The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-11-02
SELECT|VE DRAFT
SYSTEM CHANGED
REGISTERED MEN YET REMAIN
ING WILL BE DIVIDED INTO
FIVE CLASSES
WILL SIMPLIFY DRAFT WORK
Selected Man Will Know His Exact
Position and Be Able to Ar
range His Affairs
Accordingly


Washington, Oct 23.-A sweeping
change in the machinery of the selec-
five draft. based on division of the
100000 remaining registrants into
five classes in order of their eligibil
ity for military service has been an
nounced by Provost Marshal General
Crowder. Details of the plan, which
has been approved by President Will
son. are not disclosed. 1t is calculat-
ed, however, to do away with virtually
all the complicated machinery of the
first draft and to make the operations
of the local boards hereafter little
more than rubber stamp proceedings.
The plans chief features are that
every registered man will know his
exact position and be able to arrange
his affairs accordingly, and that no
man deemed necessary in any import
ant industry or needed at home to
support his family WILDE called to the
colors unless the military situation
is desperate.
Detailed regulations to govern the
for distribution to local and district
board members. General CrOwder in
a formal statement assures them that
they will be given ample opportunity
TO farliliariZe themselves with these
regulations before the machinery pro
vided is called into use. AS the next
call to the colorS is to be made under
the new plan, this assurance is taken
to indicate that the second call is not
to be expected before the first of the
year, although no authoritative settle
ment on this point was available.
Following is the text of the an
nouncement:
with the completion of the draft
of the first army of 6S7,000 men a new
system will be installed for the crea- |
ton of succeeding armies which will |
greatly lessen labor of local and dis |
urict boards. So far has this been |
accomplished that it is believed IN
der the new system so per cent of the |
work will be eliminated while the |
forms to be used will not exceed 20 |
in number as compared with approx |
mately 1S2 forms which the present |
system requires.
"Along with the reduction of labor
there will be provided system which
will classify each one of the nine
millions of men who have not yet been
indicted into military service and
each man will have been given his
place in the national scheme of de-
Tense.
To Fix Economic Worth of Each.
$40 do this it has been determined
to obtain from each man complete in
formation of a character which will
definitely fix his economic worth as
with his fellow registrant,
and from the information thus OBJ [
tanned, to place him in one OF the five {
classes each to be called in turn as
the need arises. {
1.-THE method of obtaining this in
is through QUESTIONABLE
A series of questions calculated to
produce the information required.
This document will be mailed to every
'egistrant not in service on day
% be fixed. seven days being given
% each registrant to complete and re-
urn the same. Every opportunity will v
De offered to each man to complete his
Iuestionnaire fully and without error.
''The local boards will then exam
ne each QUESTIONABLE and assign
.ach registrant to one of five classes.
''These classes will be based upon =
very conceivable condition, from the :.
amily or occupational standpoint, =,
hat should properly be advanced by =
man desiring to be excused from :,
Military duty. Class one will be the y
irst called for physical examination :
nd service, and when it is exhausted,
the nations needs are such as to 10
make it necessary, class two will fol "
ow, and thus each man registered y
7ill ultimately take his place if "
eeded IL
EVERY opportunity for appeal from y
UGH classification by the local board u
as been retained and perfected, but
have been greatly simpli- u
led. "
''The tedious work of the local %
cards has been practically eliminat- p'
by the production of form to be el
nown as No. 1000 which will be the d
,undation stone of the new system. pl
through it's use all of the laborous vi
ork of making out and posting lists
rs been eliminated