Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1917-11-28
TO CLASSIFY men
SUBJECT TO DRAFT
Questiounaire viii be Mailed Out seor,
to Every Man Registered.
FIVE GLASSES
ARE ESTABLISHED

= s 1 F. 2
Men Without Dependents Will BE Call
ed for Service First. - Many
Questions to Answer.
Every drafted man who has been #ex-
empted from the draft is replaced in
the class still subject to draft and every
exemption certificate heretofore issued
is declared revoked by the question:
naire" governing the second draft,
copies Of which win be mailed out soon.
Attic twas assumed by draft officials
that men who have obtained exemption
one might be in a position to do so
again under the new rulings, there is
absolutely no statement to that effect
in the questionable z
The questionable must be filed
out by every man registered for the.
draft who has not already been sent
to a national army camp. 1t will be
the basis for determining the status of
every registrant at all future times. 1t.
is a 16 page pamphlet in which is print
ed every question which a, registrant
must be asked to determine whether he.
shall serve as a soldier. There is space
for answering every question together
with full, proper forms for all aft
davits and oaths which must support
all claims for exemption.
The statement that >aI previous ex-.
emptions are revoked is made in the
instructions which preface the Is page
QUESTIONABLE. under the title 'Revo-
cation It reads as follows:
Section 4. Revoca ton of exemption
and discharge A II exemptions and dis
charges made prior to the date of these
rules and regulations, and all certifi-s
Gates in evidence thereof, are hereby
revoked, and all such certificates here
toforA issued shall have no further
validity.
QUESTIONABLE" are printed on pages 2.
and 8. On page are the general
questions of "Series /" the set Of
questions which every registrant, with.
out exemption, must answer in full. In
this are included the name, occupation,
residence and relationship to nearest
relative of each person. IL employed
he must SO state, also by whom, num-
Der of hours of work weekly, occupa-
ton in which registrant considers him
self best fitted, schooling, willingness to.
take schooling fitting for special army
service, previous military experience
and foreign languages spoken. s
Every registrar must also fill out
the questions as to his general physi-
cal fitness in Series 2" on page g. If
he claims physical DEFICIENCIES he must
answer the questions which will des-
.cribe that physical tnfitness. Series
to II provide the registrant means Of
furnishing data as to his eligibility for
exemption on any other ground than,
physical as follows: Series, 8, legisla-
tive, judicial or executive officers; a,
ministers Of religion; 5, divinity stu
dents; 6, military or naval service
citizenship 8, officials, federal en-
ployes, pilots and mariners; 9, religious
conviction against war; 10, dependen-
cy; II, Industrial occupa ton; IL, agri-
cultural occupation.
In each Of these Series the regis
trant must answer the first question by
Eyes, or ne" telling by that answer
whether he intends to claim exemption
under that particular series. Those
who answer mo- need fill out nothing
more in that SERIES. Those answer
ing Eyes must I'LL out the blank in full,
with supporting affdavits where these
are included in the form.
Supporting affdavits are required in
the cases Of divinity students, depend
>ency, and industrial or agricultural oc-
Equation.
The result Of the "questi onnaire' will
be to group all registrants in five
classes from which men will be sent
directly into the armies. Glass / is un-
married men, 2 and 8 include persons
with dependents and officials and en-
ployes Of government Offices which
make them eligible for discharge.
Glass a includes industrial and agri-
cultural exemptions and Glass 5 min
listers, men in the military service, the
permanently unfit physically and lie
ensed pilots. s
All the men eligible in Glass 1" will
be drafted before any of those in
"Class q are taken, and so on success
siyely. Within each class the order
numbers Of the original draft will be
operative.
Instructions to registrants provide
that the "questi onnaire' must be care
fully read and studied. Each registrant
shall then answer the general questions.
.Series ], Z and the necessary ques-
tons III Series 2, /" also such questions
in following series as he IS warranted in
employing. He shall then turn back to
+ page / Of the questionnaire' and make
an * opposite the class and subdi7
.7ision Of that class in which he believes
himself to belong.
The instructions provide thatsa man
may claim exemption under as many
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