Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-23
NEW RULES FOR THE
MILITARY DRAFT
Classification Of Every Man Who
Is On Registered List
BACHELORS TO COME FIRST
Order In Which Selections Are To Be
Made-Five Classes In All

I The five classifications into which
men awaiting draft will be divided
under the new regulations approved
by President Wilson have become pub
lie much before the time planned by
the Provost Marshal Generals office,
and are here published.
II was discovered that what was TO
remain an official secret for a week or
more was divulged Saturday night at
a dinner in New York, which Secre-
tary Baker and Provost Marshal Gen
eral Crowder attended The Provost
Marshal General discussed the new
regulations without intending to make
public the classifcations, but some
members of New York local exemp-
tion board, thinking to elucidate the
Generals speech, printed the classi-
fications on the back of the menu card.
The classifications are as follows
and show every man registered, to
which class he belongs and in what
order the different classifications will
be called to service:
Glass 1.
1. Single men without dependent
relatives.
2. Married man tor widower with
children) who habitually fails to sup
port his family.
8. Married men dependent on wife
for support
4. Married man Tor widower with
children) not usefully engaged. fam
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Of his labor
5. Men not included in any other
description in this or other classes.
6. Unskilled laborer
Glass III.
L. Married man or father of mother
less children. usefully engaged, but
family has sufficient income apart
from his daily labor to afford reason
ably adequate support during his
absence.
2. Married man-no children-wife
can support herself decently and with
cut hardship
3. Skilled industrial laborer engag-
ed in necessary industrial enterprise.
4 4. Skilled farm laborer engaged in
necessary agricultural enterprise
Class Ill.
/. Man with foster children depend
ent on daily labor for support
2 Man with aged, infrm or invalid
Isrents, or grandparents, dependent
on daily labor for support
g. Man with brothers or sisters in
competent to support themselves, de-
pendent on daily labor for support
A. County or municipal officer.
s. Firemen or policemen.
g. Necessary artificers or workmen
in arsenals. armories and navy yards.
T. Necessary custom house clerks.
s. Persons necessary in transmits
sion of mails
g. Necessary employees in service
of United States.
TO- Highly specialized administra-
tive experts
H. Technical or mechanical ex-
perts in industrial enterprise.
IL. Highly specialized agricultural
expert in agricultural bureau of State
or nation
13. Assistant or associate manager
OF necessary industrial enterprise
IA. Assistant or associate manager
oi necessary agricultural enterprise
Class Nv.
IL. Married man with wife (and) or
children Tor widower with children)
dependent on daily labor for support
and no other reasonably adequate
support available.
2. Mariners in sea service of mer-
chants or citizens in United States.
3. Heads of necessary industrial en-
terprises.
4. Heads of necessary agricultural
enterprises.
Class V.
l. officers of States or the United
States.
2. Regularly or duly ordained min
listers.
3. Students of divinity
4. Persons in military or naval
service.
). Aliens.
g. Alien enemies
Z. Persons morally unfit.
s. Persons physically. permanently
or mentally unfit.
3. Licensed pilots.