The Springdale news., 1917-11-23
ALL EXEMPTIONS
 ARE REVOKED
New Selective Service Regulations Cancel All Exemptions and Restore Each Man to His Original Status.

The five classes into which 9,O0O,- 900 men registered for military duty and those who are registered here after-are divided and the order in which they will be called for service were announced last week in the pro- vost marshal generals questionnaire, which every registered man must fill out and file.
 As the first step in the new elassi- fication Provost Marshal General Crowder has directed local Exemption Boards to compile the information contained in their docket sheets and registration cards.
 2,0O0,000 in Class l.
 Best available estimates indicate that the first of the five classes into which all draft registrants are to be divided will contain more than 2,0O0,- GOO men, subject for duty with the colors, before any man in any other class will be called up.
 It is regarded as practically certain that Congress will take up the ques- tion of extending the draft law to cover men who have attained the age of 21 since 1t was enacted. Should that be done and provision made for the registration thereafter of every man as he reached that age, It is prob able that perhaps 600,000 would be added to class l automatically by next March In that event no pres ent plans for the army wclld reach t:e .ren in class ,.
 Contrary to some published reports, the ew order does rot exempt mar ried men as a class, but it does place married men with dependent wives and children far down on the list of fables. The questionnaire indicates that only men of the first class will be called to the colors, except in the gravest emergency. The five official liIdllOIlS O1 e&Iibo IOAioW
 The Five Classes.
 Class 1-fa) Single men without de- pendent relatives. (b) Married man with or without children, or father of motherless children, who has habitual- ly failed to support his family. (c) Married man dependent on wife for support (d) Married man, with or without children, or father of mother less children; man not usefully engag- ed, family supported by income inde- pendent of his labor (e) Unskilled farm laborer (f) Unskilled industri- al laborer. Registrant by or in respect of whom no deferred classification is claimed or made. Registrant who fails to submit questionnaire and in re spect of whom no deferred classified tion is claimed or made. All regis trants not included in any other divis- ion in this schedule.
 Class No. 2.
 Class 2-(a1 Married man with ehil- dren or father of motherless children, where such wife or children or such motherless children are not mainly de- pendent upon his labor for support for the reason that there are other req Sonably certain sources of adequate support (eXcluding earnings or possi- ble earnings from the labor of the wife) available, and that the removal of the registrant will not deprive such dependents of support. tb) Married man without children, whose wife, al- though the registrant is engaged in a useful occupation, is not mainly de- pendent upon his labor for support, for the reason that the wife is skilled Tn 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 enable her to support herself decently and