The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-07-12
FIRST DRAFT RULES OUT.
In the Case of Married Men, the Wife
or a Third Party Nav Make a
Claim for Exemption.

| SAlHn IOf TLAcIIlDllOHs
Washington, July 2.-Regulations
to govern the next step toward Sc
lecting the first National Army from
the millions registered for service
June were issued today at the di-
rection of President Wilson. They
leave to be prescribed later the man
bility of the men registered, but set
forth in great detail the method of
arriving at exemptions and the work
generally of the local and district
boards named to carry out the task.
Exemption regulations add little
| to the terms of the draft law, the
question of whether a man, between
the ages of 21 and 81 is entitled to
exemption because OF dependents,
the nature of his occupation or phys
| ical unfitness being for the boards
to decide after proper investigation.
To Be No Glass Exemption
! 1t is made very clear, however,
that there are to be no class exemp-
tions and that each individual case
must be decided upon it's merits. The
local boards-one for each county of
of 10000, with additional boards
where necessary for each additional
10000 population-wil pass upon
claims for exemption except those
based upon industrial or agricultural
occupation, subject to appeal to the
district boards.
/ All classes involving agricultural
or industrial exemption will be pass
ed upon by the district boards-one
for each federal judicial district
which also will decide appeals from
decisions of the local boards
To BE Called About Sept. LIST
In the near future date will be
set by Brigadier General Crowder,
provost marshal general for the
meeting and organization of the
! boards At the same time it is ex-
pected that the selection regulations
will be promulgated so that the pro-
cess may be put under way without
delay. The present intention is to call
those selected to the colors about
september lst or as soon thereafter
as the cantonments to house them
can be completed.
| In statement accompanying the
president called upon the boards OF
selection to do their work fearlessly
ana 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
selection"
upon OiSdHlLiHS Inc ioCdi pot! 10
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
the territory tminus credits for en-
listments in the national guard or in
regular army each board will pre-
pare list of persons designated for
service in the order of their liability,
post the list, give it to the press and
within three days send to each desig-
mated person by mail
A Physical Examination First
AS the men so notified appear, the
boards first will make physical
examination in accordance with
special regulations to be provided,
bearing in mind that all persons ac--
cepted by them wiz be re-examined
by army surgeons. If the physical ex-
animation is passed successfully
then comes the question of exemp
ton.
Persons who must be exempted or
discharged by the local board in
clude:
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
municipal officers, custom house
clerks, workmen in federal armories,
arsenals and navy yards, persons in
the federal service designated by the
president for exemption, pilots, mer-
chant marine sailors, those with q
status with respects to dependents
which married man with dependent
wife or renders their exclusion desir-
able, child. son of dependent
widow, son of a dependent, aged or
infirm parent, or brother of depend
ent orphan child under is years old;
those found morally deficient and
any member of any well recognized
religious sect existing May 18, 1917,
whose creed forbids participation in
war and whose religious convictions
accord with the creed.
Third Party May Make Claim
Claims for exemption because OF
dependents may be made by the man
himself, his wife or other dependent
or by third party who has person
ally investigated the case. A claim
made by the husband must be accom-
panied by supporting afidavits sign
ed by the wife and by the head Of a
family residing in the same territory.
A claim by the wife or third party