The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-08-09
Only Total Dependency of
Relatives Will Gain Re-
lease of COnscript.
FIRST MEN LEAVE SEPT. 1
BY That Time Every State Is
Expected to Have Ready
0ne-third of Quota.

NAoih4o Aoi utptllNtlNN tAtlllRNlbllo III
tended to reduce these exemptions to a
minimum commensurate with the spirit
and terms of the conscription act were
telegraphed to the Governors OF all
States by Provost Marshal General
Crowder to-day.
The effect of these rulings is to bar
claims for exemption on the ground OF
dependent relatives where II can be
shown that the income lost by the claim
ant through being drafted into the army
can be made up sufficiently from what
ever source or sources reasonably to
insure the support OF the alleged de-
pendents.
The United States army is to be
brought up to 100000 men by Septem-
Der /. To accomplish this, about 200,-
900 men of the national army, that is,
the selective draft will be called to the
colors on that date. They will be sent
Immediately to the training camps. The
Provost Marshal-General wired to-day
TO all the Governors of States warning
them that their respective quotas must
be ready on time.
Ruling on Exemptions.
The ruling on dependency exemptions
follows:
Under Presidential regulations the
term dependent for support has given
rise to several further questions of prin-
ciple affecting large numbers OF persons
~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 regulations are not in
themselves conclusive. The act au-
thorizes the President to discharge
wherever the parties drafted are in a
status with respect to persons depend
ent upon them for support which renders
their exclusion or discharge advisable.
"Such dependency ordinarily renders
discharge adyisahle. beca use 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 de-
pendency rendering discharge advisable.
NOn-ExemptiOn Instances.
"The following classes OF cases are
within this ruling:
"a Wife and children. One. Where
the parents or other relatives of the
wife or husband are able, ready and
willing to provide adequate support for
her (and children if any during the
absence Of the husband.
Two. Where the wife owns land
which has produced income by the hus-
bands labor, but which could with
reasonable certainty be rented, during
his absence. to other persons so as to
produce an adequate support.
Three. Where there exists some ar
rangerhent by which the salary or wage
Of the husband is continued, in whole
or in part, by third persons. being en-
ployers or insurers or others, and such
portion of the salary or wage, either
alone or with an allotment of his sol
dier's pay, or with other definite in
come, will furnish a reasonably adequate
support.
"B other dependents One. Wherein
one OF the foregoing ways a reasonably
| adequate support is provided for a
widowed mother. infirm parents. or
orphan child under 16 years. of a SON.
brother or father called into service.
May Reopen Exemption Cases.
''Under Presidential regulations pro-
viding that any certificate or discharge
may be Withdrawn, modified or renewed
by the local board, the board is author
! lied to reopen any claim of exemption
already passed upon and still awaiting
disposition on appeal to the district
board for the purpose of receiving any
affidavits or making other inquiries
relative to dependency, as defined in the
| present rulings, and the local boards
shall transmit to the district board such
! afidavits and It's own minute thereon
! for consideration on appeal.
THE foregoing rulings are calculated
10 carry out the spirit and terms Of the
act and to enable patriotic men to re
| main in the military service of thei
country wherever the burden of support
/ hitherto carried by them alone is in &
position to be distributed for a tim,
among others who are patrioticalll
ready to make in this manner their con
tributlon to military service by settinI
| another man free to enter the army"
Rule for Mobilization.
The new regulations on mobilization
follow:
New regulations governing mobillza
ton and the certification OF men from
district boards to Acknowledgement will
be mailed to you on August 3. In tn
meantime local boards should certify L
district boards daily those who hay
been called and who have not been ex
cmpted or discharged either because the,
failed TO file any claim or because thei
claim has been decided adversely.
strict compliance with this rule 1
necessary. since on September the Wa
Department will call for not to excee
ne-thrd of the quota from each Stat
to be entrained for mobilization camp
between September l and September I
Unless we wish to be put in a positio
of not furnishing men as fast as tn
War Department Is ready to receiv
them each State should have accumu
lated by September / minimum of one
third OF its quota not exempted or dis
charged This can only be attained
local boards certify these lists up wit
great expedition"
The mobilization regulations referre
TO by Gen. Crowder were In the hand
CT the printer tonight They cove
many pages and provide for every cor
tlngency that can be foreseen in the az
sembling of the men for the new arm,
The contingents of the various dis
J tricts making up any call 70 the color
are to be assembled by the State author
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