The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-11-15
ALL EXEMPTIONS
ARE REVOKED
NEW QUESTIONABLE CHANGES
DRAFT REGULATIONS.
HITS EVERY REGISTERED MAN
Previous Records Are All Wiped Out
and Severe Penalties Are Provid-
ed--conscripts viii Have Right
To Choose Their Class.

By George W. Martin, the United
Press Staff Correspondent, Washing
ton, Nov. 1.-THE eagerly expected
QUESTIONABLE for the remaining nine
million drafted registrants TO answer,
beginning December Is, was made
public today.
1t constitutes the exact require
ments of each man who is left in the
draft as to his life and health and
will determine through the action of
the local draft board the order in
which he is to be called into the
active military service.
All Exemptions Revoked.
This QUESTIONABLE automatically
revokes all the exemptions and the
discharges under the first draft.
Failure to return the answer to
the QUESTIONABLE in seven days after
he received the QUESTIONABLE makes
the registrant liable to one year in
the federal prison. Such men may
be certified in the first call.
The local board is at the head of
the registrant receiving his question.
naire, and in case that he does not
receive one does not in any way ex-
cuse him for he knows that he is
expected to get one and should be on
the lookout.
Penalties Are Severe.
If after the answers to the ques-.
tionnaire are written and sent back,
if the status of man changes and
he does not report it to the local
board within five days he is also sub
ject to one year in the prison.
The minimum of the number OF
questions to be answered on the card
is to be twenty-six' and the maximum
is one hundred.
Other Records Wiped Out.
Once filling out of the question
nafre constitutes each mans COM
plete record with the government. All
the previous records along the draft
subject will be wiped out by the
questionable.
On the basis of the draft mans
answers to the local board will veri-
fly him as to. which of the five classes
he belongs and the fifth class will be
exempted or discharged from the
draft. 80.
A man is now liable to have to
serve in another class following the
new draft of the lottery here July 20.
Can Name His own Glass.
Supports of an affidavit by another
person must be secured by the regis
trant if he claims exemption on the
grounds that he is preparing for the
or that he has a dependent
upon him and one who is solely in
need of his support, or on any indus
trial or agricultural grounds.
A man is permitted to name the
class which he thinks he belongs in,
and each man is provided with a
blank with which to make an appeal
to the president, from the draft
boards classification If unsatisfac-
tory to the registrant.
The board must give Is; reasons
for putting a man in a certain class
of which he did not choose.
May Not Need Many More.
Washington, Nov. 14.-Men placed
other than in class one in the new
draft probably will ever be called in
to service the war department officials
stated here today.
One official said that he did not be
lieve that the government would get
beyond the middle of class if all the
six hundred thousand boys who have
the age of 81 since the draft
law became effective, but he said that
undoubtedly class /, would be the
only one used.