Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-11-24
ORDERS RECEIVED
For All Drafted Men and New Questions
Are Issued to Registrants to
Classify Them.

received from Washington, the provost
marshal generals QUESTIONABLE is to be
sent to all registered men in the United
States, who have not yet been drafted
into the military service Of the United
States, within the next week The new
selective service regulations have been
completed under the direction of the
President and the stage is all set for de-
termining at the earliest possible mo
ment the exact status Of the remainder
Of the men w..o registered on June 5,
1917, and who have not yet taken their
places under the coors
By virtue of the new presidential
rules and regulations all exemptions and
discharges which have been made up to
this date are revoked and all certificates
which are held by exempted men are
void
The object Of the questionaire is to
place the registrants into five respective
classes in the order of their liability for
service. The effect of this classification
will be to automatically grant Temporal
ry discharge to the men who fail under
class 2. 3. 4 and : until class has ha-
come exhausted Then the men in class
. will be taken and so on through the
remaining classes with the eyception Of
class 5, which is the exempted class.
Glass l consists of single men without
dependent relatives married men. with
or without children, who fail to support
their wives and families. married men
whose wives are not dependent upop
| them; unskilIed farm and industrial
laborers and other reristrants not in.
cIuded in any other division of the
schedule
Class > is made up for the most mart
of married men with depepdent wives
| and children. and necessary skilled farm
and industrial laborers.
Class embraces men who have the
| children Of others. helpless brothprs and
sisters, or aged and infirm parents de-.
pendent. upon their labors for support
and also county or municipal officers
| and other highly trained pphlic SER
wants.
Class 4 takes in married men with de
| pendent wife or children. actually en-
| ployed mariners and the necessary sole
| managers or directors of an agricultural
or industrial enterprise
Glass is COMPRISED of legislative
executive and judicial state and federaI
officers. ordained ministers of relioion
and divinity students persons ALREADY
in military or naval service of the Unit
ed States alien enemies and other resi
dent aliens who claim exemption.
Those permapentIy physicaIlv and men
tally unfit for military service persons
morally unfit and licensed plots who are
actually EMPLOYED.
1t is expected that comics or the sly
teen page ouestionaire viii soon ha
placed in the hands of tba local hoords
throughout the copntry who in tprn
will mail them IN all the registarad man
within their Jurisdiction who boya not
vet heen accen,ad for soryico Tho
registrants to whom these onestionaires
are sent out are REQUIRED by law 70 fiji
them ont ACCORDING TO instruction which
accompany them and to return them to
their local hoard within sayar dovs or,or
the date on which the notice is jssnsd
to them by the local hoard FaiInre 70
do this is a misdemeapor and is npnisb-
able nv a heavy fine or one wars i'm
prisonment
Furthermore. if chance in stains of
the registrant should occur at anv time
after the signing of the onestionaire the
registrant is reouired nv law 70 notify
his local board Of the fact within five
DAYS after its occurrance in order that
any necessary change in his cassifica-
ton NAV be made at once
There are ~ series of ouestiops which
| it is necessary for each registrant to SIGN
and these questions cover every mint of
information which the government
wishes to secure. The series are as fol.
lows.
l. General questions. Regarding oc-
Q Physical fitness
Ieg;slative executive and ;,dio;o,