Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-12-19
OUESTIONNAIRES
BEING SENT OUT.
New Basis for Second Draft Requires
Answer to 148 Questions. Must
Answer in Seven DAYS.

The local exemption board of which
Fl. B. Cushman of Newport is clerk,
has begun the mailing of the ques-
tiOnnaires to the registrants in Or
leans county who are not now serving
in the new army. Over 100 of these
forms were sent out Saturday and
they will be sent out every few days
until all of the 1886 men who regis
tered in Orleans county have these
new draft blanks and regulations.
The only exception will be in the cas-
es where men have actually been
called and accepted under the old
regulations, because the new order
revokes all former exemptions, and
puts every man back to his original
status with the board.
Upon receipt of the QUESTIONABLE
by the registrant he has seven days
in which to fill the blank out, make
oath to it and return to the eXemp-
tion board. The board will then re-
classify the men according to the new
regulations as outlined in this article.
1t is expected 100000 men in the
nation will come under the first class
and will all be subject to service be-
fore any of the second class will be
called. The second-class men will in
turn all be subject to draft before
The QUESTIONABLE automatically
revokes all exemptions and discharg-
es under the first draft. Failure to
return his answers in seven days af-
ter he receives the questions makes
the registrant liable to one year in
prison. Mailing Of the list by the To-
cal board constitutes legal notice to
the registrant. His failure to re-
ceive it does not excuse him.
If the registrant can fill out his
QUESTIONABLE without help, we'll and
good, but if he needs or desires aid
he should consult any lawyer who can
give the necessary aid.
Each .registrant before beginning
to fill out the answers to questions
propounded is advised to read very
carefully the first three pages of the
booklet and not to begin writing an
sWers, which begin on page four, I'M
til this has been done. Then, before
answering the questions under each
series, of which there are II, to read
the instructions at the beginning of
each. After these have been an
swered and the affadavits made out
and sworn to, the registrant indi-
Gates on the front of the pamphlet
the class to which he believes he
should be assigned. If the board
| dSESeS LncEc IS TO IIrJnSf acClOn ne
cessary by either party until the in
: dividual comes due for military SER
vice and is called for medical exam
ination. If the board disagrees and
places the registrant in another class,
the machinery is set in motion auto
matically for appeal to the district
board
All of the questions are framed to
draw out every bit of information
that may be of value to the local
board in fixing the class to which the
man is to be assigned. No detail of
the status of dependents or of possi-
BILE or outside sources of income, has
been overlooked. Supporting affi-
davits of other persons must be Sc
cured by every registrant who claims
exemption or deferred liability on
grounds of studying for the ministry,
dependency and industrial and agri-
cultural grounds. The classes, of
which there are five, to which the
registrants will be assigned are as
: follows:
CLASS ONE.
(A) Single man without depen-
dent relatives.
OBJ Married man, with or with
, out children, or father of motherless
children, who has habitually failed to
support his family.
CO. Married man dependent on
wife for support.
Cd Married man, with or without
children, or father of motherless chill
dren; man not usefully engaged,
family supported by income indepen-
dent of his labor.
\ (E) Unskilled farm labor.
CD Unskilled industrial laborer.
Registrant by or in respect of whom
no deferred classification is claimed
or made. Registrant who fails to
submit QUESTIONABLE and in respect
of whom no deferred classification is
claimed or made.
All registrants not included in any
other division in this schedule.
CLASS TWO.
(A) Married man with children
or father of motherless children where
such wife or children or such mother
less children are not mainly depend
ent upon his labor for support for
the reason that there are other rea-
sonably certain sources of adequate
support Excluding earnings or pos
| sible earnings of the labor of the
wife )available, and that the removal
of the registrant will not deprive the
dependents of such support.
(B) Married man without chill
dren, whose wife, although the regis
trant is engaged in useful occupa-
ton, is not mainly dependent upon
his labor for support, for the reason
that the wife is skilled in some spe-
cial class of work which she is physi-
cally able to perform and in which
she is employed, or in which there is
an immediate opening for her under
conditions that will enable her to
support herself decently and without
suffering or hardship.
CO. Necessary skilled farm la
borer in necessary agricultural en-
terprise