The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-08-04


the United States; that you are a
regularly employed licensed pilot;
that you are a mariner actually en-
ployed in the sea service of any citi-
en- or merchant within the United
States.
That you are a marriad man with
wife or child dependent on you for
support; that you have widowed
mother dependent on your labor for
support; that you are father Of a
motherless child under Is dependent
upon you for support; that you are
brother of an orphan child or chill
dren under 16 dependent ,op your la
Dor for support; that you are mem
Der of any welLpeDrganizedi religious
sect or organization. existent May 49,,
1917, and whose then existing creed
forbade it's members, to participate in
war in an y form.
TheseYa are the only ground for ex-
emptio4 or discharge by the local
board. i'Another person can file a
claim in your behalf, but must use
different forms in filing the claim. I
When Exempted.
Every claim for exemption or dis
charge will be decided by the local
board within three days after filing of
affidavits. If your claim is allowed a
certificate of exemption will be issued
to you, but this certificate may be re.
called at any time, it may be temper
airy or conditional, and you may be
recalled when conditions which have
postponed your posting to the colors
cease, 6tthe government may appeal
your ease to the district board, and
your certificate may be withdrawn at
once.
If claim for exemption is disallow-
ed by the local board, the registrant's
name will be certified and sent by the
local board to the district board as
one who has been called for service.
Claim of appeal to the district board
may then be made within ten days
upon a form to be procured from the
district board, and thereafter five
days are allowed for filing proof of
appeal. The decision on appealed
claims must be made by the district
board within five days after proof Is
filed.
Industrial Grounds
Only the district board can receive
claims for discharge on the grounds
that YOU Are employed in industry, in
Guiding Agriculture, found to be neces-
sary to the maintenance of the mill
tary establishment Such claims must
be filed with the district board on or
before the fifth day after the mailing
and posting of notice that you have
been certified by the local board as
one called for service and not exempt
ed or discharged.
The instructions read: Remember
that you have been called for mill
tary service and that the certificate
of the district board (if discharge or
is granted) is only condi-
tional on your remaining in the kind
of Industrial service on account of
which you were discharged. No such
exemption shall continue when a
cause therefore no longer exists"
Appeals to President. ~ :,..-Y
Only decisions of district boards on
industrial claims can be appealed. IL
an appeal is desired to the president
of the United States, it mustibe made
within seven days of the mailing to
the registrant of the decision of the
district board.
How Notified.
AS soon as your case is finally dis
posed of, Adjutant General Fraser
will notify you by mail that you have
been selected for military service.
Your local boards will post list of
all persons selected for military SER
vice, and such lists will be given the
press.
Notice that you have been selected
for military service will not necessar-
lily order you into service.
The notice to report for military
service will come when the govern
ment is ready to receive you.
Soldiers Pay.
"A soldiers pay is not less than
$50 month and all clothing, subsist-
ence, medical treatment and housing
are furnished him. Under the law he
may allot any portion of his pay to
dependent. Many soldiers, receiving
$50 a month are easily able to allot
$25 monthly to the support of depend
ents. In case of death in line of duty
the government will pay to the bene-
ficiary designated by the soldier six
months pay a.. RI.
Section of the selective service act
provides that: CHOSE in a status
with respect to persons dependent
upon them for support which renders
their exclusion or discharge advisable
may be discharged, but it does not
require that they shall be discharged
in all such cases. The discretion of
local boards is invoked by this pro-
vision and such boards may we'll take
the facts recited above into considera-
ton in deciding claims for discharge
due to dependency with view to de-
termining whether, as a matter Of
fact, the person claiming such dis
charge will not be in as good or bet
ter position to support his dependents
after selection for military service
than he was before. If such is the
case, of course. the discharge should
not be granted