New-York tribune., 1918-09-09
Draft Registration Rules
AndHow They Are Applied
What the Nations Man Power Must Do on Thursday
QUESTIONABLE of Sixteen Pages To Be Filled
Out Soon After Enrolment

full man-power of the United States is
to be registered. On that day every
male citizen between the ages of
eighteen and forty-fve, inclusive, not
already registered under the selectivc
draft and not in the military or naval
service of the United States, will be
required to report at his local draft
board headquarters or at the officially
designated branch registration place OF
his draft board and fill out the red reg.
stration card.
There viii be about 100 registration
places in greater New York This num-
Der includes the regular 1S9 local draft
board headquarters. 1t is your busi-
ness to study the list of registration
places and to report to the one nearest
to Your home.
Register Between A. Nj. and 9 p. NJ
The registration places open at 7 a. m.
and close at p. m. Those who do not
have to register. according to Captain
David Asch, of the adjutant generals
Office, are the following:
Men already in the military or naval
service of the United States or its al
lies.
Men between the ages of twcntv-one
and thlrty-one, inclusive, who have al
ready registered under the sclcctive
/ draft.
All other male persons between the
ages of eighteen and forty-fivc, inclu-
slve, must register.
Two or three days after you have
registered you will receive from yoar
local draft board questonnairc Of
sixteen pages. Every registrant is COM
manded to study the QUESTIONABLE
carefully and read the instructions on
Page of the pamphlet before proceed
ing to write down answers to the oucs-
tions.
Registrant Must Be Sworn
After you have answered the queries
IN the quest tionnarc, YOU are instructed
TO take 1t before notary public and
nave 1t sworn to in the presence of
witnesses. You must have a supporting
atfidavit, unless you waive all eXemp-
ton for service. Then you take your
questlonnalre to your local draft
board. whore YOU will receive your
classification.
If you do not fill out and return
your questionnaire to your local draft
board, you will be classified in Glass |.
and you may be called into military
service at once.
The instructions on Page Q of the
! questlonnalre offer the key to the rest
of the document. These instructions
tell the registrant how to proceed in
filling out the QUESTIONABLE. Here are
explained the five general classes into
which all male persons between the
ages of eighteen and forty-five. not
at present in the military or naval SER
vice of the United States, will be
divided. All registrants will be classi-
fled in the order in which they can best
be spared from the civic family indus
trial and agricultural institutions of
the nation.
Class ! Called First
Only those in Class | arc liable to
immediate service. All registrants
placed in Classes H. III and " will
be temporarily discharged or placed
on the deferred list. All persons in
Glass Y arc exempted or discharged.
The effect of classification in Glass
4 IL Is 10 gram temporary ulSCndfSC
from draft, effective until Glass is
exhausted; and similarly Classes III
and " become liable only when
Glasses | and II, respectively, are eX-
hausted, tn" instructions state.
every rcgistrant shall within five
days report to his local board any fact
or happening which may change or
affect his classification. Failure to re-
port change of status or the making Of
a false report is a misdemeanor, pun
ishable by one years imprisonment" "
Five Draft Glasses
The five classes are divided in de-
tail as follows:
Glass I. Liable to immediate SER
vice.
A. Single man without dependent
relatives.
B. Married man, with or without
children, or father of motherless chill
dren, who has habitually failed to sup
port his family.
c.. Married man, dependent on wife
for support.
{. d. Married man, with or without
children, or father Of motherless chill
dren; man not usefully engaged, family
supported by income Independent of
his labor.
E. Unskilled or not necessary farm
laborer.
F. Unskilled or not a necessary in
dustrial laborer.
G. Rcgistrant by or in respect of
whom no deferred classification is
claimed.
H. Registrant who fails to submit
questionable and in respect of whom
no deferred classification is claimed.
l. Registrant not deferred and not
included in any of above divisions.
In the Second Class
Glass II. Deferred. This class in
cludes:
A. 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 other reasonably certain.
sources of adequate support (excludinA
! earnings or possible earnings from
labor of wfe) available, and that the
removal of registrant will not deprive
such dependents of support
B. Married man without children,
whose wife, although registrant is en-
gagged in useful occupation, is nos
mainly dependent upon his labor fol
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 employed, or II,
! which there is immediate opening for
4 her under conditions that will enable
/ her to support herself decently and
without suffering hardship.