From various communications received from your office, and from personal interviews, we feel and have felt that you are not pleased with the work of the Western District Board, and we feel that you are not willing to intrust the work of the western district entirely with the Board.

As sustaining our impression, we are herewith attaching a copy of letter from Mr. Broughton, Inspector, to you, which from its tone seems to be responsive to your wishes.

Mr. Broughton was here when the Board met this week and remained for a day and a half, when we found copy of attached letter on our table, and personally resented Mr. Broughton’s seeming attitude with the Board.

We do not feel that Mr. Broughton is attempting to do anything other than what he understands to be his duties under the direction of your office, and we, therefore, feel it our duty in the interest of the Selective Service work to frankly say that, if it is the opinion of your office and those who have the duty of seeing to it that the Selective Service Regulations are properly carried out in this State that we are not properly performing our duties, we shall be glad to be so informed directly, in which case we shall be glad to make it unnecessary for you to go to the expense and trouble of wielding and applying the whip-lash.

As to our work in performing our duties, we invite the scrutiny of yourself, the Governor of the State and the Adjutant General. We are, therefore, mailing a copy of this letter to each, and solicit a frank and free expression from each.