The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-08-08
THE DRAFTS QUEER TURNS
This seIf4supportins Wife Doesn't
Want Her Husband Exempted
From Military Service

Although many stories of Crawford
citizens have crept out in regard to
the draft, still more odd phases of the
first draft for the new national army
have cropped out over the country.
1t is the general impression that
the man with a wife and children de-
pendent on him won't have to serve
in the expeditionary force to be sent
to France. Therefore none was sur.
prised in the little town of Orcott, N.
Y, when HI. B. Mount asked exemp,
ton because Of Mrs Mount, and the two
little Mounts. But they were surpris.
ed when Mrs. Mount, who is the, post
mistress at OrcOtt, notified the auth
critics that she didn't want her hus-
band exempted. gsi
81 can take care Of my children and
myself she wrote, '.and am in no
way dependent on Mr.. Mount"
As a matter of fact she added, she
has been supporting herself and her
children for several months. So Mr.,
Mounts plea may not avail him.
Kingdom Gould, who is on his
honeymoon, may be included in the
first quota of Lakewood, N. J. His
number was the one hundred and
n1nety-fourth drawn here. A similar
case was that Of Earl Caddock. cham
pion wrestler of the world, of Anita,
Iowa, who was also on his honeymoon
and among the first drawn.
A German.Ameriean Mother Loyal
One Granddaughter mother in
Milwaukee said when her sons name
was drawn among the first: II want
to see my boy stand by our country,
but hope we will have peace before
he has to cross the ocean and fight
his kinfolks." = ~ 81 a.
Walter Kunze, OF Baltimore, one Of
the men whose names are high in the
list, may be an. exception to the gen.
eral rule that all physically and II.
nancially capable OF serving in the
army will have to go. He is in Ger.
many. where he Is believed to be
held prisoner Of war. He was In
termed by the Gerrnan authorities and
ais family have Sho.rd nothing from
him since the brea hs. Eame between
America and the,kaisef. s. 4 u.
A strange case of crime in which
the draft was used to work on q
mothers feelings occurred 7$at Ann
Arbor, Mich. Oscar Brennan told his
mother that as2long as she owned her
home she was not dependent on him
and he would have to 60 to France.
So he pursuaded her to deed her little
$4,000 property to him. Then he sold
the home for 5000, oran away 4, with
Mrs. Fayne Black and from a lake re.
sort sent postcard to his mother
saying, I'VE are having glorious
time" Mrs. Brennan refused to be.
lieve in her sons perfidy until the
man to whom the house had been
sold demanded possession of it. She
has sworn out q warrant for her
sons arrest, and the young man is
being sought by the police. I,
There is pretty general insistence
over the country that no favoritism
shall be shown by the exemption
boards. In Boston Representative
Peter F. league has caused sensa.
ton by charging that young men of
wealth have gone to work in muni-
tions and shipbuilding plants to es.
cape the draft. THE pretense of pa.
triotism of these dollar-a-day patri-
OTIS follows their loud shouting of
democracy Mr.. league saida in, an
anouncing that he! purposes to- pub
lish their names. ;sG' liz
Out in. Seattle problem mas arisen
since 1.-The draft. In 1.-THE cheap hotels
and lodging houses few Of the fregis-
tered men can be found. At onerhotel
where forty-seven had lived when
they registered. only fourteen could
be found and none Of those who had
gone left forwarding address.
Mayor Thompson of Chicago
Little Bill' they call him now, in.
stead of the big Bill'' applied to him
in the days when Chicago was some
what proud OF him-still is objecting
to the draft, but he Is not talking
quite as much. He has fallen back on
the declaration that he stands for
the principles of Washington and Lin
coin.
do you want to see this country
win the war;" he was asked by a
Chicago Post reporter. Little Bill"
waited two full minutes and then an
swered: well, OF course, don't
want to see the United States defeat,
ed in anything" 36T> II
Two young Columbia university
students who were active in an ef,
fort to block the operation of the se-
lective draft were brought up short
by federal judge in Brooklyn. c. F.
Phillips, %, and Owen Cattell, 10, the
latter a son of Prof J.. Mckeen Cat
tell, were fined $500 each and sent
to Jail for a day, thereby depriving
them of their citizenship. "You are