Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-08-28
FIVE PER CENT OF
NATIONAL ARMY TO
REPORT ON SEPT. 5

certified to district boards as held
for military service, men whose
families are actually dependent
upon them for support on the the
DRY that the wife is able to work
and should be put to the necessity
of going to work to support her
self and children. This situation
is addressed in the following opin-
ion of the district board of New
York City i'm which opinion this
Office concurs, with the understand
ing that the phrase support avail
able from relative" is support par
tial or total previously extended to
the applicant himself.
SHOULD NOT FORCE WIFE TO
WORK.
We do not concur i'm the view
suggested in some quarters that in
case of wife and children actually
dependent on applicants labor sup
port, and where there are no other
means of support. the wife should
be put to the necessity of going to
work to support herself and chill
dren. Bonafide dependency OF
wife and children on labor of ap-
plicant where in his absence they
will be left without reasonably
adequate support, after duly taking
into consideration soldiers wage
and support available from rela-
tives, as stated in the rulings of
the provost marshal general, is
ground of discharge.
This opinion clearly and ade-
quately expresses the intent of the
law in this regard.
Paragraph B, compiled rulings of
state of affairs where the parents
or other relatives of the wife or
husband are able, ready and willing
adequately to Support the wife and
children, If any, during the absence
of the husband. This ruling was
responsive to a class of cases that
had been brought to the attention
of this office where claims of dis
charge had been made on the
ground of dependency on a husband
who, as a matter of fact, was not
dependent upon himself. The rul-
ing directed the attention OF local
boards to the fact that scrutiny of
this kind might disclose that no
discharge was available.
II was not intended that para
graph B of the compiled rulings
of a family whose family, at the
time Of his summons and prior
thereto, were and had been mainly
dependent upon his labor for sup
port.
Instances in which local boards
have been in error in respect to
these two classes of cases are rare.
1t was to be expected that with
some $500 local boards there would
be some uniformity of decision In
this regard. To provide against
this ununiformity, section 81 of
the regulations provides for the
automatic appeal of all dependency
cases to the district boards. Dis
trict boards should scan the deci-
sions of local boards on questions
of dependency and wherever 1T APP
pears that such decisions are Illegal
Gas in the two cases just mentioned
or otherwise) or where these de-
cisions seem-to be so far ununiform
as to result in an Unequal operation
of the law, the district board should
reverse or modify the decision of
the local board.
NEW MOBILIZATION ORDERS.
In his message to governors respect
ng new mODlllZaIlOn OTueTS, GeHeTd
Jrowder said in part:
The congestion of traffic that will
be entailed in the early part of
September by the movement of the
national guard into training camps
makes it inadvisable to attempt to
move any large percentage of the
national army on September 5. For
this reason the war department has
communicated the following sched-
ule of movements of the national
army to the provost marshal gen.
eral: Five per cent of the quota of
each state beginning September 5,
40 per cent beginning September 19.
40 per cent beginning october 5, the
remaining Is per cent as soon
thereafter as practicable.
The object Of calling 3 per cent
is to place in the camps enough
men to form a skeleton organization
to assist in receiving and assimilat-
ing the large contingents. For this
reason it is required that local
boards send only white men, and so
far as practicable that they send
men with some military experience
or cooks. In making this selection
order numbers are not controlling,
out great care must De ldhcl hOI
to send men whose order Of cali is
so late that they will not be within
the quota of boards. The careful
selection of these men will be of
great assistance to the orderly or
ganization of the national army and
it is hoped that local boards will
act with this end in view.
In order that it may not be nee
essary to make any special railway
arrangements and to prevent con-
gestion of normal railway traffic,
local boards should be instructed to
send approximately / per cent OF
their quotas on each of five success
sive days beginning September D.
1t Is thought that every board in
the country will have available at
least per cent of its quota by Sep
TENDER 3, and therefore that 1t will
not be necessary for the adjutant
general of the state to call upon any
board for more or less than per
cent.