The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-14
Issued by War Department to
100000 Conscripts.
Complete Record of Each Mans
Fitness for Service.
PRISON IF FAIL TO REPLY
Failure to Receive Question
naire Not Valid Excuse.
Defines Five Glasses Into Which
Men Are Divided.


questions for the remaining 100000
draft registrants to answer beginning
December Is. were made public to-
day They constitute a searching in
quiry into each mans life and fitness
and determine, thru the action of To-
cal draft boards, the order of his call
to military service.
This 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
reg1strant liable to a year in prison.
such men may be certified into the
first class itself. Mailing of the list
by the local board constitutes legal
houce to the registrant. His failure to
receive it does not excuse him.
Even after answering the question:
na!re If mans status changes and he
does not report it within five DAYS to
ms board he is subject to a year in
prison.
One Glass Exempt
The minimum number questions
each man must answer is about 26, the
maximum about 100. Once filled out
mans complete record with the gov
ernment. All previous records are by
| 1t automatically wiped out. On the
basis of the draft mans answers, YER
flied by the local boards when neces-
sary, the men are divided into five
classes. the fifth being exempted or
discharged from draft. Liability to ser
vice in the other classes follows the
number drawn in the lottery here
July 90.
Supporting affidavits of other per-
sons must be secured by every regis
trant who claims exemption or defer
sed liability on grounds of studying
/. Tor the ministry, dependency and in
dustrial or agricultural grounds.
man is permitted to mark the
| class he thinks he ought to be placed
in. A blank is provided for each mans
| appeal to the president from the draft
! boards classification, if unsatisfactory
| to the registrant. The board must
| give its reasons for putting a man in a
/ class he did not choose.
Sixteen Pages of Quiz.
The 16-page war quiz starts with a
/ series of general questions, which
| every man must answer and ends
/ with series II, on agricultural Occupa-
/ tionS, with only one or two questions
! for each man to answer in the inter
vening series. If a series applies par
ticularly to a certain man he must an
swer all questions therein.
/ A man claiming wife or others as
1
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 in
come, how much he figures his de-
! pendents need to live comfortably
what at, how much work she has done
| in the last twelve months, and how
much she got for it, whether they live
with his or her parents and if they
rent a house. who the landlord is and
how much they pay him.
To Teach War Trades.
One of the general questions indi-
| Gates that the government will send
| thousands of draft men to free night
school, and teach them war trades.
Each man must give a list of his oc-
! cupations, how much he earned at
| worked during the last eight years
! Every imaginable occupation is inclu-
ded His schooling, army service pref
| erence, present work and employer
name; languages spoken, criminal rec
ord and detailed information about
each alleged dependent must be given.
If a man claims he is not an Ameri-
can citizen he has got to prove it be-
| yond question. He must prove like
! wise his religious convictions against
war, if any, and show that he be-
! lOnged to a recognized anti-war sect
before America entered the present
, conflict. If he claims to be an alien
! ne must say whether he would return
. to the fighting ranks of his native
/ land Industrial and agricultural oc-
! cupations, next to dependents, receive
most attention in the QUESTIONABLE. II
| a man is not engaged in an agricul-
! tural enterprise he need not answer
! any further under this head, but il
| claiming to be farmer he must enter
! into the greatest detail. The head and
owner of a farm must also give addi-
tioI al facts.
Industrial Qualifications First
The first question under industry
is:
Are you engaged in an industrial