Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1917-11-23
New Draft Rules.

they Will be called Tor service were Of
ficiallyannounced Nov. Ain theprovost
marshal generals QUESTIONABLE, which
every registered man must fill out and
file. The order shows some change
from the tentative draft published
some time ago.
The second draft will be made about
the middle of February.
Contrary to some published reports
it does not exempt married men as a
class, but it does place married men
with dependent wives and children far
down on the list of tables. In fact,
the QUESTIONABLE indicates that only
men of the first class will be called to
the colors except in the gravest emer-
gency. The five official classifcations
of registrants follow. Several classes,
not Of local interest, are omitted.
CLASS l.
A. Single man without dependent
relatives.
B. Married man with or without
children or father of motherless chill
dren who has habitually failed to sup
port his family.
G. Married man dependent on his
wife for support.
d. Married with or without chill
dren, or father of motherless children;
man not usefully engaged, family sup
ported by income independent of his
labor.
E. Unskilled farm labor.
F. Unskilled industrial labor.
Registrant by or in respect of whom
no deferred classification is claimed or
made
Registrant who fails to submit ques-
tionaire and in respect of whom no de-
ferred classification is claimed or made
All registrants not included in any
other division in this schedule.
CLASS 2.
A. Married man with children or
father of motherless children where
such wife or children or such mother
less children are not mainly depend
eDt on his labor for support, for the
reason that there are other reasonably
certain sources of adequate support,
Excluding earnings OF possible earn
ings from the labor Of the wife,, avail
able and that the removal of the reg
istrant will not deprive such depend
ents of support.
B. Married man without children
whose wife although the registrant is
engaged in 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.
c. Necessary skilled farm labor in
necessary agricultural enterprise.
D. Necessary skilled industrial la
Dor in necessary Industrial enterprise.
CLASS 3.
A. Man with dependent children
(not his OWN but toward whom he
stands in relation of parent.
B. Man with dependent aged or
infrm parents.
G. Man with dependent helpless
brothers or sisters.
d. County or municipal official.
|. Necessary employee in service
of United States.
j. Necessary assistant, associate or
hired manager Of necessary agricultur-
al enterprise.
K. Necessary highly specialized
technical or mechanical expert of nee
essary industrial enterprise.
L. Necessary assistant or associate
manager of necessary industrial enter
prise.
CLASS 4.
A. Man whose wife or children
are mainly dependent on his labor for
support.
G. Necessary sole managing, con-
trolling or directing head Of necessary
agricultural enterprise.
d. Necessary sole managing, con-
trolling or directing head of necessary
industrial enterprise.
CLASS 5.
B. Regular or dply ordained min
lister of religion.
C. Student who on May 10, 1917,
was preparing for ministry in recog-
nized school.
E. Alien enemy.
T. Resident alien (not an enemy
who claims exemption.
Best available estimates indicate
that the first of the FIVE classes into
which all draft registrants are to be
divided will contain more than 2,000,-
600 subject for duty with the colors
before any man in any other class will
be called up.
1t is regarded as practically certain
that Congress will take up the ques-
tiOn Of evtandinO tho draff lam 70 COW