The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-09
.DRAF TED MEN
To Be CALLED
SEPTEMBER |
One Third Will Enter Service
at First Call
FROM EACH DISTRICT
New Plan Announced BY Gen. Crow.
der For the Mobilization of the
New National Army.

Washington. Aug. 9-More than
100000 men of the selective draft
forces will be called to the oolors
September to so Immediately to
their divisional training cantonments.
This will bring the strength of the
United States army on that date up
to virtually 100000 men. Brig-Gen.
Crowder, provost marshal-general at
Washington, dispatched the following
telegram to the governors of the
states yesterday cautioning them to
make certain that the first one-third
of their quota of the first increment
of registered men is ready in time.
New regulations governing mo-
bilization and the certiication Of men
from district boards to adjutants-gen-
eral will be mailed to you on August
9. In the meantime local boards
should certify to district boards
daily those who have been called and
who have not been exempted or dis
charged either because they failed to
file any claim or because their claim
has been decided adversely.
Strict compliance with this rule is
necessary, since on September / the
war department will call for not to ex
ceed one-third of the quota from each
state to be entrained for mobilization
camps between September and
September 3. 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 Septem.
Der minimum OF one-third OF its
quota not exempted or discharged.
This can only be attained if local
boards certify these lists up with
great expedition.
Gen Crowder also sent this addi-
tional caution to examining physi-
clans of the local boards; Surgeon.
general advises that in order to pre-
vent the terrible ravages which result
| from the introduction into the army
| Of that dread disease OF eyes known
| as trachoma, the lids of every recruit
| be everted to insure the absence OF
this disease and that any border line
| or suspicious cases be referred to an
opthalmic surgeon especially quail
fed in this line"
| The messages we're followed by a
new ruling regarding exemptions be
cause of dependents which is expect
ed to decrease considerably the loss
of men from the military service for
this reason. Boards are authorized
hereafter to deny exemptions to mar
ried men whose wives are solely de
pendent upon them but where the paI
ents or other relatives of either wife
or husband oaro willing TO assume the
burden of ihor support during his alb
sence. The same course is to be fol
lowed where any drafted mans em
ployers agree to continue his salary
as patriotic duty.
A third supplemental ruling pro
yides that where man has supported
his dependents by his own labor OF
land which he owns and the board,
find that the land could be rented tt
advantage so as to continue the sup
port for the wife derived from tn,
rental, exemption for the man may b,
denied.
| The telegram to the governors fol
lows: Under presidential regula
tions the term dependent for support
has given rise to several further que
tions of principle affecting large nun
bers of persons. The general basi
for ruling upon such questions shoul
he the spirit and purpose of the ac
in providing for such discharge
wherever the terms of the act and O
the regulations are not in themselve
conclusive The act authorizes tn
| president TO discharge wherever tn
parties drafted are "in a status wit
respect to persons dependent upo
, them for support which renders thel
, expulsion or discharge advisable
Such dependence ordinarily rel
dcrs discharge advisable. bocans
since the drafted person loses hi
civil income and thus loses his mean
, of support, the wife is left withoi
b | support, and this lack of support
| the effect which the act aims TO avol
s But wherever such effect does not
fact follow, and the wife is not lie
\ without reasonably adequate suppor
but will receive such support fro
other sources. there is no real d
pendency rendering discharge advi
able.