The Mena weekly star., 1917-07-05
RULES GOVERNING ARMY SELECTION
Draft Regulations Made Public at Direction of the President-0rder of Liability to Be Determined
 Later.

to govern the next step toward se- lecting a national war army from the millions registered for service on June ,, were issued today at the direction of President Wilson. They leave to be prescribed later the manner of determining the order of liability of the men registered, but set forth in great detail the method lof arriving at exemptions and the work generally of the local and dis trict boards named to carry out the task
 Exemption regulations add little to the terms of the draft law, the lquestion of whether man between i the ages of 2i and 30 is entitled to exemption because of dependents, the nature of his occupation or physical unfitness being for the lboards to decide after proper in- lNestigation. It is made very clear, however, that there are to. be no class exemptions and that each indi- vidual case must be decided upon it's merits. The local bOards-one for each county of less than f5,000 l population-will pass upon claims population, or city of thirty thou sand with additional boards where | necessary for each additional thir- l ty thousand population will pass iupon claims for exemption except l those based upon industrial and ! agricultural occupation, subject to 1 appeal to the district boards, All 1 cases involving agricultural or in dustrial exemptions will be passed i up0n by tine district boards--one for 1 each federal judicial distfiet-which also will decide appeals from decis- ions of the local boards.
 The present intention is to call those selected to the colors about September 1, or as soon thereafter as the cantonments to house them can be completed
 In statement accompanying the announcement of the regulations, the president called upon the boards to do their work fearlessly and im- partially and to remember that our armies at the front will be strengthened and. sustained if they be composed of men free from any sense of injustice in their mode of selection.
 l 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 quota to be drawn from it's territory (minus credits for enlistments in the na- tional guard or in regular army; each board will prepare a list of persons designated for service in the order of their liability, post the list, give 1t to the press and within three | days send to each designated person by mail.
 As the men so notified appear, the board will make a physical examin- alton 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 examina- | tion is passed successfully, then comes the question of exemption.
 Those Necessarily Exempt. | Persons who must be exempted or discharged by the local board in- Iclude:
 Officers of the United States, of | states, territories and the District
 of Columbia; ministers of religion; | students of divinity; persons in.
 the military or naval service of
 the United States; subjects of Ger
 many; all other aliens who have
 not taken out first papers; coun- l ty or municipal officers; custom | house clerks; workmen in federal
 armories, arsenals and navy yards;|
 persons in the federal service
 designated by the president for
 exemption; pilots; merchant ma
 rine sailors; those with a status
 with respect to dependents which 1 renders their exclusion desirable
 a married man with dependent
 wife or child, son of dependent
 widow, son of dependent. aged or
 infirm parent, or brother of de-
 pendent orphan child under i6l
 years of age) those found nor
 ally deficient, and any member Of
 any well recognized religious sect
 existing May IS, 1917, whose creed
 forbids participation in war. and
 whose religious convictions ae-
 cord with the creed.
 Claims for exemption because of dependents may be made by theI man himself, his wife or other de- lpendents or by third party who has personally investigated the case. X claim made by the husband must be accompanied by supporting afli- Idavits signed by the wife and by the head of a family residing in the same territory A claim by the wife or a third party must be accompan- jed by two supporting affidavits signed by heads of families. Similar Irules govern claims on the grounds of other dependents when the de- Ipendenls or third parties being au- thorized to file claims with support 1 ing aifidavits. In each case theI lboard must be satisfied before it | grants exemption or discharge that | the dependent or dependents actu- ally are supported mainly by thel fruits of the mans mental or phys ieal labor.