The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-01-03
RULING ON MARRIED MEN.
Exemption Boards Must be Governed
by Comomn sense and Sympathy.


Columbia, Dec. 31.-Where the in
duction of registrants under the Sc
lective draft regulations into 1.-THE mil
itary service of the nation will not
deprive their wives or children of
reasonably adquate support, COM
mon sense and sympathy should gov
ern the local exemption boards in
such registrants' classification in the
QUESTIONABLE, says telegram from
Provist Marshal General Crowder, re-
ceiyed by Governor Manning today,
for transmission to the local and dis
trict exemption boards of the State
through Capt. Richard E. Carwile's
office.
Not BY Thumb Rule.
Reasonably adequate support, y
says the wire, cannot be determined
by a rule of thumb, but must be de-
termined with common sense and
sympathy in the facts of each indi-
vidual case." What would be rea-
sonably adequate support in one case
would not rule in another, says the
ruling, which states that the present
classification is for the purpose of
raising "our armies with minimum
of hardship and suffering to those
who are to be left behind
Dead Line Set.
Some of the local boards of the
State are alleged to be using the rule
of thumb" in regard to registrants
married since the registration. In
stead of using common sense and go
ing according to the plain intent of
the regulations, they have set dead
line for matrimony, and, after that
period, all registrants are classified
as unmarried, whether their wives
are mainly dependent upon them for
support or not. This sort of proce-
dure, says those thoroughly familiar
with the draft regulations, is con-
trart to the spirit, if not the intent,
of the new rules. These boards per-
emptorily decide that any young man
married since May 1S, 1917, is to be
considered as unmarried and so clas-
sified.
Crowder's Telegram.
Gen. Crowder's telegram of today
follows: ..
Subdivision A of Class 4 in the
residuary class for registrants whose
wives or children are mainly depend
ent on them for support and this ap-
plies to a widower whose children
are mainly dependent upon him for
support.
If registrant has both wife and
child, but there are such other COM
mon sources of support available that
the removal of the registrant will not
deprive the dependents of reasona11 i
BILE adequate support, he is to be
placed in subdivision A of class z.
eff a registrant has wife but no
children and there are such other
sources of support available that the
removal of the registrant will not de-
prive the wife of reasonably ade-
ouate support, he goes in class l as
not included in any other division in
the schedule.
To Clear Up Doubt.
Many boards seem to be in doubt
as to what to do when it appears that
the soldiers pay and war risk al
lowances will provide an adequate
support. See rule 1, page "a, and the
last ragraph of section II. Rea-
sonably adequate support cannot be
determined by rule of thumb Dut
must be determined with common
sense and sympathy in the facts OF
each individual case. What would
be adequate support in one locality
or in one set of circumstances might
not be adequate support in another.
The question of adequate support
must be determined by the boards
after careful consideration of the IN
terests of the dependents on the one
hand and of the government on the
other and with the thought always
in mind that the present classifica-
tion scheme is designed to raise our
armies with a minimum of hardship
and suffering to those who are to be
:eft at home"
Aircraft Plant Covers Three Acres.