Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-07-03
PRESIDENT NAMES
EXEMPTION RULES
Affidavits Must Accompany
All Claims of Being Immune
From Military Service.
SELECTION PLAN UNKNOWN
Lottery System Indicated by
Instructions to Give Each
Man Serial Number.

WAsA NGTON. July 2.-Prepara-
tlon for mobilization OF the first con-
tingent of $4,000 troops OF the new
national army advanced another step
today when President Wilson promul
gated regulations governing exemp-
tons from military service.
Local and appeal exemption boards
already have been appointed and Is.
suance Of the regulations will per-
mit them to organize Immediately and
prepare for concluding phases of get
ting the men under training for duty
in France.
Selection Plans Still Guarded.
In the order in which they must
come there are three steps in organl-
2oton of the national army prescribed
by congress: registration, selection
and exemption. The first has been
carried thru and approximately ten
million men. II to 81 years old, have
been registered. The regulations is
sued today cover exemption. but in
formation concerning selection is still
lacking and officials are guarding
closely the method on W ich 1t Is to
he applied. Exemption boards VIII be
af ised when the selection machinery
/, finished the names of the men
whose fitness and desrability for
army service the boards are TO Judge.
The war department Is progressing
with the difficult task of finding OF
ficers for the force. Part OF these
will come from the 16 Officers train
irg camps The first ten thousand OF
thu forty thousand men at the camps
VIII be selected for commissions In the
first Increment OF the new army. That
Is less than half tho number of Off
GERS necessary.
In statement accompanying rae
announcement Of the regulations the
president called upon the board cf di-
rertors to do their work fearIes7ly
ard impartially and to remember that
"our armies at the front will be
strengthened and sustained If thev b.
composcd Of men free from any sense
Of Injustice In their mode of selec-
ton
Lists to BE Published.
Upon organizing. the local boards
viii take over from the registration
boards all registration cards which
they will number serially and list
for posting to public view. Then
after having been advised of the
method by which the quota to be
drawn from its territory (minus
credits for cnlistments in the ma
tional guard or in regular army
each board will prepare list OF
persons designated for service in the
order OF their liability, post the list,
give IL TO the press and within three
days send to each designated per-
sons AS the men so notified ap-
pear the boards first will make "A
physical examination in accordance
with special regulations to be pro-
yidcd, bearing in mind that all per-
sens accepted by them will be re-
examined by army surgeons. II the
physica. examination is passed sue
cessfully then comes the question Of
exemption.
VINO Are Exempt.
Persons who must be exempted or
discharged by the local board in
include officers of the United States
of the states. territories and the dis
trict of Columbia: ministers of re-
ligion, students of divinity. persons
I'm the military or naval service Of
the United States. subjects of Ger
many, all other aliens who have not
taken out first papers. county or
municipal officers. customhouse
clerks; workmen in federal armories.
arsenals and navy yards, persons in
the federal service designated by the
president for exemption. pilots. mer-
chant marine sailors. those with a
status with respect to dependents
which renders their exclusion desir-
able Ga married man with pend
ent wife OR child. son OF dependent
widow, sou of dependent, aged or in
firm parents. brother of dependent
or orphan child under 116 years of
nge); those found morally deficient
and any member of any well recog-
nlzed religious sect existing May 1S.
1917. whose creed forbids partici-
patton in war and whose religious
convictions accord with the creed.
Affidayits Necessary.
Claims for exemption because of
dependents may be made by the maj
himself. his wife or other dependents
or by third party who has person.
ally Investigated the case. a claim
madc by the husband must be accom-
parted by. supporting affidayits signed
by the wifc ard by the head of a fam
lily residing In the same territory y
claim by the wife-or third party
must be accompanied by two support
Ing aftidav.,s signed by heads of fam
lilies. Similar. rules govern claims on
the grounds pf other dependents when
the dependents or third parties being
authorized TO file claims with sup
porting afiidavits. In each case the
board must be satisfied before 1t
grants exemption or discharge that
the dependent or dependents actually
are supported mainly hy the fruits of
the mans mental or physical labor.
Local boards are required. subject to
appeal to pass upon claims for ex-
emption or discharge within three
days after the filing Of affidavits.
District boards must decide appeal
case within five days after the closing
y .tals NAl