, 1917-11-22
U.S.. SENDS OUT
DRAFT CALL TO
100000 MIN
All Reuistrants Required to Fill
Out QUESTIONABLE Classify
ing Order of Call.
INVENTORY OF MAN POWER
Five Divisions to Be Formed Depend
inn on Occupation and Claims for
Exemption AIiowed-loeai Boards
viii Help Registered Men.

Washington, Nov. 16.-Uncle sam
has begun the most gigantic inventory
of man power ever attempted.
prrparations for the second draft
wore started whe copies of the ques-
,iosroire for every one of the nine
million men registered for military
service we're sent to the local eXemp-
ton boards.
This questionable must be filed out
nv every registered man between the
are4 of twenty-one and thirty-one. 1t
will Mace in the hands of the gov
ernmcnt the life history of every reg
Istcred man and will give a complete
census of the men of military age In
ST trades. industries and professions.
The QUESTIONABLE will classify all reg
Isterrd men for service.
Classification of registered men in
the order of their liability for military
service will be the first accomplish
mcnt Of the QUESTIONABLE. Men Will
be classified in five divisions, the first
division to be called the first and the
fifth division last.
The classes and the order in which
they will be called are as follows:
CLASS I.
Single men without dependent rela-
tives.
Married man, with or without chill
dren, or father of motherless children,
who has habitually failed to support
his family.
Married man dependent on wife for
support.
Married man, with or without chill
dren, or father of motherless children +:
man not uSefully engaged, family sup
ported by income independent of his
labor.
Unskilled farm laborer.
Unskilled industrial labOrer.
Registrant by or in respect of whom
no deferred classification is claimed
or made.
liegistrant who fails to submit ques-
tionnaire n in respect of whom 10
deferred classification is claimed or
made.
All registrants not included In any
other division in this schedule.
CLASS 2.
Married man with children or father
of motherless children where such wife
or children or such motherless chill
dren are not mainly dependent upon
ms labor for support for the reason
,Nni there are other reasonably certain
sources of adequate support (exclud-
ing earnings or possible earnings from
the labor of the wife) available, and
That the removal of the registrant will
not deprive such dependent of support.
married man, without children,
whose wife, although the registrant is
engaged in a useful occupation, is not
mainly dependent upon his labor for
support, for the reason that the wife
~ skilled In some special class of work
"Hlch she Is physically able to perform
anu IN which she Is employed, or In
"hich there Is an immediate opening
Tor her under conditions that win en-
nOIe her to support herself decently
ana without suffering or hardship.
necessary skilled farm labofer in
necessary agricultural enterprise.
necessary skilled industrial laborer
Ill necessary industrial enterprise.
CLASS 8.
Man with dependent children (not
MS OWN, but toward whom he stands
III relation of parent.
Nan with dependent aged or inirm
parents.
Ni"l with dependent helpless broth
ers or sisters.
n"uhty or municipal officer.
ihshly trained fireman or policeman.
~ "ast three years in service of mu-
nlcipality.
necessary customhouse clerk.
necessary employee of United States
ii" transmission of the mails.
necessary artificer or workman In
'nlted States armory or arsenal,
necessary employee in service of
'nited States.
t'rNShfy assistant, associate or
m''eu manager of necessary agricul-
'"ral enterprise.
necessary highly specialized tecbni-
'"l or mechanical expert of necessary
"',uSlfial enterprise.
N'''SShry assistant or associate
''''"ser of necessary Industrial enter
CLASS a.
''"H whose wife or children are
'nS dependent on his labor for
support. $500
"i"ilner actually employed In sea
wee OF citizen or merchant In the
'hlted States.
u'eSSary sole managing, control
''s OF directing head of necessary
'N,!'ultural enterprise.
necessary sole managing, control
ing or directing head of necessary
'"''Strial enterprise.
CLASS S.
""'ers-legislative, executive or
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