The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-08-07
Doctors Decline TO Ac-
cept Pay of 81
a Day
TOO MUCH OR TOO
LITTLE" THEY SAY
Percentage of Con-
scripts Who Claim
Exemption Large

Drafting for the new national
army Is going ahead very slowly be
cause the government In its hurry
has not paid enough attention 10
the social amenities Doctors posi-
lively will not work for 81 day.
That is the rate OF pay assigned by
Uncle Sam Physicians say il is
either too much or too little As a
result all tho draft boards are shy
% doctors
Many Detroit doctors would glad
~ volunteer 20 examine drafted men.
but they balk a The s4a.day clause.
n the job were purely honorary.
they say, the nation would have
more volunteer physicians than Il
could use. but since the law has es
tabllshed 81 day as the rate OF
pay the best physicians will have
none ~ II
one noted doctor whose income
is not less than $50 600 year told
a reporter for The Times. Tuesday.
thar he would be- happy 10 donate
his services a. long as the govern.
mont needed nim ana he would 80
it for nothing but he declined 20
give $50 600 worth OF service for
pay AZ the rate ~ $1,000 q year.
As result OF this situation prac-
iically every exemption board in
the city was fairly swamped Tues.
day morning by men eager 10 be
examined and. II must be- said ex-
empted in most cases as quickly as
possible In the Wayne county
building whore the boards for the
first district of Detroit and the sec
ond district Of Wayne county out
side OF Detroit are in session there
was a long line OF applicants ready
before the Offices opened at 9
o'clock In each ofice there were
two physicians and they could not
cope with the crowd n he govern
ment withdrew is offer OF 81 day
II Is said there would be more than
enough physicians on the job to
take care 0f the mon a. last as they
arrived.
As result of this condition less
fDAU ttVUN lllfn 4lfF uf'"AA
according 90 estimates. whereas the
eoveinment expected that by this
time 'ho whole work of performing
physical examinations would have
been Completed and u would be
necessarj only 20 MATT for the OK
empiiun claims ana tho corsidera
zion of them
Provost Marshal General Grow
dar's order 10 exemption boards that
they might accept aliens willing 10
Waiao their claims for exemption
viii help Detroit perhaps more than
almost any other city In the coun-
try incidentally n MAJ open The
way 10 put a few Chinese in the new
national army In Detroit there are
only sir Chinese drafted and in The
entire country not more than few
hundred. The Chinese are not alt
sible 20 citizenship but The native
born arc citizens and are subject 70
the draft !, Is said there are only
two Chinese in Detroit who are ma
,ive horn citizens ~ drafi age.
While lass han cne.ffth II the
estimated number necessary 10 sup
ply Detroit A quota have been exam
ined only one day remains II The
local boards are 20 keep up with the
government schedule. which set
tentatively Wednesday night as the
limit for the physical examinations
or Tho first coll Of\ course this
schedule cannot Doe adhered 20 and
II b. now conceded that it viii re-
uuirc many more calls than was at
hr.t contemplated The government
figured that two cSils for one &c.
ceptsnco would be sufficient II "
nov apparent that tho sQmate was
about -four or five times TOO small.
unless the boards disregard what