The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-11-17

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ton and discharge.
AL, exemptions and discharges
made prior to the date Of these rules
and regulations, and all certificates
In evidence thereof, are hereby re-
voked, and all such certificates here
tofore issued shall have no further
validity.
Washington, November IA The
five classes into which 100000 men
registered for military duty - and
those who are registered hereafter
are divided and the order in which
they will be called for service were
announced officially today in the
Provost Marshal Generals question
naire. which every registered man
must fill out and file. The order
shows some change from the tenta-
tive draft published some time ago.
Contrary to some published reports
1t does not exempt married men as a
class, but 1t does place married men
with dependent wives and children
far down on the list of tables. In
fact, the QUESTIONABLE indicates that
only men of the first class will be
called to the colors, except in the
gravest emergency.
The five official classifications of
registrants follow:
Class /.
a. Single man without dependent
relatives.
b. Married man, with or without
children, or father of motherless chill
dren, who habitually has failed to
support his family.
C. Married man dependent on wife
for support.
d. Married man, with or without
children, or father of motherless chill
dren; man not usefully engaged, fam
lily supported by income independent
of his labor.
e. Unskilled farm laborer.
I. Unskilled industrial laborer.
Registrant by or in respect Of whom
no deferred classification is claimed
or made.
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 in this schedule.
Class II,
a. Married man with children or
father Of motherless children where
such wife or children or such moth
erless children are not mainly de-
pendent upon his labor for support
for the reason that there are other
reasonably certain sources Of ade-
quate support Excluding earnings OF
possible earnings from the labor Of
the wife,, available, and that the re-
moval of the registrant will not de-
prive such dependents Of support.
b. Married man without children
whose wife, although the registrant Is
engaged in a useful occupation, Is
not mainly dependent upon his labor
for support, for the reason that the
wife is skilled in some special class Of
work which she is physically able tc
perform and In which she is employ
ed, or in which there Is an immediate
opening for her under conditions thai
will enable her to support herself de-
Gently and without suffering or hard.
ship.
c. Necessary skilled farm labor
er in necessary agricultural enter
prise.
d. Necessary skilled industrial Ia
borer in necessary industrial enter
prise.
Class iii.
a. Man with dependent children
(not his own but toward whom HI
stands in relation of parent.
b. Man with dependent, aged Of
innrm parents.
G. Man with dependent helplesi
brothers or sisters.
d. County or municipal officers.
Q. Highly trained fireman or pc
liceman at least three years in ser
vice Of municipality.
Z. Necessary custom-house clerk.
&. Necessary employee Of the Unit
ed States In transmission Of the mails
h. Necessary artificer or workman
In United States armory or arsenal.
Necessary employee In servic'
Of United States.
. Necessary assistant, associate
or hired manager OF necessary agri
cultural enterprise.
\. Necessarily highly specialize
technical or mechanical expert Of no
osssary industrial enterprise,