The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-09-20
Questionnaires for Coming Draft

The third edition of the selective SER
vice QUESTIONABLE, which is the one
that will be received by the new regis
trants within a week or so, has been
received by the local boards. There is
very little difference between this one
and the one filled out last year by the
21-to-3l regstrants.
On the first page the registrant will
find a detailed list of the five deferred
classes. He will be expected to go
over this carefully and discover what
himself to belong. Inside the question
naire he will find affidavit blanks cover
ing each deferred clsss, and one of
these he will be expected to fill out,
giving all information bearing on his
claim for this classification.
For instance, if he claims that he has
dependents he must name them and
tell for how long and how much he is
contributing to their maintenance. 1t
he claims that he is engaged in
necessary enterprise, he must name
the firm for whom he is working and
the length of time that he has worked
for it. He also must state the amount of
training that he has received for the
work and why, if he is drafted, his
place cannot be filled by some one else.
In the first class will be placed sim
gle men without dependents or married
men who have not supported their
families; unskilled industrial or farm
laborers; men who claim no exemption
or who fail to return their question
naires.
In the second class will be placed
married men whose wives can help
support themselves and necessary skill
ed farm or industrial Iaborers.
In the third class men with depend
ent children. aged and infirm parents
or helpless brothers and sisters; county
or municipal officers and firemen and
policemen, and. in addition to these,
custom, house and postal clerks as well
as necessary employees of the Govern
ment, associate managers and assistant
managers of necessary agricultural and
industrial enterprises.
In the fourth class will be put men
whose wives and families mainly are
dependent ON them for support; mari
ners in the merchant marine and
managers or directing heads of
necessary farm or agricultural indus
tries.
In Glass will be placed State or
municipal officers, clergymen, theo-
logical students, aliens-both enemy
and friendly if the latter claim exemp-
tion-persons mentally and morally
unfit for soldering, licensed pilots and
persons discharged from the Army
through diplomatic request.
In Class 5, division l, the most de-
ferred class that is contained in the
QUESTIONABLE, will be placed subjects
or citizens of neutral countries who
after having declared their intentions
of becoming citizens of the United
States have withdrawn their applica-
ton for naturalization These persons
shall be deferred, but, in accordance
with recent act of Congress, shall be
debarred forever from becoming citiz.
ems of this country.
In order to facilitate the work OF |
filling out the missionaries legal
advisory board las been formed. They |
will have assistants to help the regis |
trants answer the ques tionnaires. The |
real work of the board, however, will |
be to check up and investigate persons
named on the questionnaires as receiv-
ing pay or partial support through
those indicted into the service.