Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-10-26
FIVE CLASS|F|CAT|0VS
INTO WHICH MEN TO Be
DRAFTED WILL Be DIVIDED
Shows Order In Which They
will Be Called To Service.
Every Man Registered
Is Included.

lions into which men awaiting draf
will be divided, under the new regis
trations approved by President VII
son, have become public much befor
the time planned by the provost mar
shall generals Office and are here pub
llshed.
II was discovered that what was I,
have remained an official secret TO
a week or more was divulged at a din
ner In New York which Secretar,
Baker and Provost Marshal Genera
Crowder attended. The provost mar
shall general discussed the new regu
lations, without intending to make
public the classification. but somt
members OF New York local exemp
ton board thinking to elucidate the
generals speech, printed the classic
cations on the back of the menu card
The classiflcations are as follows
and show every man registered, IL
which class he belongs and In what
order the dependant classincations
will be called to service:
Class I.
Single man without dependent
relatives.
married man Tor widower with
children) who habitually fails to sun,
port his family.
3-Married man dependent on wife
for support.
married man Tor widower with
children) not usefully engaged, family
supported by income independent o.,
his labor.
5-Men not included IN any other
description In this or Other classes.
6--Unskilled laborer
Glass 2.
Married man or father OF moth.
erless children, usefully engaged, but
family has sufficient income apart
from his daily labor to afford reason.
ably adequate support during his alb.
sence.
married man-no children-wi
can support herself decently and
without hardship.
Skilled farm laborer engaged In
necessary industrial enterprise.
4-Skilled industrial laborer engag.
ed in necessary agricultural enter.
prise
Class 8.
MAN with foster children depend.
ent on daily labor support
MAN with aged, infrm or invalid
parents or grandparents dependent on
daily labor for support
3-Man with brothers or sisters In.
competent to support themselves, dc.
pendent on daily labor for support.
County or municipal officer.
5-Firemen or policemen
6--Necessary artificers or workmen
In arsenals, armories and navy Yards
Necessary custom house clerk.
Persons necessary in transmits.
sion OF mails.
9-Necessary employees In service
Of United States.
lOE Highly specialized administra-
tive experts
ll-Technical or mechanical experts
In industrial enterprise.
l2-Highly specialized agricultural
expert in agricultural bureau OF state
Dr. nation.
13-Assistant or associate manager
of necessary industrial enterprise.
l4-Assistant or associate manager
of necessary agricultural enterprise.
Class 4.
Married man with wife tand) or
children Tor widower with children)
dependent on daily labor for support
and no other reasonably adequate sup.
port available.
mariners In sea service OF mer.
chants or citizens in United States.
3-.Heads OF necessary industrial
4-Heads OF necessary agricultural
Class 5.
l-Officers OF states or the Uniteo
States.
--kegularly or duly ordained min.
sters.
g. Students of divinity.
Persons In military or naval
Iervice.
5--Aliers.
6-Alien enemies.
Persons morally unfit.
S-Persons physically permanently
II mentally unfit