New Britain herald., 1918-09-06

&n1pe1s this answer tC be made with
 seven days after the receipt of the Yquestionnaire, but Provost Marshal General Crowder hopes the registrants will not take the seven days allowed, but respond as speedily as possible Return of the questionnaire in three days woud save that much time for the government in it's stupendOus task of classifying the 13,000,000 regis trants.
 Exemption Claims Necessary.
 The Questionnaires arc in printed form, comprising sixteen pages and call for a series of answers to detailed questions which cover every angle of the registrants' economic. social and occupationaI status. Admittedly many be puzzled in making out the answers but this matter will be explained more fully within a. few days, and arrange ments will be made for any individ-
 nal registrant to have the advice of designated officials of the local boards in answering questions.
 The new qucstionnaires. like the old, call upon the rcgistrant or som" other interested person tO answer the question, Do you claim exemption Or deferred classification ?"
 1t was first expected that this Ques- tion would not he asked by the gov ernment and that the regiStrants stat us as set forth through other answers in the quCstionnairC would permit the government to judge whether he was entitled to deferred classification or exemption. But it was found that this plan. although it spared the reg jstrant the embarrassment of actually claiming deferred classification when he was entitled to it, would have greatly retarded tho speeding up pro cess by which the government hopes to call out the new effeCtiVes.
 The rcgistrant is, therefore. cXpCc- ted to state whether he claims defer rcd classification or exemption and to state on what grounds.
 An interested person. such as the wife or child or employer may claim deferred classification for any regis trant, even though the latter does not put in such a claim.
 X representative of the Govern
 nent itself, may, for reasons Of the national interest, put in a claim for the exemption or deferred classifca- ton of a registrant.
 Gen. CroWder did not discuss this phase of the matter today, but detin- tte information may be expected later. The plan of Gen. CroWder is to eX- plain officially one phase at a time n order that the public mind may ab- sorb that before taking in the next step in the general proceeding. The fact that a registrant does not claim exemption or deferred classi- Hcation, even though he is clearly en- titled to it, does not mean that he will lose the privilege of having his case Judged on it's merits. But 1t will mean that he may compliCate the Govern ment's work by making it appear that he is not entitled to deferred classi- Acation or exemption when in reality he is Ills answers tc the detailed Iuestions in the questionnaire would show him entitled to this deferred slassificatlon, wjlcrens his previous statement that ne does not claim IL would naturally lead to the opposite
 lssumption
 For example. a man with n depend snt wife and dtDcrdCnt children s placed by the Government ir Cit-~ ". It would facilitate the Govern a nent's work if this man claimed eX~ & amption. and t would only cOmpii- # cate the work ic for reasons Of pa .,otism o" pride he refused to claim