Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-08-09
CroWder Notifies Governors
That More Than 100000
Must Be in Training at
Earliest Possible Date.
EXEMPTION RULES ARE
MADE MORE STRINGENT
Physicians Are Instructed 10
Exercise Great Care in Avoid
ing Conscription of Persons
With Trachoma.

| Washington. Aug S.-More than
| 100000 men of the selective draft
| forces will be called to the colors on
| September | to go Immediately to
| their divisional training cantonments.
This will bring the strength of the
United States army on that date up
to practically 100000 men.
Brigadier General Crowder, provost
marshal general, dispatched the fol-
lowing telegram to the governors of
the states today, cautioning them to
make certain that the first one-third
of their quotas of the first increment
of the registered men is ready in time:
New regulations governing mobi-
lization and the certification of men
from district boards to adjutants gem
eral will be mailed to you on August
8. In the meantime, local boards
should certify to district boards daily
those who have been called and who
have not been exempted or discharg-
ed, either because they failed to file
any claim or because their claim has
been decided adversely
One-third by september I.
"Strict compliance with this rule is
necessary since on September ! the
war department will call FOR not to
exceed one-third of the quota from
each state, to be entrained for mobili-
cation camps between September ]
and September 5. Unless we wish to
be put in a position of not furnishing
men as fast as the war department isl
of 1
should have accumulated by Septem-
Der ] minimum of one-third of its
quota not exempted or discharged.
This can only be attained If local
boards certify these lists up with
great expedition"
General Crowder also sent this ad-
ditional caution to examining physi-
clans of the local boards:
Careful as to Trachoma.
Surgeon general advises that in
order to prevent the terrible ravages
which results from the introduction
into the army of that dread disease OF
the ewes known as trachoma the lids
of every recruit be everted to insure
the absence of this disease and that
any border line or suspicious cases be
to an ophthalmic surgeon
especially qualified in this line
The messages were followed by
new ruling regarding exemptions be-
cause of dependents, which is expect
ed to decrease considerably the loss OF
men from the military sevice for TINS
Boards are authorized here
after to deny exemptions to married
men whose wives are solely dependent
on them, but where the parents OF
other relatives of either wife or hus-
band are willing to assume the burden
of her support during his absence. the
same course Is to be followed Wnere
any drafted mans employers agree TO
continue his salary as patriotic duty
Ruling as to Dependents.
third supplemental ruling pro-
yides 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-I
port for the wife derived from the
rental, exemption for the man may be
lenied.
The telegram to the governors fol-
ows:
"ITnder presidential regulations the
erm dependent for support mas
yiyen rise to several further questions
If principle affecting large numbers
If persons. /!
.sThe general basis for ruling upon /
,lch questions should be the spirit I
md purpose of the act in providing {
or such discharge wherever the /
erms of the act and of the regulations /
ire not in themselves conclusivei The 6
Ict authorizes the president to dis {
harge wherever the parties drafted
re in a status with respect to per- {
ons dependent upon them for sup I
,ort which renders their exclusion of
discharge advisable G
"such dependency ordinarily rem q
ers discharge advisable, because, t
ince the drafted person loses his civil
ocome and thus loses his means OF q
nnnort. the wife is left without sup y
,ort and this lack Of support is the r
fleet which the act aims to avoid q
INT wherever such effect does not IN s
act follow, and the wife is not left
,ithout reasonable adequate support, r
ut will receive such support from /
ther sources there is no real depend {
ncy rendering discharge advisable. c
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Davis Wins In Virginia.
Richmond, Va, Aug. S.-The nomi- h