Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-16


questions for the remaining 1900, 600
seIective service registrantS to answer
beginning December Is were made pub
lie today. They constitute a searching
inquiry into each mans life and fitness
and determine. through the action of
local boards. the order OF his call to
military service
This QUESTIONABLE automatically re-
vokes all exemptions and discharges
under the first call Failure to return
his answers in seven days after he re-
ceives the questions makes the regis
trant liable to a year in prison. Such
men may be certified into the first class
called Mailing of the list by the local
bsard constitutes legal notice to the
registrant His failure to receive it
does not excuse him.
Even after answering the question
naire. if a mans status changes and he
does not report il within five days to
his board, he is subject to a year in
prison
The minimum number of questions
each man must answer is about twenty
six. maximum about a hundred. Once
filled out. the QUESTIONABLE constitutes
each mans complete record with the
government All previous records are
by il automatically wiped out On the
basis Of the selectman's answers, veri-
fed by the local boards when necessary.
the men are divided into five classes.
the NTH being exempted or discharged
from service Liability to service IT,
the other classes follows the numbers
drawn in the famous lottery here July
20.
Supporting affidavits of other persons
must be secured by every reyistrant
VINO claims exemption or deferred liza
biIity on the grounds Of studying for
the ministry, dependency and industrial
or agricultural grounds.
man i permitted to mark the class
he thinks he ought TO he placed in. A
blank il provided for each mans appeal
TO the president from the local boards
classification. II unsatisfactory TO the
registrant-
Best available estimates indicate that
the first OF the fve classes into which
all registrants are TO be divided will
contain more than 100000 men. sub
Jet for duty with the cOiors before
any man in any other class will he
called upon
II is regarded as practically certain
that congress will take up the question
Of extending the selective- service law
to cover men who have attained the
age OF tweuty-oue since IL was enacted
Should that be done and provision ma lie
for the registration thereafter of every
man as he reached that age. IL is prob
able that perhaps 100000 would be ad-
ded 20 class one automatically by next
March In that event. no present plans
for the army would reach the men in
class two.
The sixteen-page war quiz starts with
a series OF general question. which every
man must answer and ends with serb
12 on agricultural occupations. with
only one or two questions for each man
to answer in the intervening series Ii
a series applies particularly TO a .,erta n
man ne must answer all questions
there
A man claiming a wife or Others as
mainly dependent on his mental Dr. ply
-IcaI labor for support must go into
=. mute detail He must give The date.
place and person by whom he was mar
ried the amount Of his income how
mach he figures his dependents ne-i 10
live comfortably. whether his wife ever
vo-Ised and what at. how much work
she has done in the last twelve taOn rs
and how much she got for il WHISTLER
they live with his or her I1-cnts. and
T. they rent a iouse who the II nd Jrc
= ara how mJrch they pay him
Ore Of the general questions .nC:, at"s
thai the soy .rnment will SEM thoT
lands OF selertVs,n to free night school
and reach them war trades.
I.ach man INST give a list of his &C.
a SsIcns. how much he earna! 1T them
and TO- many hours a day I. Eo-ns1
during the last eight years Every
ina ginabIe occupation j. included His
schooling. army service preference. pres
ent work and employers name. Ian
guages spoken, criminal record. If any,
and detailed information about each al
legged dependent must be given
II a man claims he isn't an American
citizen he's got to prove II beyond uues-
tion. He must prove likewise his re-
ligiOus convictions against war, If any
and show that ne belonged to "A recog-
niZed antiwar sect before America en-
'ered the present conflict. II he claims
10 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 enter