Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-11-16
U. s. FIXES
new DRAFT
SEQUENCE
QUESTIONABLE Will Deter
mine Each Conscripted
Mans Order of Call;
Five Glasses, Many Sub
Divisions.
FIRST GROUP WILL
SEE SERVICE FIRST

Washington, q. c., Nov. A.
Best available estimates indicate
that the first Of the five classes in
to which all draft resistrants are
to be divided will contain more
than 20oO, 900 men, subject Tor
duty with the eo!ors before any
man in any other class will be
called up.
It is regarded a. practically eer-
tain that congress will take up tho
question Of extending the draft
law to cover men who have At
tanned the age Of 81 since it was
enacted. Should that be done and
provision made for the re9istra-
ton thereafter Of every man a. ne
reached that age, Il 10 probable
that perhaps 10000 would be add
ed to class one automatically BY
next March. In that event no
present plans for the army would
reach the men In class 2
Washington, D. c., Nov. 14.-The
five classes intc which the 100000
men registered Tor military duty and
those who are registered hereafter,
are divided and the order in which
they will be called for service were
announced oficially today in the pro
vost marshal generals QUESTIONABLE
which every registered man must fill
out and file. The Official order shows
some change from the tentative DRAFT
published sometime ago.
ORDER OF SERVICE.
Contrary to some published reports
1t does not exempt married men as Il
class, but it does place married men
with dependent wives and children
far down on the list of tables. In
fact, the QUESTIONABLE indicates that
only men Of the first class will be
called to the colors except in the
gravest emergency. The five Official
classifiications Of registrants follows:
FIRST GLASS.
(A)--A single man without depend
ent relatives.
(B)-Married man, with or withon
children, or father Of motherless chill
dren. who has habitually failed to sup
port his family.
(C)-Married man dependent on wife
for support.
D)-Married man, with or without
children, or father Of mothereless chill.
dren; man not usefully engaged. fam
lily supported by income independent Of
his labor.
tEo-Unskilled farm laborer.
(FC-Unskilled industrial laborer.
Registrant by or in respect of whom
no deferred classification Is claimed OIL
made.
Registrant who fails to submit ques-
tionaire and in respect Of whom no de-
ferred classification is claimed or made
All registrants not included In any
other division in this schedule.
SECOND CLASS.
(A) Married man with children OF
father Of motherless children, where
such wife or children or such mother
less children are not mainly dependent
upon his labor for support for the rea-
son that there are other reasonably
certain sources Of adequate support
Excluding earnings or possible earn
ings from the labor of the wife)) avail
able. and that the removal Of the reg
istrant will not deprive such depend
ents of support.
(B)-Married man without children
whose wife, although the registrant IL
engaged in a useful occupation is no,
mainly dependent upon his labor FOL
support for the reason that the wife
is skilled in some special class of vork
which she is physically able to perform
and in which she is employed. or II
which there is an immediate opening
for her under conditions that will en-
able her to support herself decently ano
without suffering or hardship.
(C)-Necessary skilled farm laborel
in necessary agriculture enterprise.
(D)-Necessary skilled industria
la borer in necessary industrial enter
prise.
THIRD CLASS.
(A)-Man with. dependent children
(not his OWN but toward whom III
stands in relation of parent.
infirrn parents.
CONAN with dependent helpless
brothers or sisters.