Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-09
MEN JUST DRAFTED
MUST SOON FIGHT
Hardly Three Weeks Remains
Before Civilian Army Will
Turn to Camps.
EVERY QUOTA WILL BE FILLED
State Authorities Must Handle
the Entrainment of Their
Own Organizations.

WASHINGTON. Aug. S.-More than
two hundred thousand men OF the Sc
lectivc draft forces will be called to
the colors September / to go lmmedi-
ately to training cantonments. This
Will bring the strength OF the United
States army to practically one million
men.
Provost Marshal General Crowder
despatched the following telegram TO
governors OF states today cautioning
them to make certain the first one
third OF their quota or the first incre-
ment of registered men is ready In
time:
New regulations governing mobili-
zation and certification of men from
district boards to adjutant generals
Will be mailed to you August 8. Local
boards should certify to district
boards daily those who have been
called and who have not been exempt
ed or discharged because they failed
to file claim or because their claim
has been decided adversely.
Must Rush Work.
Strict compliance with this ru,c Is
necessary since on September / the
war department will call for not to
exceed one-third OF the quota from
each state to be entrained for mobiliz-
alton camps between September
and September 5. Unless we wish to
be put in n position of not furnishing
men as fast as the war department Is
ready to receive them, each state
should have accumulated by Septem-
ber l a minimum of one-third of its
quota not exempted or discharged.
This can only be attained if local
boards certify these lists up with great
expedition"
Boards are authorized to deny ex-
emption to married men In cases
where parents or other relatives OF
wife or husband are willing to assuiiiv
the burden of the wife's support dur
ing the husbands absence. The Same
action applies where drafted mons
employers agree to continue his sal
airy. A third supplemental ruling pro-
vides that exemption may be denied In
the case OF a man who has supported
his dependents by his own labor on
land he owns but which could be
rented so as to continue support for
the wife.
The telegram to the government
follows:
"Under presidential regulations the
term dependent - for support has
given rise to several further ques-
tons OF principle affecting large
numbers OF persons.
Based on the Spirit.
THE general basis for ruling upon
such questions should be the spirit
and purpose of the act In providing
for such discharge, wherever the
terms OF the act and OF the regula-
tions are not in themselves conclusive.
The act authorizes the president 10
discharge wherever the parties
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to persons dependent upon them for
support which renders their exclusion
or discharge advisable
Such dependency ordinarily rem
ders discharge advisable, because
since the drafted person loses his
civil income and thus loses his means
Of support. the wife is left without
support and this lack of support is
the effect which the act aims to
avoid. But wherever such effect does
not in fact follow and the wife is not
left without reasonably adequate sup
port, but will receive such support
from other sources, there is no real
dependency rendering discharge ad-
visable.
Under presidential regulations pro-
viding that any certificate OF dis
charge may be withdrawn. modified
or renewed by the local board the
local board is authorized to reopen
any claim of exemption already
passed upon and still awaiting dis
position on appeal to the district
board. for the purpose of receiving
any affidavit or making other in
quiries relative to dependency as de-
fined in the present ruling.
Aids Patriotic Men.
'The foregoing rulings are calcu-
lated to carry out the spirit and terms
OF the act and to enable patriotic men
to remain In the military service OF
their country. wherever the burden of
support hitherto carried by them
alone is in position to be distributed
for time among others who are pa
triotic enough to make In this manner
their contribution to military service
by setting another man free TO enter
the army"
The mobilization regulations re-
ferred to by General Crowder were
In the hands of the printer tonight.
The contingents of the various dis
tricts making up any call to the COLI
ors are to be assembled by the state
authorities. provided with transports
ton to their training camp. furnisned
means of subsistence on the way and
also provided with blank telegraphic
form with which to report the time OF
their arrival TO the camp commander
from a point six hours from destina-
ton. They will be regarded as pass
ing into the authority OF the army
when they board the trains.
Provision Is made also for filling
vacancies which may occur In any
district quota should men sent for
ward be rejected by the army doc
tors on final examination at the
camps. In such cases the district
boards will be notified and another
man be furnished. The quota of any
district will not be regarded as filled
until tho camp authorities report
back to .he board that the full NUM-
Der OF men called for have arrived
and been finally accepted.