The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-14
QUESTIONABLE
IS PREPA'. !. 81
Ss
Penalty Of One Year j, g 5 son
if Registered Man D. : OF
Fill in All tf
Blanks.
FOR NINE MILLIONS
Is Complete Record Of cItixens Of
Military Ago and Revokes all
Exemptions and
Discharges.

[By George Martin, United Press
Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-THE las
questions for the remaining nine
million draft registrants to answer.
beginning December IL, were made
public today. They constitute .
searching inquiry into each mans
life and fitness and determine.
through the action OF local draft
boards, the order Of his call to MILL
tary service.
This QUESTIONABLE automatically
revokes all exemptions and dis
charges under the first draft. Fail
ure to return his answers In seven
days after he receives the questions.
makes the registrant' liable to a year
in prison. Such men may be cert-
fled into the first CLASS called. Mall
ing Of the list by the local board con-
stitutes legal notice to the registrant
His failure to receive It does not ex-
cuse him.
Nyen after answering the question.
nalre, II mans status changes and
he does not report It within five days
to his board, he Is subject to year
in prison.
The minimum number OF questions
SdOu uldA must dA0 WCA 40 SDoaS
twenty-six, the maximum about 100.
Once filled out the questionable con-
stitutes each mans complete record
with the government All previous
records are by 1t automatically wiped
out. On the basis OF the draft mans
answers. verified by the local boards
when necessary, the mon are divided
into five classes, the fifth being ex-
empted or discharged from draft.
Liability to service in other classes
follows the number drawn in the
lottery here July 20.
Supporting afiidav1ts Of other per-
sons must be secured by every reg
istrant who claims exemption or de-
ferred liability on grounds OF study
ing for the ministry, dependency and
industrial or agricultural grounds.
A man is permitted to mark the
class he thinks he ought to be placed
in. A blank is provided for each
mans appeal to the president from
the draft boards classification, If
unsatisfactory to the registrant. The
board must give its reasons for put
ting a man in q class he did not
choose.
The sixteen page war quiz starts
with series Of general questions
which every man must answer, and
ends with Series IL, on agricultural
occupations, with only one or two
questions for each man to answer in
the intervening series. If series ap-
plies particularly to certain man he
must answer all questions therein.
A man claiming a wife or Others as
mainly dependent on his mental or
physical labor for support must go in
tc minute detail He must give the
date, place and person by whom he
was married, the amount of his in
come, how much he figures his depend.
ents need to live comfortably. wheth-
er his wife ever worked and what at,
how much work she has done in the
last twelve months and how much she
got for it. whether they live with his
or her parents and If they rent a
house who the landlord is and how
much they pay him.
One of the general questions indi-
Gates that the government will send
thousands Of draft men to free night
school and teach them war trades.
Each man must give list of his
occupations, how much he earned at
them and how many hours day he
worked during the last eight years.
Every imaginable occupation is in
cluded. His schooling, army service
preference, present work and en-
ployers' name, languages spoken, GRIM
inal record and detailed information
about each alleged defendant must be
given
II man claims he is not an Ameri-
can citizen he has got to prove it be-
yond question. He must prove like
wise his religious convictions against
war, if any, and show that he belonged
to recognized anti-war sect before
America entered the present conflict.
If he claims to be an alien he must
say whether he would return to the
lighting ranks of his native land.
Industrial and agricultural occupa-
tions, next to dependents, receive
most attention in the questionnaire. II
man is not engaged in an agricul-
t1ral enterprise he need not answer
any further under this head. But il
claiming to be a farmer he must enter