The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1917-10-26
ADOPTS
new DRAFT RULES
The Next Call Will Include the
Married as Well as the
Single Men.
DIVIDED INTO FIVE CLASSES
Men Without Dependents Will Be
Called Into Service Of
Nation.

IaAiOIs
Washington, Oct. 23.-The five class
if%ications into which men awaiting
draft will be divided under the new
regulations approved by President
Wilson have become public much be.
fore the time planned by the provost
marshal generals office and are here
published
1t was discovered today that what
was to have remained an official Sc
cret for a week or more was divulged
Saturday night at a dinner in New
York which Secretary Baker and Pro
vost Marshal General Crowder attend
ed. The provost marshal general dis
cussed the new regulations, without
intending to make public the classifi-
cations, but some members OF a New
York local exemption board. thinking
to elucidate the generals speech,
printed the classification on the back
Of the mem card.
How Glasses Are Made Up.
The classifieations are as follows,
and show every mar registered to
which class he belongs and in what
order the different classifications will
be called to service:
Class I.
l. Single men without dependent
relatives.
2, Married man Cor widower with
children) who habitually fails to sup
port his family.
8. Married men dependent on wife
for support.
4. Married man Tor widower with
%children) not usefully engaged, family
supported by income independent of
his labor.
5. Men not included in any other
description in this or other classes.
G.. Unskilled labor.
Class 2.
]. Married man or father Of moth
erless children, usefully engaged, but
family has sufficient income apart
from his daily labor to afford reason
able adequate support during his abb
sence.
2. Married man, no ehildren-wife
can support herself and without hard
ship.
9. Skilled farm laborer engaged in
necessary industrial enterprise.
4. Skilled industrial laborer en-
gagged in necessary agricultural enter.
prise.
County or City Officials In Glass 8.
Class 3.
/. Man with foster children, de-
pendent on daily labor for support.
2. Man with aged, infirm or invalid
parents or grandparents dependent on
daily labor for support.
3. Man with brothers and sisters
incompetent to support themselves de-
pendent on daily labor for support.
4. County or municipal officer.
8. Firemen or policemen.
G.. Necessary artificers or workmen
in arsenals, armories and navy yards.
T.. Necessary customs house clerks.
s.. Persons necessary in transmits
sion Of mails.
8. Necessary employees in service of
United States.
10. Highly specialized administers
tive experts.
IL. Technical or mechanical ex-
perts in industrial enterprises.
70. Highly specialized agricultural
experts in agricultural bureau of state
or nation.
10. Assistant or associate manager
Of necessary Industrial enterprise.
II. Assistant OF associate manager
Of necessary agricultural enterprise.
Wives Must Be Wholly Dependent.
Class 4.
1. Married man, with wife (and)
or children Tor widower with chill
dren), dependent on daily labor fol
support and no other reasonably ade
quate support available.
2. Mariners in sea service Of mer
chants or citizens in United States.
3. Heads OF necessary industrial en-
terprises.
4. Heads OF necessary agriculture.
enterprises.
Class S.
/. Officers of states or the United
States.
2. Regularly or duly ordained min
listers
8. Students OF divinity.
T.. Persons in military or naval ser
vice.
5. Aliens.
6. Alien enemies.
Z. Persons morally unfit.
s.. Persons physically, permanently
or mentally unfit.
8. Licensed pilots.