August 2, 1918.
Local Exemption Board,
Whiteville, N.C.
Gentlemen:-
I enclose you a letter from E. A. King. I am not in the habit of making the slightest suggestion to any Local Board about any particular case. But if the facts stated in this letter are true, then I think that you have the right to defer this man’s call until he can gather his crop, and I think that you ought to do it. The Provost Marshal General has repeatedly said that the Board should apply the rule of common sense and sympathy. Applying this rule I do not think that a man who was discharged from Camp Jackson in January on account of physical disability and was sent home, and then proceeded to make a crop ought to be sent back to that camp until he has an opportunity to harvest that crop.
Very truly yours,
Governor.
B-G