The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-09
WILL MOBILIZE.
100000 MEN OF.
new DRAFT ARMY
ON SEPTEMBER |.
Each State Will Be Called
On For One-third
Of Quota
WILL BE SENT AT
ONCE TO CAMPS
Will Bring Strength of the
United States Army to
100000 Men

Washington, Aug. s.->More than
100000 men Of the selective draft
forces will be called to the colors
Sept. /, to go Immediately to their
divisional training cantonments. This
will bring the strength of the Unit
ed States army on that date up to
practically 100000 men.
Brigadier General Crowder, provost
marshal general dispatched the fol-
lowing telegram to the governors OF
the state yesterday cautioning them
to make certain that the first one
third. of their quota of the first incre-
Inent of registered men is ready in
time:
New regulations governing
mobilization and the certification of
men from district boards to adult
ants general will be mailed you on
Aug. 9. In the meantime, local
boards should certify to district
boards daily those who have been
called and who have not been
exempted or discharged either be-
cause they failed to file any claim
or because their claim has been
decided adversely.
viii Call One Third. .s.
Strict compliance with this rule
!
department will call for not to ex-
ceed one-third of the quota from
each state to be entrained for
mobilization camps between Sept.
and Sept. S. Unless we wish to be
put in position of not furnishing
men as fast as the war department
is ready to receive them each state
should have accumulated by Sept. 1,
a minimum of third of its quota
not exempted or discharged. This
can only be obtained If local boards
certify these lists up with great
expedition"
The message was, followed up by
g. new ruling regarding exemption
because Of dependents which is ex-
pectBd TO decrease considerably the
Toss -ef men from the military sery-
ice for this reason. Boards are
authorized hereafter to deny exemp-
tions to married men whose wives
are solely dependent upon them but
where the parents or other relatives
of either wife or husband are willing
to assume the burden Of her support
during his absence. The same course
is to be followed where any drafted
mans employers agree To continue
his salary as a patriotic duty.
A third supplemental ruling pro-
vides that where a man has support
ed his dependents by his own labor
on land which he owns and the
boards find that the land could be
rented to advantage so as to con-
tinue the support for the wife
derived from the rental, exemption
for the man may be denied,
Telegram to Governors.
The telegram to the governors fol-
Under presidential regulations the
term dependent for support has
given rise to several further uues-
tions of principle affecting large
number Of persons. The general
basis for ruling upon such questions
should be the spirit and purpose OF
the act in providing for such dis
charge, whenever the terms of the
act and of the regulations are not in
themselves conclusive. The act
authorizes the president to discharge
wherever the parties drafted are in
q status with respect to persons de-
pendent upon them for support
which renders their exclusion or dis
charge advisable.
such dependency ordinarily
renders discharge advisable since
the drafted person loses his civil
income and thus loses his means OF
support, the wife is left without
the effect which the act aims IT,
avoid. But wherever such eftecr
does not follow in fact, and the wife
Is not left without reasonably ade-
q.lt e support. but will receive such
support from othef sources there Is
no real dependency rendering dis
charge advisable.
Cases Affected.
'sThe following classes of cases are
within this ruling;
"A-Wife and children.
"1-Where the parents or other
relatives of the wife of the husband
are able, ready and willing to pro-
vide adequate support for her (and
children, If any) during the absence
of the husband.
"2-Where the wife owns lands |
which has produced income by the
husbands labor, but which could /
with reasonable certainty be rented /
during his absence to other persons
so as to produce an adequate sup
port. II
s'SAWhere there exists some ar
rangement by which the salary or
wage of the husband is continued in
whole or In part by third persons,
being employers or insurers or 9TH
ers, and such portion of the salary
or wage, either alone or with an
allotment of his soldiers pay or with
other definite income will furnish
reasonable adequate support.
''B-Other dependents.
''1-Where in one of the foregoing
ways a reasonable adequate support
is provided for widowed mother,
infirm parents or orphan child under
16 years. or a son, brother or father
called into service
May Reopen Cases.
.'Under presidential regulations
providing that any certifcate or dis
charge may be withdrawn, modified,
or renewed by the local board. the
board is authorized to reopen any
claim Of exemption already passed
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