Evening star., 1943-07-11
Druft
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before, she can find a job. Also
young wives usually have middle
aged parents who gave them a
home before their marriage.
A draft official mentioned a young
Southerner who came to protest that
he didn't believe women should work.
He wanted to picture his wife at
home, not at a desk. He didn't have
q case.
Classification in Sd requires "ex-
treme hardship and privation." The
draft official cited the case of a wife
whose husband had been making
$1,000 a year 1t might be hard
ship for her to live on the $100 a
month she could earn herself, plus
the serviceman's allotment, but it
wouldn't be privation. She could
live on it."
On the question of privation, the
official mentioned the mother of
four children. She was living with
the only one of the four eligible for
service. She had little income, in
sufficient in itself, but enough with
the allotment from him if she could
live with another child.
THAT arrangement might be in
convenient and distasteful to all
concerned" said the official, "it
might be annoying and embarrass-
ing, but it wouldn't be privation.
She has as much reason to depend
on the other children for support as
on the one she would be keeping out
of the service"
Rulings Are Much Stricter.
Draft boards, he said, have come
to the point where they go as far
as possible to find other sources OF
support. For instance, they will
suggest that man supporting his
mother get all the other children
together and ask them each to con-
tribute a little-enough to make up
the difference between what he con-
tributes and what he will be able to
give his mother through his allot-
ment.
Older wives are more of problem
Frequently, their parents are dead
Sometimes, they are physically un-
able to work. Where a man can
give medical proof that his wife
can't work, he is classified in Sd
with an admonition to try to make
some adjustment. =.
The hardship classification isn't
considered a duration deferment by
most boards. Sometimes, they tell a
man he is being given deferment
for few months to figure out some
method of taking care OF his ce-
pendents. Sometimes, the boards
will note that the case is to be re-
viewed in four or six months. Some
times. they make a practice OF re-
viewing all hardship cases periodic
ally.
Furlough to Be Extended.
Since there Is always a chance
that a man will be turned down at
the induction station, boards are
advising men to make tentative ar
rangements with other relatives to
care for their dependents. The post
induction furlough will soon be eX-
tended here to three weeks so that
men will have a chance to make
their final family adjustments after
they have been mducted.
A board may decide the man Is a
hardship case without request from
him, depending en- how complete his
file is. If. in going through his file,
they find he has an invalid mother
with no other source of support, or
wife who cannot work because of a
condition he has noted in his ques-
tionnaire, he may be automatically
classified in Sd.
On borderline cases, or where the
file Is incomplete, the board may put
the man in IA with the idea he will
come in and ask for a hearing, or
appeal the case, with the result that
the appeal board would make the
final decision.
The appeal board is not particular