The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-22
CLASSIFY DRAFT
Gives Order in Which Con-
scripts Will Be Called.
Each of Five General Glasses Is
VariOusIy Subdivided.

Washington, Oct 22.-The five
classifications into which men await
ing draft will be divided under the
new regulations approved by Presi-
dent Wilson, have become public
much before the time planned by the
provost marshal generals office and
are here published.
1t was discovered today that what
was to have remained an official Sc
cret for a week or more was divulged
Saturday night at a dinner in New
Y ork which Secretary Baker and Pro-
vost Marshal General Crowder at
tended. The provost marshal general
discussed 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 classification on the back
of the menu card.
The classifications are as follows
and show every man registered to
which class he belongs and in what
order the different classifications will
be called to service:
Single men without dependent
relatives.
married men Cor widower with
children) who habituaIly fails to sup
port his family.
3-Married men dependent on wife
for support.
Married man Cor widower with
children) not usefully engaged; fam
lily supported by income independent
of his labor.
5-Men not included in any other
description in this or other classes.
6-Unskilled labor.
CLASS 2
Married man or father of moth
erless children usefully engaged, but
family has sufficient income apart
from his daily labor to afford reason
ably adequate support during his alb
sence.
married man, no children-wife
can support herself decently and with
out hardship.
3-Skilled farm laborers engaged in
necessary industrial enterprises.
4-Skilled industrial laborer en-
gagged in necessary agricultural enter
prise.
Man with foster children de-
pendent on daily labor for support
2-Man with aged, infirm or invalid
parents or grandparents dependent on
daily labor for support.
3-Man with brothers and sisters in
competent to support themselves, de-
pendent on daily labor for support.
County or municipal officers.
5-Firemen or policemen.
/ Unnecessary artificers or workmen
!
/ Necessary customs houses clerks.
S-Persons necessary in transmits
! sion of mails.
9-Necessary employees in service of
United States:
1O-Highly specialized administra-
tive experts.
11-Technical or mechanical ex-
perts in industrial enterprises.
12-Highly specialized agricultural
expert in agricultural bureau of state
or nation.
13-Assistant or associate manager
of necessary industrial enterprise
14-Assistant or associate manager
! of necessary agricultural enterprise.
! CLASS T.
| Married man with wife (and)
or children or widower with children
dependent on daily labor for support
and no other reasonably adequate
support available.
| chants or citizens in U. s.
3-Heads of necessary industrial
enterprise
enterprises OF necessary agricultural
Officers of states or the United
States
2-Regularly or duly ordaine d
ministers.
students of divinity.
4-Persons in military or naval
service
! 5-AIiens
| 6-Alien enemies
| Persons morally unfit
8-Persons physically, permanently
or mentally unfit
Q-TiPenSRd OiIOfS