Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-14
INTERNATIONAL ARMY
| SOON TO Be IN CAMP
1900 Men Will Reach Each
Cantonment by Sep
tember 5.
RULINGS BY GEN. CROWDER

To avoid the possible congestion on
the railroads around Labor day. Sep
TENDER has been selected by the
to send away the first 80 per cent of
the men certified for service in the first
call. The second 80 per cent will be
sent away September Is, another so
per cent on September 80, and the re-
mainder as soon after that date as
possible.
This method of assembling distributes
the task Of furnishing supplies and
equipment through September. The or
der means that about 10000 men will
reach each of the sixteen cantonments
soon after September 5. They will first
be examined physically by Army doc
tors and finally accepted or rejected.
This will take some time and the men
will have to be furnished with tempo
rary quarters and rationed while
awaiting examination. II the full
quota were assembled at one time
great confusion would result
Caring for Farming Communities.
In farming communities local boards
now will arrange the list of those 10
fill the first increment with local crop
conditions in mind. Harvesting is in
progress in many sections. Drafted men
engaged in that work and who other
wise would go with the first third OF
the district quota will be passed over to
the second or third. as may be neces-
sary.
Reviewing the question of discharge
for dependent relatives. Provost Mar
shall General Crowder issued a supple
mental ruling today holding that per
sons should not be discharged because
of dependent residents broad.
The object of the law permitting per.
sons to be discharged. provided he ha:
depending upon him a person falling
within any of the classes of dependent!
was to prevent such dependents eecom
ing charges upon the American people.
the ruling says. "A dependent residing
abroad could not become such a charge
Persons claiming discharge because o.
such dependent cannot properly be dis
charged on ground that such discharge
Is advisable within the meaning OF The
act of Congress"
Ruling on Railway Mail Clerks.
Only in rare cases are railway mai
clerks TO be exempted. Today the Pos
ONCE Department announced that pub
lished reports Of blanket exemption
for this class of postal employees were
based on a misinterpretation of the de-
partment order covering postal exemp
tions- Only scheme clerks, chief clerk.
and assistant chief clerks of the rail
way mail service will be given exemp
tions and most Of them are above mill
tary age.
The Post once Department an
nounced. also. that it would certify
exemptions for post office inspectors
but not for postmasters. Postmasters
of the first. second and third classes
however. are exempted specifically I'M
der the law.
Navy Department corrects Mistake
1t has developed that the Navy De-
partment misunderstanding the War
Department ruling as to voluntary en-
listment of registered men. had in
structed its recruiting officers to &C
cept registrants into the Navy, even
II they had been called before their
local selection boards for examination
The mistake quickly was corrected. re-
cruiting stations being told by tsle-
graph that no man called for examina-
ton under the draft law could be ac-
cepted into any branch of the military
or naval service as a voluntary re-
cruit. Until called. however. regis
trants are free to enter the Army. Navy
or Marine Corps.