Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

200. .0OO men of the select1ve dra4 forces vii be called to the colors Scl tember 1 to go in1me ediately to thai divisional training cantonmentS. TRl will bring the strength of the Unite States army on that date up to virtu. ally 100000 men.
 Telegram Sent to Governors.
 Brigadier General Crowder, provost marshal general, despatched the fo. lowing telegram to the governors ct the states today caution!ng them tc make certain that the first one thir. of their quota of the first increment of registered men is ready on time:
 New regulations governing mobili- zation and the certiHcation of me: from district boards to .adjutants-ge1- eral will be mailed to you on Auguse 9. In the meantime, local boards should certigy to district boards daily those who have been called and who have not been exempted or discharged either because they failed to file any claim or because their claim has been decided adversely.
 One third From Each State.
 Strict compliance with this rule is necessary, since on September 1 the war department will call for not to eX- ceed one-third of the quota from each state to be entrained for mobilization camps between September 1 and Sep tember ,. Unless we wish to be put in a position Of not furnishing me II as fast as the war department Is ready to receive them, each state should have accumulated by September 1 minimum Of one-third of it's quota not exempted or discharged. This can only be attained if local boards certi- fly these lists up with great eXpedi- Iion."
 General Crowder also sent this ad- ditional caution to examining physi- clans of the local boards:
 Caution to Physicians.
 Surgeon General advises that in order to prevent the terrible ravages which result from the introduction in to the army of that dread disease of the eyes known trachoma, the lids of every recruit be everted to insure the absence of this disease and that any border line or suspicious cases be referred to an opthalmic surgeon es- pecially qualified in this line"
 The messages were followed up by a new ruling regarding exemptions be- cause of dependents which Is expect ed to decrease considerably the loss of men from the military service for this reason. Boards are authorized hereafter to deny exemptions to mar ried men whose wives are solely de- pendent upon them but where the parents or other relatives of either wife or husband are wiling to ssl- sume the burden of her support dur ing his absence. The same course Is to be followed where any drafted
 
 salary as a patriotic duty.
 4 third supplemental ruling pro- vides that where a man has supported his dependents by his own labor on land which he owns and the boards find that the land could be rented to advantage SO as to continue the sup port for the wife derived from the rental, exemption for the man may be denied.
 Telegram Sent to Governors.
 The telegram to the governors fol- lows:
 Under presidential regulations. the term dependent for support has given rise to several further questions of principle effecting large numbers of persons.
 The general basis for ruling upon such questions should be the spirit and purpose of the act in providing for such discharge, wherever the terms of the act and of the regua- tions are not in themselves conclusion. The act authorizes the president to ed are fin a status with respect to persons dependent upon them for sup port which renders their exclusion or discharge advisable.'
 Such dependency ordinarily rem ders discharge advisable. because since the drafted person loses his civil l income and thus loses his means of | support the wife is left without sup | port, ana InlS ldck OI support IS lHe { effect which the act aims to avoid. | But wherever such effect does not in | fact follow, and the wife is not left | without reasonably adequate support, | but will receive such support from | other sources, there is no real depend | ency rendering discharge advisable.
 Classes of Dependents.
 ''The following classes of cases are | within this ruling:
 "A-Wife and children.
 "1-Where the parents or other rel | atiVeS of the wife or husband are able, | -eady and willing to provide adequate l for her (and children, if any) | turing the absence of the husband.
 "2-Where the wife owns land which | 1as produced income by the husbands | abor, but which could with reasonable | certainty be rented, during his ab- | ;ence to other persons so as to pro- | luce an adequate support. "3-Where there exists some ar by which the salary or | wage of the husband is continued, in | whole or part by third persons, being | employers or insurers or others, and | such portion of the salary or wage, either alone or with an allotment of | lis soldiers pay, or with other definite Income, will furnish a reasonably ade- | Iuate support.
 "B-Other dependents.
 '1-Wherein one of the foregoing ways reasonably adequate suprs-t | S provided for a widowed mother, in l firm parents or orphan child under Is | vears, of son, brother or father call | d into service. Under presidential regulations pro-