Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-12-15
ARE YOU OF DRAFT AGE
THEN YOUhUST ANSWER
Questions 10 Be Asked By Gov
ernment's QUESTIONABLE
In FIVE CLASSES
10 Which Class Do You Belong? AID
What Are Your Quahfica-
lions.

tIons.
I Today is the day to begin to ask
and answer questions.
The United States Government will
begin today to select from its list of
100000 men between the age of 81
and 80 years the second contribution
to the National Army Selection will
be made from a QUESTIONABLE, con-
tanning las searching questions, the
answers to which will detremine the
liability for military service of the
registrants. Five per cent of the
missionaries will be sent to regis
trants today and on each day follow
ing for the next 20 days.
The QUESTIONABLE revokes auto
matically all exemptions and dis
charges under the first draft. Fail
ure to return answers within seven
days after its receipt subjects the of
fender to Imprisonment and immediate
draft. Mailing the list by local
boards constitutes legal notice to
registrant. His failure to receive it
does not excuse him.
1t is highly advisable for every reg
istrant to familiarize himself with the
five classifications, from which the fu-
ture soldiers will be chosen. Those in
the first class will be subject to the
first call into service, and so on until
Glass has been called to the colors.
Below are the qualifications which
constitute the five classes:
Class 1.
Single man without dependent rela-
tives.
Married man, with or without chill
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,
not usefulIy engaged. family support
ed by income independent of his labor
Unskilled farm labor.
unslSilled industrial laborer. Reg
istrant by or in respect of whom no
deferred classification is claimed or
made. Registrant who fails to sub
NIT QUESTIONABLE and in respect of
whom no deferred classification is
claimed or made.
All registrants not included in any
other division of this schedule.
Class 2.
Married man with children or father
of motherless children who are not
dependent mainly upon his labor for
support, for reasons that there are
other reasonable sources of adequate
support Excluding earnings or possi-
BILE earnings from the labor of the
wife, available, and that the removal
of the registrant will not deprive such
dependents of support.
Married man without children whose
wife, although registrant is engaged
in useful occupation, is not dependent
mainly upon his labor for support, for
the reason that the wife is skilled in
some special class of work which she
is able to perform and in which she
is employed, or in which there is an
immediate opening for her to support
herself decently and without suffering
or hardship.
Necessary skilled farm laborer in
necessary agricultural enterprise.
Necessary skilled industrial labor
er in necessary industrial enterprise.
Class 3.
Men with dependent children mot
his own, but towards whom he stands
in relation of parent.
Man with dependent, aged or in
firm parents.
Man with dependent, helpless broth
ers or sisters.
County or municipal officer.
Highly trained fireman or police
man, at least three years service.
Necessary custom house clerk
Necessary employee of United States
in transmission of the mails.
Necessary artificer or workman in
United States armory or arsenal.
Necessary employee in service Of
United States
Necessary assistant, associate or
hired manager of necessary agricul-
tural enterprise.
Necessary highly specialized tech
nical or mechanical expert of neces-
sary Industrial enterprise.
Necessary assistant or associate
manager of necessary industrial en-
terprise.
Class 4.
Man whose wife or children are
mainly dependent on his labor for
support
Mariner actually employed in sea
service of citizen or merchant in
United States.
Necessary sole manager. controlling
or directing head of necessary agri-
cultural or industrial enterprise
Class ).
officers, legislative. executive or ju-
dicial. of the United States or Of a
State. Territory or District OF Column
bia.
Regular or duly ordained minister
of religion, or student who on May
Is. 1917, was preparing for ministry
in recognized school.
Persons in military or naval service
of United States.
Enemy alien.