The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-14
EXEMPTION NOT
TO Be EASY FOR
DRAFTED MEN
Poor Sight and Under Weight
Will Not Excuse
PENALTY FOR EVADERS
vii Be Registered II They Desire But
Must Answer to Grand Jury For
Falling on June 5.

Washington, June 13.-A recapitt
ulation of the registration figures
which had been received tonight from
thirty-eight states, the District of Co
lumbia, and the National Parks show
ed total enrolment of 7,i73,692 men
of military age, or 92.2 per cent. of
the census estimate. Exemption indi-
Gated totaled 4,064,67S. An estimate
made for the ten missing states put
the fipal registration figure at 1896
39S.
It was said officially that this figure
was accepted by the government as a
working basis for the task ahead of
selecting the men who will make up
the first army of 100000.
The total registration may be even
better than the above figures. Several
states included have few scattering
precincts or districts missing without
corresponding allowance in the census
estimate. The figures are also sub
ject to a final checking over at the
Provost Marshal Generals office, and
1t is thought that corrections probably
will bring the final total higher.
The states not included in the totals
are Arizona, Kentucky, Massachusetts,
Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New
Jersey, New Mexico, Pennsylvania,
and Wyoming
Attorney General Gregory today out
lined the attitude of the department
of justice in dealing with men who
had not registered He said:
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omitted through ignorance or inattens
ton persons are now being permitted
to register under paragraph 40 of
the registration regulations before the
county boards, and those so register
ing are held TO answer before the
grand juries on their own recogniz-
ance Those who have knowingly and
willfully failed to register and now ap-
ply are being registered, but placed
under bond with securities. All those
who continue to defy the law and such
as have interfered with its enforce
ment or aided in its evasion are being
imprisoned or held to the grand juries
on very substantial bonds
One estimate made tonight was that
about so per cent. of the available con-
scripts for the national army would be
rejected owing to physical disabilities.
Ordinarily the regular army would re-
ject an applicant who failed to weigh
two pounds to the inch up To five feet
six inches, and seven pounds for every
inch above that height. The inspec-
tion for the national army will not be
so rigorous, and in many other ways
causes for rejection will be modified.
1t was considered certain at the
war department today, however, that
persons suffering from tuberculosis
will not be accepted In large part
the spread of tuberculosis through the
French army was attributed to the ac-
ceptance of persons with the disease.
II is regarded as dangerous to accept
persons with only incipient or quies-
cent tuberculosis on account of the
severity of conditions under which
they will work at the front.
Men who wear glasses will be ac-
cepted, and life in the open is expected
to relieve them of their eye troubles,
making possible in thousands of cases
the discarding of glasses altogether.
Bad teeth can be corrected, so that
they will not serve to exempt a man
from service.