The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-11-24
DRAFTED MEN
MUST FILL
BLANKS
Form OF QUESTIONABLE Used i'm New
Draft System Received
Here
SEVEN DAYS Is LIMIT
TO ANSWER QUESTIONS
Method Is Designed to Classify All
Registrars for Next
Call

A copy of the official question
naire for the second draft has been
received for publication through the
Associated Press.
The QUESTIONABLE consists of 16
pages and near the top of the first
it says: Notice to registrant-You
are required by law to return this
QUESTIONABLE filled out in accord
ance with instructions contained
herein within seven days from date
of this notice. Failure to do so is
a misdemeanor punishable by fine or
imprisonment for n year and may
result in the loss of valuable rights
and jim immediate induction into
military service"
There is a space for the stamp of
the local board and others for the
date and signature of a member of
the board. This is what is referred
to by within seven days from date
of this notice." No copies have yet
been received by the Esmeralda
county board.
The first page of the question
naire is devoted to the five classes
into which the drafted men will be
divided according to their liability
for service. to the waiver of all
olainc for ovop,ptiop hy porcopo
other than the registrant and to a
ce~rtification by a person other than
the registrant that the registrant
properly belongs to the class and di-
vision of the class he says he does.
Each class has from four to nine
subdivisions. The first class, those
to be called first, consists of single
men without dependent relatives,
married men who have failed to sup
port families, unskilled laborers ana
those who fail to return to the local
boards the missionaries properly
filled out. In this class also are men
whose families are Independent of
their labor for support.
The second class consists Of men
whose wives or families are not
mainly dependent OF their labor for
support for the reason thai there are
other reasonably certain sources of
support, excluding earnings or posi-
BILE earnings of the wife, and men
whose wives are skilled workers, en-
gagged in a useful occupation or in
which there is an immediate opening
for her under conditions that will
enable her to support herself. In
this class also are skilled farm and
industrial laborers.
The third class consists of men
with dependent children not their
own, but toward whom they stand in
the relation of parent; men with de-
pendent, aged or infirm parents, men
with dependent helpless brothers or
sisters, and county or municipal Of
ficers. Many others are in this class,
including employees of post offices,
custom houses, workmen in arsenals
and employees in necessary industries.
The fourth class consists of men
whose wives or children are mainly
dependent on their labor for sup
port, mariners and heads of indus
tries necessary for the conduct of the
war.
The fifth class consists of legisla-
tive, executive and judicial officers,
regular or duly ordained ministers,
persons in the military or nava!
service, alien enemies. resident
aliens, not enemy, who claim exemp-
ton, and licensed pilots. In this
class also are included persons who
are members of religious sects for
bidding members to participate in
war.
Every subdivision has not been
stated, but an idea may be gained
as to the order of liability of differ
ent classes from those that have
been mentioned.
The remainder of the question
naire is then devoted to II series
OF questions and to ~affidavits and
supporting affidavits and after it
has been completely filled u it
must be filed with the local board
on or before the seventh day after
being received.
In speaking of the reasons for
and the effect of the classification
the QUESTIONABLE says:
1.-The group of re~gistrants within
the Jurisdiction OF eacn local BOARD
j. taken as the unit to be classified.
Within each class the order OF liza
bility is determined by the drawing,