Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1917-07-07
DRAFT SERVICE
RULES ISSUED
Boards AdmoniShed to Impartial
and Fearless Service.
SLACKERS' ROAD IS HARD
Exemption Procedure Is MinuteIy Set
Forth and Claimants Must Prove
Their Cases or Servo.

Forth and Claimants Rust Prove
Their Cases or Servo.
Regulations to govern tho next step
toward selecting a national army from
the millions registered for service on
June s, were issued at tho direction
Of President Wilson.
The data for tho actual selection of
the men to serve has not been an
nounced. The president will prescribe
In future regulations tho time, manner
and method of choosing the men for
the national army.
The regulations set forth In great
detail the method Of arriving at ex-
emptions and tho work generally Of
the local and district boards already
named to carry out the task.
Exemption regulations add little to
the terms of the selective service law,
the question OF whether a man be-
tween the ages Of twenty-one and thir-
ty inclusive is entitled to exemption
because OF dependents, the nature OF
his occupation or physical unfltness
being for the boards to decide after
proper investigation.
It is made very clear that there are
to be no class exemptions and that
each individual case must be decided
upon It's merits. The local boards
one for each county Of less than $4,000
population or city Of thirty thousand
with additional boards where neccs-
sary for each additional thirty thou
sand population-will pass upon claims
for exemption except those based upon
industrial or agricultural occupation,
subject to appeal to the district boards.
All cases involving agricultural or
Industrial exemptions will be passed
upon by the district boards-one for
each federal judicial district-which
also will decide appeals from decisions
OF the local boards,
Tn the near future n date will he
set by Brigadicr General Crowler, pro-
vost marshal general, for the meeting
and organization OF the boards. At
the same time 1t Is expected that the
election regulations will be promul-
lated, so that the process may be put
under way without delay. The present
intention Is to call the men selected
to the colors about September or as
soon thereafter as the environments TO
house them can be completed.
In statement accompanying the an
nouncemcnt OF tho regulations, the
president called upon the boards to
do their work fearlessly and impartl-
ally and to remember that "our armies
at the front will be strengthened and
sustained II they he composed of men
free from any sense Of injustice in
their mode Of selections"
The main features OF the selection
regulations are rs follows
Local boards will post lists of men
selected, furnish lists to press and no.
tify each designated person by mail.
All persons summoned will be given
a physical examination (all passing to
be later re.eXamined by army sur
geons).
Local boards pass on exemptions in
these classes: Officers Of the United
States, the states and territories and
District of Columbia ministers OF re-
ligion, students OF divinity, persons In
the military or naval service OF the
United States, subjects Of Germany,
all other aliens without first papers,
country or municipal officers, custom
house clerks, wOrkmen In federal ar
mories, arsenals and navy yards. per
sons in the federal service designated
by the president for exemptions, pilots,
merchant marine sailors, those with a
status with respect to dependents
which renders their exclusion desir-
able, those morally deficient, members
of anti-war religious sects existing on
May IS, 1917.
Dependents furnishing ground for
claim are wife or child, a widowed
mother, an aged or inarm parent, an
orphan brother or sister under siXteon
years or age.
Claims for exemption because of de-
pendents may be made by the man
himself. his wife or other dependents
or by a third party. A husband MAX
ing a claim must produce supporting
.affidavits.
District boards alone pass on agri-
cultural or Industrial exemptions. Tho
claimant nlust show his continuance
I'm the occupation Is necessary to its
maintenance and that he cannot be
replaced without direct loss.
Certificates Of exemption are not
necessarily permanent.