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Show Mllty, post the list, give It to the press ind within three days send notice to each designated person by mall. Persons to Be Exempted. As the men so notified appear, the boards first will make a physical examination exam-ination In accordance with special regulations reg-ulations to be provided, bearing In mind that nil persons nccepted by them will be re-examined by army surgeons. sur-geons. If the physical examination is passed successfully, then comes the question of exemption. Persons who must be exempted or discharged by the local board include: Officers of the United States, of the states, territories and the District of Columbia ; ministers of religion, students stu-dents of divinity, persons In the military mil-itary or naval service of the United States; subjects of Germany, all other aliens who have not taken out first papers, pa-pers, county or municipal officers, custom cus-tom house clerks, workmen in federal armories, arsenals, navy yards, persons per-sons In the federal service designated by the president for exemption, pilots, merchant marine sailors, those with a status with respect to dependents which renders their exclusion desirable desira-ble (a married man with dependent wife or child, son of a dependent wid-' wid-' ow, son of dependent, aged or Infirm parent, or brother of dependent orphan child under 16 years of age) ; those tound morally deficient and any member mem-ber of any wcll-recogn'zed religious sect existing May 18, 1917, whose creed forbids participation in war and whCySe religious convictions gccord with the creed. Claims for exemption because of dependents may be made by the man himself, his wife or otner dependents Dr by a third party who has personally person-ally investigated the case. A claim made by the husbam must be accompanied accom-panied by supporting affidavits signed by ihe wfe nd by the head of lly residing in the same territory. A claim by the wife or a third party must be accompanied by two supporting support-ing affidavits signed by heads of families. fam-ilies. Similar rules govern claims on the grounds of other dependants when the dependents or third parties being authorized to file claims with supporting support-ing affidavits. In each case the board must be satisfied before it grunts ez: emptiou or discharge that the dependent depend-ent or dependents actually are supported sup-ported mainly by the fruits of the man's mental or physical labor. Local betuds are required, subject to appeal, to pass upon claims for exemption ex-emption or discharge within three days after the filing of affidavits. ' District boards must decide appeal cases within five days after the closing clos-ing of proofs and their decisions ai.e final; If the ruling of a local board is affirmed the person in question stands finally accepted for military service. In passing on claims for exemption oa the ground" of employment in necessary nec-essary industrial and agricultural occupations oc-cupations Ihe district boards must be convince that the particular enterprise enter-prise affording such employment actu: ally is necessary to the maintenance of the military establishment or national Interest during the emergency. Certificates of exemption will not necessarily be permanent. They may be revoked with changing conditions or may be granted only for prescribed pemods. Begin Choosing Officers. While the steps are being carried jut for getting together the men of the national army, the war department is making progress with the even more difficult task of finding officers for the force. Part of these will come fjjom the sixteen officers' training camps. The first 10,000 of the 40,000 men at the camps will be selected for, commissions in the first increment of the new army. That is less than half the number of officers necessary, j The war department has approved recommendations of commanders of . regular regiments which will commission commis-sion 3,000 or more regular non-com- missioned officers to be captains in the first 625,000 of the national army. It is understood that more than fifty men from each regiment, in addition I to thoie now at the officers' training camps, will be given commissions for I the period of the war. I A trained and experienced regular ' officer will command each reginieDt of I the national army. To aid him he will ' have several other regular officers experienced ex-perienced in particular lines, such as his adjutant, at least one major and his ordnance and quartermaster officers. offi-cers. Tlje remainder will come from the reserve lists, the training camps or the ranks of the regular service. DRAFT REGULATIONS ISSUEDjpiLSON vNOCLA3S EXEMPTIONS PROVIDED , AND BOARDS WARNED TO RIGID FAIRNESS. impartial Selection of Men to Strengthen Strength-en Our Armies, the Call to tho Colors Coming In September or Soon Thereafter. Washington. Regulations to govern Die next step toward selecting a national na-tional war army from the millions registered reg-istered for servlco Juug 5 were Issued on July 2 at the direction of President Wilson. The regulations make it clear that there are to be no class exemptions end that each Individual ease must be fieekied upon lis merits The local exemption ex-emption boards one for each county of less than 4;T,iX)0 population or city of S0.000, with additional boards whore necessary for each additional 30,000 population will pass upon claims for exemption, except those based upon industrial or agricultural occupation, ubject to appeal to the district boards. All cases Involving agricultural exemptions exemp-tions will be passed upon by the district dis-trict boards one for -each judicial district dis-trict which also 'v. ill decide appeals from decision of the local brurds. In the near future a date-will be Bet by Brigadier General Crowder, provost jnarshal general, for ths meeting and organization of tho boards. At the ante time tt s expected that the selection selec-tion regulations will be promulgated, ! o tills process may be put under way! jvlthout delay. The present intention i Is to call the men selected to the col- j ors about September 1, or as soon thereafter as the cantonments to house them can be completed. Impartlalty Demanded. la a statement accompanying the j unnouncement of the regulations the ' president called upon the boards to do j . their work fearlessly and impartially j and to remember that "our armies at ! the front will be strengthened and, sus- j ialned from men free from any sense : ; of injustice in their mode of selection." The statement follows: .'The regulations which I am today pausing to be promulgated, pursuant to v the direction of the selective service j jaw, cover the remaining steps of the plan for calling into' the service of the UultSd States qualified men from those ! who brjve regislei ed ; those selected as I the result of thlq process to constitute, . with the regular army, the national j guard and the navy, the fighting forces of the nation, all of which forces are under the terms of the law placed in a tcsitlon of equal right, dignity and re-1 s'pectablllty with the members of all other military forces. - "The regulations have been drawn with a view to the needs and circumstances circum-stances of the whole country and pro-1 vide a system, which It is expected ; will work with the least inequality and personal hardship. Any system of se-. lecting men for military service, : whether voluntary of involuntary in its operations, necessarily selects some men to bear the burden of danger and sacrifice for the whole nation. The system here provided places all men t 'of military age upon an even plane 1 and then, by a selection which neither . favors the one nor penalizes the other, calls out the requisite number for ger-yice. ger-yice. Boards Admonished. "The successful operation of this law and of these regulars depends necessarily neces-sarily upon the loyalty, patriotism and j Justice of the members of the boards 1 to whom its operation is committed imd I admonish every member of every local board and of every district board of review that their duty tb their country requires an impartial and fear-" fear-" less performance of the delicate and difficult duties intrusted to them. They Should remember as to each individual case presented to them that they are called upon to adjudicate the most sacred sac-red rights of the individual and to preserve untarnished the honor of the nation. "Our armies at the front will be strengthened and sustained if they be composed of men free from any sense of injustice in the mode of selection and they will be Inspired to loftier efforts ef-forts in behalf of a country in which the citizens called upon to perform high public functions perform them with justice, fearlessness and Impartiality." Impar-tiality." Upon organizing the local boards will take over from the registration boards all registration cards, which they will number serially and list for '. posting to public view. Then after having been advised of the method by - which the order of liability for service hall be determined and of the quota to be drawn from its territory (minus bredits for enlistments in the national gfeard or regular army) each board will (prepare a list of persons designated 8r service in ttw order of their |