The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-10-21
Registrars VIII Be Divided
Into Five Glasses. Fixing
Their Liability For Service
QUESTIONABLE TO BE
SENT TO EACH MAN
Data Thus Secured viii En-
able Exemption Boards to
Quickly Dispose of All Cases
Before Them

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Washington. Oct. 2o.-Provost-Mar-
Ahal General Crowder has solved the
problem of getting registered men
without cause for exemption first IN
the army and calling last those with
dependents or industrial need for
them at home.
All the men in the second draft will
be divided into five classes.
Those In the first class will be with
Dot dependents or Industrial demand
mr. them al home.
Those In the NTH class will be Grip
pies and others who could not serve
Ander any circumstances
In the gecond, third and fourth
classes will be those who are needed
Ut home or in the trenches in vary
ing degrees The second class Will
not BID called until the FIRST CHASE Is
exhausted: the third class will not be
called until the second La exhausted,
etc.
This will not only simplify the draft
machinery but meet the objections
OF farmers and munition makers.
Provost G eneral Crowder announced
today with the completion OF the
DRAFT OF the first army Of $4,000
men new system VIII he instaiiea
FOR the creation OF succeeding armies
which will greatly lessen the laaors
Of the local and district boards. SO
far mas this begn accomplished mat
il i believed that under the new sys-
teri SO per cent of the work VIII be
eliminated while the forms to De used
viii not exceed twenty in number AS
CON pared with approximately 1sa
forms which the present system re-
CURES.
Along with the reduction of labor"
SAYS General Cru~der's statement,
there III be provided a system which
viii classify each one Of the nine mil
Hons OF men who have not Yet been
inducted into military service and
ca Ii man viii have been given his
place in the national scheme Of de-
fense.
TO do this tt has been determined
10 obtain from each man complete
information of a character which viii
Gegf?fely TX Hrs, economic 'Twortlt ss
compared with his fellow regiatrant,
and from the information thus OBJ
tanned. to place hinl In ore OF the five
classes, each to be called in turn as
the need arises.
To Collect Data From Rcgtstrants-
The method o. obtaining this In
formation is through a 'questtonaire,
series OF questions calculated 10
produce ths information required
T'hls document viii bn mailed to every
rngistrant not yet in service on date
a. be fixed, seven days being given TO
zach reeistrant to complete and re"
surn the same. Every opportunity
will be offered 10 each man 10 COM
plete his QUESTIONABLE fully and with
put error,
The local board viii then examine
ZACH QUESTIONABLE and assign each reg
istrant TO one OF the Ave classes.
.sThcse classes will be based upon
avery conceivable condition, from the
IA mily or occupation standpoint thai
Should properly be advanced by
man dsiring to be excusd from mill
Harv duty. Glass ! will be the hrs'
called for phyaicai examination and
u,hen II Ii exhausted II the nations
reeds are such as to make IL neces-
harry class 2 will follow and thus each
man registered viii ultimately take
his place if needed.
every opportunity for appeal from
~uch classification by the local board
hHs been retained and perfected, nu'
Proceedings have been greatly sim
bliied.
Foundation OF New System
.-rhe tedious work OF the foea
knards has been practically eliminated
Nv the production of a form to be
Known "a No. 1000. which Will be the
rnundation stone of the new System
Through its use all the laborious worb
a making and posting lists has beer
si,nir ated All OF the old docke'
sheets and records will be made un-
necessary and by the arrangements o.
r. columns the work OF the loca
hoard will be reduced to minimum
son this new form the complete
history of each mans case will appear
at a glance, beginning with his orde,
rumb.r and ending with hts Undue
4icn into a military camp. while a
she close of each days work the loca
hoard is enabled to complete in few
,riutes with rubber stamp what has
hitherto take hours to complete. Thu
.vstem is such that 1t will present eacf
case almost automatically to the loca
board.
~tu solve problems which have con
srnnted the provost-marshal genera
md caused him much concern.
zone OF the most serious of thes'
Aas been keeping together the grea
ara rization OF the local and distric
boards, which from numerical view
roint Is of the strength of an arm.
sss,ision. Many of these officials hav,
h.en clamoring for relief on accoun
:, the drain on their time and tn
.sw system will make 1t easily pos
Essh,e for them to continue their du
~. for which they have proven them
..lyes eminently fitted.
.Another problem solved was tn
question OF expectancy of continuin,
\. examination of the entire regis
- thus fixing each mans status
nm would have involved a medica
-. m In alton of each man. whose ply
80 condition might change from das
day. thus making this great under
king valueless.
would Have Involved Confusion.
AX9aiu, under the old syatem Of ex