The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-01-18
VALUE OF QUESTIONABLE.
Army lnquisitorial Blank Helps Men
of Draft Age to Find Themselves

welcomed the QUESTIONABLE" sent |
By the war department to all men OF !
draft age. At first glance it is a fear |
some document. especially if one |
still has a vivid remembrance of eX-
animation papers, but its friendly |
might search for a lifetime and never
find a better exposition of the differ
ence between the American W.T. of
doing things and the Prussian sys-
TEN. Germany says Co" Come,
DO this" or Est Verboten." The
United States asks, What have you
done?" What can you do?" What
would you like to do?"
Would you be willing to take free
evening school instruction, fitting
rou for service in the army before
you are called to camp?" is an inv ia
ton which many a lad whose school
ing was nipped in the grammar
school bud will accept with alacrity.
The dominating idea back of this
wonderful record, the most compre-
hensive attempted since the Dooms-
day Book, is the classification of the
young manhood of the nation in or
der that it may be turned to the best
account, and it brings with it Oppor-
tunities that might otherwise never
! have come to these millions of young
men All the Ioung fellows who have
been drudging along with little pros
pect of advance or improvement in
the future perhaps disconted with
their lot and resentful because they
| feel that they never had chance,
may know now that Opportunity is
knocking al their door
When Uncle Sam says, WHAT can
YOU do well?" he relies upon his sons
to answer honestly, and in this long
list nearr every calling under the
sun has been set down, but there is
another query at the bottom of the
page, that nothing may be overlook
ed-"If you are an expert in any oc
cupation not mentioned in these col
uIQnS Wrlte II mere.
BY the time a man has answered
all these questions he VIII nave mad,
a fairly complete inventory of his ac
compIishments ard supplied sim
pc histo.r that may be far more elo
quent than he imagines. When a MAJ
gives his calling as that of bricklayo
u plumber or lawyer and then oppo
site the words Band instrument
writes "Dugle" or Drum" the eXper
p examiner will know that this i
something that this man does be
. cause he likes it. When man give
- his occupation of that as a dc
5 tective, but also qualities as a drafts
man, there is a suggestion that thi
nay mean something more than
dotted line showing the course O
: footprints in the alley leading to tn
place where the body was found.
r Wide Scope for Talents.
r. Thi, war is like no other. and ne1
j er was there such scope for talent
= OF the widest variety. Imagine artist
n painting road on canvas, showing
2 barren and deserted highway, an
J. stretching il like an awning fc
# miles and miles over the real roa
/ beneath it where tens of thousand
l. of men are marching unseen ~ tn
+ aviatOrs of the enemy. Yet this is on
of the simplest of mari such unde
n takings. When a soldiers sees wha
S seems to be a dead horse in ~
5, Man's-Land which sends up no o
h Tending odor to heaven he suspect
d that it may conceal a foe and fire
$ first and investigates afterward. tn
5 artist in "camoufiage" who can max
d it appear that vast bodies of trooT
are being assembled and guns noun
r ed in the opposite direction from II
n place where the real offensive is b
d ing planned, may b. sure of instal
d fame,
d Page one of the QUESTIONABLE
n the most important as an exponent
IS exactly what Is meant H. the ter
n "Selective Draft" about which thel
q has been some misunderstanding
le Under Glass l are listed the follo'
ing persons:
A. Single man without dependo,
!, irelative.
- E. Married man. with or wi,ho
~ children. of father Of motherle
le children who has habiruaIly failed
IS support his family
= e. Married man dependent
r. VIII, for support
le u. Married man. with or wfrho
e. loh.drsn. or father of m0rh,7Iss- ch