River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-11-22
US. SENDS OUT
DRAFT CALL TO
100000 men
All Registrants Required to Fill
Out QUESTIONABLE Classify
ing Order of Call.
INVENTORY OF MAN POWER
Five Divisions to Be Formed Depend
ing on Occupation and Claims for
Exemption AlIowed-Local Boards
Will Help Registered Men.

Washington, Nov. 16.-Uncle Sam
has begun the most gigantic inventory
of man power ever attempted.
Preparations for the second draft
| were started when copies Of the ques-
tionnaire for every one Of the nine
million men registered for military
service were sent to the local exemp-
| ton boards.
This QUESTIONABLE must be filled out
by every registered man between the
ages Of twenty-one and thirty-one. 1t
| will place in the hands Of the gov
eminent the life history Of every reg
| istered man and will give complete
census of the men of military age in
| 81 trades, industries and professions.
The QUESTIONABLE will classify all reg
istered men for service.
Classification of registered men in
the order of their liability for military
service will be the first accomplish
ment of the questionable. Men will
be classified in five divisions, the first
division to be called the first and the
fifth division last.
The classes and the order in which
they will be called are as follows:
CLASS I.
Single men without dependent rela-
tives.
Married man, with or without chill
dren, or father of motherless children,
who has habitually failed to support
his family.
Married man dependent on wife for
support.
Married man, with or without chill
dren, or father of motherless children;
man not usefully engaged, family sup
ported by income independent Of his
labor.
Unskilled farm laborer.
Unskilled industrial laborer.
Registrant by or in respect Of whom
no deferred classification is claimed
or made.
Registrant who fails to submit ques-
tionnaire and in respect of whom no
deferred classification is claimed or
made.
All registrants not included in any
other division in this schedule.
CLASS 2.
Married man with children or father
Of mOtherless children where such wife
or children or such motherless chill
dren are not mainly dependent upon
his labor for support for the reason
that there are other reasonably certain
sources Of adequate support (exclud-
ing earnings or possible earnings from
the labor Of the wife) available, and
that the removal Of the registrant will
not deprive such dependent of support.
Married man, without children,
whose wife, although the registrant is
engaged In useful occupation, is not
mainly dependent upon his labor for
support, for the reason that the wife
Is skilled in some special class of work
which she is physically able to perform
and In which she is employed, or in
which there is an immediate opening
for her under conditions that will en-
able her to support herself decently
and without suffering or hardship.
Necessary skilled farm laborer in
necessary agricultural enterprise.
Necessary skilled industrial laborer
in necessary Industrial enterprise.
CLASS 8.
Man with dependent children (not
his OWN, but toward whom he stands
in relation Of parent.
Man with dependent aged or inf1rm
parents.
Man with dependent helpless broth
ers or sisters.
County or municipal officer.
Highly trained fireman or policeman,
at least three years in service Of mu-
nicipality.
Necessary customhouse clerk.
Necessary employee of United States
in transmission of the mails.
Necessary artifcer or workman In
United States armory or arsenal.
Necessary employee in service of
| United States.
Necessary assistant, associate or
hired manager of necessary agricul-
tural enterprise.
Necessary highly specialized techni-
| cal or mechanical expert of necessary
| industrial enterprise.
Necessary assistant or associate
manager of necessary industrial enter
prise.
CLASS q.
Man whose wife or children are
mainly dependent on his labor for
| support.
Mariner actually employed in sea
service of citizen or merchant in the
United States.
Necessary sole managing, control
| ling or directing head of necessary
agricultural enterprise.
| Necessary sole managing, control
ling or directing head of necessary
/ industrial enterprise.
CLASS 5.
Officers-legislative executive or
| judicial-of the United States or of
state. territory CT District of Colum-
J bia.
| Regular or duly ordained minister
| Of religion.