Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-08-27
NO CHANGE MADE IN STATUSOFM MARRIED. MEN
CONDITION OF DEPENDENTS MUST Be CERTAIN.

thcm loT support on the LneOry tnat the
wife is able to work and should be put
to the necessity of going to work to sup
port herself and children. This situation
is addressed in the following opinion OF
the district board Of New York CITY. in
which sopinion this Office concurs, sup
port available from relatives is support
partial or total, previously extended to the
applicant himself:
1--WE do not concur in the view sug-
gested in some quarters that in case of
wife and children actually dependent on
applicants labor for support, and where
there are no other means of support, the
wife should be put to work to support her
self and children. Bona fide dependency
of wife and children on labor of appli-
cant, where in his absence they will be
left without reasonably adequate support
after duly taking into consideration sol
diers wage and support available from
relatives, as stated in the rulings of the
provost marshal general, is ground of dis
charge
This opinion clearly and adequately
expresses the intent of the law in this re-
gard.
Paragraph b, compiled rulings of this
Office No. b, addressed a state of affairs.
where the parents or other relatives Of the
wife or husband are able, ready and will
ing adequately to support the wife and
children, IL any, during the absence of the
husband. This ruling was responsive to
a class OF eases that has been brought to
the attention of this office where claims of
discharge had been made on the ground of
dependency on a husband, who "a a mat
ter Of fact was not dependent upon him
self. 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.
1T was not intended that paragraph b
of the compiled rulings should apply 10
the ease of the head of a family whose
family mt the time of the summons and
prior thereto were and had been mainly
dependent upon hi labor for support.
"~lnltanres in which local boards have
been in error in respect to these two classes
of cases are rare. Ii was to be expected
that with some $500 boards there would
be some ununiformity of decision in this
regard. To provide against this ununifor-
nifty section q of the regulations provides
for the automatic appeal of all dependency
cases-tc the district boards. District
boards Should sean the decisions Of local
boards on questions of dependency, and
Wherever II appears that such decisions
are illegal (as in the two eases just men
toned, or otherwise), or where these de
%cisiOns seem to be % far ununiform a. 10
result IN an unequal operation of the law.
the district board should reverse or mod
lily the decision of the local board"
In his message 10 governors request
ing new mobilization orders, General
Crowder said in part:
The congestion of traffic that will be
e~ntailed IN the early part of September
by the movement Of the national guard in
To training camps makes it inadvisable to
attempt to move any large percentage of
the national army on Sept. 5. For this
tea on the war department has communi-
Gated the following schedule Of move
lnents Of the national army to the provost
marshal general. Five per cent of the
quota of each state, beginning Sept.
>, W per cent, bcginnln. Sept. -; 40 per
cent beginning Oct. 81: the remaining ID
percent a soon a. practicable.
The object OF calling ) per cent i to
place an the canps enough men 70 form
a skeleton organization to assist in
i,cli'lng and assImilating the large con
tIn:ents. For this reason it is requested
that local boards send only white men and
SO far a. practicable that they send men
with some military experience or cooks
In making this selection order numbers
are not controlling, but great care must be
taken To send men whose order OF call l.
80 late that they will not be within the
quota Of the boards. The careful selection
OF these men will be Of great assistance
to the orderly organization of the national
army, and 1t l. hoped that local boards
will act with this end in view.
In order that II may not be necessar,
to make any special railway arrangement,
and to prevent "A congestion OF nomina
railway traffic, local boards should be in.
structed to send approximately one pc
cent OF their quotas on each Of five sue
cessive days, beginning Sept. ). Ii j
thought that every board in the countr,
VIII have available at least ) per cent o
MS quota by Sept. ), and therefore tina
u VIII not be necessary To call upon an,
board Tor more or less than ) per cent