The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-11-01
New Draft Liability Is Fixed

draft will be divided under the new
regulations approved by President
Wilson have become public much
before the time planned by the
provost marshal generals office
and are here published.
1t is discovered that what was
to have remained an official secret
for week or more was divulgel
Saturday night at a dinner in New
York which Secretary Baker and
Provost Marshal General Crowder
attended.
The provost marshal general dis
cussed the new regulations without
intending to make public the class
ifications, but some members of a
New York local exemption board,
thinking to elucidate the general S
speech, printed the classifications
on the back of the menu card.
The classifications are as follows,
and show every man registered to
which class he belongs and in what
order the different classifcations
will be called to service.
CLASS 1.
Single man without depend
ent relatives.
married man or widowed
with children who habitually fails
to support his family.
3-Married man dependent OIL
wife for support.
Married man Cor widower
with children not usefully engag-
ed, family supported by income
Independent of his labor.
5-Men not included in any
other description in this or other
CLASS 2
Married man or father of
motherless children, usefully en-
gagged, but family has sufficient in
come apart from his daily labor to
afford reasonably adequate support
During MS absence.
married men, no children /;
wife can support herself without
hardship.
3-Skilled industrial laborer en-
gagged in necessary industrial en-
terprise.
4Skilled farm laborer engaged
in necessary agricultural enter
prise.
CLASS 3
Man with foster children de-
pendent on daily labor for support.
2-Man with aged, infirm or in
valid parents or grandparents de-
pendent on daily labor for support.
4ECounty or municipal officers.
5-Firemen or policemen.
6-Necessary artificers or work
men in arsenals, armories and navy
yards.
Necessary custom house
clerks.
S-Persons necessary in trans
mission of mails.
tNecessary employees in service
of the United States.
10-High specialized ainlinistr-
ative experts.
11-Technical or mechanical ex-
perts in industrial enterprises.
12-Highly specialized agricult-
ural expert in agriculture; bareau
of state or nation.
- 13-Assistant or associate man
ager of necessary industrial. enter
prises.
14-Assistant or associate man.
ager of necessary agricultural en-
terprises.
CLASS 4
Married man with wife candy
or children Cor widower with child
ren) dependent on daily labor for
support and no other reasonably
adequate support available.
2-Mariners in sea service of
merchants or citizens in the United
States.
3-Heads of necessary industri-
al enterprises.
CLASS 5.
Officers Of states or the Unit
ed States.
2-Regularly or duly ordained
ministers.
3-Students of divinity.
Persons in military or naval
service.
5-Aliens.
6-Alien enemies.
Persons morally unfit.
9-Persons physically, perman-
emily or mentally unfit.
9-Licensed pilots.
Card Of Thanks
We wish to thank our friends
and neighbors especially the Chris
tan Mothers, who so kindly assist
ed us during the illness and death