Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-03-19

week and the clerk was swept into
! the army.
one employer appealed for the ex-
| cmption of an artistic sign painter.
"ln such time of stress as this
| think the country can get along
with innrtistic signs ruled the cnair-
man.
At Liverpool an undertaken claimed
| lie was truly Indispensable The tri-
hunal told him to "R. |. T." for six
months. After that he must Join the
army, where there ~ much work to he
lono by those skilled in the burial of
the dead
The lord mayor of London, an en-
thusidStiC worker for recruits, applied
to the London tribunal for the eNemp-
| tion of a footman employed ut the
Mansion House. The application said
| II was in the rational interest that
Mansion House arrangements for re-
cruitins the public work generally
should not be disturbed. Sir 7. Nozcy
Strong, chairman, thought post
pOnomcnt If one month sufficient to
allow the lord mayor to make other
arrangements.
Works In Laundry.
A widow of Penge obtained "A three
the ground that he was Indispensable
| to the conduct of her small laundry.
"iIo calls for and distributes the
| laundry" said she. and does more
ironing than any two women"
The tribunals face their greatest
! ditficulty in dealing with the agricul-
tural districts. Some farmers have
gone to the extent of threatening to
| abandon their farms entirely II not al
| lowed sufficient help. The tribunals
now have adopted the policy Of al
| lowing three men to each hundred
acres of farm land. In the meantime
hundreds of thousands of women are
being recruited for farm work.
| One young man unSucccSsfullY
| quoted from a speech of the prime
minister. Mr.. Asquith. in the house of
commons, in seeking exemption on
| the ground that he was the sole sup
port of a widowed mother lie quot
ed MIR. Asquith to the effect that the
taking away of the sole support Of
a widow would be ''monstrous The
application was refused when ii was
shown there were other relatives with
whom the mother might live.
Many Excuses.
| Another young man told the tri-
bunal it was condemning his mother
to death in sending him to the war.
'If | were alone in the world
II appeared, however. the financia
condition of the family was sufficient
A theatrical manager was granted
three months grace when he eX
planned that If there were no amuse'
ments the people would have no
where to 60.
A cartoonist thought himself in
disponsablc because his drawings
amused the soldiers at the front; "tht
champion clog dancer of the world,
thought his supremacy in that nrI
should not be endangered: "the best
violin maker in England felt he was
needed at home, n popular Nut" OF
the music halls felt that London's in
dispensable revenue would be failures
without him; a buyer of silks, an "ex-
pert sausage cutter" warehouse
"Samson" with remarkable liftine
ability. a bible packer all made pleas
but obtained exemptions for brief
periods only.
The plea of conscientious scruplcs
against war is heard infreouently be-
fore the tribunals. The posscssor oi
such scruples generally comes in tor
a very severe grilling.
The Pail Mall Gazette says; ut is
notorious that the net yield from the
single classes has been very disap-
pointing Married men and married
women, too, have shown that they
are prepared to discharge TO the full
| every claim that their country pos
sesses. But they will not tolerate a
moro lerient regime for those who
have lighter responsibilities than
themselves. and the exemptions are
going 10 Justify themselves in calling
up any head OF a family for service