The Ronan pioneer., 1917-11-30
BOOK EXPLAINS
DRAFT PROCESS

tered men for military service, have
teen sent to all selection boards in a
Inok of 255 printed pages, compiled
under the direction of Major General
Nnoch H. Crowder. provost marshal
reneral of the army.
As has been previously announced,
he new regulations effect material
change in the conscription process by
dividing all registered men into five
general classes, which will be taken
in order. A mans liability number,
therefore. determines only his order
within the class to which he belongs.
Class one will be exhausted before
class two is called.
The classification will be determin-
81. by means of a questionnaire which
M registered men must answer. The
answers will show the industrial i'm
fnrtance of registered men and the
extent to which they are needed by
Nrpendents.
Glasses one and two, it is believed,
viii furnish all the men needed, un-
tess the war is greatly prolonged.
Roughly speaking. class one will in
t;nde men without dependents and
n't engaged in necessary industries.
*i,ass two will include men whose de-
,nndents can spare them without
hardship and skilled mechanics or
agricultural laborers engaged in nee
s.eary enterprises.
Public officials, executives and
'o&nagers of enterprises, men with
irsendents unable to subsist comfort
;ibty alone, mariners and necessary
i>t.5lic employees will be in classes
.nree, four and five and will not be
...4led out until the first two classes
a,e exhausted, which probably will
never occur.
Glasses one and two, then. are the
nportant classes. And of the con-
s;j:1erations affecting sclassitications,
he question Of dependency is the most
important. In this connection, it is
asserted in the new regulate that
u. selcctive service law "exempts
&c person from military service on
:,Hunds of dependency but that it
.,rns authorize "the exclusion or dis
.,}rarse from draft" of those whose
scharge is advisable "because of
:nt position of those dependent upon
ID IN for support
~he rules then provide for classiii-
ca,ion with respect to dependency
;s follows:
Eule lV.-In class shall be placed:
ta) Any registrant who has neither
w'e nor child, nor aged, infrm or in
rf.,id parents or grandparents, nor
,5rather under 16 years of age, nor
scjpless brother~or'~sister af what
e~er age, mainly dependent on his
abmr for support.
90 Any married registrant, with
=: without children. and any father
a. Motherless children where the
sgrdent on his labor for support for
.ne reason that the resfstrant has
E.Ritually failed to support them for
x: Sufficient time to Justify finding
- .ke board that he has been making
70 kona dde attempt to support them
ia she past end cannot be relied upon
- DO 80 in the future--this regard
7~ts of support rendered recently or
te.4aered for the purpose of evading
ntttary service.
~ Any married registrant, With or
Without children. whose wife and
eSa's|rcn Gf any are not mainly de-
sesdent upon his labor for support
t~g the reason that such wife or
tAs'drcn if any receive no sub
slsRtial proportion of their support
fpeM the fruit of his labor: put where
~ the contrary, such registrant is
mainly dependent for his own sup
pe7t on the income Gncluding earn
3sas) of his wife.
~ Any married registrant with or
~Shout children, who is not engaged
u any useful occupation. and whose
vte and children Gf any are not
mainly dependent on his labor for
.ssnort for the reason that his income
a. tn income of his wife. or both,
is amply sufficient to support his
ws:e and children, and that the re-
E:va of the registrant will not de-
rfjve such wife and children of rea-
sonab1y adequate support.
Rule V1I.-In class II shall be
rlaced:
,a) Any registrant with both wife
and children or any father Of mother
less children. where such wife and
children or such motherless children
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