The Cordova daily times., 1917-08-23
MORE KEMP T|ON BOARDS ARE
 NAMED


 unincorporated towns have been re- commended by Governor Strong in ad- dition to the bodies named few days ago to serve in the incorporated towns:
 Anchorage -AJ. Gl.watts, townsite agent; Charles HerroA business man. and c. c. Benedict, NJ D. Mccarthy - Joseph H. Murray, law yer and mining man; Peter S. Brick sen, game warden; Ernest s. Reedy M. D.
 Ruby = J. J. Filbin, business man; John w. Dunn, lawyer: E. F. Finn, M. D.
 For purposes of the draft the above will be treated the same as incorpor- ated towns, says the announcement from the governors office.
 If there Is any doubt as to whether man is entitled to exemption or dis charge from military service under the draft, that doubt, so far as the personnel of the exemption boards named by Governor Strong is con cerned, can be removed. These ap- pointments call to service on the boards many of the strongest patriotic men of the north These boards will have headquarters in all the principal towns and camps of the territory. They will pass upon ali cases involv- ling exemptions. An appeal can then be taken to tho ats tsfsArksxensption boards. which will be located in the larger towns of the territory. These divisional boards will have direct jurisdiction over all claims for exemption on the ground of employ ment in any necessary industry, in cluding agriculture.
 They will make it hard for any stacker or dodger from military ser vice who appears before them. To be perfectly blunt and frank about 1t, the boards will have a sharp axe ready at all times for gentlemen who seek to avoid military service without legitimate reason.
 Moreover, even when the reason is legitimate, it must be an exception ally good one.
 Here is the test each board will pro bably apply when called to pass on appeals from decisions of the local boards on claims for exemption or dis charge on the ground that the man sought to be exempted or discharged has a dependent or dependents to sup port:
 "A dependent will be construed to mean one who might become a burden upon the community if the person up- pendent was inducted into the mill tary establishment of the United States"
 If there is any doubt about it, the policy of the boards will be to deny the appeal and hold the man for mill tary service.
 The other resolution relates to the granting of discharges to persons claiming it on the ground of employ ment in a necessary industry, includ- ing agriculture.
 Such claims cannot be considered by local boards, and must be made direct to the district boards. They can only be made, however, after the applicant has passed his physical ex. animation and has been posted by the local board as called up for service and not exempted or discharged.
 The resolution adopted by some districts boards relative to their po- Hey in dealing with such claims fol lows:
 Resolved, That these district boards will not discharge any person on the ground that he is engaged in any agricultural or other exempted in dustry, unless such person is neces sary to the maintenance of sach 'r- dustry and is regularly and continu- ously engaged in such industry as dis , tinguished from an occasional or tenn porary employment therein" : Under this policy, the man who works regularly and continuously as , 8 si,ip carpenter or as a fisherman, and the like, who applies Tor dis charge on the ground that his work Is necessary in that industry. will re- ceive thorough consideration.
 | But the fly by night type of work : CT, and the man who feels sudden , lcall back to these industries about The , time his turn comes in the draft, will not.