The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-16
IN
THE FIRST DRAFT
NOW NULLIF|ED
All Registered Men Are Re.
stored to Early
Status

Washington, Nov. 16-All exemp
tions and discharges in the first drat
will be cancelled by the new regula
tions that take effect Nov. 20.
The new regulations announced b
yesterday call for the classification c
all registrants not now in the service
The process of selection and classified
ton will begin on December Is.
Under the new system only nine
teen forms will be used by the locs
boards. Most of them are posts
, card forms. The old system used az
proximately $50 complicated forms.
In a preliminary statement issue
yesterday the Provost Marshal Ger
/ eral says:
| THE new regulations not only
repeal all preceding regulations,
but cancel all exemptions and dis
| charges, which have been granted
by local boards under the present
| system. This will restore every
| man to his original status, and
the local boards will send a ques-
| tionaire to. every man who is not
| in the service.
| ''Under the new regulations the
local boards will send out five per-
| cent. of their quest1onnaires the
each day for a period covering 20
days. This method of distribution
will allow the local boards, with
the aid of their legal advisory
| boards and other volunteers, to
instruct, complete and file each
| days QUESTIONABLE without con-
| fusion and congestion.
| 1.-THE military needs of the ma
| ton require that there be pro-
vided in every community a list
of names of men who shall be
ready to be called into service
at any time. The economic needs
| of the nation, while deferring to
the paramount military neces-
| sity, require that men whose re-
moval would interfere with the
civic, family, industrial and ag-
! ricultura1 institutions of the ma
| ton shall be taken in the order
in which they best can be, spared.
i For this reason the names of all
u men liable to selection shall be
:, arranged in five classes in the
inverse order of their importance
to the economic interests of the
nation, which include the main
tenance of necessary industry
and agriculture and the support
of dependents.
| 1.-THE group of registrants with
in the jurisdiction of each local
board is taken as the unit to be
classified. Within each class the
/ order of liability Is determined
by the drawing, which has hith-
|, erto assigned to every man an
order of availability for military
service relative to all men not
permanently or temporarily ex-
empted or discharged.
1.-The effect of classification in
class i is to render every man SO
classified presently liable to
military service in the order de-
termined by the national draw
ing. The effect of classification
in class II is to grant a temper.
airy discharge from draft, effect
i've until class I in the jurisdic-
ton of the same local board is
exhausted. The effect of CLASH
fcation in class III is to grant
temporary discharge from draft,
effective until classes I and II in
the Jurisdiction of the same local
board are exhausted; and sim
ilarly class ~ becomes liable
only when classes I, II and III
are exhausted.
1.-The effect Of classification in
class v is to grant exemption or
discharge from draft. The term
deferred classification as used
in these regulations is equivalent
to the term temporary dis
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