The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-08-30
ENTIRE DEPENDENCY BASIS
NOT TO FORCE MARRIED WOMEN
TO MAKE LIVING.
Five Per Cent. First Increment Of
Drafted White Men Called to
Colors September.5.


rect suggestion of President Wilson,
Provost Marshal General Crowder
telegraphed to all governors tonight
supplemental explanation of regula-
tions governing the status of married
men under the selective draft law.
No change is made, and the purpose
of the new statement is to clear mis-
understanding which have arisen in
what General Crowder describes as "a
few instances
In letter to Secretary Baker,
President Wilson states his opinion
that the regulation requiring local
boards to establish 1.-The fact of de-
pendents in addition to the fact of
marriage ought not to be abrogated."
This leaves the regulations as they
are and the supplementary statement
is designed merely to make the appli-
cation of the rules uniform among all
boards
While the statement regarding
married men was in preparation, or
ders were issued changing entirely
the mobilization arrangements pre-
viously made. Congestion Of rail
traffic and the necessity of making
better provision for the reception of
the men at the cantonments dictated
the changes.
Ordered Out in Batches.
Under the new orders 5 per cent.
of the white men, preferably those
with military experience, from each
local area, will be started to the
camps September 5 instead of 80 per
cent. They will go in five daily de-
tachments of equal size and from
skeleton company organizations.
The next 40, per cent. will go for
ward September 19 when the second
80 per cent. originally was scheduled
to go; a second 40 per cent. will go
forward October 3 instead of the
third 80 per cent, and the remaining
Is per cent. will be called up as soon
thereafter as practicable.
Local boards are directed to disre-
gard order of liability numbers to
some extent in selecting the first 5
per cent. as men experienced, such
as cooks and former soldiers, are de-
sired. Warning is given, however,
against getting into this levy by rea-
son of his experience any man who
might not. otherwise have been in
cluded in the first increment of the
district at all.
Following is the text or the mes
sage sent to the governors dealing
with the status of married men, pre-
pared at conference late today be-
tween Secretary Baker and Gen.
Crowder.
Message to Governors.
"A feeling has been expressed that,
in passing on claims for discharge on
the ground of dependents, local
boards ought, in no case, to refuse
discharge to a married man or to the
head of a family. The law under
which local boards act requires that,
dependency as we'll as relationship,
must be established. The matter hav-
ing been presented to the President,
the following are his orders thereon:
"'We ought as far as practicable
to raise this new National Army with
out creating the hardships necessarl-
ly entailed when the head of fami-
ly is taken, and 1 hope that for the
most part those accepted on the first
call will be found to be men who had
not yet assumed such relations.
1.-THE selective service law makes
the fact of dependents, rather than
the fact of marriage, the basis for
exemption duQ LuelS dlO uhoOoD'S"
ly many cases within the age limits
fixed by law of men who are married
and yet whose accumulation or other
economic surroundings are such that
no dependence of the wife exists in
fact. Plainly the law does not con-
template exemption for this class OF
men.
Not to be Abrogated.
"'The regulation promulgated on
June 4, 1917, should be regarded as
controlling in these cases, and the
orders issued under that regulation
directing exemption boards to estab-
lish the facts of dependents in addi-
tion to the fact of marriage, ought
not to be abrogated.'
THE attention of the office has
been invited to the fact that in few
instances local boards have certified
to district boards as held for military
service men whose families are &C