The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1917-11-23
Determine POSitiOnOf
All Registered Men
REVOKE ALL PREVIOUS EXEMPTIONS
QUESTIONABLE Divides All Registrants Into Five
Glasses Showing Liability.


The position in the draft of all
registered men not now in service
will be determined by a. question
naire which will be mailed To all
registrants to be filled out and
returned to the local board.
Copies of the Questionnaire
have been received at the office
of the local board but as yet no
instructions have been received
as to when they will be mailed
To the registrants. Press reports
state they will be sent out be
ginning December I . and the in
structions are that they must be
returned to the local board on or
before the seventh day after they
are mailed.
The questionnaire contains
twelve series of questions headed
as follows: Series General
Questions, Series II Physical Fit
ness, Series III Legislative, Exc
cutiVe, and Judicial Officers, Ser
les ~ Ministers of Religion, Ser
les V Divinity Students, Series VI
Military or Naval Service, Series
VII Citizenship, Series VIII Oili-
cials, Federal Employees, Pilots
and Mariners, Series TX Religious
| Conviction against war, Series X
Dependency, Series ri Industrial
Occupation, Series XII Agricul-
tural Occupation. Every regis
trant must answer all the Gen
eral Questions" under Series l.,
and the questions as To his phys
ical fitness under Series II, and
SO many more of the questions
under Series II as may be appli-
cable TO his case The first ques-
tiOn in the remaining series must
be answered by either yes" or
'nO" and the answer will deter
mine whether or not the regis
trant need answer any or all of
the following questions in the
series.
The reasons for and the effect
OF the classification are given in
the questionnaire as follows:
"The group of regislrants
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 to every
man an order of availability fOI
military service relative to all
men not permanently or lempor-
arily exempted or discharged
The effect of classification I'M
| Glass | is to render every man Sc
classified presently liable To- mill
tary service i'm the order deter
mined by the national drawing
The effect of classification in
Glass II is to grant a temporar,
! discharge from draft effective
until Glass l i'm the jurisdiction
/ OF the same Local Board is eX
hausted. The effect of classinca.
ton i'm Glass III is TO grant
temporary discharge from draft
effective until Classes / and II il
the jurisdiction of the same Loca
Board are exhausted; and, simil
arly, Glass ~ becomes liable onl.
when Glasses !, IL, and III ar
exhausted. The effect of classi
hcation in Glass V is to gran
exemption or discharge from
draft. The term deferred classi
, hcation' as used in these regula
tions is equivalent to the tern
temporary discharge.
/ The rules and regulation
! state: "All exemptions and dis
/ charges made prior to the dat
/ Of these Rules and Regulations
{ and all certificates i'm evidenc
thereof, are hereby revoked, an
, all such certificates heretofor
( issued shall have no furthe
f validity. In any case of deferre
5 classification made under thes
5 Rules and Regulations the Secre
tary Of War may order such de
. ferred classification and any Ger
5 tincate issued in evidence there
of, to be revoked and rescindeC