The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-08-21

and held n the Ones who are 70 b
held In res4rve IN this country.
II did not offer the amendment
with any Idea Of obstructing the war
departments program at all. as am
for that program first. last and all the
time. But I wish to protect the boys
of eighteen and nineteen 30 they Will
go into training in this country rather
than be drafted Unfortunately with
all t.:e men of the Older ages and sent
s.broad with them.
Il believe 1t would be much better
for the young boys and better for the
country IL this plan should be follow
ed ! am in favor of training all the
boys in the country, but il we are to
keep 100000 at home, / think the
boys of eighteen and nineteen should
be the ones chosen for this duty
Mr.. Mckenzie is preparing another
amendment to the bill which VIII be
acted upon tomorrow 1t will provide
for the revocation of all exemptions
heretofore granted and the re-ciassi-
fication OF every registrant. including
those already registered. Mr.. NC
Kenzie believes this will have the Ell
feet of throwing into the ranks thou
sands of "slackers" who have been
able to secure favors from the local
DudI 10 Which iti'S Wei iici
| An amendment offered by Chairman
! Dent to enable boys of twenty-one ana
under to receive commissions was
adopted by the committee.
| The committee rejected the anti
strike amendment which the senate
committee adopted at the suggestion
of Senator Thomas, of Colorado. The
house bill will be reported without
any provision to extend the work OF
fight" order beyond the limits pre-
scribed by the departments regula-
tons.
Secretary Baker has expressed him
self as of the opinion that the anti
strike amendment is not necessary
He made this st<tement today in hi
interview with the newspaper mer
on the subject of the work or fight
order.
General Crowder pointed out tina
the provision in the senate bill is sub
stantially what the department is nov
doing and what. there is now powe
to do, so that the provisions inserted
by the senate amendment is simpl,
making a legislative declaration of
policy already in effect
! "A man who gets an industrial ex
!
dispensable operative in an hides
pensable industry ceases to have TIL
exemption as soon as he ceases to b.
an operative in that industry. Thu
board never applied that in the cas-
| of bonafide disputes between labor a
an aggregate and the employers as al
aggregate, but they have always pre-
! vented man taking refuge behind al
! industrial exemption and then dis
continuing the work for which he re
ceived the exemption, so the apparen
purpose of the senate amendment al
ready is operation"
Regarding the intention of the wa
to so arrange the questionnaries tina
every married man will determine au
tomatically his right to exemption
Secretary Baker said:
We wanted to arrange the regula
tons so as to save a married mar
who ought to be exempted from tn
humiliation OF claiming exemption b.
making the process as automatic a
possible. The theory upon which w
want to work this draft is that n,
married man whose wife and children
are dependent upon the continuity o
his earnings, and who will not be abb
to live on his soldiers wages. will b.
drafted. The draft will apply to thos
married men whose incomes are ade
quate to provide for their families
those whose families have independ
ent incomes, and those men who's
families provide for them
The reason for the exemption o
! the married men Is dependency an
not the status"