Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-10-23
CLASS|F|CAT|ONS OF.
DRAFT ANNOUNCED;
MAKE FIVE GROUPS
PROVOST GENERAL OUTLINES
AT BANQUET SYSTEM That
WILL BE USED IN MAKING UP
NEXT NATIONAL ARMY.

NEXT NATIONAL ARMY.
Washington, Oct. 23-The five elias.
sifcations into which men awaiting
draft will be divided. under the new
regulations approved by President
Wilson, have become public much be
fore the time planned by the provost
marshal generals office. and are here
published
II was discovered today that what
was To have remained an official Sc
cret for a week or more was diulged
Saturday night at a dinner in New
York, which Secretary Baker and Pro
yost Marshal General Crowder at
tended
The provost marshal general dis
cussed the new regulations. without
intending to make public the classifi-
cations. but some members OF a New
York local exemption board. thinking
to elucidate the generals speech,
printed the classifications on the back
Of the menu card
The classifications are as follows,
and show every man registered 70
which class he belongs and in what
order the different classified lions Will
be called TO service:
Class /.
Single man without dependent
relatives.
Married man Tor widower with
children who habitually fails to sup.
port his family.
3 Married man dependent on wife
for support
Married man tor widOwer with
children not usefully engaged; family
supported BY income independent of
his labor.
5-Men not included in any other de-
5crption IN this or other CLASSES,
G-unskilled laborer
Class II.
Married man or father of moth
srless children. usefully engaged but
whose family has sufficient income
apart from his daily labor to afford
reasonably adequate support during
lis absence.
Married man-no children-wife
AN support herself decenty and With
'ut hardship.
3-Skilled farm laborer engaged in
Necessary industrial enterprise
4-Skilled industrial laborer engag /
ed in necessary agricultural enter
prise.
Class ~.
MAN with foster children depend /
ant on daily labor for support
MAN with aged in6rm or invalid .
parents or grandparents dependent on .
Tally labor for support.
3-Man with brothers or sisters in I
to support themselves, de-
pendent on daily labor for support +
County or municipal officer
Fireman or policeman
6-NeCessary artiiicer or workman
in arsenal armory or navy yard
Necessary custom house clerk
S-Person necessary In transm ission
of mails
3 Necessary employe in service of
United States.
10 Highly specialized admnstra
tive expert
ll-Techncal or mechanical expert
in industrial enterprise.
l2-IIighly specialized agricultural
expert in agricultural bureau of state
or nation
l3- Assistant or associate manager
Of necessary industrial enterprise
l4-Assistant or associate manager
Of necessary agricultural enterprise.
Class ".
Married man with wife tand) or
children Tor widower with chidren)
dependent on daily labor for support
and no other reasonable adequate sup
port available.
Mariner in sea service Of mer-
chant or citizen in United States.
3-Head of necessary Industrial en-
terprise
4-llead of necessary Agricultural
enterprise.
Class V.
l-Oiiicer OF state or the United
States.
2-Regularly or duly ordained min
lister.
Student OF divinity.
Person in military or naval serv.
ice.