The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-21
QUESTIONABLE WHICH SELECTED
men MUST FILL OUT AT ONCE
Nine Million Are To Receive The Document;
Probably Two Million Are To Be
Drawn For Service
UNITED Press Dispatch.

Washington, December 14.-Begin-
ming tomorrow voluntary enlistments
in the United States army, of regis
tered men will be forbidden, except
as to certain medical and dental
students.
Uncle Sam will select his fighting
men from the list of nine million men
who on tomorrow will answer las
searching questions the answers to
which will determine his liability to
military service.
The questionable automatically re-
vokes all exemptions and discharges
under the first draft. Failure to re-
turn his answers in seven days after
he receives the questions makes the
registrant liable to year in prison.
Mailing of the list by the local board
constitutes legal notice to the regis
trant. His failure to receive it does
not excuse him.
The questions are framed to draw
out every bit of information that may
be of value to the boards in fixing
the class to which a man is to be
assigned. No detail of the status OF
dependents, or of possible or actual
outside sources of income, has been
overlooked.
The registrant, after filling in the
inside of his QUESTIONABLE, indicates
on the front the class to which he be-
lieves he should be assigned. If the
board agrees, there is no further &C
ton necessary by either party until
the individual comes due for military
service and is called up for physical
examination. If the board disagrees
and places the registrant in another
class, the machinery for appeal to
the district board is set in motion
automatically.
Of the nine million men who will
receive the lengthy questionable it is
estimated two million will be assign
ed to the first class and subject to
duty with the colors before any man
in any other class is called.
The first class will be made up OF
the following:
(A) Single man without depend
ent relatives.
OBJ Married man, with or without
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 with
out children, or father of motherless
children; man not usefully engaged
family supported by income indie
pendent of his labor.
(E) Unskilled farm labor.
(F) Unskilled industrial labor
Registrant by or in respect of whom
no deferred classification is claimed
or made Registrant who fails to sub
NIT QUESTIONABLE and in respect of
whom no deferred classification is
claimed or made.
All registrants not included in any
other division in this schedule.
Legal and medical advisory boards
in every community will aid the
registrant in making his answers. He
will indicate in what occupations he
considers himself expert and from
that list it is purposed to create sep
! arate groups Of men trained in any
particular trade or profession should
the need arise for them.
The men will be divided into five
classes. The fifth composed of the
following will be exempted or dis
charged from draft.
(A) Officers, legislative, executive
or judicial, of the United States OF
of state, territory, or District OF
Columbia.
OBJ Regular or duly ordained
minister of religion.
Co Student who on May 1S, 1917
was preparing for ministry in rec
ognized school. Il
CD Persons in military or naval
service of United States.
(E) Alien enemy.
Cd Resident alien (not an enc
my who claims exemption.
60 Person totally and permanent