Arizona republican., 1917-08-09
ARMY OF MILLION MEN TO BE CALLED TO THE C0t0RS
 WITHIN NEXT THREE WEEKS
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WASHINGTON, August s. More than 100000 men of the selective draft forces will be called to the colors on September l to go immediately to their divisional training cantonments. This will bring the strength of the United States army on that date up to practically 1,000,000 men.
 Brigadier General Crowder, provost marshal general, dispatched the follow ing telegram to the governors of the states today, cautioning them to make certain that the first one-third of their quotas of the first increment of regis tered men is ready in time:
 New regulations governing mobi1 ization and the certification of men from district boards to adjutants gen. eral will be mailed to you on August g. In the meantime, local boards should certify to district boards daily those who have been called and who have not been exempted or discharged. either because they failed to file any claim or because their claim has been decided adversely.
 Strict compliance with this rule is necessary since on September 1 the war department will call for not to
 
 each state, to be entrained for mobil- ization camps between September 1 and September ,. Unless we wish to be put in a position of not furnishing men as fast as the war department is ready to receive them, each state should have accumulated by September | minimum of one third of it's quota not exempted or discharged. This can 1 only be attained if local boards certify | these lists up with great expedition" General Crowder also sent this ad 1 ditiOnal caution to examining phys icians of the local boards:
 i Surgeon general advises that in or der to prevent the terrible ravages which result from the introduction into the army of that dread disease of the l eyes known as trachoma the lids of every recruit be inverted to insure the absence of this disease and that any border line or suspicious cases be re- 1 ferred to an ophthalmic surgeon es- pecially qualified in this line"
 The messages were followed by 8 new ruling regarding exemptions be- cause of dependents, which is expected to decrease considerably the loss of men from the military service for this | after to deny exemptions to married men whose wives are solely dependent l upon them, but where the parents or other relatives of either wife or hus- band are willing to assume the burden of her support during his absence. The same course is to be followed where any drafted mans employers agree to continue his salary as a patriotic duty. l i,.J +,J that where man has supported his dependents by his own labor on land which he owns and the boards find that the land could be rented to advantage so as to continue the support for the wife derived from the rental, exemp tion for the man may be denied.
 The telegram to the governors fol lows:
 Under presidential regulations the term dependent for support has given rise to several further questions oi principle affecting large numbers oi persons
 'The general basis for ruling upor such questions should be the spirit and purpose of the act in providing fol |, such discharge wherever the terms O the act and of the regulations are no in themselves conclusive. The act au thorizes the president to discharg, , wherever the parties drafted are in { status with respect to persons de pendent upon them for support whicl renders their exclusion or discharg s advisable
 3 Such dependency ordinarily render discharge advisable, because, since tn, drafted person loses his civil incom and thus loses his means of support the wife is left without support ant this lack of support is the effect whicl the act aims to avoid. But whereve such effect does not in fact follow and the wife is not left without reason ably adequate support, but will receiv such support from other sources ther is no real dependency rendering dis charge advisable
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