| Show Conscientious Objectors not t to o b be he e Excused Excused Ex Ex- cased From Ser in Serving Country New nulin Ruling on Dependents The entire men 1 composing compos composing compos compos- I ing the first increment of the army draft for forces es will be e under training early in October Under orders issued is is- sued today the first 30 per cent of at I the quota of each district will begin I entrainment for cantonments Septem Septem- pier cr 5 the next 30 per cent September Septem Septem- her ber 30 Tire The remaining 10 per cent will be mobilized as soon after that date as possible The plan to assemble the new forces in three increments distributes I the task of or s 's supplies and equipment through September It ItI l I will also prevent serious shortages in Iii any camp cam and will give the new I officers from the training camps time lime timeto to familiarize themselves with their duties gradually before responsibility ty for a great body of men falls on them The order issued today means that I i about men will reach each of the sixteen cantonments soon affer after September 5 They first will be examined examined ex ox- by army doctors and finally accepted or rejected Will ho be Quickly Absorbed Presumably the first Increment will havo have been organized Into skeleton companies battalions or regiments before eCore the second arrives The newcomers new new- ne newcomers comers can be quickly absorbed by bya a going concern in that case and the third lot can be taken into the war machinery with oven less disturbance when hen it reports fifteen days later ater In farming fanning communities local S now will ar arrange ange the lists of I those to fill the first increment with ocal local crop conditions In mind Drafted Draft Draft- I ed men engaged in that work and who otherwise would go with the I first third third of bf the district quota will willbe will willbe be pa parsed pared e over to the second or 01 third I as may ue necessary I Ruling on Dependents I Reviewing the question of dependent depend depend- ent eat relatives Provost Marshal General Gen I 1 eral Crowder Issued a supplemental ruling today holding that persons should tot not be discharged because of depe dependents resident abroad The object of the thc law p permitting persons to be discharged provided I the they have persons falling within any of the classes of dependents depend depend- de dependent I ent upon them was to prevent such dependents becoming a charge upon I 1 Ithe I the American people the ruling says saysA saysA A dependent residing abroad could I not become such a charge Persons I claiming discharge because of such sucha a dependent cannot properly be discharged discharged discharged dis dis- dis- dis charged on the ground that such djs djs- charge is advisable within the meaning meaning meaning mean mean- ing of the act of congress Conscientious Objectors That conscientious objectors to war are not to be e excused entirely from froIn serving the country was made clear I in another ruling by the provost marshal mar marl marI I steal holding that such persons I should be sent to the mobilization camps along with others drafted to tobe tobe tobe be assigned later to to non-combatant non branches of the service ervice It Is presumed presumed pre pre- umed they will serve in the quartermasters quartermasters' quartermasters quartermasters' quartermasters quartermasters' quarter quarter- masters' masters corps the medical corps corps corps' or other ther units no not employed ed in actual combat Only In rare cases are railway mail clerks cerks to be exempted Today the the I postoffice department announced that that published reports of blanket exemption tion for this class of postal employees employees employ employ- ees were based on a I tion of the department order covering i exemptions Mistake e Corr Corrected ed edIt It developed today that the navy I department misunderstanding the war department ruling as to voluntary volun I tary enlistment of registered men h had d instructed d its recruiting officers to accept registrants into the navy even if they had been heen cal called ed before their local selection boards for ex ex- The mistake quickly was quickly was corrected recruiting stations being told by telegraph that no man man called called for examination under the draft law could be he accepted Into any br branch of ot the military or naval service as as a voluntary recruit Until called how how- i o v ev ever r registrants are free to enter t r the I army navy or marine COrl corps I I Plans Piano to provide pu publicity f facilities ties I at t camps of th national army and ana the national guard are arc to tobe be left entirely en en- entirely to the discretion on of or the camp I commanders who will be authorized authorised to permit newspaper correspondents to establish offices within the camp limits and to maintain telegraph or I I telephone me lines there if deemed ad ad- visa hIe No such privileges will l be e granted however until the thc camps actually actually actually ac ac- are established and the commanders commanders commanders com com- manders on the ground I |
