A DEMOCRATIC ARMY
PRESIDENT WILSON'S RECRUITING POLICY " ALL MEN ON AN EQUAL PLANE" Washington, July 2. President "Wilson lias proclaimed regulations to govern the drafting of recruits. Tboso exempt include .indispensable worker's, those engaged in military and national industries, the sole supporters of children, wives, parents, brother, or sister, the members of well-recog-nised religious Eects who are conscientious objectors, ordained ministers, Federal ana State EegTslativc, Judicial arid Executive officers, uliens who have not taken out their first naturalisation papers, workmen in armouries, arsenals, and navy yards, pilots,' mariners in the merchant sen-ice, criminals, and the mentally deficient. Tho drawing will bo held in Washington. Local exemption boards are to be provided for every 20,000 recruits, and also appeal boards in eacli Federal district.
President Wilson says:—"Tho system is designed to meet tho needs and circumstances of the whole country with the least inequality of personal hardship. All men are on an equal plane." He points out that tho boards must impartially and fearlessly perform thoir delicate and difficult tasks—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3127, 4 July 1917, Page 7
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171A DEMOCRATIC ARMY Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3127, 4 July 1917, Page 7
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