The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-26
DO NOT CONCUR

s'We do not concur in the view
 suggested in some quarters that
 fin case of wife and children ac-
 tuaIIy dependent on applicants la
 bor support, and where there are
 no other means of support, the
 wife should be put to the necessity
 of going to work to support her.
 self and children. Bona fide de-
 pendency of wife and children on
 labor of applicant, where, in his
 absence, they will be left without
 reasonably adequate support, after
 duly taking into consideration soI-
 diers' wage and support available
 from relatives, as statcd'fn the ruI-
 ings of the provost marshal gem
 eral, is ground of dfscharge,,
 This opinion clearly and adequately expressed the intent of the law in this re- gard.
 Paragraph B, compiled rulings of this office number addressed a state of af- fairs 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 ab- sence of the husband. This ruling was responsive to class of cases that had been brought to the attention of this of- flee where claims of discharge had been made on the ground of dependency on a husband who, as a-matter of fact was not dependent upon himself. The ruling directed the attention of local boards to the fact that scrutiny of cases of this kind might disclose that no discharge was advisable.
 It was not intended that paragraph E of the compiled rulings should apply to the case of the head of a family whose family, at the time of his summons 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 to these two classes of cases are rare. It was to be expected that with some 4500 local boards these would be some ununifornity of de- cision in this regard. To provide against this ununiformity, section 27 of the regula- tions provides for the automatic appeal of all dependency cases to the district boards. District boards should scan the decisions of local boards on questions of dependency and wherever it appears that such decisions are illegal Gas in the two cases just mentioned or otherwise) or where these decisions seem to be far un- uniform as to result in an unequal opera tion of the law, the district board should reverse or modify the decision of the local board"
 MESSAGE TO GOVERNORS
 In his message to governors respecting new mobilization orders, General Crowder said in part:
 ''The congestion of traffic that will be entailed in the early part of September by the movement of the National Guard into training camps makes it inadvisable to attempt to move any large percentage of the national army on September 5. 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 Sep- tember 5, 40 per cent beginning Septem- Der 19, 40 per cent beginning October 3, the remaining 15 per cent as soon there- after as practicable.
 OBJECT OF CHANGE
 The object of calling per cent is to place in the camp enough men to form a skeleton organization oassist in receiv-