July
Nineteenth
Nineteen seventeen

Mr. E. L. Millsaps,
Statesville, N.C.

Dear Mr. Millsaps:

Your letter received, and I beg to say that I think the District Board would exempt a county demonstration agent from draft in the National Army. Of course he would have to make affidavit with respect to the work in which he is engaged, and that his appointment would materially interfere with that work. I told you that I would do whatever I could in a case of this kind, but I will have no legal authority in the premises. That is given exclusively to the District Board for western North Carolina. The thing for your son to do is to wait until it is determined whether or not his name appears among those drafted, and if so, to file the proper affidavit with the District Board, and I will advise the District Board, upon notice of his application, that I think he ought to be exmepted.

With kindest regards, I am

Very truly yours,

[unsigned]

B-T