The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-07-05
SET IN MOTION
DRAFT SYSTEM
PRESIDENT WILSON ISSUES PRO.
cLAMATIoN OF REGULATIONS
ONLY A FEW CLASSES EXEMPT
Every Action Of Board Hedged With
Double Safeguard and There Will
Be No Unfairness. System
is Open 10 Public Gaze.

BY Web Miller, United Press Cores.
pondent, Washington, July 2.--Presi-
ldent Wilson today created and set in
to motion the gigantic machinery of
the draft system of the United States.
BY proclamation of regulations the
4 President started the huge labor of
the singing out the manhood of the
natio. S."r the American army.
The /, Ems fix the general class
es of men free from military SER
vice, sets up the exemption board that
, Sits out the men and defines their
duty.
Only few small classes of men will
be exempt from bearing the arms of
the nation.
All of those that are not exempted
must appear before the tribunal, and
upon the hearings of evidences they
will be discharged or drafted into the
army which ever the case might be.
| Every section of the board is hedged
with double safeguard and there will
be no unfairness. The draft system is
open to the public gaze.
The skeleton of the human lottery
that fixes the draft is shown in the
rules. The exact method of the lottery
is left for another lottery proclama-
ton.
Within few weeks the draft rules
will be drafted in to the first levy.
Upon proof of the status the follow
! ing classes will be exempted
Men that are employed in industrial
duty necessary to the maintenance of
the nations interest.
Men with wives, parents; brothers,
sisters or children that are solely de.
pendent upon them for support.
Members of well organized religious
sex whose creeds forbid them bearing
the arms of the nation.
Students of divinity and well author
lied ministers.
Legislative, judicial and executive
officials 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 out first
citizenship papers and subjects of Ger
many.
Workmen in the armories, arsenals
and navy yards of the United States
and engaged in the transmission Of the
United States mails.
Pilots and mariners in the national
marines of the United States.
Criminals convicted of felonies and
men who are deficient.
The most vital power-that of de-
Gliding which men are indispensable
and the necessary industrial-is plac-
| ing them on the war department
board One or more of the board is
created for each district in the coun-
TRY.
The entire burden of proof for ex-
emption is put upon the claimant.
Appeals from ruling are provided for
in each registration.
AS outlined in the rules the follow
ing are the steps leading up to the or
dering of the men into the camps.
A local exemption board of three
members for approximately each 3d.
900 of the population is set up. In
many of the cases they are the regis
tration board.
Another higher board for each fed
eral judicial district is formed. They
are composed of FIVE men and they are
known as the appellate board. On day
to be named later the lower board
will meet and organize. The registra-
ton cards will be secured from the
registration board and then they will
cease to exist. The cards are num-
bered from one up and the name of
the man and his location is specified
on each card. The names for the draft
will then be drawn and given to the
publication. And at the same time
COPY will be sent to Washington. The
actual drawing for the draft will take
place in Washington. Every emmber
drawn will effect all of the men of
that number in each precinct of the
nation. These numbers will then again
appear for publication and the men
called by the draft will be notified by
mail.
Next will be summoning for physi-
cal examination. One member of each
registration board is physician. And
the examination will be made in the
presence of another board member.