The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-11-23
All Reglstrants Required to Fill
Out QUESTIONABLE Classify
ing Order Of Call.
INVENTORY or MAN POWER
Five Divisions TO BE Formed Depend
Ing on Occupation and Claims for
Exemption AIIowed--LocaI Boards :
VIII Hslp Registered Men.

were started when copies of the ques-
tionRalre for every one Of the nine
million men registered for military
service were sent to the local exemp-
ton boards.
This QUESTIONABLE must be filled out
by every registered man between the
ages Of twenty-one and thirty-one. 1t
Will place In the hands of the gov
eminent the life history of every reg
istered man and viii give a complete
census of the men OF military age In
81 trades, industries and professions
The QUESTIONABLE will classify all reg
istered men for service.
Classification of registered men in
the order Of their liability for military
service win be the first accomplish
ment Of the questionable. Men will
be classified in Ave divisions, the first
division to be called the first and the
fifth division last.
The classes and the order In which
they will be called are as follows:
CLASS l..
Single men without dependent rela-
tiyes.
NdTIlHu man. Will VI WILhOuL Nllll-
dren, or father of motherless children
who has habitually failed to support
his family.
Married man dependent on wife for
support.
Married man, with or without chill
dren, or father of motherless children;
man not usefully engaged, family sup
ported by income independent of his
labor
| Unskilied farm laborer,
Unskilled Industrial laborer.
Regisrrant by or In respect of whom
no deferred classification Is claimed
or made.
Regtstrant who falls to submit ques-
tionnaire and in respect of whom no
deferred classification is claimed or
made.
All registrants not included in any
other division in this schedule.
GLASS 2.
Married man with children or father
Of motheriess children where such wife
or children or such motherless chill
dren are not mainly dependent upon
his labor for support for the reason
that there are other reasonably certain
sources of adequate support (exclud-
Ing earnings or possible earnings from
the labor OF the wife) available, and
that the removal of the registrant will
not deprive such dependent of support
Married man, without children
whose wife, although the registrant Is
engaged In a useful occupation, is not
mainly dependent upon his labor for
support, for the reason that the wife
Is skilled in some special class of work
which she is physically able to perform
and In which she is employed, or in
which there is an immediate opening
for her under conditions that will en-
able her to support herself decently
and without suffering or hardship.
Necessary skilled farm laborer In
necessary agricultural enterprise.
Necessary skilled industrial laborer
In necessary industrial enterprise.
CLASS 8.
Man with dependent children (not
his own), but toward whom he stands
In relation OF parent.
Man with dependent aged or infirm
parents.
Man with dependent helpless broth.
ers or sisters.
County or municipal officer.
Highly trained fireman or policeman
at seast three years in service of mu
, nlcipality.
Necessary customhcuse clerk.
Necessary employee of United States
= In transmission Of the mails.
| Necessary artificer or workman II
United States armory or arsenal.
II Necessary employee In service Of
| United States.
Il Necessary assistant, associate q,
1 hired manager of necessary agricul
II tural enterprise.
II Necessary highly specialized techni
cal or mechanical expert of necessar,
industrial enterprise.
Necessary assistant or associat,
a manager of necessary Industrial enter
! prise.
CLASS &
Man whose wife or children ar,
! mainly dependent on his labor 70
! support.
Mariner actually employed In Sc;
= service of citizen or merchant IN III,
United States.
4 Necessary sole managing, control
I ling or directing head of necesSar,
4 agricultural enterprise.
a Necessary sole managing, control
: ling or directing head of necessar
! Industrial enterprise.
CLASS S.
!, ofticers-legiSlative executive q
! Judtcial-of the United States or 0
4 state, territory or District Of Colun
bia.
Regular or duly ordained mlniste
Of religion.