The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-16
DRAFT EXEMPTION
CANCELLED BY US.
Class Two to Be Called Only
After Class One Is Entirely
Exhausted.
RULES IN EFFECT NOV. 20
New Regulations Announced by Gen.
eraI CroWder-Classficat of
Registered Men Will Start
at Once.

Washington. Nov. 16.-All exemp-
tiOns and discharges in the first draft
will be Cancelled by the new regulations
that take effect November 20.
The new regulations announced by
Provost Marshal General CrOwder call
for the classification of all registrants
not now in the service. The process
of selection and classification will be-
gin on December Is.
Under the new system only 10 forms
will be used by the local boards. Most
of them are postal card forms. The
old system used approximately $50
complicated forms
CroWder Issues Statement
In a preliminary statement issued
here the provost marshal general says:
'The new regulations not only re-
peal all preceding regulations, but
cancel all exemptions and discharges
which have been granted by local
boards under the present system. This
will restore every man to his original
status, and the local boards will send
a QUESTIONABLE to every man who Is
not In the service.
"Under the new regulations the local
boards will send out per cent Of their
questionnaires each day for a period
covering 20 days. This method Of dis
tributiOn will allow the local boards,
with the aid of their legal advisory
boards and other volunteers, to In
struct complete and file each days
QUESTIONABLE without the confusion
and congestion which would attend
the effort to require larger num-
oer' Men Ready for Service.
"The military needs Of the nation re-
quire that there be provided in every
community list of names of men who
shall be ready to be called into service
at any time. The economic needs Of
the nation, while deferring to the
paramount military necessity, require
that men whose removal would inter-
fere with the civic, family, industrial
and agricultural institutions of the ma
ton shall be taken in the order in
which they best can be spared. For
this reason the names of all men liable
to selection shall be arranged in five
classes in the inverse order of their
Importance to the economy interests Of
the nation, which include the main-
tenance of necessary industry and ag-
riculture and the support of depend
ents.
"The group of registrants within the
Jurisdiction of each local board is taken
as the unit to be classified. Within
each class the order of liability is de-
termined by the drawing, which has
hitherto assigned 70 every man an or
der of availability for military service
relative TO all mer not permanently or
temporarily exempted or discharged.
Call All Class First
''The effect of classification in Glass
1 is to render every man SO classified
presently liable to military service in
the order determined by the national
drawing. The effect of classification
in Glass 2 is to grant a temporary dis
charge from draft. effective until Glass
1 in the jurisdiction of the same local
board is exhausted. The effect of
classification In Glass 8 is to grant a
temporary discharge from draft, eff
fectiye until Glasses l and in the jur-
isdiction of the same local board are
exhausted; and similarly Glass 4 be-
comes liable only when Classes L. 2
and are exhausted. The effect of
classification in Class is to grant ex-
emption or discharge from draft The
term deferred classification as used
in these regulations Is equivalent to
the term Temporary discharge'o