The Ozark spectator., 1917-07-07
WILSON EXPLAINS
 DRAFT KEMP T|ON
NO GLASS EXCUSED - ENTIRE PROBLEM WILL BE HANDLED
 ON INDUSTRIAL BASIS.
SELECTIONS IN FEW DAYS
Exemption Regulations Add Little Ts Draft law-Question is Whether . Man Is Entitled To Exemption
 Because of Dependents.

Washington.-Reg to govern the next step toward selecting a na- uOnal war army from the millions issued at the direction of President Wilson.
 They leave to be prescribed later the manner of determining the order of liability of the men registered, but set forth in great detail the method of arriving at exemptions and work gen orally of the local and district boards named to carry out the task.
 Exemption regulations add little to the terms of the draft law, the Ques- ,tion of whether a man between the ages of q and 31 is entitled to exemp ton because of dependents, the na. ture of his occupation or physical un- fitness being for the boards to decide after proper investigation.
 It is made very clear. however. that there are to be no class exemptions and that each individual case must be decided upon its merits.
 All cases involving agricultural or indsurtial exemptions will be passed upon by the district boards-one for each federal judicial district-which also will decide appeals from deci- sions of the local boards.
 The present intention is to call those selected to the colors about Septem. Der 1 or as soon thereafter as the cantonments to house them can be completed
 In a statement accompanying the announcement of the regulation, the president called upon the board of di- rectors to do their work fearlessly and impartially and to remember that "our armies at the front will be strengthened and sustained if they be composed of men free from any sense of injustice in their mode of selec- tion."
 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 quota to be drawn from it's territory (minus credit for enlistments in the National Guard or in Regular Army) each board will prepare list of persons designated for service in the order of their liability, post the lise, give it to the press and within three days send to each designated person by mail.
 Persons Exempt
 Officers of the United States, of the States, Territories and the Dis trict of Columbia: ministers of re- ligion, students of divinity, persons In the military or naval service of the United States. subjects of Ger many, all other aliens who have not taken out first papers. county or mu nicipal officers, custom house clerks, workmen in Federal armories, arsen- als and navy yards. persons in the Federal service designed by the presi- dent for exemption. pilots. merchant marine sailors, those with the status with respect to dependents which rem ders their exclusion desirable Ca mar ried man with dependent wife or child. son of a dependent widow. son of dependent aged or infirm parent or brother of dependent orphan child un- der 16 years of age): those found morally deficient and any member of any well recognized religious sect ex. lsting May IS, 1917. whose creed for bids participation in war and whose religious convictions accord with the creed.
 Claims for exemption because of de- pendents may be made by the man himself, his wife or other dependents or by third party who has personal ly investigated the case. A claim made by the husband must be accom- panied by supporting affidavits signed by the wife and by the head of fam fly residing in the same territory.