The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-15
Office of Clerk of Local
Board Busy Mailing
Documents
WILL BE BASIS
FOR SECOND DRAFT
Each Man Required to Answer 14e
Questions and Return Paper in Seven
Days from Date Stamped Upon it Or
Be Liable to Penalty.


The local draft board for Windhan
county, of which r. y. +. Stowe j.
clerk, is busy today sending out the
first instalment Of draft qucstionnaireS.
the answers to which will be the basis
of the second call for drafted men 10
service and by which the local board
viii classify the registrants in the OF
der OF their liability to service.
These questionnaires are being sent
out all over the country, affecting nine
million men. who are asked to answer
AS questions. OF the number who will
receive the lengthy documents it is est
mated that two million win be assigned
TO the frst-class and subjected to duty
with the colors before any man in any
other class is called.
Not all men in Windham county will
/ be sent questionnaires today. They
viii be mailed in bunchcs Of little
more than 100, continuing for about 90
days, as the number who viii receive
them is a little over 1000. Upon receipt
Of the questionnaire the registrant is al
lowed seven DAYS from the date stamped
upon it in which to fill out, swear to
and return it to the local board
The QUESTIONABLE automatically re
yokes all exemptions and discharges m
der the first draft Failure TO return
his answers in seven days after he re
ceives the questions makes the regis
trant liable to one year in pri an Mail
ing OF the LIST by the local board con
stitutes legal notice to the registrant.
His failure to receive il does not ex
cuse him.
If the registrant can til his ques
itionnaire without help. and good
but if he needs or desires aid he should
Ieonsult any lawyer who can give the
necessary aid.
Each registrant before beginning to
fiji out the answers to questions pro
pounded is advised to read very careful
lv the first three pages Of the booklet
and not to begin writing answers,
which begin on page four, until this has
been done. Then, before answering the
questions under each series, Of which
there are u, to read the instructions
at The beginning OF each. After these
have been answered and the affadavits
made out and sworn to, the registYant
indicates on the front Of the pamphlet
the class to which he believes he should
be assigned. Ii the board agrees there
: is no further action necessary by either
). party until the individual comes due
f for military service and is called for
5 medical examination. II the board dis
t agrees and places the registrant in an
. other class, the machinery is set In
= motion automatically for appeal to the
{ district board.
All Of the questions are framed to
. draw out every bit of information that
may be Of value TO the local board III
+ fixing the class to which the man Is to
+ be assigned No detail Of the status Of
. dependents, or OF possible or outside
sources Of income, has been overlooked
Supporting atfdavits of other persons
must be secured by every registran'
who claims exemption or deferred liza
bility on grounds of studying for The
! ministry, dependency and industrial
and agricultural grounds. The classes
Of which there are five. TO which the
! registrantS viii be assigned are as fol
y lows:
Glass /.
. a. Single man without dependenf
/ relatives.
m (B) Married man, with OF without
: children OF father of motherless ehil
q dren, who has habitually failed TO sup
port his family.
If (Cl Married man dependent on wifi,
lie for support.
il. Cd Married man, with or withou
If children, or father of motherless chill
It dren; man not usefully engaged, fam
le ilv supported by income independent o.
A. his labor.
i (E) I-nskilled farm labor.
ar (Fl Unskilled industrial laborer
q Rcgistrant by or in respect of WHOM
to no deferred classification is claimed o
made. Registrant who fails to subn,i