Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1917 — Page 1

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EXPLAINS CONSCRIPTION

METHODS TO BE USED IN RE- . GARD TO EXEMPTION—BY J. A. DUNLAP.

Attorney John A. Dunlap has furnished us with the following information regarding the conscription procedure. There are three tribunals which are based upon claims for exemption from military service. In each county in the United States and for each city of over thirty thousand there are one or more local exemption boards. 2. In every federal judicial district there are one or more district boards having appellate jurisdiction over a number of local boards and having original jurisdiction of claims for exemption on industrial grounds. The location of the district board having appellate jurisdiction over this local board will be made known within a few days apd will be most probably located at some point in the northwestern part of this state. 3. Appeals may be taken from the district boards on industrial grounds for discharge to the president. These are the three tribunals with jurisdiction to pass upon all claims for exemption or discharge. The local -board of Jasper county is composed of Ben D. McColly, sheriff, Jesse Nichols, clerk of the circuit court, and a physician to be appointed, (Dr. C. E. Johnson having been relieved by reason of he, himself being within the draft age limit. This board has a list of all persons to be drawn for military srevice and arranged in the order in which they will be called. This list will be posted by the local board for public inspection. Therefore, consult your local board as to the order of liability.

As soon as the quotas are assigned to each state and each board, each board will call upon persons whose cards are in its jusisdiction, instructing them to present themselves for examination. This call will be postde in the office of the local board and the papers will be requested to print .it. A notice will also be mailed to you but the posting of the list at the office of the board will be deemed sufficient notice to charge you with the duty of presenting yourself. The law, therefore, makes it your duty to inform yourself when you are called. The mailing is for your convenience, but if the letter never reaches you, you cannot make that an excuse. You must report for physical examination on the day named in your call. It is your duty to report for this examination whether you intend to file a claim for exemption or discharge or not. , . „ If you are found to be physically disqualified, the board will give you a ceritficate which will explain to you ■what your further duties are. If you are,,found physically qualified and file a claim for exemption within seven (7) days after your call, you will be given ten (10) days after filing your claim of exemption to file proof in support of your claim of exemption. The proof can consist entirely of affidavits, blank forms of 'which may be had of the local board, unless the board itself should require additional evidence. If you are found physically qualified and file no claim for exemption or if you do not appear for physical examination your name will be posted to the district board as one who was called for military service and was not exempted or discharged. On the Bth day after call or within two <2) days thereafter, copies of the list of persons so posted to the district boards will be given to the papers with a request for publication, will be posted in a place in the office of the local board accessible to the public view and notice will be mailed

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to you at the address o nyour registration card. Remember, the local boards have no jurisdiction so pass upon claims for exemption on account of industrial or agricultural reasons. The following are the only grounds of exemption passed upon by Die local board: cipal officer. , 2. That you are a customhouse clerk. 3. That you are employed by the United States in the transmission of mails. 4. That you are an artificer or workman employed in an armory, arsenal or navy yard of the U. S. 5. That you are employed in .the service of the United States (under certain conditions). 6. That you are a licensed pilot regularly employed in the pursuit of your vocation. 7. That you are a mariner actually employed in the sea service of any citizen- or merchant within the U. S. That you are a married man .with a wife or child dependent on you for support. 9. That you have a widowed mother dependent upon your labor for support. 10. That you have aged or infirm parents dependent upon your labor for support. 11. That you are the father of a motherless child under 16 dependent upon your labor for support. 12. That you are a brother of an orphan child or children under 16 dependent on your labor for support. 13. That you are a member of any well recognized religious sect or' organization and existent May 18, 1917, and whose then existing creed or principles forbade its members to participate in war in any form and whose religious convictions are against war or participation therein in accordance with the creed or principles of said religious organization. Another person can file a claim in your behalf but must use different forms in filing the claim. From the day notice that you are called is mailed and posted, you have seven (7) days in whiclj you may file a claim of exemption or discharge. If you wish to file such claim you may procure thg forms from the local board or take them from the pamphlet and copy those applicable. The procedure is simple but somewhat exact. Your affidavits must be filed upon the correct theory or your claim will be disregarded. After you have filed your claim for exemption or discharge you have ten days within which to file the proof consisting of* the affidavit.

You will not be allowed to make an argument or introduce any other evidence before the board than the affidavits provide. Then in the event an appeal is proscuted either by the government or by one called for military service, the affidavits submitted to the local board will be reviewed and you are given an additional five (5) days time within which to prepare and present additional affidavits before the appellate tribunal. Every claim for discharge or exemption will be decided by the local board within three (3) days after your affidavits have been filed. If your claim is allowed, a certificate of exemption or discharge will be issued to you but this certificate may be recalled at any time the reasons upon which it is based are removed. Remember, that' your case may be appealed to the district board by the government and on its appeal your ceritficate may be withdrawn at once. When so withdrawn you stand precisely as though you had been selected for military service by the local board. If your claim is disallowed by the lo3tl board your name will be certified and sent by the local board to the district board as one who has been called for military srevice and not exempted or discharged. Within two (2) days thereafter if practicable a list of those so certified to the district board will be given to the papers with a request for publication, will be posted in the offices of the local board accessible to Die public view and notice will be mailed to the address on your registration card. Claims of appeal may be made by a person within ten (10) days after the day when notice has been posted and mailed that such person’s name has been certified to the district board as one who has been called fdr service and exempted or discharged. You have five (5) days after the district board receives your notice that you have filed a claim of appeal iu which to file evidence additional to that filed by you in the local board but all such evidence must consist of affidavits. The decision on your appeal must be made within five (5 days of the closing of proof and you will be notified by mail of the action of the board on your appeal. j Only the district board can receive cl#ftns for discharge on the ground that you are engaged in industry, including agriculture, found to be necessary to the maintenance of the military establishment, the effective operation of the military forces, or the maintenance of national interest during the emergency. Such claims must be filed with the district board on or before the-6th day after the mailing and posting of notice that "you have been certified by the local board as one who has been called for service and not exempted or discharged. Only affidavits can be used in filing proof before the district board, of a claim for exemption on industrial .grounds. .All such affidavits must be filed Wfthin five (6) days after the filing of the claim. The paramount idea is the most efficient maintenance of the government in its military operations. Bey • A t V 4

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, WEpNESDAY, JULY 25, 1917.

EARLY CALL FOR SECOND DRAFT

McADOO TELLS CONGRESS THAT $5,000,000,000 MUST BE RAISED FOR SECOND DRAFT. Washington, July 24.—Plans worked out in congress for raising war revenue were overturned today by announcement of forthcoming additional estimates for war expenditures aggregating more than $5,000,000,000, principally in anticipation of assembling a second army of 500,000 men under the selective draft. Secretary McAdoo at a special meeting of the senate finance committee revealed that the war department alone is preparing estimates to cover additional expenditures of nearly $5,000,000,000 and asked the committee to hold up the $1,670,000,000 war tax bill until the detailed estimates of all departments are submitted. The committee agreed to the request and pigeon-holed a report on the measure which it had planned to submit during the day. Then there will begin another revision of the war revenue measure resulting in an increase of the bill's gross tax levy by from $350,000,000 to $1,500,000,000. Further credits may also be authorized in the form of bonds or indebtedness certificates. Besides the additional sums needed for the American war program Secretary McAdoo told the senate committee that the $3,000,000,000 authorized for the loan to the allies probably will last only to October and about $2,000,000,000 for their further assistance would be needed. The secretary made no recommendation as to what part of the total should be raised by taxes and what part by bond issues or other credits. It was reported, however, that the treasury department would favor raising $1,000,000,000 more than had been planned in taxes, making the tax bill total $2,670,000,000. As to the tax sources to be tapped to meet this new estimate, the committee for the present is entirely at. sea. Mr. McAdoo’s announcement came entirely without warning and more than one committeeman exhimself as completely staggered by the size of the forthcoming estimate. The first disposition was to turn to new taxes on war excess profits and incomes.

Britain Seeks New Credit of $3,250,000,000.

London, July 24.—Chancellor A. Bonar Law moved a vote of a credit for nearly $3,250,000,000 in Commons today. The chancellor announced that for 112 days the average British expenditures was 6,795,000 pounds daily.

WEATHER* Generally fair tonight and Thursday; continued warm.

member that the fact that you are engaged in agriculture is not sufficient cause for your exemption. You must show that your agricultural pursuit is in truth and in fact an industry of value to the government. In other words, if you are producing a crop of weeds you are not conducting an industry valuable to the government and you would be of more value in the army, but if you are contributing materially to the government's products that you have brought about by your own individual energies, then you have a right of claim to exemption. Also as to dependents. Dependents must be supported by the actual physical or mental labor of the applicant. If those termed as dependents are in fact supporting themselves, while the head of the house is unemployed, no claim for exemption will ibe recognized.

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White County Establishes Fine Record of Patriotism.

White county has established a unique record of patriotism that should live long in the history of the state that is noted for its achievements in both the arts of war and the arts of peace. Due to the intense loyalty and patriotism of the young men of White county the exemption board there finds itself without a job. While other communities are preparing' to meet the obligations imposed by conscription, White county goes industriously about the work of assisting in food production and conservation. She has already furnished more than her quota of soldiers for the first call and it will be several months at least before any more of her men are taken, unless the ranks of the regular army and the national guard are further augmented by voluntary enlistments from that source. There will be few if any other counties in the United States that will achieve a similar record and if White county sees fit to assume some rather important airs she will not bO lacking in justification, for her record is one of which she may well feel proud.

Kick Out the Kings.

Economist, July 21, 1917. Kick out the kings and cut the armies down. Humanity has suffered enough in these centuries, it has been obedient to the point of stupidity, it has worshiped idols of flesh and blood. No longer is there a place for patience. Better the unintelligent nambypambyism of William Jennings Bryan than the curse of violence, of hate and the hog disposition in the heart of man. Pull down the rotten throne and see the rats scuttling from a false structure, gilded without and hollow within. Throw out of their palaces the mildewed remnants of medievalism. Send these men to their insane asylums or their penitentiaries. Place among the the pariah class a body of men, members of an imperial trust, now fighting among themselves and fighting only their own battles, who have arrogated to themselves superiority, born of heredity, based on the achievements of men hundreds or thousands of years dead, and depending not at all on statesmanship or any good accomplished for those over whom they rule. It is right that every man shall receive a reward for what he achieves, but is it right to take a child from his nursery, a youth from his dissipations, a woman from her frivolous pleasures and place that person on a throne to rule honest and industrious men, to drag those men to slaughter in pursuit of the wicked ambition of a ruler? The king of the present day is incompetent to rule his people. He has not been selected for his qualifications as a statesman. He is chosen because chance has made him the son of a former ruler and one probably as incompetent as he is. Nature makes no such selection of forces to achieve its purposes, nor do wise men in their business affairs choose for a responsible position a person who happens to be, as the phrase goes, “well born.” . ... It is the medieval worship of kings that ails the world, the superstition that attaches to kinghood. Little ground has Europe to criticise the heathen man who bows down to a wooden idol of hideous face and offensive proportions. But man rises occasionally to a sense of his own error. It was a terrible uprising that we call the French revolution, a strong assertion of manhood that we call the American revolution. We have the results in a sense.of freedom among the western nations sue has our predecessors knew nothing of. Astronomy has given us a new heaven ; democracy is f jving us a new earth. But the proess ip Europe is too slow. It is not right to murder a king, because murder of everybody is wrong, but kick them out. Kick the kings from their offices. They are marplots of human fife; ±hey are an obstacle to progress, they are a reminder of human folly. The time has come. The war must be fought to its finish. Then, when you, the masses of Europe, come to yourselves, come to your own, kick them out- —kick out the kings. A number of kings have passed into nonentity since this article was published and certain of those remaining accept the democratic ideas of the day, notably those of Great Britain and Italy, but further compulsion against this class of individuals is a world necessity. "

WAR NOTES.

Whole Russian line is in retreat and mutiny among the Russian soldiers increases. The onward sweep of the German troops in Galicia has carried them to the Gniema river, near the Russian frontier. They are now fighting to force a passage of the stream near Milkulinco, south of Tarnopol, according to advice from Vienna today. In places the Russians are reported to have retreated -without pressure. Vast supplies of food and arms are being deserted as they rush on. . ~ German West Front Officers sent over with Pershing s army have returned and report that it will be impossible for the allies to make further gains on the western front without additional assistance. They express great, surprise at the strength of the German display on this front. , It is understood- the secretary of the tresury, McAdoo,' will ask for a second loan of $5,000,000,000. The president will call for a second draft of 500,000 men at once.

A WESTERN BOOSTER HERE

COL. A. J. HARMON, OF MITCH. ELL, SOUTH DAKOTA, HERE FOR-A SHORT VISIT. Colonel A. J. Harmon, better known as “Russ” by his Rensselaer friends, arrived in Rensselaer Tuesday afternoon feeling fit and fine and brimful of joy, said joy coming from the fact that he is living in the west, the land of opportunities. Mr. Harmon shipped two carloads of cattle from Mitchell to Chicago and came on down to Rensselaer for a visit with his parents and brother, Louis and family. “Russ” left Rensselaer for Mitchell, South Dakota, about 8 years ago. Mitchell is located in the stock raising district and in Davisson county. Mr. Harmon first engaged in the real estate business after locating in Dakota, but gave that business up after a short time, finding stock raising and farming much more to his liking and also more remunerative. Since leaving this city he has met with great success. He is now engaged in stock raising on a large plane and is also employed by the Swift and Armour plants of Chicago and ! other great western packers to do their buying.. Some time ago Mr. Harmon bought 160 acres of very .fine farm land, valued at SIOO an acre, and has it all in cultivation. He states that the com in that section is doing wonderfully well and that this year’s corn prospects are the greatest that state has ever had. The com acreage is larger than that of all the smaller grains put together. The acreage of oats and wheat this year is not as large as in previous years, but the yield promises to be greater. ~ The two carloads of cattle which Mr. Hannon just shipped to Chicago are the last of five carloads which he dry lot fed himself. The average weight of the cattle was 1425 per •head and sold at $13.60. “Russ” also told of the success that other people from this section were meeting with, which might be of interest to our readers. Samuel Parker, a former Jasper resident, has 400 acres of the best land in the Dakotas and is doing wel. Kenton brothers have 320 acres in cultivation; Mason Kenton 320 acres, and Charles and Fritz Zard each have the same amount. Sherman Lewis, a former Jasperite, is living on a rented farm but is reported to be doing well and obtaining his jusf amount of American dollars. The Dakota booster also swelled up with pride when the conversation turned to war, and told us that eleven counties in the state of South Dakota, including the one in which he lived, would not be required to provide a man for the first draft, as they already had provided their respective shares in the way of enlistments in the national guard of that state, the regular army and the navy. Probably no other state in the union can boast of such a record. It might be of interest to some here to know that Captain Rowley is the head if the Davisson county militia. Mr. Rowley is the son of W. B. Rowley, former citizen of Rensselaer. Capt. Rowley was on the border last summer, at which time he became acquainted with a number of the members of Company M. Mr. Harmon will leave tomorrow for a short visit in Illinois before re turning to Dakota.

Hog Cholera Meeting Was Held.

A meeting of farmers interested in the control of the hog cholera outbreak which has appeared in Keener township was held at the DeMotte school building Tuesday evening. The meeting was called to order by Dr. R. Y. Ooosten, who introduced Dr. Kannal, of the state veterinarian’s office, who spoke of the necessity of prompt and united effort in the control of the disease. He stated that he had no doubt but that the epidemic could be stamped out by vigorous measures. County Agent learning stated the advantages of a community organization in handling all problems Which required united action on the part of the farmers. It was decided to form an organization in Keener township and a meeting will be held Friday evening, August 3rd, in the DeMotte school building for that purpose. The following committee is.in charge of the arrangements: Dr. R. Y. Oosten, Harry Feldman, John Xoppen, S. T. Chenoweth. All farmers are invited to attend this meeting and bring their families.

NOTICE. A' special meeting of the officers and executive committee of the Jasper County Poultry Association is hereby called to meet at 7:3o'Friday evening, July 27%, at the Office of the county agricultural agent, for the purpose of arranging for prizes and premiums to be awarded to exhibitors at the next poultry and corn show. All officers are requested, and members and other persons interested, are cordially invited to attend the meeting. J. M. SAUSER, Pres. A. E. WALLACE, Sec’y.

NOTICE. All dogs must be kept up or they will be killed. VERN ROBINSON. Guy m— fc* 1

"Sammies” Will Have Something Besides Beans.

Uncle Sam’s soldiers in France won’t be obliged to subsist on the ordinary "beef and beans” popularly supposed to be the only army edibles. Food contracts placed by the government show the American fighters will have four kinds of tea, coffee and plenty of granulated sugar, pickles, all sorts of peppers and spices, potatoes, onions, flour for biscuits, hard bread, cane syrup, vanilla and lemon flavorings, lard, butter, canned and dried fish, vegetables, apples and peaches. _

Indianapolis, Ind., July 23.—Horace Ellis, superintendent of public instruction of Indiana, returned to his office in the state house today after an absence of two weeks at Portland, Oregon, where he attended the sessions of the National Educational Society. For a number of years Dr. Ellis has been a prominent figure in this organization. This year his work in the office of superintendent of public instruction had attracted so much favorable attention throughout the country that he was forced to take a leading part in the proceedings of the convention, having a place on the official program. Dr. Ellis’s management of the state office to which he was elected last November is meeting with the hearty indorsement of leaders in national educational circles. He started right by surrounding himself with the most efficient assistants that it was pos- * sible for him to find in the state of Indiana. A spirit of hearty and helpful co-operation among the em~ ployes has developed to such an extent as to warrant the belief that Dr. Ellis will establish a new high standard of efficiency during his incumbency of the office. Charles A. Greathouse, Dr. Ellis’ predecessor in office, on being appointed to a federal position recenty, felt constrained to issue a public statement in which be declared solemnly that during his incumbency of the office of superintendent of public instruction he never allowed politics m in any way influence his action. To the faces of those who have been in close touch with this office during recent years, Greathouse’s protest brought smiles., The fact remains that the democratic state machine thought so well of Greathouse’s political activities that it placed him in the position of democratic state chairman shortly after he retired from his public office. If he had not been a finished political strategist he would never have been chosen ror this position. Greathouse’s statement that during his term of office he never allowed politics to enter in any way into the operation of the officii is in sharp contrast to the statement said to have been made by Dr. Robert L. Kelley, president of Earlham college, when he was a candidate for re-ap-pointment in 1914 as a member of the state board of education, of which Greathouse was then chairman. Dr. Kellye’s reported statement follows: “Perhaps the best evidence that I caik offer of the political complexion of the state board of education as it is at present constituted consists in . the remark of the governor, who said, when one of my friends some time ago called upon him to urge my reappointment to the board—‘Tell me, will you* what the Quakers have ever done for the democrats?’ ”

Two Bands Will Give Concert Here Sunday Evening.

The Wolcott and Rensselaer bands will give a concert on the court house lawn next Sunday evening following the vesper services. In the afternoon the Rensselaer band will go to Wolcott, where a concert will be rendered. V

LARGE FARM FOR RENT. We still have a large farm for rent. Rensselaer quarters. Write or phone, James Walter, Manager Lawler Ranches, Rensselaer, Indiana, Phone 337.

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