The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-07-13
WESTMINSTER, MD
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 10, 1917
THE PRESIDENT ISSUES EAEMP-
TION RULES.

Regulations to govern the next step
toward selecting a national war army
from the millions registered for ser =
vice June were issued Monday at the
direction OF President Wilson. They
leave to be prescribed later the man
ner OF determining the order of iabll-
ity OF the men registered, but set forth
in great detail the method Of arriving
at exemptions and the work generally
of the local district boards already
named TO carry out the task.
The call to the cOlOrS OF the first
$4,000 men to be chosen under the
selectlye draft law probably will be
issued about July 10. Issuance Of the
call on that date will depend upon the
speed with which the exemption
boards and other machinery of the Sc
Iective draft organize and get out OF
the way the preliminary work which
il now under way
Exemption regulations add little to
ton of whether man between the
ages of n and 30 is entitled to eXemp-
ton because of dependents, the nature
OF his occupation or his physical un-
fitness being for the boards to decide
after proper investigation 1t is made
very clear. however, that there are TO
be no class exemptions and that each
individual case must be decided upon
its merits The local bOards-one for
each county Of less than $4,000 popula-
ton or city of 10000, with additional
boards where necessary for each ad-
ditiOnal $4,000 pOpulatiOn-will pass
upon claims for exemption except
those based upon industrial or agri-
cultural occupation, subject to appeal
to the district boards.
All cases involving agricultural or
Industrial exemptions will be passed
upon by the district boards-one for
each Federal judicial district-which
also will decide appeals from decis-
ions Of the local boards.
In the near future date will be set
by Brig Gen. CrOwder, provost mar
shall general, for the meeting and or
ganizatiOn of the boards. At the same
time IL is expected that the regulations
will be promulgated, so that the pro-
cess may be put under way without
delay. The present intention is 10 call
the men selected to the cOlOrs about
September |, or as soon thereafter as
the cantonL.ents 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 impartially
and to remember that our armies at
sustained ii they be composed Of men
free from any sense of injustice in
their mode of selection"
The following classes OF persons will
be exempted from the conscript army
by local exemption boards:
Officers OF the United States and o.
the several States and Territories and
the District OF Columbia.
Regularly ordained ministers of re-
lgion
All students of divinity preparing
for the ministry on May is, 1917.
Persons in the military or naval ser
vice of the United States.
Subjects of Germany residing in this
country.
ALI other resident aliens who HAY,
nj taken out their first papers.
The following persons will be dis
charged ~ local exemption boards
-25n -.",rigation:
'')G& and municipal officers.
'u5.o. house clerks.
2er7Jno employed in the transmits
sion u ..e mails.
Workmen employed in the arsenals.
navy yards, and armOries of the Uni
ted States.
Persons employed by the United
States designated as exempts by the
President
Steamship pilots.
Mariners actually employed in sea
service Of any citizen or merchant
within the United States.
Any married man whose wife or
child is solely dependent upon his la
Dor for support.
Any son of a widow solely depen-
dent upon his labor for support.
Father of motherless child or chill
dren under sixteen years of age sole
~ dependent upon his labor for sup
port
Brother OF a child or children under
sixteen years of age who has or have
neither father nor mother and is or
are solely dependent upon his labor
for support.
Any person who is a member of q
well-organized religious sect organ
ICED or existing May Is, 1917, whose
creed forbids it's members to partici-
pate in war.
All persons morally deficient, such
as criminals.
All claims for exemDtion must he