Selective Service Regulations: Prescribed by the President Under the Authority Vested in Him by the Terms of the Selective Service Law (Act of Congress Approved May 18, 1917) (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Selective Service Regulations: Prescribed by the President Under the Authority Vested in Him by the Terms of the Selective Service Law (Act of Congress Approved May 18, 1917)

I call upon all citizens, therefore to assist Local and District Boards by profiering such service and such material conveniences as they can offer and by appearing before the boards, either upon summons or upon their own initiative, to give such information as will be useful in classifying registrants. I urge men of the legal profession to offer themselves as associate members of the Legal Advisory Boards to be provided in each community for the purpose of advising registrants of their rights and obligations and of assisting them in the preparation of their answers to the questions which all men subject to draft are required to submit. I ask the doctors of the country to identify themselves with the Medical Advisory Boards which are to be constituted in the various districts throughout the United States for the purpose of making a systematic physical examination of the registrants. It is important also that police officials of every grade and class should be informed of their duty under the Selective Service Law and Regulations, to search for persons who do not respond promptly and to serve the summons of Local and District Boards. Newspapers can be of very great assistance in givingwide publicity to the requirements of the Law -and Regulations and to the numbers and names of those who are called to present themselves to their Local Boards from day to day. Finally, I ask that during the time hereafter to be specified as marking the sixty day period of the classification, all citizens give attention to the task in hand in order that the process may proceed to a con elusion with swiftness and yet with even and considerate justice to all.

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