The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-26

III WHOLE, IOT support.
Rule III. The term children"
where used without qualification,
shall be taken to include an unborn
child, and. except as provided in sec
ton (a) of rule VIII, shall be taken
to import only children (the Issue OF
the registranD and step-children and
legally adopted children. 1t shall be
taken to import boys under l6 and
girls under Is years of age.
Relatives Residing Abroad.
Rule ~. The dependency of rela-
tives residing abroad who are not
citizens Of the United States or who
have not declared their intention to
become such shall not be considered
as a ground for deferred classified
ton
Rule V. On May IS, 1917, every
person subject to registration had
notice of his obligation to render
military service to his country. The
purpose of the selective service law
was not to suspend the institution
of marriage among registrants, but
boards should scrutiniZe marriages
since May 18, 1917. and especially
those hastily effected since that time,
to determine whether the marriage
relation was entered into with pri-
mary view of evading military serv-
ice, and unless such is found not to
be the case, boards are hereby author
lied to disregard the relationship so
established as condition Of depend
ency requiring deferred classified.
ton under these regulations.
Glass I. Dependency.
Rule vi. In class 1 shall be plac.
ed
(a) Any reglstrant who has neither
wife, nCr child, nor aged, infirm, or
invalid parents or grandparents, nor
brother under sixteen years of age.
nor sister under eighteen years of
age, nor helpless brother or sister Of
whatever age mainly dependent on
his labor for support.
F! tb) Any married registrant, with
or without children, and any father
of motherless children, where the
wife or children are not mainly de-
pendent on his labor for support for
the reason that the registrant has
habitually failed to support them for
sufficient time to justify finding
Of the board that he has been max
| ing no bona fide attempt TO support
them in the past and can not be re-
! lied upon to do so in the future-this
regardless of support recently rend-
cred or rendered for the purpose OF
evading military service.
! (c) Any married registrant, with or
| without children whose wife and chill
| dren (lf any are not mainly depend
| ent upon his labor for support for
the reason that such wife and chill
dren Gf any receive no substantial
proportion of their support from the
! fruit of his labor but where, on the
contrary, such registrant is mainly
! dependent for his own suDpoir on
the income (including earnings) OF
/ his wife.
g. (d) Any married registrant, with OF
/ without children, who is not engaged
in any useful occupation, and whose
wife and children Gf any are not
mainly dependent on his labor for
support for the reason that his in
come or the income OF his wife, or
both, is amply sufficient to support
! his wife and children, and that the
removal Of the registrant will not de-
prive such wife and children OF rea-
sonably adequate support.
Class 2, Dependency.
| Rule VII In class shall be plaC.
| (a) Any registrant with both wife
and children or any father of mother
| less children, where such wife and
children or such motherless children
are not mainly dependent upon his
! labor for support for the reason that
there are other reasonably certain
sources of adequate support (exclud-
| ing earnings or possible earnings
from the labor of the wife) available
h, Of
trant will not deprive such depend
ents of reasonably adequate support.
CO. Any married registrant, with
out children, whose wife, although
the registrant is engaged in a useful
occupation, is not mainly dependent
upon his labor for support, for the
reason that the wife is skilled in
some special class Of work which
she is physically able to perform and
in which she is employed, or in which
there is an immediate opening for
her under conditions that will en-
able her to support herself decently
without suffering or hardship.
Class 8, Dependency.
Rule VIII. In class 3 shall be Dlac-
ed
(a) Any registrant who has chill
spect of whom he has in good faith
assumed the relation Of parent, and
has fulfilled the obligations Of such
relation, when such children are
mainly dependent upon his labor for
support
(b) Any registrant who has aged
and infirm or invalid parents or
grandparents mainly dependent on
his labor for support.
Co ANY registrant who has help
less brother or sister, regardless Of
age, mainly dependent on his labor
for support
Class d. Dependency.
Rule TX. In class 5 shall be plac-
ed
(a) Any married registrant whose
wife or children are mainly depend
ent on his labor for support.