Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1917-07-05
MILLIONS WILL
ESCAPE DRAFT
President Names Glasses Ex-
empt From Service.
WIDOWS ONLY SONS LEFT

OIneFS WIN dependents WIN NOT be
Called to coIors, at Least Under the
First Consumption - Next Order Is
Expected to Fix July 10 as Date For
Actual CONSUMPTION.
President Wilson has promulgated a
complete set of regulations designed
TO select the drafted armies of the
United States with 1.-THE least Unequal
ity and personal hardship"
The rules are for the guidance of the
exemption boards and appellate boards
which have been established through
out the nation TO handle the immense
work of the draft. The presidents ac-
ton sets the great machinery in mo-
ton. \ later proclamation will set n
date for the draft and provide certain
regulations for its operation. July 10
is the day most spoken of at present
as the date of the draft.
IL admoniSh every member of every
local board and of every district board
of review" the president goes on,
that their duty to their country re-
quires an impartial and fearless per-
Torrance of the delicate and difficult
duties intrusted to them. They should
remember as to each individual case
presented to them that they are called
upon to adjudicate the most sacred
rights of the individual and to preserve
untarnished the honor of the nation"
Who Are Exempted.
The proclamation exempts the fol-
lowing classes of men from service I'm
arms:
First.-Officers of the United States and
Of the several states and territories and
the District of Columbia.
Second.-Regularly ordained ministers of
religion and students of divinity preparing
for the Ministry on May Is, 1911.
Third.-Persons already in the armed
forces of the United States.
Fourth.-Alien enemies and all other
aliens who have not taken out their first
papers.
Fifth.-County and municipal officers.
SiXth.-Custom house clerks.
Seventh.-Persons employed in transmits
sion of United States mails.
Eighth.-Workmen in armories gun fac
tories, arsenals and navy yards Of the
United States.
Enthusiastically pilots
Tenth.-Mariners actually employed In
the sea service of the United States or of
any citizen or merchant within the United
States.
Glasses of Dependents.
Eleventh.-The following classes who
are the sole support of dependent rela .
tives:
(a) ANY married man whose wife or child
Is dependent upon him.
o. Any son of 81 widow dependent upon
him.
(c) Son of aged or infirm parent or par
ents dependent upon him.
(d) Father of a motherless child or chill
dren under sixteen years Of age dependent
upon him.
(e) Brother of a child or children under
sixteen years of age who has or have
neither father nor mother and lis or are
dependent upon him.
Twelfth.-Members of we'll recognized
religious sects organized or existing May
Is, 1917, whose creed forbids its members to
participate i'm war.
Thirteenth.-Moral deficients. CThis class
includes criminals.)
Every citizen not member of these
definitely enumerated classes must if
drafted appear before the exemption
boards. If he has a claim for eXemp-
ton he must present it accompanied
by affidavits supporting his statements.
The board will then determine his
status.
The rules for the operation OF the
draft will provide. it is understood, for
an immediate physical examination. If
the conscript is found to be untitled
physically for armed service his case
will he settled. and in this way the
exemption boards will be saved an inn
mense amount of labor.
Million In First Draft.
1t was stated that million persons
would be drawn in the first draft
Each man drafted is to be given
number by the local boards. The num-
bers in serial progression will be for
warded to Washington. One million
such numbers viii be drawn from the
jury wheel in the office of the provost
marshal general. Army officials want
62J.000 men from the first draft. If it
is found that a million names are in
sufficient TO secure the required num-
Der when the physical examinations
and exemptions have been made the
government will keep on drawing until
the 625,000 are secured. The second
draft. if developments make one neces-
sary. win be made from the residue.
The men sifted out as eligible for
military service will be required to
present themselves for service on Sept.
| and will be sent Immediately to con-
centration camps for training.