Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-12-15
DRAFT RULES MADE PLAIN
BY PRESIDENT WILSON
Consumption Evasion Made Difficult Under Orders of the
President Local Boards Must Pass Exemption
Applications Within Three Days After They Are
Made-Judical and Church Folk Exempted.

son today created and set into motion
the gigantic machinery of the draft.
BY proclamation of regulations the
president started the huge labor of
singing out the manhood of the nation
for Americas armies.
The regulations fix the general
classes of men free from military ser
vice, set up the exemption boards that
sift out the men and define their
duties.
Only IL very small group of classes
Of men are exempt from bearing arms.
All others must appear, before the tri-
bunals. Upon hearing of evidence, they
VIII be discharged or drafted into the
army as the case may be. Every ac-
ton of the boards is hedged with
double safeguards against unfarness
and wide open to the public gaze.
The skeleton of human lottery that
fixes upon the men is constructed in
the rules. The exact method of the
lottery is left for IL later proclamation.
Within a few weeks the draft will be
made. In military quarters 1t is stated
that one million men will be drawn in
the first levy.
Upon proof of their status the fol-
lowing classes are exempt:
Men Indispensable to Industries that
are necessary to the maintenance OF
the military establishment or the ma
tional interest
Men with wives, children, parents,
brothers or sisters dependent solely
upon them for support.
Members of well recognized religious
sects whose creeds forbid bearing
arms, students of divinity and ordained
ministers.
Legislative, judicial and executive
officers of the United States or the
states of the union.
Men in the army or navy of the
United States.
Aliens who have not taken hrst clti-
zenship papers, and citizens OF Ger
many.
Workmen in the armories, arsenals
and navy yards of the United States
and men engaged in the transmission
of the United States mails.
Pilots and marines in. the merchant
marine of the United States.
Criminals convicted of felonies ana
the morally denclent.
Vital Power Placed in Hands of Dis
trict Boards.
The most vital power-tha of de-
Gliding which men are indispensable
and the necessary industries-is placed
in the hands of the district boards
one or more board is created for each
federal district in the country.
The entire burden of proof for ex-
emntion is nut upon the claimant
ApDeal from the rulings of the tri-
hunais is provided for in the regula-
tions.
AS outlined in the rules, the follow
ing are in the steps leading up to the
ordering of the men into camp:
A local exemption board of three
members for approximately each 30, 900
of population is set up. Most of these
| tribunals are already formed. In
many cnses they are the registration
| hoords.
Other higher boards for each federal
iudieinl district are formed They are
composed of five men of the highest
standing, and known as district or APP
| nellnte boards. ANY member of either
| hoard may be removed by the presi-
dent
on day TO be set, the lower boards
meet and organize. The registration
cnrds are secured from the registration
| boards which then cease to exist. The
| c.rds nre numbered serially from one
| M and the names and numbers posted
| in n public place and given to the press
for publication. At the same time Il
| copy is sent TO Washington
When every card is numbered and
posted in every precinct in the nation.