Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-08
DRAFT BOARDS TO
HAVE A BIG TASK
IN DRAFT REVIEW
Men With Deferred Classifi.
cations May Be Taken
in Next Call
SOME MISTAKES MADE
Result of State Inspection Ex-
pected to Have Good
Results

Just what effect the order Tor a
complete review of the draft classi-
fications with the purpose of putting
into Glass l every available man will
have in Harrisburg and Dauphin
county. local draft boards to-day
We're unable to say.
The order of the Provost Marshal
General, however. is clear enough to
make many young men of the city,
who have been considering the war
as a far away and vague PROPOSE
tion and who have been sheltered by
a deferred classification, wonder if
their classifications will not when
reopened put them in for the next
draft.
AS result of recent investigations
made by inspectors for the state
draft board. local draft boards
throughout the state have received
pointers on places where mistakes
| have been made This will, with
General Crowder's ruling. enable
the boards to reopen cases and give
men now wrongly holding deferred
classifications place in class one.
/ Others in class three and four will
be placed in class two.
| To Consider Marriages
dIilCuld Is 10 De given
to men who were married since the
passage of the conscription act. At
| tention also has been called by state
! inspectors to men who claimed eX-
emption on the ground of dependents
| and where il is known that there are
/ others with incomes in the families.
Boards also have been asked to con-
slider the fact in considering depend
a hD IN he
an allowance from S25 to $40 a
/ month for his folks at home
Owing to the rush of work dur
ing the classification, many men are
| thought to have received deferred
classification who were not entitled
/ TO them. Marriages promulgated
after the passage of the selective
service Law, and industrial classify
! cations. viii receive particularly close
scrutiny as a result of the order for
an investigation. A&...sa
AS an example of these mistakes
| the instance is cited of young man
who registered for the draft in this
city while he was married, but soon
after divorced his wife. Prior to
his classification he remarked, and
asked deferred classification on the
grounds of having a dependent wife.
In spite of the obvious fact that he
had married after the effects of the
draft law became known, his local
draft board gave him the deferred
classification and the decision.
Percentage High Hero
Men with wives who have means
of support or the ability to earn
their livings will be placed in
Glass l or 2 by the new order, so
that the men who have dependent
wives and families unable to sun
port themselves will be allowed to
remain at home Claims on the
part of farmers and war workers will
also be reinvestigated, to determine
If deferred classification was de-
servedly granted.
The government percentage of
Glass l men from the list of regis
! trants is 2S.7 per cent. The per
centage of men the local boards have
put into the first class vary consider
ably. City Board No. l had 80 per
cent. ana revised their lists some time
ago TO give certain railroad men de-
ferred classifications, but their final
list showed more than 80 per cent.
of the registrants in Glass /.
CITY Board No. 2 estimated this
morning that between 20 and %
per cent. of their registrants were
in Glass 1. All marriages made
after the selective service law went
INTO effect were not considered
claims for exemption by this board ],
1t was said this morning.
City Board No. 8. said some time
ago its Glass registrants were about
"a per cent. of the total. A large
number of railroad men registered
with this board.
The local boards this morning
pointed out that many of the douht
ful cases which finally received de-
terred classification were determines
by the district appeal board. This
was particularly true of me mar
rage and industrial claims.
investigation into deferred classi-
hcations granted aliens will also re-
ceive investigation.
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