Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-24
REORGANIZATION
FOR ACCEPTED MEN
Those Who Claim Doctors
Missed Defects Regarded
as Slackers
USELESS TO FILE APPEAL
Boards Getting Together for
Uniform Rules Before An
nouncing Any Exemptions

Philadeiphians who are trying to escap'
army service on the ground that they hav'
physical defects which examining physi
clans Of local draft boards failed to dis
cover will find It useless to file exemption
appeals with District Appeal Board NO
according to DIR. Charles ii. Willits' secre
tary Of that organization.
MANY men are appearing at the board
headquarters" said Doctor Willis TO-DAY
Z s'and making every endeavor to win ex'
emptions. They claim that physicians rep
tesenting local draft boards were not care
ful In their examinations and that they are
entitled to exemptions. We regard such
men as slackers and will not grant their
appeals
when Il appears that a gross injustice
has been done we will consider clalm
on this ground and refer the applicant BACK
TO his local board for re-exanination' such
action has not been necessary. for ma
1orIty OF the men who have nled such
claims are trumping up the claims FOR the
express purpose Of sweeping service III the
new army"
Samuel s. Fels. of Appeal Board No. !,
conferred with Chairman Walter WIZARD
Of Appeal Board No. 9, today and for more
than an hour the two draft officials dis
cussed the exemption rules governing mar
Yied men.
SEEK RULE ON MARRIED MEN
They admitted that the lack OF definite
rules concerning married men Is proVlns
to be a stumbling block, but expressed the
belief that the boards will reach decision
in regard to the status of married men be-
fore Monday.
Until this phase of the draft Is deter
mined neither board will hand down exemp-
tions. for 1t is the purpose or the boards
to work in harmony and avoid the en-
barrassment of making conflicting decisions
More than one hundred men appeared In
the Federal Building today and filed exemp-
tion claims. A majority Of the claims
were based upon dependency
To determine the exemption claims Of
more than 10000 workers in muniton
plants and other industrial establishments
engaged in war work the appeal boards VIII
engage industrial experts
WILL CALL IN EXPERTS
Although the draft officials feel that
they can rely upon information given them
by officials of the corporations afected,
they realize that all of the claims cannot
be granted and In their endeavor to treat
the industries fairly in connection with the
exemption of skilled workers the ADVICE OF
experts will be relied upon
These experts will advise the boards In
regard to the number of men required to
operate certain departments In the big In
dustrial plants and also determine upon
the workers who can be spared for the
army.
The experts will be particularly valuable
in determining the claims of big cor
porations where hundreds of exemptions are
involved over $500 claims are to be filed
by workers in the plants of the Baldwin
Locomotive Works, but as all of these men
cannot be spared from the draft 1t will
require the advice of experts to guide the
draft official in their selection of the men
who Are to remain at their lathes and
benches.
. District Appeal Board. No. ., will have
more than 10000 Industrial claims to con-
slider, according to estimates made today
by members Of the board.