Show HOW THE DRAFT WILL ILL WORK every year the japanese celebrate with banners and public rejoicing tha day their young men are called to the colors to begin tr trailing aling tor for the service of their country not irs it is expected will be the spirit of patriotic devotion in which the people of the united states greet junt juip tl 1917 the tha day prescribed by president wison for under the tive draft law for on that day as 0 a o I 1 new korv evening mail states will be laid the foundation tor for ili ilic great areat bulwark that the american people have pledged themselves to build iu m defense of the liberties of the world it is estimated that rel day will give the government a lit of men of mea ran rally 1 ti f om 21 to 30 years from ti tle first of the new Nati national oual amy will be selected to be begin in tra 3 about september 1 becaas se ot of this registration tra tion remarks the st louis ile democrat for the first tim in ili ier r 50 years the united states will be ba prepared to call to the colar th rat test of its citizens on an equitable basis the tremendous ro o of registration day is further billat illat ii bated by the astounding fran frant t c admit slon sion in recent london and paris dispatches that america will soon become the dominating facto oil of the war and that it if america were to make a separate peace germany it would be impossible for other states to outline the war put but apart from these broar aspects ot of the draft there are ar many specific details of its operation with which what the public mind I 1 ia at this thia moment intensely concerned uly suggestions have been head that favoritism a would have a voice in fit t ta enforcement such as co ca ies A A manas lannis remark in the house that tile sons of the common people are to be drafted draffe d 1 nto th e army while thoe thoe or of cabinet officers are to get tat fat jobs jobi there have been honest as to how the matter of exemption tt could be equitably decided and there has even been some vagueness as to aho nho had to register and who did not we will therefore gather together in this a article such available avalawle ava lable official and I 1 I 1 I 1 unofficial information as throws liht light lo 10 on n these and other points in ili th actual I 1 operation of the draft law in the first place it is to note that in the passage of the bil hi I 1 through congress the period of on was chabi changed ed from il tring the period of the war to during the present emergency in ili the second place as section 2 of tile the bill en plains such draft as herein provided shall shail lie based upon liability to military service of all male citizens or male persons not alien enemies who hae declared themselves to become citizens i to make possible the registering rf pt the necessary information about 10 men in one day of fourteen hours the government will utilla the local election machinery of the various states co ordained under pre ere central authority although the d t itself will not apply to aliens regis aels is compulsory tor for every male resident of the united states aliens included who wha has reached and has not reached his birthday except those who are already in the ho military or naval service of the united states the penalty tor for tailing failing to reg register ster is a years imprisonment and enforced registration A years imprisonment is also the penalty for makin making false statements at registration whether about oneself or guoth anothy r person sickness physical disability of any kind or absence from horns does not dot excuse failure to register national guardsmen guardsman Guards men not mustered into the service of the united states bel fore june oth must register the canadian government has closed the border to american citizens of military age until after registration day an official warning to men of mill continued aued on pago three HOW THE GRAFT DRAFT W I 1 L L WORK i continued from first J tary age against attempts to evalle evade the draft moves the new york morning telegraph to say eay there is no way ot of escape the age of conscript Is s easily determined by documentary or other evidence and those who fall fail to register in the insane belief that they hey may be overlooked will be hunted out and punished and the punishment will not save them from service after a stretch la in jail the offender will have lave to join the colors the only difference between him and the other estimation ot of the war department soldiers being of character in the estimation ot of the ward Depart mort after registration the actual proceeds proc fisa eess of selective draft will begni begin to decide on exemptions loci hoards boards of 0 three or more members will be appointed by tha ie 11 president resident decle jona ions to be to appeal to 0 o federal district baart lo bo ari art cornu observes tee in these lo 10 local hoards a u af fair decisions based on a 1 nov ei ege se of the facts while others regard chew as the weak spot in the law be because bause a ai i one paper remarks the local board of caf a community will be ot of J d 0 1 l zens Z ila of that communist comm unit wio are in I 1 10 oe lipics more inore or less aud and it has lieen been demonstrated more than once onca that in rural districts particularly kissing goes by favor but there is no ILO ground for such a fear lt boeding co eding to briggen brig drig gen enoch if crowder stid jide e advocate general and provost marsh al general who is quoted in te array anny and navy journal as saying the law is specific and allows nor no latitude lali lafi tude to the boards either in the matter rif it registration or in the later matter of 0 exemption from service in fart fact the llie law is self executing every man mail within the age limits fixed must register and the penalty of the law for evasion of registration will tall fall not only oily on the man who tails falls to appear but on any member of a registration boad who may be shown to be in collus loi with the person who attempts to escape his duty the law provides the penalty ot of imprisonment with no alternative ter native of fine for any official or any registered man who shall make a false return or connive at such a practice the safeguards against favoritism or evasion are ample married men are not e exempt from the operation of the draft law merely because they are married As a washington dispatch explains men will be drafted into military service but only when children are not finan bially upon them wives rich in their own right whose husbands fall within the prescribed ago age scale will have to give them up for the period of the war this rule is not general since some same wealthy married men will be numbered among those who are ol of greater potential value to the nation in their usual vocations than they would be at the front many unmarried men with relatives wholly dependent upon their earnings will bo be exempt for this reason it if for no other the religious total exemption clause of the draft dill bill defines one class that may claim exemption as fol follows lovs members of any well organized re legious sect or organization at present organized and existing whose creed forbids its members to participate in war in any form and whose religious convictions are against war or parti potion pation therein in accordance gitil the creed of these religious organizations i other exemption features are arc thu conveniently summarized by the tn ta coma news leader the selective draft dill bill authorizes the president to exempt or to requa le e only partial military service from cus toms house clerks persons employed in the transmission of malls mails artificers artifice rs and workmen employed in the armories and navy yards and such other persons employed in the service of the united states as the president may designate mariners marinero ma actually employed in the service of any citizen or merchant in the united states persons engaged in industries round to be necessary to the maintenance 0 oe the in military N establishment or the elective effective olp ip oration 0 of the military forces force cr the maintenance of the national interests during the emergency persons in a status with respect to pei persons so ns dependent upon them for support makes their exclusion or discharge advisable vi and those found to 1 e c physically or morally unfit it is a question whether those engaged in agriculture would be exempt it appears that the Pres president dent has discretion to decide in this case as well wel as in the case ot of men operating railroads i nobody knows according to the neri ne york evening post exactly what stes apte is will be taken to check up the state ments made by men in undoubtedly some cases false statements will be made and a nd ther are several ways in which such ments might be traced from public re but the best way of all officials belleve believe will be the simple himple expedient followed in england of publishing lists of the men called and exempts exempt eu in every district then it is pointed out if mrs ones whose only son is called calle cF sees that the he only sort son of mrs brown tn n the nest nex t house is exempted the authorities ties are quite certain to hear of any reasons which might prot prompt arit ahem yiem to reconsider young browns Brown sz exemption the british report that this plan lias has elements of human pay cholody that to red tape methods literary digest |