The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-07-06
PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES
RULES FOR EXEMPTION
President Wilson Issues Regulations for
SeIediOn of Americas New Army
Will Mobilize Sept, tst.


the mobilization of the first contingent
OF 625, 900 troops of the new national
army advanced another step today
when President Wilson promulgated
the regulations to govern exemptions
from military service.
Local and appeal exemption boards
already have been appointed, and the
issuance Of the regulations will permit
them to organize Immediately and pre-
pare for the concluding phases of the
task OF getting men under training for
duty in France.
Upon organizing the local boards
will take over from the registration
boards all registration cards which they
will number serially and list for posting
to public view. Then after having
been advised of the method by which
the order OF liability for service shall be
determined and of the quota to be
drawn from its territory (minus credits
for enlistments in the national guard or
regular army each hoard will prepare
list OF persons designated for service
in the order OF their liability, post the
list, give it to the press and within
three days send notice to each
designated person by mail.
PhsicaI Examination First.
AS the men so notified appear, the
boards first will make a physical ex-
animation in accordance with special
regulations to be provided, bearing III
mind all persons accepted by them
will be reexamined by army surgeons.
II the physical examination is passed
successfully then comes the question
OF exemption.
Persons who must be exempted or
discharged by the local board include:
Officers OF the United States, OF the
states, territories and the District of
Columbia, ministers of religion, stu
dents Of divinity, persons in the mill
tary or naval service of the United
States; subjects Of Germany, all other
aliens who have not taken out first
papers, county or municipal officers,
custom house clerks, workmen in fed
eral armories, arsenals and navy yards,
persons in the federal service designa-
ted by the president for exemption,
pilots ,Smerchant marine sailors. those
with a status with respect to depend
ents which renders their exclusion de-
sirable a married man with dependent
wife or child, son Of dependent
widow, son Of dependent, aged or in
firm parent, or brother of dependent
orphan child under 16 years OF age),
those found morally deficient and any
member Of any well recognized relig-
ious sect existing May 18, 1917,
whose creed forbids participation in war
and whose religious convictions accord
with the creed.
Rules for Exemption.
Claims for exemption because of
dependents may be made by the man
himself, his wife or other dependents
or BY third party who has personally
investigated the case. A claim made
bv the husband must be accompanied
by supporting afidaVits signed blythe
wife and By the head OF family resid-
ing in the same territory. A claim by
a wife or a third party must be
accompanied by two supporting affl-
davits signed by heads OF families.
Similar rules govern claims on the
grounds Of other dependents when the
dependents or third parties being au-
thorized to file claims with supporting
affidavits. In each case the board
must be satisfied before it grants ex-
emption or discharge that the depend
ent or dependents actually are support
ed mainly by the fruits Of the mans
mental or physical labor.
Local boards are required, subject
10 appeal, to pass upon claims for ex-
emptiOn or discharge within three days
after the fling OF afidavits.
District boards must decide appeal
cases within FIVE days after the closing
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