Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-19
JAIL AWAITS MEN
Who IGNORE DRAFT
Attorney General Directs
Agents to Round Up Those
Failing to Answer Call.
WAIVE RIGHTS BY SILENCE

Determined efforts are to be made by
the government to bring to trial all
men whose numbers We're called and
who failed to report for examination
or service in the National Army. In
structions governing the handling of
such cases last night We're sent TO
United States district attorneys and
agents OF the Department of Justice
by Attorney General Gregory.
Provost Marshal General Crowder has
ruled that persons who neglect TO ap-
pear for examination will be accepted
automatically and that the privilege of
claiming exemption then will be denied
1t was to help carry this policy into
effect that the Attorney General acted
His instructions follow:
1T has been determined by the pro-
vost marshal general that persons who
fail to appear for their physical eN-
animation after having received their
notices to do so from the local boards
by such failure waive their right to
physical examination and are accepted
by the board without any such exam
nation Their names will be certified
to the district boards as chosen by the
local boards for the National Army.
Will Be Treated As Deserters.
IF they do not then appear to claim
exemptions they will waive thereby the
right to such exemptions as they might
have claimed, and their names VIII be
certified by the district boards to the
adjutant general of their respective
states as persons for the National
Army. The adjutant general viii then
mail them notice to report Tor outF
at a specified time and place. and such
notices will he given publicity accord
ing to the regulations of the conscrip-
ton act.
such persons then became subject
to the military authorities at the time
designated by the adjutant general for
them to report. Should they fan to
comply with this notice they become
deserters from the Army and will be
treated such by the military autnor-
tiles
at is therefore a matter of vital
concern, not SO much to the govern
ment as to the persons themselves. TO
see that they give the correct address
for their notices to be mailed 10 them
Should they fail to comply with these
notices after receiving them. they be-
come automatically drafted without
regard to physical examination or To
exemption or discharge
..Where persons are known 10 he will
| fully refusing to comply with the requests
of the local boards and are so conducting
| themselves as TO be a menace to the proper
| enforcement of the CONSUMPTION act ano
| their whereabouts are known. they should
1 llFI
violations of section of the conscr7pior
act until the time when they are ordered
| hy the adiutant general to report for duty
! in the National Army. They should a.
| that date be turned over to the military
/ authorities No prosecution need be had
| as il will be unnecessarily expensive anc
! little is to be gained therefrom
! As to Married Men.
| Renewed discussion of the status oil
married men under the selective serv-
| ice law has been aroused by publication
of President Wilson's letter TO Senator
Weeks dealing with this and other sub
jects. In many quarters the PRESIDENT
statement that he had no doubt Senator
Weeks point to. the exemption OF
married men was well taken was inter
preted as an indication that he APP
proved exemption of any man of family
who had not married merely to escape
military duty.
The President has full power to direc'
that the regulations governing selec-
ton be amended to this effect. A pro-
posal specifically to exempt all married
men was made when the bill was in the
Senate, an amendment to that effect by
Senator Smith of Georgia being lost by
a wide margin. This fact. together with
the regulations later promulgated by
the President. making exemption pos
sible only in case of actual dependency
are taken as indications that no general
exemption for married men as class
will he given