Show GROWDER SCORES DRAFT DODGERS EIGHTY PER CENT OF MEN CALLED UP IN SOME DISTRICTS DISTRICTS DISTRICTS DIS DIS- DIS- DIS ASK FOR RELIEF I Wholesale Claims for Exemption From Military Service Rt Recruits in Inv In In Instructions to Local Boards to Reduce Reduce Re Re- duce Discharges for Dep Dependency Wholesale Washington Wholesale claims for exemption from the army draft reported reported reported re re- re- re ported from many sections caused Provost Marshal General Crowder to telegraph the governors of the time states Thursday night directing that local boards reduce discharges for dependency dependency dency to a n far more restricted and to I very necessitous and clearly defined circumstances In some districts as high as ns 80 per percent percent percent cent of the time registrants called for examination examination examination ex ex- are filing claims for discharge discharge dis dis- charge harge on the tile ground of dependent depend nt relatives General Crowder said that unfair advantage Is being taken of the regulations designed to protect men who properly should be bo exempted from the military service and actually threatens to Interfere seriously with the raising of the national army General Crowder declares that the controlling necessity is to raise an nn army array It Is advisable to disturb dependents dependents dependents de de- just as little as the necessity of raising an army will permit To this end section 18 of the regulations was compiled carefully and after the most earnest consideration If experience experience exper expel lence Is to prove that the generous conditions conditions con con- prescribed by section 18 16 or any abuse of them will Interfere with the raising of any arm army then it Is no longer advisable to discharge so wide a class and the conditions stated therein will have to be restricted until until until un un- un- un til an on advisable rule is reached It is true truc that cases of discharge on the ground of dependency are appealed appealed appealed ap ap- pealed to the time district board but this clause cillus is only Inserted to secure uniformity uni ml of action District boards are areto areto areto to examine these cases to discover departures from the law regulations and und rulings and they will not and can cannot cannot cannot not open every case on its merits ItIs It ItIs Itis Is In the time local boards alone therefore therefore therefore there there- fore that the thc solution of the difficulty t ty and the protection of deserving claimants lies |