The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-14

| 1I0 qu0SlIOIlHdlIS "
 printed pages, covering all phases of
 the army draft, will greatly simplify
 work of the local boards during the | next draft One will be distributed 1 to each draft registrant, who has not
 already. been actually installed in the | government naval or military ser- | vice, immediately after the local, l boards complete. the compilation of statistics and data for Congress. Failure to submit the questionnaire | subjects a registrant to class 1, which will be first called to- service. The | important features are related fully to readers of The Farmer today. Under the head questionnaire the regfstrant must write his name, ad-
 dress, telephone number (if he has
 one), serial and order numbers, Un- der the same head this notice is given: You are requested by law to return this questionnaire filled out in accordance with instructions contain
 ed herein within seven days from
 date of this notice. ~ | Failure to do so is a misdemeanor punishable by fine of Imprisonment flor one year and. may result in the loss of valuable rights and i'll irnme-'
 diate induction to military service.''
 Before distributing the question
 naires legal advisory boards, compos-
 ed of lawyers. will be formed, whose
 duty 1t will be to assist the regis
 trants in properly answering all ques- tions.
 Under the questionnaire method registrants are divided into five class es, the first class being subject to first call and the class only as last re- sort. They are as follows. Class 1, (a) single men without dependent relatives; (b) married men with or without children, or father of moth erless children. who has habitually failed to support his family; Co mar rted man dependent on wife for sup port; (d) married man with or with out children, or father of motherless children, man not usefully engaged, family supported by income indepen- dent of his labor; (e) unskilled farm
 laborer; (f) unskilled industrial la- borer; registrant by or in respect of
 whom no deferred classification is | claimed or made; registrant, who fails | to submit questionnaire and in, re- l spect of whom no deferred c1assifica- tion Is claimed or made; all regis trants not included in any other divi- sion in this schedule.
 l Class 2: Married men with children or father of motherless children,
 where such wife or children or such
 motherless children are not mainly de-
 pendent upon his labor for support
 for the reason that there are other
 reasonably certain sources of ade-
 Quate support (excluding earnings or possible earnings from labor of wife) I available and that the removal of the
 registrant will not deprive such de-
 pendents of support. s(b) 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 class of work which she is i physically able to perform and in
 which she is employed or in which
 there is an immediate opening for
 her under conditions that will enable
 her to support herself decently and
 without suffering or hardship.
 l g(c) Necessary skilled farm laborer in ! necessary agricultural enterprise; (d)
 Necessary skilled industrial 1aborer
 in necessary industrial enterprise. Class 8: Man with dependent
 children (not his own), but toward | whom he stands in relation of par l ent; (b) man with dependent aged l UT lIll1IIl PSdISulSy \SJ lIldAl WILL oC-
 pendent helpless brothers or sisters; l (d) county or municipal officer; (e)
 highly trained fireman or police
 man, at least three years in service of municipality; (f) necessary cus- | tom house clerk; (g) necessary ern- ploye of United States in transmis.
 sion of the mails; (h) necessary ar- 1 tificer or workman in. U. s. armory
 or arsenal; {i) necessary employe in service of United States. CD neces-
 sary assistant, associate. or hired
 manager of necessary agricultural
 enterprise; (k) necessary highly
 specialized technical or mechanical expert of necessary industrial enter.
 prise; CD necessary assistant or asso- ciate manager of necessary industrial enterprise.
 Class 4: (a) Man whose wife or children are mainly dependent upon
 his labor for support; (b) mariner
 actually employed in sea service of citizen of merchant in the United 1 States; .(c) necessary sole managing,
 controlling or directing head of
 necessary agricultural enterprise; (d) necessary sole managing, con-
 trolling or directing head of neces- sary industrial enterprise.
 Class 5: (a) Off1cers-legislative
 executive, judicial of the United
 States or of state, territory or Dis
 trict of Columbia; (b) regular or
 duly ordained minister of religion; | Co student who on May IS, 1917,
 was preparing for ministry in recog-
 nized school; (d) persons in military or naval service of United States; | (e) alien enemy; (f) resident alien | (not an enemy) who claims exemp-
 ton; (g), persons totally and per manently physically or mentally unfit
 for military service; (h) persons mor- ally unfit to be soldier of the United States; G) licensed pilot ac- tually employed in the pursuit of his | vocation.
 The questionnaire also providesS