Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-29
DRAFT CLASSIFICATION
AFFECTS 100000 MEN
Within Week "Qucstionaire" VIII
BE Mailed to Every Registered
Man Not in Service.
DESCRIBED AS BIG AFFIDAVIT
Those Now Holding Exemption Ger
tificates Will BE Put in One of Five
Divisions, According to Liability
to BE Called.

WASHlNGToN. October 2S.-A COM
piete outline of the new draft classi-
fication. which affects approx imatcly
100000 men. was given out to-day by
Provost Marshal-General Crowder.
Tho plan is complete in all but de-
tails. and has been approved by the
President. The details are now being
worked out by special corps of ex-
perts. and probably will be announced
in entirety before the end OF the week.
One of the most important points
OF General Crowders explanation to-
day is that the approximately 100000
men now holding exemption ccrtiii-
Gates will be among those to be CLASH
lied into five divisions, according to
their liability to serve. Under the re-
classification each Will again have to
answer questions to determine the class
in which he belongs. These men, it is
stated, arc still subject to military
service, unless physically disqualified
or nonciti2ens, the exemption certifi- :
Gates they hold merely exempting them
from the present draft. AS General
Crowdcr has carefully explained, the
new system is not retroactive; that is.
1t Will not In any way affect the men
selected for military service, the men
now In mobilization camps, or being
made ready for mobilization. But IL
does anect those examined for but not
selected in, the prescn. draft.
Within approximately week n
"quest!onaire" will be mailed to every
one of the 100000 registered men not
in khaki.
ALI. REGISTERED MEN
10 GET SMALL BOOKLETS
This Gucstionairc. known officially
as Form l.0O0," is Il small booklet
On the cover is n dotted line for the
name OF the rcgistrant answering the
questions. Opposite this line is n small
series OF blocks numbered e. Q 2
o., representing the 1--WE new classes
INTO which registered men are IN be
divided.
Ihcre Is another dotted line. with
blocks. for the number and location of
the local board in whose jurisdictjon
the regfstrant resides and n third I'm.
ana series OF blocks for the district
board.
Inc registrant receives his bools1ct
through the mails, and is required to
answer questions IL contains questions
carefully devised to determine whether
no "1'ubhlioH ana comm tmcntS nt
nome make II wiser not 10 withdraw w
nm from civilian life for work IN ,bo
field. There is page or NOR. ~
questions listed under each of tho 6vn
classes.
Hecciving his booklet Tho rcristr,,t
writes his name on the dotted line and
marks an TX" in the block represent
ing the class in which he believes ~,
should be listed. For instance. single
men not engaged in vital war work
VIII form class No. l, the first to bo
called; married men with nondcpendcnt
wives ana not engaged In vital war
work, Will be In class No. .; agricul
turists In No. ,; married men with de-
penoehts In No. 4; cripples and Others
exempted by the provision of the law
in No. 5.
The registered man marks opposite
ms name the class 10 which he things
he should be assigned. He then writes
IN the hook the answers to the ques-
tions, and takes his booklet to the local
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