The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-06
No Exemptions Will Be Grant
ed to Those Who Do Not.
Registrars Must Make Formal
Claim to Deferred Glass.
QUESTIONNAIRES OUT SOON
Boys of 10 and 20 Will Be the
First To Be Called.
Classification of Older Men Will
Take Several Months.

Washington, Sept. with the an
nouncement of a speeding up program
designed to place in the training
camps before the end of October the
first contingentS of the new draft reg
istrants, IS to AS years old. Provost
Marshal General Crowder made pub
lie the new draft QUESTIONABLE.
The QUESTIONABLE which will be
filled out by registrants Immediately
after registration day does not differ
in any essential particular from the
one used for preceding registrants. 1t
provides the same five classes of reg
istrants. but a new class is added at
the bottom of the list to include con-
scientious DIRECTORS.
Married men under the new draft
will stand exactly on the same footing
as married men between the ages of
81 and 81, now subject to call unless
they show grounds for dependency.
Secretary Baker first inclined to
the view that, because of the large
percentage of married men in the new
draft ages marriage would automat-
ically constitute cause for deferred
classification. This plan was later
abandoned and the draft QUESTIONABLE
for the 8 to As class provides that the
same claim for the deferred classified
be made by the man in the forties that
was required in the first draft from
men in the twenties.
Some Small Changes.
Amendments of the draft law con-
tanned in the s to As act designed to
cover cases of men of the advanced
ages have brought about changes in
the provisions of the QUESTIONABLE for
claims of deferred classification on
the grounds of industrial occupation.
The questions registrants will be
| called upon to answer are:
Are you engaged in an industrial
| enterprise necessary CA, to the main
| effective operative of the military
forces or c, to the maintenance of
| national interest during the emerg-
ency?)" If the answer is no, it will
not be necessary to answer any further
questions. If deferred classification
| is claimed on occupational grounds,
the registrant will be asked in what
respect he claims the occupation is
| essential.
1t was first thought the question
nalre would be amended to charge
draft boards with the duty of passing
upon the question of deferred classi-
f1cat1on without requiring the regis
| trants to specifically make such claim
but this was abandoned, and the men
from 81 to As, as well as the boys
from Is to 81 will be required to ans
Wer question:
I
ferred classification in respect to the
registrant named above, if so state
the division of each class and each
class In which you claim you should
be classified"
Older Men Will Be Called Later.
President Wilson will fix age
groups to be classified first The Is
and zo-year men probably will form
one of the groups to provide men TO,
the October call. because the task Of
classifying these men will be lighte,
| than IN the case of men of the ad.
Vanced ages. On accoun. of the de.
lays expected in classifying from 81 te
40 1t is hardly likely many men from
this class will be called for severa
| months.
In former registrations the oues
tionna1res have not been sent out un.
TIL after the drawing in Washington
and after the order numbers have beer
aiilxed TO the registration cards. After
the registration next week the oues
tionnaires will be sent out with onI,
the serial number and not the orde]
number. This will effect a saving o.
twenty-five or thirty days.
we are up against a proposition
OF stupendous proportions" Genera
CroWder said. Registration and class
lilcation OF thirteen million men il
one hundred days is the task we hav,
set for ourselves y
This new task contempIates th
classification of four million NOR
men than were classified last year. bu
the boards are now working NOR
eNped1t1ously and we should be suc
cessful in completing the classificatio,
OF the thirteen million by January 1
General Crowder said the cIassifi
cation of men from 81 to As will he
more difficult task than the precedin
classlflcat1on, because there will be
j! larger percentage of men to be give
deferred classification because q
helng essential to the economic life q
. the nation or because of dependenc,
But the classification of the men he
low Il will be comparatively simpI,
/ as there will be few claims to deferre
/ classification in this class
Prison Inmates Must Register,
4 Even inmates of penitentiaries wi
be registered September ~. Felor
will not be drafted into the army, bt
/ the wardens of prisons will be require
l to register them. Persons awaitin
| trial, and those convicted of merel
| misdemeanors will be treated as al
1 sentees and their cards will be fol
| warded to local boards by jailers. 1,
/ mates of insane asylums and simila
J institutions will be aided in filling o,
= registration cards by superintendent
and physicians who will be charge
4 with the responsibility of forwardir
these cards to local boards. No or
l will be exempted from registering e,
i cept men now in the military or nav
i service and reserves and men in tt
/ diplomatic or consular corps of foreis
L governments resident in the Unite
| States.