The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-10-24
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REGULATIONS
Some Changes Will BE Made IN the
Method of Furnishing Men to the
b.. Army Announced
DIVIDED INTO FIVE CLASSES
System As Now Adopted Will Great
" Lessen Labor Of Local Board
by 80 Per Cent, Is Believed

IL It is probable that some changes Will
be made in the method OF furnishing
men to the army according to dispatch
les which have been sent out from
Washington. The proposed new resu'
iations will be Of interest to the men
Of Crawford county who are registered.
Provost Marshall General Crowder
has announced that the physical ex-
animation of the remaining 7,OOO,OOO
men in the United States subject to
draft will be postponed until they are
called into service and that the re-
naming men will be assigned to five
classes, thus determining the order OF
their call to the colors.
Under the new regulations 1t will be
possible for a registration to detrmine
whether he will be called in the first
500. 900 additional men to be sum-
moned, the second 100000 or later con-
tingents.
The changed system will reduce the
labors of local boards by 80 per cent
by reversing the present process of
first conducting physical examinations
and then hearing exemption claims.
Hereafter all economic questions will
be settled before the physical examl-
nation is held.
IT,. Five Classes.
Here is the new system in nutshell:
Five classes of draft registrants are
esta ablished approximately as follows:
First-Men with absolutely no de-
pendents.
Second-Skilled farm laborers or
others slightly less available for mill
tary service than the first class.
Third-Skilled laborers and men
whose work is deemed vital to war In
dustries.
Fourth-Married men with children
whose families are wholly dependent
upon them for support.
Fifth--Cripples, mental detectives
and those specifically exempted from
military service.
10 Assign All Resistrants.
Registrants will be assigned to one
of these classes from detailed informa
ton they furnish local boards IN reply
| to detailed form of questions submit
ted to them.
They have the right to appeal to be
placed in a lower class. After such ap
peals are passed OH by the district
board, or if no appeal is made, their
status is officially fixed.
Thereafter when call is made for the
second SOC, 900 under the present draft
law, local boards will fix quotas and
all their quotas completely from class
l, starting with class 2 only when the
first class is wholly exhausted. The
men needed to fill each quota will then
present themselves for physical exam
inatiOn.
| The order in which the men are fixed
in their classes will be the same order
in which they now stand in the liabil
ity list under the draft drawing con
Quoted last July.
The New Order.
The provost marshaIs announcement
in full follows:
with the completion Of the draft o.
the first army of $4,000 men a new
system will be installed for the crea
ttion of succeeding armies, which viii
greatly lessen the labors of the loca
and district boards. So far has thi:
been accomplished that it is believed
under the new system so per cent o
the work will be eliminated while thu
forms to be used will not exceed TWEEN
lty in number as compared with approx
Iimately 1872 forms which the presen
system requires.
along with the reduction of labo
there will be provided a system which
Twill classify each one of the nine mil
lions of men who have not yet beel