Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-05
MORE DETAILS
OF EXEMPTION
. PLAN RECEIVED
indications are Government i
Tightening Down on Those
Claiming Dependents


Indications that the government Is
beginning TO tighten down on INC
granting OF exemptions to persons
who claim them on account OF wives
or families are becoming more pre-
vaIent, according 20 Francis }. Green
chairman OF the exemption board lot
Hawaii.
Several letters from Brig Gen:
Enoch II. Crowder. provost marshal
general in charge Of the selectiVe
draft, we're received today b! MI
Green. They indicate, according TO
the chairman, that exemptions are 10
be made discretionary 10 a large eX'
tent rather than compulsory.
The term dependent for support
has given rise to several further cues
tions OF principle, affecting large
numbers Of persons" says one OF the
letters.
The general basis for ruling upon
such questions should be the spirit
and purpose OF the act In providing
for such discharge, wherever the
terms Of the act and of the regula'
tfons are not in themselves con-
elusive. The act authorizes the pres
: ident to discharge wherever the par
ties drafted are in a status with re-
spect to persons dependent upon
them for support which renders their
exclusion or discharge advisable.
such dependency ordinarily rem
ders discharge advisable, because
since the drafted person loses his
civil income and thus loses his means
OF support, the wife is left without
support, and this lack OF support IS
the effect which the act aims 10
avoid. But wherever such effect does
not In fact follow, and the wife is not
left without reasonably adequate sup
port, but will receive such support
from other sources, there is no real
dependency rendering discharge so-
yisable.
THE following classes OF cases are
within this ruling:
"(a) Wife and children. Where
the parents or other relatives OF the
wife or the husband are able, ready
and willing to provide adequate sup
port for her land children) during
the absence of the husband. Where
the wife owns LAND which has pro-
duced income by the husbands la
Dor. but which could with reasonable
certainty be rented, during his ao'
sence, TO other persons so as to pro
duce an adequate support. Wnere
there exists some arrangement by
which the salary or wage OF the nus
hand is continued, in whole or IN part,
NV third persons, being employers or
insurers or others, and such por.
bon of the salary or wage, either
alone or with an allotment OF his
soldiers nay or with other definite
income. viii furnish q reasonably ade-
quate support.
"(b)-other dependents. Where In
one OF the foregoing ways q reason
ably adequate support Is provided f0r
: widowed mother, infirm parents, or |
orphan child, under 16 years, OF
son, brother, or father called into
service. {" r..
"The. controlling necessity is to
raise an army" says another letter
received today, at is advisable to
disturb dependents just as little as
the necessity Of raising an army will
permit. II experience is to prove
that the generous conditions pre-
scribed by section Is, or any abuse
Of them. will interfere with the rails
ing OF an army, then 1t is no longer
advisable to discharge SO wide a class
Az the conditions stated therein will
have to 6e restricted until an advis-
able rule ID reached.
"Nothing has happened to change
the belief that the persons enumer-
ated IN section Is could be discharged
without interfering with the raising
Of an army, but there are indications
that abuses of section Is may render
lts continuance no longer advisable.