The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-10-25
new ARMY DRAFT ].
ORDER IS ISSUED
Registered Men Divided Into
Five Classes.
NEXT CALL DUE IN JANUARY
Reelstrants VIII Answer Questions
and Return the Forms to Local
Boards for Classification
crowder Issues Statement.

l W0shington.--Oet 22.-New draft
regulations, postponing the physical
examination of the remaining 100000
draft registrants until they are called
for military service, and assigning the
men to Ave classes, thus determining
the order of their call to the colors,
were announced by Provost Marshall
tGeneral Crowder.
1t was indicated that January will
be the date of the next call.
/ Under the new regulations 1t will be
possible for registrant to determine
| whether he will be called in the first
100000 additional >nen to be sum
moned, the second 100000, or later
contingents.
The Five Classes.
Here is the new system in nut
she'll:
Five classes of draft registrants are
established approximately as follows:
First-Men with absolutely no de-
lpendents. sBl
| Second-Sl5lled 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.
i Fourth--Marrled men with children
whose families are wholly dependent
upon them for support.
Fifth--Crlpples, mental detectives,
and those specifically exempted from
military service.
i Registrars win be assigned TO one
of these classes.
1 The New Order.
The provost marshals announce
ment in full follows:
with the completion of the draft
of the first army of 6ST, 600 men new
system viii be installed for the crea-
ton of succeeding armies, which will
greatly lessen the labors of the local
and district boards. SO far as this
been accomplished that 1t is believed
under the new system so per cent of
the work will be eliminated while the
forms to be used will not exceed TWEEN
ty In number as compared with apr
plDximately 1S2 forms which the pres;
i ent system requires.
Along with the reduction OF labor
there viii be provided a system which
Will classify each one of the nine mill
lions of men who have not yet been
inducted into military service and each
man viii have been given his place in
the national scheme of defense.
Fix Economic Worth of Each.
ITO do this 1t has been determined
to obtain from each man complete In
formation of character which will
definitely fix his economic worth as
compared With his fellow registrant,
and from the information thus OBJ
tanned to place him in one of the five
classes, each to be called in turn as
the need arises.
The method of obtaining this in
formation is through QUESTIONABLE
Il series, of questions calculated to
produce the information required. This
document viii be mailed TO every reg
istrant not yet in service, on a day
to be fixed, seven days being given TO
each registrant to complete and return
. NhN A<NSLg opportunity VIII ne
offered to each man to complete his
| questionable fully and without error
"The local boards Will then examine
questionable and assign each registrant
to one of five classes.
These classes viii be based upon
every conceivable condition, from the
family or occupational standpoint, that
should properly be advanced by a man
desiring to be excused from military
duty. Glass one will be the first called
for physical examination and service,
and when 1t Is exhausted, If the M
tons needs are such as to make 1t
nc cessary, class two will follow, and
thus each man registered will uIti.
mntely take his place IL needed.
Every opportunity for appeal from
such classification by the local board
has been retained and perfected, but
proceedings have been greatly sim
plified.
The tedious work Of the local
boards has been practically elimInat-
ed by the production of form, to be
known as No 1000, which viii be the
foundation stone Of the new system.
ION this new form the complete his
tory Of each mans case will appear
at glance.
"The completion Of the new system
will solve problems which have con.
fronted the provost marshal general
and caused him much concern.
Under the old system of exemption
and discharge it would have been
necessary, II the national need re-
qulred, to send for the exempted man
to return for physical reorganization.
while in the meantime his Industrial
or family status might have changed,
thus involving endless appeals and
confusion.
4 "The new system fixes mans class
and calls him In his proper turn when
he Is needed. He will be examined
physically only when needed. /.
''The man who can least be spared
either as the head of family or the
head OF business necessary to the