Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-14
EACH MAN CLASSIFIED
FOR NEXT ARMY CALL
[Continued from First Pagc.1
former exemptions is contained in
the QUESTIONABLE as follows;

"All exemptions and discharges
made prior to the date of these rules
and regulations and all certificates in
evidence thereof. are hereby revoked,
and all such certificates heretofore
issued shall have no further valid
ity."
There are sixteen printed pages in
the QUESTIONABLE for each registered
man to read and fill out. While the
pamphlet is large, it is remarkably
clear and the ordinary man who can
read will have no trouble in under
standing the rules. Men who do not
understand it's provisions may appeal
to the draft boards for advice.
Registered men will be divided into
five classes The first class will be
called to service first and the others
will follow, except that the fifth
class is composed of enemy aliens.
cripples and men exempt from mill
tary service by the terms of the Sc
lective law. The classes are divided
as follows:
(a) Single man without dependent
relatives.
(b) Married man. with or. without
children, or father of mother
less children, who has habitu-
ally failed to support his
family
(c) Married man dependent on wife
(d) Married man. with or without
children, or father of mother
less children; man not use-
fully engaged. family support
ed by income Independent, of
his labor.
(e) Unskilled farm labor.
(t) Unskilled industrial labor.
Reglstrant by or in respect of
dpfnrran
tion is claimed or made.
-. Registrant who fails to submit
QUESTIONABLE and in respect
of whom no deferred classiti-
cation is claimed or made.
All registrants not included in
any other division in this
schedule
Class II
(a) Married man with children or
father of motherless children,
where such wife or children
or such motherless children
his labor for support for the
reason that there are other
reasonably certain sources of
adequate support Excluding
earnings or possible earnings
from the labor of the wife),
available. and that the re-
moyal of the registrant will
not not deprive such dependents
(b) Married man, without children,
whose wife, although the reg
1strant is engaged in a useful
occupation, is not mainly de-
pendent upon his labor for
support. for the reason that
tneo,y the wife is skilled in some
special class Of work which
form and in which she is en-
ployed, or in which there is
an immediate opening for her
under conditions that will en-
oil
decently and without suffering
(c) Necessary skilled farm laborer
IN necessary agricultural en-
Cd Necessary skilled industrial la
borer in necessary industrial
Class III
IA Man with dependent children
Inot his own). but toward
", whom he stands in relation
OBJ Man with dependent aged or
lnhrm parents.
(c) MAJ with dependent helpless
<,> brothers or sisters.
td) county or municipal officer
(e) Highly trained fireman or po-
liceman, at least three yeal $
,s> IN service of municipality.
" Necessary customhouse clerk.
tS) Necessary employe of United
states in transmission of the
th) Necessary artificeP or workman
in United States armory or
arsenal.
t) Necessary employe in service of
United States.
~ Necessary assistant, associate,
or h1red manager of necessary
agricultural enterprise
tk) Necessary highly specialized
technical or mechanical eX-
pert of necessary industrial
enterprise.
IL Necessary assistant or associate
manager of necessary Indus
trial enterprise
Class Nv
ia) Man whose wife or children are
mainly dependent on his labor
for support.
CD Mariner actually employed in
sea service of citizen or mer-
chant in the United states
(c) Necessary sole managing. con-
trolling or directing head OF
necessary agricultural enter
(d) Necessary sole managing. con-
trolling or directing head OF