The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18
FILL ARMY FAST.
Shawnee County Board Is AL
lowing Few Exemptions.
Only Four Out of Seventeen
Escape Service Today.
MnhAEN nIrLn rnn uIIcpANnc
PLEAD FOR HUSBANDS
They Tell All Private Affairs To
Keep Bread PrOvider.
One Man Exempted Because of
Religious Scruples.

Claims for exemption from army
service because of dependent families
are having hard shedding before the
Shawnee county exemption board.
Seventeen applicants were examined
by Robert Carver before the board to-
day and only four managed to get by
the board. Four were exempted and
thirteen were accepted for service.
To date forty-two applicants for eX-
enlption have been examined by the
board and only nine have been
exempted. The other thirty three
have been accepted and certified for
service.
The mere matter of having wife
and child or a wife and children. if
there are relatives able to provide for
them. is having no bearing upon the
action of the local board. Half a dozen
men with a wife and children each
have been accepted for service in the
two days the board has been at work.
Below is the new list of those ac-
cepted for service and those exempted
because of dependent families:
Exemptions Denied.
Edward Brenneman. II Redden. wife.
Russell Clark; Rt. n. wakarusa. dependent
Clarence Glidwell. Valencia. dependent
mother and father.
Ira KirwOod. Rt. 10. ElmOnt. wife.
Emmett McEnroe. Silver Lake, wife.
Homer McGrath, 800 Winfield. wife and
Leland Paramore. ri. -. Topeka, wife.
John Katrina. ROssville. dependent parents.
Alfred Hodge. ri. >, North Topeka. wife.
Harry Long. Auburn. wife and child.
George Clark. zoos w FIRST. wife and child.
William Moore, Auburn. wife.
Louis Monroe Slater, Bt. -. Topeka. de
pendent family.
bee Martin Brown. Rt, ;, North Topeka.
dependent family.
Lloyd Wingrove. Rossville, dependent fam
lily.
Benjamin Rush SPOTS. Rt 3. Topeka. de
pendent family.
Lacy S Dexter Berryton. dependent fam
lily.
William Edwin Smith. Silver Lake. depend
Fred Franklin Kingsley. Rt. .. Topeka, dc
isivin L. joss, wakaruss. dependent fam
lily.
Those Exempted.
Theodore Hanson 1fi Ohio. wife aud child.
Emmett McEnroe. Silver Lake. wife and
William Rhyme. Rt o. wife aud child.
Fred Enochs, Rt. g. North Topeka. wife
John NJ. Voss valencia. family.
Forest Clayton Hummer Bt. 10. Elmont,
family.
Elmer William Forbes, Rt. Topeka, wife
Everett Guy Henderson. 11G5 High street,
family.
Clnrence Miller Mcpherson. Rossville. fam
Clarence = Clark ut 1. Topeka. family.
Men Do Not Weep.
The call for men for the army is
bringing out a lot. Of intimate family
history. Wives, in their efforts to
save theit husbands from service, are
telling the exemption board lot of
things they would not tell their neigh
bors. They are telling of their finan-
cial standing, of their physical con-
dition and of all sorts of things that
prevent them from going home to
father and mother during the period
of the war. Many tears are shed be-
fore the board. which conducts its
hearing in private. but they are all
shed by women. Not a man who has
been called before the board has shed
tear, according to a member of the
board.
The women are not permitted to
go in when there is an examination
on, but they are permitted to enter
later and present arguments for the
release of their husbands or sons
There was consider grumbIing
among waiting men today when it
was learned that the county board
had exempted from service a man
who claimed exemption on the ground
that he is of religious denomina-
ton that does not believe in war Half
a dozen men with families had been
forced to discard their own affairs and
accept service, but the big husky man,
with no one to provide for, escaped
because of his religious belief.
OF course all such cases will be
appealed to the district board and il
is possible that this man along with
others who have been exempted will
De forced to go along with the family
men whose exemption claims have
been rejected