Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-13

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Methods of Making the Draft.
Upon organizing the local boards
will take over from the registration
boards all registration cards, which
they will number serially and list for
posting to public view. Then, after
having been advised Of the method by
which the order of liability for service
shall be determined and of the quota
to be drawn from its territory (minus
credits for enllstments in the National
Guard or regular army, each board
will prepare list of persons designat-
ed for service In the order of their lia-
bility, post the list, give it to the press,
and within three days send notice to
each designated person by mail.
As the men so notified appear the
boards first will make a physical ex-
animation in accordance with special
regulations to be provided, bearing in
mind that all persons accepted by them
will be re-examined by army surgeons.
If the physical examination is passed
successfully, then comes the question
of exemption.
Those Entitled to Exemption.
Persons who must be exempted or
discharged by the local board include:
officers of the United States, of the
states, territories and the District of
Columbia; ministers Of religion, stu
dents of divinity, persons in the mill
tary or naval service of the United
States, subjects of Germany, all other
aliens who have not taken out first
papers, county or municipal officers,
customhouse clerks, workmen In fed
eral armories, arsenals and navy
yards, persons in the federal service
designated by the president for ex.
emption, pilots, merchant marine sail
ors, those with a status with respect
to dependents which renders their ex.
clusion desirable "a married man with
dependent wife or child, son of a de-
pendent widow, son Of dependent, aged
or infrm parent, or brother of depend
ent orphan child under sixteen years
Of age), those found morally deficient,
and any member of any well-recog.
nized religious sect existing May IS,
1917, whose creed forbids participation
In war and whose religious convictions
accord with the creed.
Man or Wife May Make Claim.
Claims for exemption because Of de.
pendents may be made by the man
himself, his wife or other dependents
or by third party who has personally
Investigated the case. A claim made
by the husband must be accompanied
by supporting aff1davits signed by tbs
wife and by the head of family re
siding In the same territory. A claim
by the wife or a third party must be
accompanied by two supporting affida
Wits signed by heads of families. Sim
liar rules govern claims on the grounds
of other dependents when the depend
ents or third parties being authorized
to file claims with supporting affidavits
In each case the board must be salts
fed before it grants exemption or dis
charge that the dependent or depend
ents actually are supported mainly BY
the fruits of the mans mental or phys
ical labor.
Local boards are required, subject II
appeal, to pass upon claims for exemp
ton or discharge within three days af
ter the filing Of affidavlts.
Must Decide In Five Days.
District boards mast decide appea
cases within five days after the CLOSING
of proofs and their decisions are final
If the ruling of local board is af
firmed the person In question stand
, finally accepted for military service.
, In passing on claims for exemption
on the ground of employment In neces
sary industrial and agricultural occu
, pations the district boards must be con
vinced that the particular enterpris
J affording such employment actually
necessary to the maintenance Of tn
, military establishment of national IL
terest during the emergency.
: "The evidence must also establish,
| the regulations say, seven If the pal
: tcular Industrial enterprise or particI
: lar agricultural enterprise is found nee
r essary for one of the above purposes
: that the continuance of such perso
D L1cLclu 10 ueIcSSdIy W Tie uldluleuduS
: thereof and that he cannot be replace
a by Another person without direct, sui
: stantial material loss and detriment I
|. the adequate and effective operation {
q the particular Industrial enterprise {
a agricultural enterprise in which he
engaged"
May Designate Certain Industries.
S Later the president may from tin
s to time designate certain Industries {
n classes of industries that are necessal
e and the district boards will be so n
+ tilted. 1t will be the duty of eaC
n board, however, to ascertain the avai
; able labor supply for such industri'
v outside the men called for milital
n service and to take the result into CO
l. sideration in determining such thing
o 'If, in the opinion Of the distri
20 board" this section of the regulation
NJ concludes, "the direct, substantial, m
.e terial loss to any such Industrial or a
D. ricultural enterprise outweighs the 10
le that would result from failure to O
tain the military service Of any su,
,e person, a certificate of discharge mi
,e be issued to him X x Y"
se Certificates of exemption will n
n, necessarily be permanent. They mi
f. be revoked with changing condition
n or may be granted only for prescrib
m periods.