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Show BOARD CERTIFIES 27 FROM FIRST 120 MEN EXAMINED The Beaver county exemp- tion board has certified to the following twenty-seven ' names as accepted for army service. Most of them are single men and several of them enlisted before they were drawn in the draft. These twenty-seven were secured from the first lot of 120 names. Following is the disposition made of the first 120 names up to this time: 120 called 26 physically disabled 1 dead 40 married (some may be refused re-fused exemption) 5 aliens 3 married men physically disabled 3 Americans failed to report, but sent for transfers later 27 certified to as accepted. The remaining 15 are said to be aliens, mostly Mexicans, who have left the country and have hot been located. The exemption board has notified the next two hundred on the draft list to appear in relays for "examination. "examina-tion. Accepted and Certified H. L. Robinson, enlisted B. J. Lund C I. Nevins Lester Briggs Gilbert Smith D. C. Rolphing Jas. M. Low Claude Teele Enos Street A. M. Newkirk Richard Camp, enlisted A. E. Green W. K. Dawson T. R. Hicken John E. Earle E. V. Walker W. E. Warby Stanley Griffiths L. D. Webster, enlisted Theo. Kronholm J. B. Smithson C. P. Huntington A. C. Johansen Chas. W. James B. Swindlehurst K. Thompson D. A. Clark It is now claimed that the local exemption boards of Utah are largely large-ly responsible for the large number of claims for exemption being, filed. For political or friendship reasons the members are said to suggest to men who had no intention of filing application for exemption some trivial triv-ial excuse for exemption and in aiding aid-ing in making a case for the applicant. appli-cant. Such action on the . part of the boards is entirely out of harmony with the spirit of the draft act. The main idea of the draft is to secure a large and efficient army as quickly as possible. The act was passed for the benefit of the Government and not for the individual. In Beaver "county there were only five out of the first 123 names called that did not apply for exemption. Of course many of these will fail to secure se-cure exemption it is expected. Because of the surprisingly large number applying for exemption the rules and regulations governing exemptions ex-emptions have been made more definite def-inite and less lax. All the chairmen of draft boards in Salt Lake City met a few days since and adopted the following rules, entirely eliminating some of the excuses for draft applications: appli-cations: Claims To Be Rejected 1. Single men making claims for discharges on the ground of dependencies. depend-encies. 2. Married men who were married since the declaration of war who claim discharge on account of the dependencies de-pendencies of their wives. 8. Married men without children who claim discharge on account of the dependency of their wives. 4. All others not enumerated who claim discharge on account of having one dependent. In outlining this stringent policy the board chairmen took into consideration consid-eration the fact that a soldier's pay is $30 per month, that his sustenance, suste-nance, housing, clothing and medical attention are furnished entirely by the government, and that he may without hardship to himself easily allot $25 of his monthly pay to a . dependent. With so drastic an alteration in the standing of exemption claims it is believed that exemptions thus far granted may be reconsidered. They will not all be revoked, as a fair portion of them escape even the final restrictions set, but they will all be viewed again in the light of the impressive "tightening" policy, so that no question may arise as to the equitable and equal treatment of all claims. |
