Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-09-11
EASY TO FILL new
.QUESTlONNAIRES
MORE QUESTIONS IN NEW ISSUE
THAN FORMER ONES. LEGAL
BOARDS TO ASSIST.
WILL BE SENT OUT QUICKLY
Work Must Be Rushed To Secure
Early Classification Of Men.
The Five Classes.

Work Must Be Rushed To Secure
Early Classification Of Men.
The Five Classes.
First copies of the QUESTIONABLE te
be filled out by the registrants whc
enroll themselves with the drat1
boards next Thursday have beer
given out and are attracting much at
|tention.
The new form was found to be ap-
proximately twice as long as the
questionable used In connection with
the registration of men between the
ages Of 81 and 81, but instead Of being
twice as difficult to I'LL out, those
who had examined both said that the
second interrogatory has been pre-
pared in such way that the average
citizen will have little difficulty.
The greater length is due almost
entirely to the demand for closer de-
tail concerning grounds for exemption
or deferred classification either be-
cause Of the registrant's part in the
econimic life Of the nation or be-
cause Of the necessity for financial
support for dependents.
The men who will register at the
places mentioned in our issue of last
week on Thursday are those between
the ages of Is and 45 years, inclu.
sive, except those who have enrolled
themselves in the 21 to 81 registration
In other words the new registrants
will be the young men IS, 10, 20 years
old, and the men whose ages are be.
tween 81 and 45, inclusive.
To Rush QuestiOnnaires.
Immediately after the tabulation oI
the results of the registration, which
are to be reported to Washington moi
later than the following Saturday, the
local boards will begin to deliver the
questionnares. Formerly per cen
a day was sent out until the list was
completed, but the 5 per cent limita
tion is removed and the blanks VIII
be sent out as speedily as possible.
Legal advisory boards will be OF
duty to aid registrants who will b
urged to not take advantage of the sew
en- days allowed them by law in whicl
to return their questionairres, but, Il
|send them in at once.
In former registrations the ques
tionnaires have not been sent out un
til after the drawing in Washington
and the affixing Of order numbers tt
the registration cards. After thi'
weeks registration the questionable!
viii be sent out with only the serla
number of the registrants, and no
their order numbers as they wer'
drawn at Washington.
No one within the specified ag'
limits viii be exempt from registra
ton except men now in the militar!
or naval service and reserve forces
and men in the diplomatic or consular
corps of foreign government residen
in the United States. Even inmate'
OF penitentiaries and insane asylum.
will be registered.
The QUESTIONABLE is the big thins
in connection with the registration
On Thursday the registrant merel,
answers some preliminary question:
put to him by the registrar, who
writes them out in ink on the regis
tration cards, but the questionable
is made out by the man himself an6
upon its contents, and not the facts
contained on the registration card, de-
pends his classification.
The Five ClassificatiOns. ,
The five classifications into which
registrants will be divided after
claims for exemptions have been con-
sidered are as follows:
Class 1.
Single men without dependent rela-
tives.
Married men, 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;
man not usefully engaged, family sup
ported by income Independent of his
labor.
Unskilled or not necessary indus
trial laborer
Registrant by or in respect of whom
no deferred classification is claimed.
Registrant VINO fails to submit
QUESTIONABLE and in respect of whom
no deferred classification is claimed.
Registrant not deferred and not in
cluded in any of above divisions.
Class 9.
Married man with children. or
father of motherless children, where
such wife or children or such mother
less children are not mainly dependent
upon his labor for support for reason
that there are reasonably certain re-
sources Of adequate support (exclud-
ing earnings or possibly earnings from
labor of wife) available, and that the
removal of registrant will not deprive
such dependents of support.
Married man, without children,
whose wife, although registrant is en-
gagged 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 en-
ployed or in which there is an i'm
mediate opening for her under con-
ditions that will enable her to sup
port herself decently and without suf-
fering hardship.
= Necessary skilled farm laborers in