Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-30
IOWA GUARDS START
FOR DEM|NG SOON
FIRST DETAcHMENTs TO MOVE
TO TRAINING CAMP WITH.
IN FEW DAYS.
ENTIRE FORCE TO De
MUSTERED THIS WEEK
Local Camps Lacking in Equipment
and Men and Officers Make Many
complaints-Cots and Other Com.
forts Not Yet Supplisd-Exemption
Rulings Received.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, July 30.--On orders re-
ceived from the war department Col.
Arthur Thayer, mastering officer for
the Iowa National Guard troops, is
preparing to start detachments Of the
Iowa guard to Deming, N. NJ, within
a few days. These detachments will
90 ahead of the rest Of the army in
order to prepare the big camp for the
Iowa guards.
1t is expected that the entire guard
will have been mustered in by the end
Of this week and it will then be but a
matter of a few days until the men
start south.
Considerable dissatisfaction has been
expressed by many of the newly re-
cruited companies and others over the
discomforts of local camps because of
the lack Of equipment and also the de-
lay in paying the men for the two
weeks Of service under the state from
July l to July Is. The adjutant gen.
erals office reports that these payrolls
are being made up and the men will
be paid soon.
Governor Harding has taken the po-
sition that the state ought not to buy
camp equipment in the way Of cots,
etc., inasmuch as the government
would not take it off their hands when
the troops were mustered in. The
acquisitions made by the adjutant gen.
ERALS office for uniforms and similar
equipment for the recruits were I'M
| filled when the government took charge
of the troops In Iowa on July Is. Since
then Colonel Thayer has been sending
in acquisitions for supplies for all Of
the Iowa troops. Not a little of their
equipment will reach them after they
get to Deming.
Robert Long, Of Lone Tree, former
sergeant of Troop B, First cavalry. Bit
terly arraigns the officials In letter
to Adjutant General Logan for the
hardships the recruits have had to
undergo since being mustered into
local camps. They have been without
clothing or equipment or cots, he says,
and have been kept waiting for their
pay.
Exemption Rulings.
Official rulings from the provost
marshal generals department are be-
ing sent out to all local exemption
pOdANo al 4O~o Oh tAS AuCoS1OA VI ga
emption Of county and municipal Of
fcials and also as to the amount Of
income wife must have II her hus-
band is to be barred from exemption
because Of his wife's income.
AS to the county and city officials
who are exempt the ruling says:
only county and municipal officers
who have been elected are subject to
exemption and then only If their I'M
expired terms can not be filled by ap-
pointment. The purpose evidently was
not to deprive the county Of its Of
hcers unless the offices could be filled
by others and not to deprive the
United States Of their services II the
Offices could be filled by others ap-
pointed for their unexpired terms"
As to the amount Of the wife's In
come which would bar the husband
from discharge the ruling states:
1.-The rules and regulations do not
prescribe the amount Of income de-
rived from the wife's property which
would bar the husband from discharge.
The question is for the board to de-
eide whether in view Of all the circum-
stances the wife is or is not support