The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-23
F0ULKE CALLS
ON CITIZENS
TO ASSIST IN
FRAUD EXPOSE
Governments Attorney Asks
Persons Knowing of llleg-
al Exemption Claims to
Report Them to Him.
SAYS CASES ARE FEW

William Dudley Foulke, government
counsel in Richmond district draft
cases, has issued an appeal to patr1-
otic citizens to report cases OF fraudu-
lent exemption claims. The appeal
follows:
"To the People Of Richmond, and
Wayne, Franklin and Boston Town
ships:
The local conscription board has
passed upon many claims for exemp-
ton and discharge from military SER
vice, allowing some and refusing
others. These lists have been pub
lished in the daily papers.
Il have been appointed by the gov
ernment and directed to appeal to the
district board at Fort Wayne all cases
of discharge on account OF the depend
ency OF wife, children or other rela-
tives. While this appeal has to be
taken in ali cases 1t is evident that IN
the greater number Of them the dis
charge has been properly granted and
the appeal is a mere formality so as to
give the district board the right to
take up any particular case in its
discretion.
Some Cases improper
yet there are some cases Whlcn IL
will be necessary to call to the special
attention OF the district board, cases
where the discharge may have been
improperly granted.
In these cases circumstances will
generally be known to neighbors and
acuuaintances of the man discharged.
Perhaps the man has really not been
supporting his wife or child or wild
owed mother or infirm parents at all;
perhaps the wife has been earning an
independent livelihood; perhaps his or
her relatives have independent means
sufficient, when taken with the sum
which the soldier could allow out OF
his $50 a month pay. to support them
and are ready and willing to do SO.
Provost Marshal Crowder has noti-
fed us that wherever the wife or other
dependent will receive support from
other sources there is no real depend
ency rendering discharge advisable,
and he adds:
Cases Within Ruling
The following classes Of cases are
within this ruling:
A.-Wife and Children.
1.-Where the parents or other rela'
tives of the wife or husband are able,
ready and willing to provide adequate
support for her land children If any
during the absence Of the husband.
2-Where the wife owns land which
has produced income by the husband
labor. but which could with reasonable
certainty be rented during his alb
sence. to other persons so as to pro-
duce an adequate support.
rangement by which the salary or
wage of the husband is continued,
in whole or in part, by third persons,
being employers or insurers or others,
and such portion of the salary or wage
either alone or with an allotment OF
his soldiers pay. or with other definite
income. will furnish a reasonably ade-
quate support.
Bother Dependents.
I-Where in one of the foregoing
ways {. reasonably adequate support
is provided for a widowed mother, in
firm parents. or orphan cnhd under
Is wears Gas enumerated In section
20, paragraph H. 2. 3. 4, 81 OF son.
brother or father called into the ser.
vice
Asks for Aid.
Il can not personally huo" Gil IiSSC
cases and therefore call upon citizens
as a patriotic duty to write to me
and give me information Of anything
showing that there is no just cause
for exemption and that the discharge
was improper. in order that I may
call such cases to the attention of
the district exemption board at Fort
Wayne when the appeals are con-
sidered
Il have already conferred with the
chief of police and other representa-
tives Of the force in the city of Rich
mond, and with numerous persons
having wide acquaintance throughout
the city and county and l believe as
a result of these inquiries that the
great mass of the claims made for
exemption and allowed by the board
are genuine cases where there are
dependents who hav no other means
OF support.
"The good faith of most of these
claims is incontestible but this makes
it all the more important that If there
are my which should not be allowed.
notice be given to the government by
those who know the facts.
"Wm. ID. Foulke.'