The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-05-17


officers, customhouse clerks, persons
employed by the United States In the
transmission of the mails, artificers
and workmen employed In the
armories, arsenals and navy yards of
the United States, and such other per-
sons employed in the service of the
United States as the president may
designate; pilots, mariners actually
employed in the sea service of any
citizen or merchant within the United
States; persons engaged in industries,
including agriculture, found to he nee
essary TO the maintenance of the
military establishment or the effec-
tive operation of the military forces
or the maintenance of national inter
est during the emergency; those in a
status with respect to persons degend-
ent upon them for support which rem
ders their Exclusion or discharge advis-
able; and those found to be physically
or morally deficient.
mo exemption or exclusion shall
continue when a cause therefor no
longer exists: Provided, that notwith-
standing the exemptions enumerated
herein, each state, territory and the
District of Columbia shall be required
to supply its quota in the proportion
that its population bears to the total
population of the United States"
How Exemptions Are Determined.
The machinery created for determin-
ing of exemptions is thus described by
the bill =
"The president is hereby authorized,
In his discretion, TO create and estab-
.ish throughout the several states and |
thereof and in the terri
tories and the District of Columbia |
ocal boards, and where, in his discre-
lion, practicable and desirable, there |
shall be created and established one
such board in each county or similar
in each state, and one for
each 10000 of popula-
ion in each city of 10000 population
n over, according to the last census
AIKEN or estimates furnished by the
,ureau of census of the department of
commerce. Such boards shall be ap-
Dointed by the president and shall con-
list of three or more members. none
# whom shall be connected with the
military establishment, to be chosen
rom among the local authorities of
UGH subdivisions or from other citi-
ems residing in the subdivision or area
which the respective boards will
ave jurisdiction under the rules and
equations prescribed by the presi-
ent.
Powers of Exemptng Boards.
"Such boards shall have power with
their respective jurisdictions TO
ear and determine, subject to review
hereinafter provided, all questions
exemption under this act, and all
lestions of or claims for including or
lscharging individuals or classes of
ldividualS from the selective draft.
hich shall be made under rules and
equations prescribed by the presi-
ent, except any and every question
claim for including or excluding or
scharging persons or classes of per- |
ms from the selectiye draft under the !
DIVISIONS of this act authorizing the 1
'esident to exclude or discharge from :
e selective draft persons engaged in
dustries, including agriculture, found {
De necessary 20 the maintenance of Il
e military establishment, or the of.
chve operation of the military u
rces. or the maintenance of national Il
terest during the emergency L
Additional Boards Provided. ;,
The president is hereby authorized a
establish additional boards, one in .,
en- federal judicial district of the ~
lifted States, consisting of such mum. =.
OF citizens, not connected with the :,