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Show DRAFT REGULATIONS ME rap UPON Rules I'nder Which the Board Will Work Will he Issued hy President Wilson. EXEMPTION CLAUSES FINALLY DETERMINED Few Roads Will Be Open to Eligible Men to Escape Service in Some Branch. WASHINGTON, June 20 Exemp-1 tion regulations were whipped into final shape at the cabinet meeting today. to-day. They have now been formally approved and President Wislon probably prob-ably will promulgate them within the next forty-eight hours. With few exceptions the rules are the same as contained in the draft submitted to President Wilson by Provost Marshall eneral Crowder. It is understood the president eliminated certain exemptions, as he is known to hold the belief that every man in the nation must take his share in the war, whether on the battlefront or not, and work within the country upon war duties will be found for many who are unfit physically to go into the trenches. Information emanating from the White House during the last two days has led to the belief that the draft will be much heavier, eventually, eventu-ally, than has been suspected. Exemption Grounds. The grounds on which exemptions will be made became known today. They follow: 1. Physical incapacity. Crippled persons, if drafted, will, of course, have to appear before a medical examiner, ex-aminer, but will be immediately ex cused from service. In the first '625,-000 '625,-000 conscripts the following physical ailments will disqualify: Heart disease, dis-ease, flat feet, eye disease or derangements derange-ments which cannot be cured by glasses, tuberculosis and other chest diseases, cancer, serious affection of the kidneys and liver, varicose veins, infectious blood diseases. 2. Employment in vital war industries. indus-tries. These include ship building, munition makers, work in gun factories, factor-ies, navy yards, oil fields, coal mines, certain duties in government departments depart-ments and certain factory work or. other army supplies. There latter eventually will be turned over to workmen and the men will be released for army service. 3. The conscription act specifically provides exemption for persons of religious re-ligious beliefs opposed to war. To secure such exemption, however, a man must iiave been a member of the faith in question before March 15, 1917. Men the sole support of families. Cover Whole Field. The exemptions enumerated above cover practically the entire field. The regulations to be issued by President Wilson will be long and will go into each exemption at length, dealing with its various phases, explaining under which aspects of it exemption will be granted and under which a claim for exemption will not hold. But, broadly speaking, there will be few roads open for any eligible person per-son to escape service should he be unpatriotic un-patriotic enough to wish to. With the publication of the exemption exemp-tion board today the preliminary machinery ma-chinery for handling the draft was almost completed. All that now remains re-mains is the publication by the prcsi dent of the rules for the board's guidance guid-ance and the setting of a day for the draft. The latter will be done within the next two weeks, according to all indications at the White hooM and WM department. |