Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-13

Inc sumter Exemption Board will
be compelled to be much more drastic
IN passing upon exemption claims. un-
der the latest instructions received
from Provost Marshal General Crow
der The question of dependency is
taken up in detail in the new rulings
ard in view of the announcement. il
appears that in order to secure exe-
emption on the ground of dependents.
| tie applicant must prove to the salts
faction of the board that his depend
ents will be left totally without ade-
quate means of support in the event
CT his being drafted into the national
army.
In other words, the ruling makes ii
plain that where a wife, children or
other dependents can be supported by
relatives other than the applicant for
exemption, no discharge is to be grant
ed. Where the wifes parents are able
to support her in the absence of the
husband, the exemption board is re-
quired to refuse exemption under the
latest instructions.
The rulings just received by the
Sumter Exemption Board covering this
phase of the matter are as follows
Number 1885. Under Presidential
regulations, Section 30, Paragraph Fl,
the term Dependent for support" has
given rise to several further questions
of principle affecting large numbers OF
persons. The general basis for ruling
upon such questions should be the
slirit and purpose of the act in provid-
ing for such discharge, wherever the
terms Of the act and of the regulations
ere not in themselves conclusive. The
act authorizes the president to dis
charge wherever the parties drafted
are In status with respect to per-
sens dependent upon them for support
which renders their exslusion of dis
crarge advisable" Such dependency
ordinarily renders discharge advisable.
because since the drafted person loses
his civil income and thus loses his
means of support, the wife is left with
cut support, and this lack of support
is the effect which the act aims to
avoid But wherever such effect does
not in fact follow, and the wife is
rot without reasonably adequate sup
port, but viii receive such support
from other sources, there is no real
dependency rendering discharge ad
yisable. The following classes Of cases
are within this ruling:
A Wife and Children:
/. Where the parents or other rela-
tives of the wife or the husband are
able, ready and willing to provide reas-
onably adequate support for her (and
children, if any during the absence
of the husband.
2 Where the wife owns land which
has produced income by the husbands
labor, but which could with reasonable
certainty be rented, during his ab-
sence, to other persons so as to pro-
duce an adequate support.
3. Where there exists some ar
rangement by which the salary or
wage of the husband is continued, in
whole or in part, by third persons, be-
ing employers or insurers, or others.
and such portion of the salary or wage.
either alone or with an allotment Of
his soldiers pay or with other definite
income, will furnish a reasonably ade-
quate support.
B. Other Dependents:
l. l. Where in one of the foregoing
ways a reasonably adequate support is
provided for widowed mother, in
firm parents, or orphan child under
sixteen years (as enumerated in Sec
ton 20, Paragraph H, 2. 8, and 81 OF
son, brother or father called into ser
vice. Under Presidential regulations.
Section %, Page 2, providing that
amy certificate of discharge may be
withdrawn, modified or renewed by the
local board" the board is authorized
to reopen any claim of exemption al
ready passed upon and still awaiting
disposition on appeal to the district
board, for the purpose of receiving
any affidavits or making other inqui-
sries relative to dependency as defined
in the present rulings. and the local
board shall transmit to the district
! board such afidavits and its own min
ute thereon for consideration on APP
/, peal
The foregoing rulings are ealculat-
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