Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-11-27
US. SENDS out
DRAFT CALL TO
100000 men
All Registrants Required to Fill
Out QUESTIONABLE Classify
ing Order of Call.
INVENTORY OF MAN POWER
Five Divisions to Be Formed Depend
ing on Occupation and Claims for
Exemption AIiowed-Locai Boards
Will Help Registered Men.

ing on Occupation and Claims TOR
Exemption AIIowed-Local Boards
Will Help Registered Men.
Washington, Nov. 16.-Uncle San
has begun the most gigantic inventor!
OF man power ever attempted.
Preparations for the second draf'
were started when copies OF the ques
tionnaire for every one of the nine
million men registered for military
service we're sent to the local exemp
ton boards.
This questionable must be filed Out
by every registered man between the
ages of twenty-one and thirty-one. II
will place in the hands of the gov
eminent the life history of every reg
istered man and will give complete
census of the men of military age IN
81 trades, industries and professions
The QUESTIONABLE will classify all reg
istered men for service.
Classification of registered men In
the order Of their liability for military
service will be the first accomplish
ment of the questionable. Men will
be classified In five divisions, the first
division to be called the first and the
fifth division last.
The classes and the order in which
they will be called are as follows:
GLASS I.
Single men without dependent rela-
lives.
Married man, with or without chill
dren, or father of mOtherless children,
who has habitually failed to support
his family.
Married man dependent on wife for
support.
Married man, with or without chill
dren, or father of mOtherless children
man not usefully engaged, family sup
ported by income independent of his
labor.
Unskilled farm labOrer.
Unsklled industrial labOrer.
Registrant by or In respect of whom
no deferred classification Is claimed
or made.
tionnaire and in respect of whom NO
deferred classification is claimed or
made.
-. All registrants not included In any
other division in this schedule.
CLASS 2.
Married man with children or father
Of motherless children where such wife
II children or such mOtherless chill
dren are not mainly dependent upon
his labor for support for the reason
that there are other reasonably certain
sources of adequate support (exclud-
Ing earnings or possible earnings from
the labor of the wife) available, and
that the removal of the registrant will
not deprive such dependent of support.
Married man, without children
whose wife, although the regiStrant is
engaged in a useful occupation. $ nc;
mainly dependent upon his labor fol
support, for the reason that the wife
Is skilled in some special class of work
which she is physically able to perform
AID in which she is employed, or in
which there is an immediate opening
for her under conditions that will en-.
able her to support herself decently
and without suffering or hardship.
Necessary skilled farm laborer In
necessary agricultural enterprise.
Necessary skilled industrial laborel
In necessary industrial enterprise.
CLASS 8.
Man with dependent children (not
his OWN, but toward whom he stands
in relation of parent.
Man with dependent aged or infirn
parents.
Man with dependent helpless broth
ers or sisters.
County or municipal officer.
Highly trained fireman or policeman
at least three years In service of mu
nicipality.
Necessary customhouse clerk.
Necessary employee of United State!
In transmission of the mails.
Necessary srtificer or workman II
United States srmory or arsenal.
- Necessary employee In service O
United States.
Necessary assistant, associate O.
hired manager of necessary agricul
tural enterprise.
Necessary highly specialized techni
cal or mechanical expert of necessar,
industrial enterprise.
Necessary assistant or associat,
manager Of necessary industrial enter
prise.
CLASS 4
Man whose wife or children ar
mainly dependent on his labor 70
support.
Mariner actually employed in Sc,
service Of citizen or merchant In tn
United States.
Necessary sole managing, control
ling or directing head CT necessar,
agricultural enterprise.
Necessary sole managing, control
ling or directing head of necessar
industrial enterprise.
GLASS S.
CficerS-legiSlative, executive O
judicial-of the United States or O
state. territory or District of Column
bIs.
Regular or duly ordained ministe
of religion.
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