Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-07-13
DRAFT SERVICE
RULES ISSUED
Boards Adn0nished TO Impartial
and Fearless Service.
SLACKERS' ROAD IS HARD
Exemption Procedure Is Minutely Set
Forth and Claimants Must Prove
Their Cases or Serve.

Their Cases or Serve.
Regulations to govern the next step
toward selecting a national army from
the millions registered for service on
June 5, were issued at the direction
of President Wilson.
The data for the actual selection oil
the men to serve has not been an
nounced. The president will prescribe
in future regulations the time, manner
and method of choosing the men for
the national army.
The regulations set forth in great
detail the method Of arriving at ex'
emptions and the work generally oil
the local and district boards already
named to carry out the task.
Exemption regulations add little to
the terms of the selective service law,
the question of whether a man be-
tween the ages Of twenty-one and thir-
ty inclusive is entitled to exemption
because of dependents, the nature OF
his occupation or physical unfitness
being for the boards to decide after
proper investigation.
It is made very clear that there are
to be no cloSs exemptions and that
each individual case must be decided
upon its merits. The local boards
one for each county Of less than $4,000
population or city Of thirty thousand
with additional boards where neces'
o1 Tty
sand population-wiE pass upon claims
for exemption except those based upon
industrial or agricultural occupation,
subject to appeal to the district boards
All cases involving agricultural or
industrial exemptions will be passed
upon by the district boards-one for
each federal judicial district-which
also will decide appeals from decisions
of the loca! boards.
In the near future date will be
set by Rrigad;er General CTowder, pro-
vost marshal general, for the meeting
and organization of the boards. AT
the same time it is expected TIA the
selection regulations will be promu!-
gated, 50 that 'he process may be put
under way without delay. The present
intention is to call the men selected
to the colo"s about September l or as
soon thereafter as the cantcnments to
house them can be completed.
In statement accompanying the an
nouncement Of the regulations, the
president called upon the boards to
do their wo"l1 fear!essly and impart
ally and to remember that "our armies
at the front will be strengthened and
sustained II they be composed of men
free from any sense of injustice In
their mode CT selections"
The main features vi the selection
regulations are as follows:
Local boards will post lists of men
selected. furnish lists to press and no
tify each designated person By MIL.
Al! persons summoned will be given
a physical examination (all passing to
be later re-examined by army sur
geons).
Local boards pass on exemptions IN
these classes: Officers Of the United
States, the states and terri cries :nd
District Of Columbia, ministers of re-
ligion, students of divinity, persons IN
the military or naval service Of the
United Sta'es, subjects of Germany,
all other aliens without first papers,
country or municipal officers, custom
house clerks, workmen il federal ar
mories, arsenals and navy yards, per
sons in til. fe;eral service DESIGNATED
by he president for exemptions, pilots,
merchant maiae sailors, those with
st"trs wish respect to dependents
which renders their exclusion desir-
able. those morally deficient, members
of .anti-war religious sects existing on
May IS, 1917.
Dependents furnishing ground for
claim are a wife or child, widowed
mother. an aged or infirm parent, an
ornhan brother or sister under sixteen
years or age.
Claims for exemption because Of de-
pendents may be made by the man
himself. his wife or other dependents
or by a third marty. A husband MAX
ing claim MIST produce supporting
affidaVi:s.
District bocrds alone pass on agri'
cultural or Industrial exemptions. The
claimant must show his continuance
in the occupation is necessary to its
maintenance and that he cannot be
replaced without direct loss.
Certificates of exemption are not
necessarily permanent.