Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-07-06
DRAFT REGULATIONS
ISSUED BY WILSON
NO CLASS EXEMPTIONS PROVIDED
AND BOARDS WARNED TO
RIGID FAIRNESS.
impartial Selection Of Men to Strength
en- Our Armies, the Call to the
colors Coming in September
or Soon Thereafter.

! WashingtOn.-Regu to govern
the next step toward selecting ma
tional war army from tine millions reg
istered for service June wece issued
on July at the direction of President
Wilson.
The regulations make II clear that
| there are to be no class exemptions
and that each individual case must be
decided upon its merits The local ex-
emption boards-one fer each county
Of less than 4t,tW0 population OF city
Of $1,000, with additional boards whore
necessary for each additional 10000
popriatlon-will pass upon claims for
exemption, except those based upon
Industrial or agricultural occupation,
subject to appeal to the district boards.
All cases involving agricultural exemp-
tons will be passed upon by the dis
trict boards-one for each judicial dis
trict-wlich also win decide appeals
| from decisions o. the local boards.
| 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 1t expected that the sclcc-
ton regulations will be promulgated,
so this process may be put under way
without delay. The present intention
is to call the men selected to the col
ors about September 1, or as soon
thereafter as the environments to house
them can be completed.
Impartialty Demanded.
In a statement accompanying the
announcement of the regulations the
| president called. upon the boards to do
their work fearlessly and impartially
and to remember that "our armies at
the front will be strengthened and sus-
tanned from men free from any sense
of injustice in their mode of selection"
The statement follows:
"The regulations which / am today
causing to be promulgated pursuant to
the direction Of the selective service
law, cover the remaining steps of the
plaza for calling into the service Of the
United States qualified men from those
who h,,ve register ed those selected as
the result of this process to constitute,
with the regular army, the national
guard and the navy, the fighting forces
OF the nation, all of which forces are
under the terms of the law placed in a
position of equal right, dignity and re-
speetabllity with the members of all
other military forces.
"The regulations have been drawn
with view to the meets and circum-
stances of the whole country and pro-
vide system, which 1t is expected
will work win the least inequality and
personal hardship. ANY system of se-
lecting men for military service,
whether voluntary of involuntary in its
operations, necessarily selects some
men to bear the burden of danger and
sacrifice for the whole nation. The
system here provided places all men
of military age upon an even plane
and then, by selection which neither
favors the one nor penalties the other,
calls out the requisite number for SER
vice.
Boards Admonished.
1.-THE successful operation of this law
and of these regulars depends neces-
sarily upon the loyalty, patriotism and
Justice of the members of the boards
to whom it's operation is committed
and admonish every member of every
local board and of every district board
of review that their duty to their
country requires an impartial and fear
less performance of the delicate and
difficult duties intrusted to them. They
should remember as TO each individual
case presented to them TINT they are
called upon to adjudicate the most sac
red rights of the individual and to
preserve untarnished the honor Of the
nation.
Our armies at the front will be
strengthened and sustained If they he
composed of men free from any sense
of injustice in the mode of selection
and they will be inspired to loftier eff
forts In behalf of a country In which
The citizens called upon to Serform
high public functions perform then
with Justice, fearlessness and impair
tiality.'
Upon organizing the local boards
will take over from the registration
boards all registration cards. which
they will number serlally and list foi
posting TO public view. Then after
having been advised of the method by
which the order of liability for servic,
shall be determined IND of the quotS
10 be drawn from its territory (minus
.redits for enistmenfs III The nationa
guard or regular army each board vii
prepare list of persons designated
for service in the order of their liza
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