The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-07-31
DRAFT BOARDS HAVE
WE|GHTY TALK
|, MAKING EXEMPTIONS
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your inclinations of sympathy or af-
lection, you will know ought not to
be granted. 1t will strengthen you
to remember that from every exemp-
ton or discharge that is made for in
dividual convenience or to escape
|permonal loss of money or property,
or for favor or affection some other
man whose time would not otherwise
have come, must incur the risk of
losing his life.
There can be no room for hest
tation in such a case.
Another fundamental thought is
this:
Not Courts for
Controversies.
you are not court for the ad-
justment of differences between two
persons in controversy. You are
Iagents Of the government, engaged in
lselecting men for the government,
and there is no controversy. You,
acting for the government, are to in
lvestigate each case in the interests Of
the nation, and never in the inter-
tests of an individual. There is not
one exemption or discharge in the
law or regulations that is put there
for the benefit of any individual. All
are there for the benefit of the ma
ton, and to the end that the whole
nation may be a team in which each
man shall play the part for which
he is best fitted
Therefore, no one has a vested
right, by himself or by attorney, to
urge by argument or pleading, his
individual case upon you. You should
rigidly exclude this. Ordinarily you
should act on the affidavits. If you
desire more information you may pro-
coed to get it, If you doubt the
affidavits you may interrogate other
persons. If you desire more proof
you may get it. But no claimant has
a right to submit other proof than
that called for by regulations, or than
that you may call for.
Ignore Technical
Rules.
There should be no rules like
those of court procedure, no techni-
cal rules of evidence. You should
proceed to investigate cases about
which you are not satisfied exactly
as you, an individual, would proceed
to inform your SER about any fact
about which you are in doubt.
Last of all, it is important to say
a word about your own sacrifice.
The place to which you have been
D called is one which no man would
seek save in the performance of one
of the highest of patriotic duties"
Very few employees of the civil
branches of the government will be
D exempt from draft, according to an
: official ruling published yesterday by
Provost Marshal General Crowder
At the White House Secretary Tu-
multy is the only employee named
i as exempt. He was over the regis
: tration age anyway, but all other
/ employees of military age are liable
for service. The line has been drawn
y as closely in all other departments
: In the executive departments none
but the executive heads are exempt
= ed by the ruling. Clerks, stenogra'
e piers and many others who expected
to be exempt because Of their gov
: eminent service will be disappointed
= The little bronze buttons that will
/ be worn by those exempted from ser
r vice in the new national army, were
o being sent out to the local boards
d today. Every man rejected will gel
It one. On the button there the nation
o al coat-of-arms and beneath are The
n words United States"
e Senator Chamberlain has complet
i ed redrafting his resolution to meet
s objections to drafting of aliens under
G treaties prohibiting their compulsory
q service, according to Washington ad
J. vices. 1t will be reported to the Sen
! ate Monday. The resolution provides
e that all aliens of the European allie:
: resident in this country for one yea,
or more who have not declared theil
intentions to become citizens, shall
be subject to the army draft. Sub
t jects of neutrals would be exemr
= If their treaties give them exemption
: provision being made for the waiv
Q ing OF such treaties and such aliens
t claiming exemption would be allowed
!. to leave the United States within
R ninety days.
t Other provisions Of the resolution