Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-09-05
|Adintant General Instructs Local Boards To Send
 Single Men Only.
RESTRICT BOARD TO REOPEN CASES
otest Rulings of Provost Marshal General Indicate That Only Men Will Be Accepted For Service Who Have No Dependents.

That married men generally will b. kiven exemptions from service in the hew National army, is indicated in thu following telegram received yesterday by the two local boards here, from Lloyd England, adjutant general O. Arkansas:
 DO not send to training camp any {mai whose claim for discharge ac. Eount of dependency was appealed kll cases are to be re-opened and re- Considered by district boards in con- lection with addition all rulings re- eived from provost marshal general Ind it is expected that any men here ofore held will be discharged. If |ecessary to fill your quota you will roceed at once to call more men for Examination; immediate action inn erative in order to have forty per lent ready on September nineteenth nd October third"
 Ruling Is Important.
 The ruling is perhaps the most im- ortant yet handed down in connec- lon with the organization of the new fational army, inasmuch as it affects greater number of men likely to be rawn than has any other of the bany rulings from the office of the rovost marshal general at Washing n.
 The Graphic last week printed an Fucle in which the matter was dis issed, at some length, Provost Mar bal Generals CroWder's rulings in lch cases. and a letter from Presi- ent Wilson himself on the subject, eing quoted, At that time, it was pdEated that married men would not given discharges from service, in Pses where relatives of themselves
 their wives were in position to are for the wives.
 The latest ruling, however, goes pore specifically into the matter, be- Rg to the effect that the parents or her relatives not only must be will g to care for the dependent wives, u must voluntarily. offer to do so.
 IS generally admitted that there will
 very few cases where relatives of ther wife or husband will voluntar- Y offer to support the wife while husband is serving in the army, ehce the belief that this latest rul- wl.l result in the discharge of rtaaliy every married man from the atlonal army.
 Local Boards Plan Anew.
 AS a result of the receipt of the legfam from Adjutant General Eng ho' the two local boards have all aay began to plan anew, to pro- ue the quotas from this city and panty for the new army.
 lhe city board finds that because the new order of things, it has only men able and qualified to serve, stead Of the 169 needed. Forty ad- tlohal men, called several days ago, gre gwen partial examination yes iaay' and it is likely 15O or 200 u,e men from the registration list lll De formally called. tomorrow for amlhatlon by the board, that the uota might be filled at the earliest pssible moment.
 "lln the county board, conditions a Dlt different, and although noth- uei,nlte has yet been given out, is Deheved it will not be necessary issue another call. The board cer- os ,sa considerable number of men '", e nan. were needed under it's 4o.a, o ana because of this big margin, ,1ay De able to send it's quota with
 county board will meet Thurs S.+ afternoon, ,1 to definitely decide 'Ir ;n n VIII be necessary for it to
 !" 'he new circumstances.