Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-21
The Summons for Examination.

Inc summons Tor EXAMINATION.
Now the exemption boards will get
20 work, examining the selected regis
trants AZ to their qualifications for mill
tary service. These boards are sifters,
to determine those who are suitable for
duty in the ranks. Approximately the
first third of the list of those drawn in
each exemption division will appear on
the morning of the fifth day following
the mailing of the notices, the next third
on the sixth day and the remaining
registrants on the seventh day, SO that
in one week from the mailing Of the
notices all of the registrants will have
appeared, if obedient to the summons.
Tho first proceeding will be tho physi-
cal examination, unless the registrant
presents an immediate claim for e1emp-
tion which is allowed. It will, Of course,
be idle to examine those who are ex-
cused. The physical examination may
be conducted by the physician Of the
board, who in all the Washington cases
will be member Of the board, or by a
supplementary examiner in case the
registrant is found to be physically de-
1icient.
It is to be borne in mind by all regis
trants that any claim for exemption
they may have made on the day Of reg
istration is not construed as claim for
exemption now. They must make such
. claim formally before the exemption
board. Certain persons are exempted
automatically, officers Of the United
States, and, in this jurisdiction, of the
District of Columbia, by which is meant
any person holding legislative, execu-
tive or judicial Office created by the
Constitution or laws of the United
States. This does not include clerks in
the government departments or in the
municipal service. Those also exempted
include ministers of religion and stu
dents of divinity, persons in the mill
tary or naval service Of the United
States, subjects Of Germany residing in
this country, all other aliens who have
not taken out first papers. These per-
sons are exempted regardless of their
social or industrial status.
In addition to these automatic exemp-
tions other persons may claim and upon
proof that their services are needed
elsewhere secure exemption. These. in
elude persons employed in the United
States mail service, artifcers employed
in the arsenals, armories and navy
yards Of the United States, others en-
ployed in the federal service who may
be designated by the President and
whose services are needed, pilots and
actually employed mariners. Then
comes the final list of "those in q status
with respect to persons dependent upon
them for support which renders their
exclusion or discharge desirable" These
include married men whose wives or
children are dependent upon their labor
FOR support, the son of a widow de-
pendent upon his labor, the son Of aged
or inirm parents dependent upon him,
the father of a motherless child or chill
dren under sixteen dependent upon him,
the brother of dependent child un-
der sixteen, or any person who belongs
to well recognized religious sect or
organization whose creed forbids its
members to participate in war in any
form and whose religious convictions
are against war or participation therein.
In all these cases the burden Of proof
II upon the registrant. Forms are pro-
yided for the presentation and estab.
ishment Of this proof. The exemption
board sits as q court to hear the evil
dence in each case. From this decision
IN appeal may be made to another board.
which in this District has yet to be ap.
pointed.
This roughly is the outline Of the pro-
cedure. Doubtless in a few days all
OF the local registrants of the first draft
will be under summons, and the process
OF filing the Districts quota of e2e men
will be under way. Washington expects
to fill its quota quickly and hopes to
supply it from the first draft of 1858
names.