The Holt County sentinel., 1917-07-20
IF YOU ARE DRAFTED.
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mails.
4. That YOU are an artificer Of
workman employed in an armory. ar.
senal or navy yard of the United
States.
5. That YOU are employed in the
service Of the United States lunder
certain conditions); see paragraph
(E) Of section 90. regulations.
6. That YOU are a licensed pilot
regularly employed in the sea ser.
vice Of any citizen or merchant with.
in the United States.
.. That you are mariner actu.
ally employed in the pursuit Of your
vocation.
8. That you are married man with
n wife or child dependent on you FOL
support;
0. That you have widowed mother
dependent on your labor for support
10. That you have aged or infirm
parents dependent upon your labor
for support.
II. That you are the father OF a
motherless child, under sixteen, de.
pendent upon your labor for support
IL. That you are brother of any
or children, under sixteen. dependent
child or children. under sixteen, de.
pendent on your labor for support.
IL. That YOU are member Of any
well-recognized religious sect or or.
ganization organized and existent
May Is, 1917, and whose then exist.
ing creed or principles forbade it,
members 10 participate in war in any
form and whose religious convictions
are against war or participation
therein in accordance with the creed
or principles Of said religious organ
ization.
These are the only grounds for ex.
emption or discharge by a local board.
Another person can file a claim in
your behalf. but must use different
forms in filing the claim.
Efforts TO tampcr with draft boards
will resul, in immediate arrests.
Hard and fast lines are being
drawn by the army authorities 90 cut
down IN" number oi exemptions under
the draft and 90 permit no man 10 o..
cape military service until his right
60 exemption shall have been cstab'
lished hy ind.spuiablc proof.
The burden of proof will be upon
the man who pleads exemption. In
every case in which exemption Is
granted 10y local boards the govern.
men, will take an appeal, and the
man who. because Of n Dependent, wife
or mother or because he IL needed in
industry. has been let off by the low,
board. will have 20 prove that \.
should not be drafted anyway.
In these regulations. winch have
just been decided upon b. the off.
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eminent will reserve the w.ll-eslab.
lished rule Of law which holds man
10 be innocent until his guilt l. prov.
ell.
II will say TO every man who plead.
exemption: "foI'l have 10 prove
you should not b. cent TO war"
This arrangement will take from
NIL local boards the discretionary
power II was supposed they would be
permitted 10 exercise in passing upor
those who appear before them In re.
Spouse 20 the draft.
Decisions made By these Local
boards in response 90 influential pres.
sure or fearful pleading will be W.
tefly disrcgardcd by the government
Every such decision will be appeal.
ed by the government 90 the distric,
boards. the government thus appear.
ing in the role Of the prosecutor "a
exact full military service unless there
may b. cause appearing why this
should not be done.
And when these cases are brought
before the district boards upon the
governments appeal all proof will be
submitted by affidavit.
The personal equation will be NJ.
terly eliminated, None Of the men
whose cases are TO hang in the bal.
ance will be permitted 20 appear be.
fore these district boards. Only the
cold and color.oss words upon paper
90 send him home 20 his family whose
dependence and support he claims 20
be, or TO dispatch him 20 the training
camps and then on 20 the trenches.
The announcement Of these changes
In the regulations for the draft will
cause nsternation and perhaps grief
20 thousands Of regis,rants through
out the country who had pinned their
faith upon being able 10 make q good
showing for exemption before the To-
cal board.
These men, and there are many Of
them, had been led TO believe that
the word OF the local board would be
final SO far as exemption was con-
cerned, and they had Eel, themselves
safe with the men 10 whom they were
80 well known, the sheriff, county
clerk and county physician Of their
own county. All such hopes are vain
according 70 the draft rules, and dis
trict boards remote from the commu-
nifty in which the registrants are
drawn will solely and sternly pass on
all questions rs 10 whether or not
any man who pleads exemption can
be spared form the army.