Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-19
men NAY GIVE.
PREFERENCE ON
army SERVICE.
QUESTIONABLE Forms With
Local Draft Board Enum-
crate LAB Queries Probing
Into Past and Present.
Government May Give Men
Opportunity to Attend
Night School and Teach
Them War Trades-Sup-
porting Affidavits.

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The balance of the $4,000 registered i
men in the state of Idaho who may be /
called upon to take UP arms for their /
country before the present war is ter
minated, will be given some discretion
in showing preference for the branch /
of military service to which they wish
to be assigned, judging from the 14S
queries that are enumerated in the
QUESTIONABLE received by the local
county draft board and the adjutant
generals department. Beginning Dec.
H. registrants under the draft law will
be required to furnish the government
with the personal history of them
selves the war department requires
REVOKE EXEMPTIONS.
These QUESTIONABLE automatically |
revoke all exemptions and discharges
under the first draft Failure to re-
turn an answer in seven days after the
QUESTIONABLE is received, makes the
registrant liable to imprisonment and |
such men may be certified into the |
first class called.
Mailing of the first list by the local
board constitutes legal notice to the !
registrant His failure to receive 1t |
does not excuse him. /
Even after answering the question
naire if a mans status changes and he |
does not report it within five days to
his board he is subject to a year in |
prison.
MANY QUESTIONS.
The minimum number Of questions
each man must answer is about 26. the |
maximum about 100. Once filled out |
the questionable constitutes EACH
mans complete record with the gov
eminent All previous records are by |
1t automatically wiped out.
On the basis of the draft mans an
swers, certified by the local boards
when necessary, the men are divided
into five classes, the fifth being ex
empted or discharged from draft. LA
bility to service in other classes fol- |
lows the numbers drawn in the lot
terry July 20.
MUST GET AFFIDAVITS.
Supporting affidavits of other per-
sons must be secured by every regis
trant who claims exemption or de-
ferred liability on grounds of study
Ing for the ministry, dependency and
Industrial or agricultural grounds
A man is permitted to mark the class
he thinks he ought to be placed in. A
blank is provided for each mans APP
peal to the president from the draft
boards classification, if unsatisfac-
tory to the registrant. The board must
give it's reasons for putting a man in
class he did not choose.
The 16 page war quiz starts with a
series of general questions, which ev
cry man must answer, and ends with
series II, on agricultural questions for
each man to answer in the intervening
series. If series applies particularly
to a certain man he must answer all
questions therein.
MUST GIVE DETAILS.
man claiming wife or others as
mainly dependent on his mental or
physical labor for support must go into
minute detail.
He must give the date, place and
person by whom he was married, the
amount of his income, how much he
figures his dependents need to live
comfortably. whether his wife ever
worked and what at, how much work
she has done in the last IL months
and how much she got for It, whether
they live with his or her parents and
if they rent house, who the landlord
is and how much they pay him.
One of the general questions indi-
thousands of draft men to free night
school and teach them war trades
Each man must give a list of his
occupations, how much he earned at
them and how many hours a day he
worked during the last eight years.
Every imaginable occupation is in
cluded His schooling. army service
preference, present work and employ
er's name languages spoken, criminal
record and detailed information about
each alleged dependent must be given.
PROOF DEMANDED.
II man claims he Is not an Amer
lean citizen he has got to prove it be-
yond question. He must prove like
wise his religious convictions against
W. any, and show that he belonged
to a recognized anti-war sect before
America entered the present conflict.
II he claims to be an alien he must
say whether he would return to the
fighting ranks OF his native land.
Industrial and agricultural occupa-
tions. next to dependents. receive most
attention in the questionable If a man
Is not engaged in an agricultural en-
terprise he need not answer any fur
Their under this head. But II claiming
10 be a farmer he must enter into the
RTcaLe8L Qetdl. lHo Hchu anu OWuCI
OF farm must also give additional
facts.
INDUSTRIAL OCCUPATION.
The first question under industry is
"are you engaged in an industrial en-
tsrprise necessary "a to the mainten-
ance OF the military establishment or
(2) to the effective operation Of the
military forces or ca to the main
tenance OF the national interests dur
ing the emergencyr" II not the man
does not answer any further under
series ii. but a man claiming exemp-
ton on this ground. whether in bust
ness for himself sor an employe must
Il now be u indispensable and must give
4 copplsts history Of the business and
81 connection with II.