The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-08-02
178 IN BURLE|GH
First List of Names Locally Post
ed by Sheriff John P. French
Today
5799 ELIGIBLES FOR
SERVICE TO BE DRAWN
Provisions to Be Made for Rejec-
tions Averaging Ten Per
Cent-Exemptions

After weeks Of preparation, the
mills Of the draft will slowly begin
grinding tomorrow, when the first cali
for registrants to be examined for
selective service will be sent out by
the Burleigh county exemption board.
1t is believed that Burleigh county
will be the first in the state to issue
its call. 1t received it's master lists
a day earlier than any other county.
and it's lists Of registrants arranged
in the order OF their liability for serv.
i've were completed and posted today
The call for 17S men, 200 per cent
of Burleigh's net quota, will 90 out
tomorrow, and the examination of can
didates will begin Aug. s. 1t is not
anticipated that one call will be sutti.
cient. Further calls will be issued by
Burleigh county and by all local ex.
emption boards until 10 per cent of
their quotas has been filed In Bur.
leigh county, for instance, the board
will not complete its labors on the
first draft until 98 men have been &C.
cepted, it being estimated that nine
"a LAC IlACIl tASNCPICu W IAC lOC0I
board will be allowed exemptions by
the district board or rejected when
they reach mobilization camp.
To Draw 5,7e9 Men.
In the state as a whole, while the
net quota is 5,272, 10 per cent more
than that number Of reglstrants, or
5,799, will be accepted No county
fol, croIit re
til the men have been finally mus.
tered into the service of the nation at
the mobilization camp. Deficiencies
resulting from exemptions allowed by
the district board or from reflections
at mobilization camps must he made
up by the local boards
Proceedings Open.
All proceedings of the local and dis
trict exemption boards must be as
regular and open as those Of a court
Of justice Each local board and the
state board must keep a docket upon
which every transaction in relation to
every case considered must be en-.
tered There can be no suD-rosa, star
chamber sessions of any local or state
board Any citizen who feels that
any fellow citizen has been unjustly
exempted or unduly favored by any
local board or by the state board has
his right to protest, and such protest
will receive careful attention.
Political preferment, :avOritism,
friendship, partiality and ali other con-
siderations, except that of mans ft-
ness for service in the great national
army are to be eliminated by the
county and state board in passing up
on qualifications of registrantS. There
have already been reported cases in
which men have resigned positions
formerly held and have made applica-
tion for employment in the harvest
fields, hoping thus to procure exemp-
ton under the head of agricultural
labor Uncle Sam has his eyes open
for such subterfuges. 1t is not anti
cipated that they will get past county
boards or the state board. Should
this chance, Uncle Sam will still have
something to say as to the fate of
this particular brand Of Stacker.
Exemptions.
uc uucSLlOll VI cAC4upClOllo A0o DCCu
gone over so thoroughly and 50 often
that further repetition should not be
necessary Some simple rules to re-
member is that if your name is called
land if it is. personal, official notice
will be received by you from your
local board), you must report five
days from the date of call to the
county board for examination. If you
claim exemptions, your claim must be
in the hands of the board not later
than seven days following the date of
call, which means the day upon which
the call is issued, and not the date
upon which your notice is received.
If you file claim for exemptions, you
will then have 10 days in which to
file proof of exemptions, on affidavits
furnished by your local board, at least
one member of which will have au-
thOrity to administer Oaths.
If you do not report Tor examination
or file claims for exemptions within
seven days, you will be automatically
enlisted in the national army and will
be so notified and if thereafter you
do not report within reasonable time
for service you will be considered
deserter and given the treatment &C.
corded any other military deserter.
Every step of the way from now on
until the great national army is mobi-
lized is carefully charted. Registrants,
by following instructions strictly, will
spare themselves and local boards
much trouble The burden of filling
draft army quotas will fall most heav-
ily on those counties Whica have been
least patriotic in the matter of volun-
tary enlistments. Burleigh county,
which has assisted in raising two ma