The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-11-23
All Registrants Required to Fill
Out QUESTIONABLE Classify
ing Order of Call.
INVENTORY OF MAN POWER
Five Divisions to Be Formed Depend
Ing on Occupation and Claims for
Exemption Allowed-local Boards
viii Help Registered Men.

Preparations for the second draft
were started when copies OF the ques-
tionnaire for every one Of the nine
million men registered for military
service were sent to the local exemp-
ton boards.
This QUESTIONABLE must be filled out
by every registered man between the
ages Of twenty-one and thirty-one. 1t
will place in the hands OF the gov
ernment the life history of every reg
istered man and will give complete
census OF the men of military age In
81 trades, industries and professions.
The QUESTIONABLE will classify all reg
istered men for service.
Classification of registered men in
the order of their liability for military
service will be the first accomplish
ment 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.
Unskllled farm laborer.
Unskilled industrial labOrer.
Registrant by or in respect of whom
no deferred classification is claimed
or made.
Registrant who fails to submit ques-
tiOnnaire and in respect of whom no
| deferred classification is claimed or
made.
All registrants not included in any
other division I'm 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
his labor for support for the reason
that 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 n useful occupation, is not
mainly dependent upon his labor for
support, for the reason that the wife
Is skilled in some special class Of work
which she is physically able to perform
| and in which she is employed, or In
which there is an immediate opening
for her under conditions that will en-
able her to support herself decently
and without suffering or hardship.
| Necessary skilled farm laborer in
necessary agricultural enterprise.
| Necessary skilled industrial laborer
In necessary industrial enterprise.
GLASS 8.
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his OWN, but toward whom he stands
In relation Of parent.
| Man with dependent aged or infirm
parents.
Man with dependent helpless broth
ers or sisters.
| County or municipal officer.
Highly trained fireman or policeman.
at least three years In service of mu-
nicipality.
| Necessary customhouse clerk.
Necessary employee of United States
In transmission of the mails.
Necessary artificer or workman in
United States armOry or arsenal.
Necessary employee in service of
United States.
Necessary assistant, associate or
hired manager of necessary agricul-
tural enterprise.
Necessary highly specialized techni-
cal or mechanical expert of necessary
Industrial enterprise.
Necessary assistant or associate
manager Of necessary Industrial enter
prise.
CLASS q.
Man whose wife or children are
mainly dependent on his labor :s-
support.
Mariner actually employed in sea
service Of citizen or merchant in the
United States.
Necessary sole managing, control
ling or directing head Of necessary
agricultural enterprise.
Necessary sole managing, control
ling or directing head Of necessary
Industrial enterprise.
| CLASS 5.
Officers-legislative, executive or
jadicial--of the United States or OF
state. territory or District Of Colum-
bia.
Regular or duly ordained minister
Of religion.