The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-30

ing within the area in which the
local board has jurisdiction.
If the wife does not live within
the area of such local board, the atfi-
davit of the head of a family may
be made by such a person residing
outside such area.
different blank is provided for
each specific form of exemption, and
if a man claims exemption on more
than one ground. he must I'LL out
new form for each claim.
Claims for exemption or discharge
must be made on forms which may
be procured at the office of the local
board and must be filed at the office
of the board on or before the seventh
day after the date of the mailing of
notice to report for physical exami-
nation.
If the husband does not claim
exemption, his wife or some other
interested person may file for him.
but two corroborative affidavits are
then required No husband can
claim exemption unless his wife
takes an oath that he is supporting
her.
Two Appeals Possible.
Two appeals are available. The
first may be taken to one of the
Iowa district boards. The second
may be taken from such boards
direct to President Wilson.
If a man claims exemption on oc-
cupational grounds he must show
that his work is of direct value from
a military standpoint, or that the
country win suffer directly if he is
taken for military service. He must
also show that his work cannot be
replaced by that of another man who
has not been drafted.
Uncle Sam, in his instructions, de-
fines the various terms used In con-
nection with exemption claims, as
follows:
For the purpose of these rules
and regulations, labor shall be con-
strued to mean bodily or mental
exertion.
TT may be either physical or intel
lectual: It may be professional, me-
chanical. commercial, clerical or agri-
cultural; and each of these forms Ut
labor may exist under notifications
or in combinations with each other.
1.-THE means for the support of the
dependent person OF persons must be
produced by this labor, whatever be
It's character. 1t need not be wholly
produced from it, but it must be
mainly so.
Some Distinctions.
"a dependent receiving support
from a person whose income Is de-
rived from dividends or rents cannot
be said to be dependent upon his
labor, but if that income were en-
tirely the fruit of professional or
physical local, then such person or
persons would be dependent upon
his labor.
For the purpose Of these rules
and regulations, by the term aged
or infirm' parent or parents Is meant
those persons who, from old age or
inflrmity, are disabled from earning
the means Of supporting themselves
and who, by reason of such age or
inflrmity, have become dependent for
the means of support upon the per-
son in respect of whom the claim Is
made"
When dependent claims are filed.
such other evidence as may be re-
uuired by the board to substantiate
the claim must be presented
If any person claims exemption
one affidavit must contain the state
ment that he binds himself to report
at once in person to the local board
by which he was called and notify
It whenever the conditions emitting
him to exemption or discharge cease
to exist The same obtains In cases
where exemption claim is filed in be-
half Of some person by an interested
party.