Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-08-09


cases where the district boards are
authorized so to do. such boards will
request information from members of
local boards, county attorneys, and
all persns acquainted with the facts,
in respect to all marriages that may
assist the boards in passing upon
claims for exemption or discharge.
This will be done in order that claims
for exemption may not be granted
in any case where the fact that claim
ant has been held for military serv-
ice will not be in the opinion of the
board result in direct, substantial and
material loss to an agricultural or
industrial enterprise.
Rule 4. A claim for discharge be-
cause the claimant is engaged in an
agricultural or industrial enterprise
of the character specified in the act
of congress, will not be regarded as
sufficiently established to exempt the
claimant unless there is evidence
which satisfies the board that if the
claimant should be withdrawn from
such enterprise, it would result in
the discontinuance of, or serious in
terruption of the enterprise. In case
the claimant is a farmer, mere
statement that his labor is necessary
to such agricultural enterprise will
not be enough; facts must be pre-
scented in the affidavit which prove
that if claimant is withdrawn from
such service at the probable future
summons TO the army. that the farm
ing operations in which he is engaged
cannot adequately be carried on by
any person who may be found to take
his place. The fact conditions which
indicate that this result will ensue,
must be shown with such particular
ity and in such detail as satisfies the
board that the conditions claimed in
fact exist; and ii will not be enough
to present sworn statements of mere
opinion of fact.
Exhibit 3D.
Copy of Western Union Telegram
From E. H. Crowder Provost Mar
shall General, Washington ID. G.
To Gov. w. L. Harding. Des
Moines, Iowa. Dated. August 8.
No. 2670. Reference ruling E,
compiled ruling No. concerning de-
tendency on the grounds of mar
riage.
Please call attention of local boards
to the facts that soldiers pay is
not less than $50 per month and that
all clothing, subsistence, medical
treatment and housing are furnished
20 him. Under the law, he may al
lot any portion of his pay to a de-
pendent. Many soldiers receiving $50
per month are easily able to allot S25
a month to the support of dependents.
In case of death of line of duty. the
government will pay to the benefi-
ciary designated by the soldier six
months pay. Section 4 of the selec-
| tive service act provides that those
| in a status with respect to persons
| dependent upon them for support
which renders their exclusion or dis
charge 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 provision and such boards
may well take the fact decided above
into consideration in deciding claims
for discharge due to dependency with
view to determining whether. as a
matter of fact the person claiming
| such discharge will not be in as good
or better position to support his de-
pendents after his selection for mill
tary service as he was before. If
such is the case, of course, discharge
should not be granted.
(Signed) CROWDER.
Exhibit &C."
(Western Union Telegram.)
Dated August End, 1917.
From Provost Marshal General E.
H. Crowder. Washington, d. C.
To w. L. Harding, Governor of
Iowa, Des Moines. Iowa.
No. 1855. Reference ruling Cd"
compiled rulings No. 3, concerning
marriages.
The selective service law does not
| require discharges in all cases of
technical legal dependency a dis
| charge is advisable. Local boards
may well hold that marriage hastily
consummated recently and especially
one consummated by person after
he has been called to present himself
| for examination to determine his fit
ness for military service. does not
create a status of dependency in
which ii is advisable to grant a dis
charge. 1t is to be expected that local
boards will exercise this full discre-
tion in cases where they are con-
WINGED that INSCRIPTIONS persons
have thus violated the principles of
I the selective service law in hope of
escaping a duty that is rightfully
theirs and of passing that duty to
someone else.
(Signed) CROWDER.