Morris tribune., 1917-07-06
Claims for Occupational Exemption
Must Be Determined by District
Boards
LOCAL BOARD IS LIMITED
Considers Only Physical Disability
and Exemptions for Dependent
Relatives

Rules for the determining of draft
exemptions by local and district
boards have been given to the press.
In the near future date will be
set by Brigadier General CroWder,
provost marshal general, for the
meeting and organization of the eX-
emption boards. At the same time
it is expected that the selection reg
ulatiOns will be promulgated, so that
the process may be put under way
without delay. The present inten-
tion is to call the men selected to
the coIors about September 1, or as
soon thereafter as the cantonments
to house them can be completed.
Upon organizing, the local boards
will take over from the registration
boards all registration cards, which
they will number serially and list for
posting, by which the order of liza
bility for service shall be determined
and of the quota to be drawn from
it's territory (minus credits for en-
listments in the national guard or
regular army.) Each board will
prepare a list of persons designated
for service in the order of their liza
bility, post the list, give it to the
press and within three days send
notice to each designated person by
mail.
AS the men so notified appear, the
boards first will make a physical eX-
animation in accordance with special
regulations to be provided, bearing
in mind that all persons accepted by
them will be re-eXamined by army
surgeons. If the physical examina
tion is passed successfully, then
comes the question of exemption.
THOSE EXEMPTED
Persons who must be exempted or
discharged by the local board in
cIude:
Officers Of the United States, of
the States, territories and the Dis
trict of Columbia, ministers of reli-
gion, students of divinity, persons in
the military or naval service of the
United States, subjects of Germany,
all other aliens who have not taken
out first papers, county or munich
pal officers, custom house clerks,
WOrkmen in Federal armories, arsen-
ais and navy yards, persons in the
Federal service designated by the
President for exemption, pilots, mer-
chant marine sailors, those with a
status with respect to dependents
which renders their exclusion desir-
able, married man with dependent
wife or child, son of a dependent
widow, son of dependent, aged or
infrm parent, or brother of depend
ent orphan child, under 16 years of
age, those found morally deficient
and any member of any we'll organ
lied religious sect existing May 18,
1917, whose creed forbids partici-
patton in war and whose religious
convictions accord with the creed.
MODE OF MAKING CLAIMS
Claims for exemption because of
dependents may be made by the man
himself, his wife or other depend
ents, or by a third party who per-
sOnally has investigated the case. A
claim made by the husband must be
accompanied by supporting affidavits
signed by the wife and by the head
of family residing in the same ter
ritOry. A claim by the wife or
third party must be accompanied by
two supporting afidavits signed by
heads of families.
Similar rules govern claims on the
grounds Of other dependents. When
the dependents or third parties file
claims with supporting afidavits,
the board must be satisfied before it
grants exemption or discharge that
the dependents actually are support
ed mainly by the fruits of the mans
mental or physical labor.
Local boards are required, subject
to appeal, to pass upon claims for
exemption or discharge within three
days after the filing Of aff1davits.
FINAL APPEALS
Districts boards must decide appeal
cases within five days after the clos
ing of proofs and their decisions are
final. If the ruling of a local board
is affirmed the person in question
stands finally accepted for military
service.
In passing on claims for exemption
on the grounds of employment in
necessary industrial and agricultural
occupations the district boards must
be convinced that the particular en-
terDriSe affOrding such emplOvment