The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-11-26
NEEDED MEN SPARED

NEEDED MEN SPARED
Dependency and Importance
Industrially Chief
Questions.
The new sclcctive draft regulations
governing the future drafts of regis
tered men for military service have
been sent to an selection boards in a
book of 255 printed pages. compiled
Hnder the direction of Major General
tnoch II. Growder provost marshal
general of the army
AS has been previously announced,
tn" new regulations effect 4 materi;,l
change III tn" CONSUMPTION process by
dividing all registered men into five
general classes, which will be taken in
order. 4 mans liability number,
therefore, determines only his order
within the class to which he belongs.
lass one will be exhausted before
class two is called
First Two Glasses Important.
The classification will bc determined
ny means of q questionable which all
registered men must answer. The
answers will show the industrial i'm
portance of registered men and the ex :
tent TO which they are needed by de
pendents.
Glasses one and Two, il is believed.
viii furnish al OF the men needed, nm
less tn" war is greatly prolonged
Roughly speaking. class one will in
clid" men without dependents and not
engaged IN necessary Industries. Glass
tWo Will include men whose tependcnts
can spare them without hardship and
skilled mechanics or agricultural labor
efs engaged in necessary enterprises.
The Deferred Glasses.
Public officials. executives and man
ayers of necessary enterprises. men
with dependents unable to subsist com
lortahlN alone, mariners and necessary
lublic employees will be classes in
glasses III, " and V. and will not be
called out until the first two classes
arc exhausted, which probably will
never occur.
Classes | and II, then, are the i'm
portant classes. And of the consider
auons affecting classifications, the
question of dependency is the most i'm
portant. In this connection it is as
serted III the new regulations that the
SelectiVe service law "eXempts no per-
son from military service on grounds
of dependency" but that it does auth
crize the exclusion or discharge from
| draft of those whose discharge is al :
NlSahle because of the position of
i those dependent upon him for sup
| port"
Designed to Protect Dependents.
| The present scheme" it is stated
is designed by the creation of several
| classes, arranged in order Of their
| availability for military service. to
| defer the induction into the army OF
fegistrants upon whom other persons
are mainly dependent for support until
| persons without dependents have beer
called. While an actual dependency
! discharge can be granted, there are
certain conditions of dependency which
| II is advisable to recognize to a fulle,
extent than others. The present class
| ifiration is designed to afford the max.
imum of protection to dependent rcla
tlV"s consistent with the military ne.
ressity of the nation.
ut is 10 be recognized that war mus
ring inconNenicnces and sacrifice tt
all. No person has a right 10 refns,
hand. ii is not the intent of the law {,
deprive the dependents whom the lav
and regulations are designed to pro
tect of reasonably adequate support
No definite degree can be given to TN
meaning Of the term 'rea sonably AIDE
qnat" support as used in the rlassifi
cation rules and schedules The ad
. lluStm"nt of these relations must b
left I" local boards. who have abun
dainty shown that they will approac
. each cas-" with sympathy and commo
sense, and while defending the inter
IcStS Of the nation from selfish an
thoughtlsss claimants on the one hant
VIII afford the decent protection her
designed for meritorious claimants o
. the other"
. Dependency Classification.
The rules then provide for classified
ton with respect to Dependency a