The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1917-12-15
QUESTIONABLE BEING DISTRIBUTED.
Local Board Begins Sending Out List of Questions Which
Registrars Must Answer-Basis of Classification of
Every Man Of Draft Age Not Now in Actual Military
Service-Five General Groups Contemplated.
Every registered man not already

Every registered man not alread,
in military service is affected by th
new draft regulations issued from th
office of the provost marshal general
Unmarried men without dependen
relatives make up the bulk of Class /
from which all the physically sounC
men will be drawn before calling tx
the colors any one from Glasses II
III, " or Y.
| The first step in the classification
of men into these FIVE groups to de
termine their priority for military
service was taken today, when the To-
cal board began mailing to regis
trants the QUESTIONABLE, a sixteen
page pamphlet to be filled out by the
registrant and returned to the loca
board within seven days.
The QUESTIONABLE, which is the
basis of the new system, is collec.
ton of questions bringing out the es-
sential facts upon which the classified
tions are made. 1t is the only printed
form which any registrant needs to
use, either in making claims or filing
proof a
The group of registrants within the
| jurisdiction of each local board is
taken as the unit to be classified.
| Within each class the order of liabil-
ity is determined by the drawing
which has hitherto assigned to every
man an order of availability for mill
tary service relative to all men not
permanently or temporarily exempted
or discharged. The effect of elassif-
cation in Glass / lis to render every
man SO classified presently liable to
military service in the order deter
mined by the national drawing.
The effect of classification in Glass
II is to grant temporary discharge
from draft, effective until Class / in
the jurisdiction Of the same local
board is exhausted. The effect of
classification in Class III is to grant
temporary discharge from draft, eff
fective until Glasses / and IL in the
jurisdiction of the same local board
are exhausted; and, similarly, Glass
w becomes liable only when Classes
I, III and III are exhausted. The effect
of classification in Glass v is to grant
exemption or discharge from draft.
The term deferred classification"
as used in these regulations is
equivalent to the term temporary
discharge"
Registrars Must Keep Posted.
In regard to ling notices to-
|registrants OF duties they will be re-
quired to perform, it is provided that
either the mailing or the entry of
such date in the classification list
shall constitute the giving of notice
to the registrant and to all concerned,
and shall charge the registrant and all
concerned with notice of the day up
on which such duty is to be perform
ed or the beginning of the running
of the time within which such duty is
to be performed or such right or
privilege may be claimed, regardless
Of whether or not mailed notice or
QUESTIONABLE is actually received by
the registrant or other person.
All registrants and other persons
are required and strictly enjoined TO
examine from time to time the notice
posted by the local board in it's office
showing the progress of the eiasslfl-
cation and the list of registrants, IN
order to be informed of the time for
the performance of any duty or the
exercise of any right or privilege; and
it is the duty of every registrant con-
cerning whom any notice is posted,
but who for some reason has not re-
ceiyed the QUESTIONABLE or notice, as
the case may be, to apply to his local
board for copy thereof. Failure TO
receive notice or QUESTIONABLE will
not excuse the registrant from per-
forming any duty within the time
limit, nor shall it be in ITSELF ground
for extension of time.
Failure to return the questionnaire
to the local board filled out in ac-
cordance with instructions is mis-
demeanor, punishable by fine or i'm
prisonment for one year, and may re-
suit in the loss of valuable rights and
in immediate induction into military
service.
All registrants, except enemy
aliens. who fail to return the ques-
tionnaire waive their claims to de-
ferred classification and are recorded
in Class /.
Claims for Exemption.
All claims for exemption or for de-
ferred classification are to be indl-
Gated on the first page of the question
naire simply by placing cross (D
opposite the division of each class that
states the ground of claim.
The regulations provide further:
"All exemptions and discharges made
prior to the date of these rules and
regulations, and all certificates. in
evidence thereof, are hereby revoked,
and all such certificates heretofore is
sued shall have no further validity.
sIn any case of deferred classifica-
ton made under these rules and regu-
lations the Secretary of War may or
der such deferred classification, and
any certificate issued in evidence
thereof, to be revoked and rescinded,
and the registrant to be transferred
to any less deferred class designated
by the secretary; except only as to
such registrants as have been placed
in Glass v on account of legal exemp-
tion."
In promulgating these rules of the
War Department the president caIsl
,upopethe whole legal protection tipf
'AheRUnited States to act as asssts Ats
Ii 1sgistrants in filling out they efes-
tionnaires. A place will be provided
convenient to every local board where
registrants may go for free advice and
assistance in making out this doeu-
ment.
Registrants may fill out their cues.
IL. fhnyr
filled out by whomsoever they wish
but to complete the same it is neces
sary that they appear before some one