The Butler weekly times., 1917-10-25
NEW DRAFT RULES MADE
All Registrants Are to he Placed in
Five Glasses.

lective draft based on division of the
9 M1r1ion remaining Tegtsrrants into
five classes in order of their eligibil-
ity for military service, was an
nounced today by Provost Marshal
General Crowder.
Details of the plan, which has been
approved by President Wilson, are
not disclosed. 1t is calculated, how
ever, to do away with virtually all
the complicated machinery of the
first draft and to make the opera
tons OF the local boards hereafter lit
tie more than rubber stamp proceed
ings.
The classifications are as follows,
and show every man registered to
which class he belongs and in what
order the different classifieations will
be called to service:
Class I.
I. Single men without dependent
relatives.
?. Married men (or widower with
children who habitually fails to sup
port his family,
). Married men dependent on wife
for support.
4. Married man (or widower with
children) not usefully engaged, fam
lily supported by income independent
of his labor.
5. Men not included in any other
description i'll this or other classes.
Class 2.
I. Married man or father Of moth
crless children. usefully engaged, but
family has sufficient income apart
from his daily labor to afford reason
able adequate support during his alb
sencc.
,. Married man, no children-wifc
can support herself decently and
without hardship.
3. Skilled farm laborer engaged IN
necessary industrial enterprise.
i. Skilled industrial laborer en-
gagged in necessary agricultural en-
terprise.
Class 8.
7. Man. with foster children, de
/ pendent on daily labor for support
,. Man with aged or infirm or IN
| valid parents or grandparents depend
| ent on daily labor for support.
] g. Man with brothers and sisters
incompetent to support themselves
dependent on daily labor for support
C i. County or municipal officer
t 5. liremen or policemen.
4. Necessary articifers or worklner
t in arsenals, armories and navy yards
!. 7. Necessary customs house
: clerks.
t 3. Persons necessary in transmits
X sion OF mails.
d q Necessary employees in service
S of United States.
+ 10. Highly specialized administra
tive experts.
d n. Technical or mechanical ex
n perts in industrial enterprises.
II -. Highly specialized agriculture
C experts in agricultural bureau of stat,
or nation
~. Assistant or associate man
c ager OF necessary industrial enter
q prise
{, II. Assistant or associate manage
II of necessary agricultural enterprise.
y Class 4
It I. Married man. with vile (and
q or children tor widower with chill
n dren), dependent on daily labor TO
: support and no other reasonably ade
e quate support available.
e 2. Mariners in sea service of mer
chants or citizens in United States
Il g. Heads of necessary industria
: enterprises.
g. Heads Of necessary aericultura
enterprises.
II 1. Officers OF the United States.
II ?. Regularly or duly ordained min
listers.
II 3. Students of divinity.
II !. Persons in military or nava
service.
S. Aliens
f. Alien enemies.
:. Persons morally unfit.
II g. Persons physically, permanent
ly or mentally unfit.
II 0. Licensed pilots.
The fifth class will include all per
sons not falling within the first fou
classes and such persons as may b
absolutely exempt for mental or ply
sical reasons.
II Class one would be called first
class two next, if needed and SO O.:
In each class the men would be sub
ject to cali in the turn which tn
original drawing gave them.
FL The plan was worked out at con
II ferences with local and district boar
I officials and approved by the variou
state authorities. Its chief feature
are that every registered man viii
know his exact position and be abl
to arrange his affairs accordingl.
and that no man deemed necessary ii
any important industry or needed a
home to support his family will b