Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-05
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OF EXEMPTION
PLAN Received
q indications are Government is
Tightening Down on Those
Claiming Dependents

Indications that the government Is
beginning TO tighten down on ule
granting OF exemptions to persona
who claim them on account oil wives
or families are becoming more pre-
valent, according TO Francis }. Green
chairman Of the exemption BOARD LOT
Hawaii
Several letters from BriG.1ren
Enoch ii. Crowder, provost maFshai
general in charge Of the seIecliNe
draft, were received today b! MI
Green. They indicate. according 70
the chairman. that exemptions are 10
be made discretionary to large eA'
tent rather than compulsory.
The term dependent for support
has given rise to several further cues
tions of principle, affecting large
numbers of persons says one OF Tue
letters.
The general basis for ruling upon
such questions should be the spirit
and purpose OF the act in providing
for such discharge, wherever Ihe
terms OF the act and OF the lesuia-
lions are not in themselves con-
elusive. The act authorizes the pres
ident to discharge wherever the par
ties drafted are in status with re-
spect to persons dependent upon
them for support which renders their
exclusion or discharge advisable.
Such dependency ordinarily rem
ders discharge advisable, because
since the drafted person loses MS
civil income and thus loses his means
OF support, the wife, is left without
sunport. and this lack of support is
the effect which the act aims 10
avoid. But wherever such erect does
not in fact follow, and the wife Is not
left without reasonably adequate sup
port. but will receive such support
from other sources, there is no real
dependency rendering discharge al
yisable.
"The following classes Of cases are
within this ruling:
"ta) Wife and children. Where
the parents or other relatives OF the
wife or the husband are able, ready
and willing to provide adequate sup
mort for her land children) during
the absence of the husband. Where
the wife owns lane which has pro-
duced income by the husbands Ia.
Dor. but which could with reasonable
certainty be rented, during his aD'
sence, to other persons SO as 70 pro
duce an adequate support. Where
there exists some arrangement Dy
which the salary or wage of the hus'
hand is continued, in whole or in part,
Nv third persons, being employers or
Insurers or others, and such por-
ION of the salary or wage, either
alone or with an allotment OF his
soldiers pay or with other definite
income. will furnish reasonably aoe'
Quate support.
"(b)-other dependents. Where in
one OF the foregoing ways reason
ably adequate support is provided for
a widowed mother, infirm parents, OF
orphan child, under is years, of
SON, brother, or father called into
service.
"The controlling necessity is to
raise an army" says another letter
received today, at is advisable to
disturb dependents just as little as
the necessity of raising an army VIII
hermit. II experience Is to prove
that the generous conditions pre-
scribed by section IS, or any abuse
Of them. win interfere with the rails
Inr of an army, then it is no longer
advisable e s1ischarge so wide class
and the conditions stated therein will
nave to be restricted until an adyis-
able rule IL reached,
"Nothing has happened to change
the belief that the persons enumer-
ated IN section Is could be discharged
without interfering with the raising
of an army, but there are indications
that abuses of section Is may render
its continuance no longer advisable"