Arizona republican., 1917-08-26
ONLY FIVE PER CENT OF WHITE MEN TO
 ENCAMP SEPT. 9TH
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of going to work to support herself and children. This situation is ex- pressed in the following opinion of the district board of New York City, in which opinion this office concurs, with the understanding that the phrase support available from relative is sup port partial or total previously ex tended to the applicant himsef.
 We do not concur in the view Sug- gested in some quarters that in case of wife and children actually dependent on applicants labor for support, and where there are no other means of sup port, the wife should be put to the necessity of going to work to support herself and children. Bona fide de- pendency of wife and children on labor of applicant where in his absence they will be left without reasonably ade- quate support, after duly taking into consideration soldiers wage and sup port available from relatives, as stated in the rulings of the provost marshal general, is ground of discharge"
 This opinion clearly and adequately expresses the intent of the law in this regard
 Paragraph B, compiled rulings of this office No. six, addressed a state
 of affairs where the parents or other
 relatives of the wife or husband are able, ready and willing adequately to
 support the wife and children. if any.
 during the absence of the husband.
 This ruling was responsive to a class
 of cases that had been brought to the
 attention of this office where claims
 of discharge had been made on the
 ground of dependency on a husband, who. as matter of fact was not de- pendent upon himself. The ruling di- rected the attention of local boards to the fact that scrutiny of cases of this kind might disclose that no discharge was advisable
 Tt was not intended that paragraph B, of the compiled rulings should ap- ply to the case of the head of a family whose family, at the time of his sum- mons and prior thereto, were and had been mainly dependent upon his labor for support.
 Instances in which local boards | have been in error in respect of these 1 two classes of cases are rare. It was | to be expected that with some 4500 1 local boards there would be some un- l uniformity of decision in this regard | To provide against this un-uniformity | section 27 of the regulations provides | for the automatic appeal of all depen- 1 dency cases to the district boards Dis 1 trict boards should scan the decisions | of local boards on questions of depen- 1 dency and wherever it apnears that such decisions are illegal Gas in the two l cases just mentioned or otherwise) or ! where decisions seem to be so far un- uniform as to result in an unequal op-
 eration of the jaw. the district board should reverse or modify the decision 1 of the local board"
 | In his message to governors re- l specting new mobilization orders, General Crowder said in part:
 "The congestion of traffic that will | be entailed in the early part of Sep l tember by the movement of the na- tional guard into training camps 1. makes it inadvisa ble to attempt to move any large percentage of the na- tional army on September fifth. For this reason the war department has
 communicated the following schedule of movements of the national army to the provost marshal general:
 Five per cent of the quota of each state beginning September ,, forty per cent beginning September 18th. forty per cent beginning October third the remaining fifteen per cent as soon thereafter as practicable.
 "The object of calling five per cent is to place in the camps enough men to form a skeleton organization to as | SiSt III IeCtlNilS anu dSSiiiiidtiiS the large contingents. For this reason il is required that local boards send only white men and so far as practicable that they send men with some military experience or cooks. In making this selection order numbers are not con trolling but great care must be taker
 not to send men whose order of cal l is so late that they will not be within the quota of the boards. The careful ], selection of these men will be of great
 assistance to the orderly organization