinquents and deserters de de deserters has proven unsatisfactory the bulletin declares Upon the arrest and delivery to a local board of an anal anal- alleged al al alleged draft evader it has hasp has been the custom to send a telegram of inquiry to the local board claimed by the registrant registrant registrant regis regis- trant as the one having Jurisdiction over him hm or if h h. h does doos not know under what board he Is registered a telegram telegram telegram tele tele- gram Is sent to a board in the vicinity in which he claims residence Such telegrams are addressed to the wrong board and delays ensue In Inmany Inmany Inmany many instances expense is incurred COM COMPLETE L LISTS I State headquarters of the selective service boards have In each case on file or in preparation complete lists of all aU delinquents reported by local boards and the record of any anyone one delinquent can be found immediately at state headquarters Therefore all inquiries I should be directed to the adjutant general general general gen gen- I eral of the state In which the draftee claims to have been registered I Generally it will be found that I three classes of delinquents are ar arrested arrested arrested ar- ar rested regarding whom information is necessary First those registrants who have a record of their order and serial number as well wen as their local board second registrants who can give the point of registration but not the local board or the serial or order number and third registrants who claim to have no memory of their regIstration registration registration reg reg- outside of the actual act and who do not even know the state in which they are registered B REREGISTER THESE The adjutant general of the state to whom the inquiry is a addressed can give the proper Information with regard to the first two classes classes' immediately If Ifa Ifa Ifa a man is apprehended who knows only the state in which he hi Is registered and it is found upon inquiry that there is no record of his registration i in that state or if it he fails fans to tu remember r the state in which he I la is registered he should be given full opportunity for reregistration reregistration reregistration re- re registration and arid his case handled as directed in the regulations