The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-10-24
DRAFT CLASSES DEFINED
Men Awaiting Second Draft to Be
Classified.


Washington, Oct. 22.--The five
classifications into which men await
ing draft will be divided under the
new regulations approved by Presi'
dent Wilson have. become public
much before the time planned by the
Provost Marshal Generals Office and
are here published:
1t was discovered today that what
was to have remained an official Sc
cret for a week or more was divulged
Saturday night at dinner in New
York which Secretary Baker and
Provost Marshal General Crowder at
tended The Provost Marshal Gen
eral discussed the new regulations
without intending to make public the
classiiications, but some members OF
New York local exemption boards,
thinking to elucidate the Generals
speech, printed the classifications 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 t.classitcations will
be called TO service.
Class |.
l. Single men without dependent
relatives.
2. Married man Cor widower)
with children, who habitually fails to
support his family.
8. Married mon dependent on wife
for support.
4. Married man (or widower) with
children, not usefully engaged, family
supported by income independent OF
his labor.
S. Men not included in any other
description in this or other classes.
6. Unskilled laborer.
Class II.
l. Married man or father OF moth
erless children, usefully engaged.
but family has sufficient income
apart from his daily labor to afford
reasonably adequate support during
nis absence.
2. Married man-no children
wife can support herself decently and
without hardship.
8. Skilled farm laborer engaged in
necessary industrial enterprise
4. Skilled Industrial laborer en-
Gagged in necessary agricultural en-
terprise
Glass III.
1. Man with foster children de
pendent on daily labor for support
2. Man with aged, inhrm or inval-
ID parents or grandparents depen'
lent on daily labor for support
3. Man with brothers or sisters in
competent to support themselves, de
pendent on daily labor for support.
4. County or municipal officer.
5. Firemen or policemen.
G. Necessary artificers or work
men in arsenals, armories and navy
Yards
7. Necessary custom house clerk
8. Persons necessary in transmits
sion of mails.
9. Necessary employees in service
Of United States. ~
10. Highly specialized administra
tive experts.
II. Technical or mechanical eX-
perts in industrial enterprise.
-. Highly specialized agricultur
II expert in agricultural bureau Of
State or Nation.
13. Assistant or associate mana
ger of necessary agricultural enter
prise
Glass Iv.
l Married man with wife (and)
or children (or widower with chill
dren) dependent on daily labor for
support and no other reasonably ade-
auate support available.
2. Mariners in sea service of mer-
chants or citizens in United States.
3. Heads of necessary industrial
enterprises.
T. Heads of necessary agricultur-
al enterprises.
Class v.
l. officers of states or the United
States.
2. Regularly or duly ordained
ministers.
8. Students of divinity
4. Persons in military or naval
service
5. Aliens.
6. Alien enemies.
Z. Persons morally unfit
8. Persons physically, permanent
ly or mentally unfit.
9. Licensed pilots.