The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-08-17
VOLUME XXxVEl
s'WAR GR0OMS" WILL HAVE TO
SERVE IN ARMY.

Recent orders from Provost Mar
shall General Crowder, at Washing
ton, have played havoc with war
husbands" especially in this section,
where the disease almost assumed the
form of an epidemic. Those who
married hastily, seeking to avoid
drafting, and men making small
wages, who sought to gain exemption
on the ground of DEFENDANTS, will
have hard shedding this time. On &C
count of them many Paris and Bour-
bon county men will be leaving in
September for the training camps to
become coldiers in the new national
army, instead of remining at home,
and eventually engaging in a domes-
tic war.
The orders caused new move We'd
nesday, when a number of men from
this county went before the District
Board at Lexington and said that
they had filed claims for exemption,
but after hearing of the report from
the Provost Marshal General they
would withdraw their claims and let
their names go unprotected on the
roll of honor The new regulations
issued from Washington are as fol-
lows:
"'To Governors, Adjutants General
and Members of the Local and Dis
trict Boards:
ITO secure uniformity of interpre-
tations, compiled rulings of the Pro-
vost Marshal General on questions
concerning the execution of the selec-
tive-service law will be published
from time to time and forwarded to
the Governors of the several States
for distribution to local and district
boards.
&c. H. CROWDER,
Provost Marshal General.
"(a)-Recent Marriage as a Ground
for Discharge Under the Depend
ency Clause.
1.-The selective-service law does not
require discharges in all cases Of tech
nical legal dependency, but only per-
mits discharges where in view of de-
tendency a discharge is advisable.
Local boards may we'll hold that
marriage recently hastily consum-
mated, and especially onN consum-
mated by a person after he has been
called to present himself for exam
ination to determine his fitness for
military service, does not create
status of dependency in which it is
advisable to grant a discharge. 1t
is to be expected that local boards
will exercise this full discretion in
cases where they are convinced that
INSCRIPTIONS persons have thus vio-
lated the principles of the selective-
service law in the hope of escaping
duty that is rightly theirs and of
passing that duty on to someone
else.
Soldiers pay as affecting de-
tendency.
"A soldiers pay is not less than
$50 a month, and all clothing, Sub
sistence, medical treatment and
housing are furnished him. Uncei
the law he may a!lot anv po1ti>r If
his pay to a dependent Many soldiers
receiving $50 a month are easily able
to allot s25 monthly 70 the support
of dependents. III case of death In
line of duty the government will pay
to the beneficiary designated by the
soldier six months pay. Section q
of the selective-setv:ce act provides
that those in status with respect
to persons dependent upon them for
support which renders their exclu-
sion or discharge advisable may be
discharged, but it does not require
that they shall be discharged in all
such cases. The discretion of local
boards is invoked by this provision,
and such boards may well take the
facts recited above into considera-
ton in deciding claims for discharge
due to dependency, with a view to
determining whether, as matter or
fact, the person claiming such dis
charge will not be in as good or bet
ter position to support his dependents
after selection for military service
than he was before. If such is the
case, of course, the discharge should
not be granted"