The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1917-11-03
NUMBER IL.
NEW DRAFT SYSTEM.
Division of Registrants Into Classifica-
tions Proposed.

tions Proposed.
A comprehensive new plan for ap-
plying the army selective draft which
would take first only men without de-
pendents and of no particular value to
war industries, and establish various
grades of dependency and industrial
value from which future drafts would
be made strictly on the selective
basis, has been announced by the:
provost marshal general.
1t is proposed to formulate in each
local draft district a table of all regis
trants, placing each in column de-
noting his dependents and industrial
value IN the wars prosecution. For
instance, horizontal columns or classi-
flcatlons would be based upon de-
Ipendency. Men with no dependents
would be placed in the first class,
those with dependent distant rela-
tives in the second class, those with
wives in the third class, and those
with wife and one child in the fourth
and so on.
In selecting men for examination,
boards would first take all men ply
slcally fit having neither dependents
nor value in essential war industries.
When this class was exhausted draft
officials would draw on the classes
having the slightest dependency
claims and the least value in essen
tial industries. Theoretically, the
draft would work down through the
table to the classes with most de-
pendents and highest industrial value.
The five classifcations into which
men remaining in the draft will be
divided under the new regulations are
as follows:
Class ].
Single men, without dependent
relatives.
married man Cor widower with
children) who habitualIy fails to sup
port his family
3-Married man dependent on wife
for support
Married man Tor widower with
children) not usefully engaged, fami-
ly supported by income independent
of his labor.
5-Men not included in any other
description in this or other classes.
6-Unskilled laborer.
Class III.
Married man or father of moth
erless children, usefully engaged, but
family has sufficient income apart
from his daily labor to afford reason
ably adequate support during his alb
sence.
2-Married man--no children
wife can support herself decently and
without hardship
s Skilled farm laborer engaged in
necessary industrial enterprise.
4Skilled industrial laborer en-
gagged ii necessary agricultural en-
terprise.
Glass III.
MAN with foster children de-
pendent on daily labor for support.
2-Man with aged, infirm or in
valid parents or grandparents de-
pendent on daily labor for support.
3-Man with brothers or sisters in
competent to support themselves, de-
pendent on daily labor for support.
4-County or municipal officer.
5-Fireman or policeman.
6--Necessary artifcers or work
men in arsenals, armories and navy
yards.
Necessary customhouse clerks.
S-Persons necessary in transmits
sion of mails.
9-Necessary employees in service
IF the United States.
10--Highly specialized administra-
i've experts.
11-Technical or mechanical ex-
oerts in Industrial enterprises.
12Highly specialized agricultural
expert in agricultural bureau of state
IF nation.
13-Assistant or associate manager
# necessary industrial enterprise.
Assistant or associate manager
# necessary agricultural enterprise.
Class ".
Married man with wife (and1
II children Cor widower with chill
Iren) dependent on daily labor for
upport and no other reasonable ade-
tuate support available.
2-Mariners in sea service Of mer-
hants or citizens in United States.
3-Heads Of necessary industrial
4-Heads of necessary agricultural
Class v.
Officers Of states or the United
states.
2-Regularly or duly ordained min
sters.
3-students of divinity.
4-Persof1s in military or naval
ervice
5-Aliens.
6--AIien enemies.
Persons morally unfit.
8-Persons physically, permanent
Y or mentally unfit.
LICENSED pilots
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