Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1917-12-06
Every Registered Man Must
Fill in the Answers and Re.
turn to Local Board With
in Seven Days

turn to Local Board With.
in Seven Days
The new draft regulations which
were announced some weeks ago will
20 into effect December 18TH when
the "questionnaires" are sent out.
These questionnaires arrived at the
Office Of the local board this week.
Under the new draft regulations,
all registered men who have not al
ready been certified for military SER
vice under the draft, regardless of
whether or not they have been called
for examination, must answer all the
questions put to them through the
new questionnaire.
By the new rules, all registered
men will be placed in five classes,
and this placing will be done by the
local board, not by the men them
selves. The local board will get it's
information from the answers Of the
registered men to the inquiries print
ed in the questionnaire. Arrange.
ment for appeal from the decisions
Of the local board have been made
but it will not be SO easy to carry
an appeal to the president as it wat
under the old ruling, because any
such appeal must have the endors.
ment of at least one member of
local board before it can 60 to (
president.
The new regulations provide that
the questionnaires shall be sent out
to five per cent of the registrants on
December 18th; FIVE per cent on
December I6th; and five per cent each
day there after G..:sii all are sent.
Immediately upon receipt Of the ques.
tionnaire, the registrant must proceed
TO- answer the questions, and must re-
turn it to the local board within seven
days from the time it was sent tc
him.
Answering the questions in this
questionnaire is no simple task. The
questions are printed in the form OF
large size pamphlet of sixteer
!. pages, and there are several hundred
questions asked. To one who is not
versed in legal forms, it probably
will be difficult or even impossible
to answer the questions without as
sistance. However, the government
has taken this into consideration, ane
has appointed a
Legal Advisory Board
Consisting of we'll known lawyer.
of the county, whose duty it will b.
to assist any registrant who asks TO,
assistance, absolutely free of charge
The names of the members of thi
board have not yet been made public
by the governor, who appoints them
but this will be done in few days
( no doubt.
After the answers have been mad
! and the replies returned to the loca
board, that board will classify tn
men into five classes, according t.
I their answers. In class one will b
placed all the men who do not CLAIM
exemption, and all those whose claim
for exemption are not allowed
Glasses two three and four are des
ignated as deferred" classes, and wi
not be called for military service unit
all those in the proceeding classe
+ have all been called. Thus class tw
E will not be called until class / is a
\ gone. Class three will follow clas
two. and class four is next in order
class five consists of all men who al
permanently discharged from militar
service.
y After the division. into classes !
made, it will be found that there
nice big class of young men
- One, who are then ready I,
military duty, and there will be .
more fuss and bother Of calling me
from their work to the county sc,
for physical examination, only
be followed by claim for exeml
ton. All men in class one will tn.
be placed in order according to Il
order Of drawing of their serial nun
bers, SO that in the Class One, Il
first man in order under the old sy
TEN will be the first man inscrder y
der the new system also. The pr
cess will then be repeated in Cla
Two. and so on down the line. Eve