Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-11-21
FIVE GLASSES OF SELECT MEN
New Regulations In Regard to Order
Of Liability for Service,

ton Of selected men, Provost Mar
shall General Crowder has directed
local exemption boards to compile
the information contained in their
docket sheets and registration cards.
The boards will need for this work
from five to is assistants working
from three days to two weeks, ac-
cording to the size of the district
The assistants must be volunteers
trained for this class of work and a
call was sent out to-day to obtain
the needed volunteers. High school
teachers are suggested as the per-
sons best adapted to meet the emer-
gency.
The five classes into which 9,0OO,-
600 men are registered for military,
duty-and those who are registered
divided and the order
In which they will be called for ser.
vice were officially announced to-
day in the provost marshal generals
questionnaire which every registered
man must fill out and file. The or
der shows some change from the ten
tative draft published some time ago.
Contrary to some published re-
ports 1t does not exempt married
men as class, but does place mar
ried men with dependent wives and
children far down on the list Of liza
bles. In fact, the questionnaire indi-
Gates that only men Of the first class
will be called to colors except in the
gravest emergency.
The five official classifications of
registrapts follows
Class One. s..
(a) Single man without dependent
relatives. X y & j. b IA 5:y8 \. ,s3is 1.
a(b) Married man, with or without
children, or Father Of motherless
children who has habitually failed to
support his family.
(c9 Married man dependent on
wife for support.
(d) Married man, with or without
children, or father Of motherless
children; men not usefully engaged,
family supported by income independ-
ent Of his labor. rs
(e) Unskilled farm laborers.
() Unskilled Industrial laborer.
Registrant by or in respect of
whom no deferred classification is
claimed or made. a
Registrant who fails to submit
QUESTIONABLE and in respect of
whom no deferred classification is
claimed or made.
All registrants not included in any
other division Of this schedule.
Class Two.
(a) Married man with children or
father of motherless children, where
such wife or children are not mainly
dependent upon his labor for sun.
port for the reason that there are
other reasonably certain sources Sf
adequate support (excluding earn
ings or possible earnings from the
labor of the wife), available, anG
that the removal of the registrant
will not deprive such dependents OF
support.
CD Married man, without chill
dren, whose wife, although the reg
'strant Is engaged In useful occu-
patton, Is not mainly dependentrpon
his labor for support, for the reason
that the wife is skilled in somc spe-
cial class of work which she is physi-
cao1u q h1a 10
she Is employed, or in which there
is an immediate opening for her un-
der conditions that will enable her
to support herself decently and with
out suffering any hardship.
(c) Necessary skilled farm labor
in necessary agricultural enterprises.
(dD Necessary skilled industrial
laborer in necessary industrial enter
prise.
Glass Three.
(a) Man with dependent children
(not his own, but toward whom he
stands in relation Of parent)
CD Man with dependent aged or
infirm parents.
(c) Man with dependent helpless
brothers or sisters. M
(d) County or municipal officer.
(e) Highly trained fireman or po-
liceman, at least three years in SER
vice Of municipality.
(f) Necessary custom house clerk.
. (g) Necessary. employee OF the
United States in transmission OF
mails. Il,