Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-24
TEACHERS CALLED
 ID CLASS DRAFT MEN BY VOCAlIUNS
All Men On Lists Will Be Listed According to Work
 They Can Do.

All teachers of the United States have been called upon by the president to classify the men on the registration lists of the local boards according tt their vacations. The resulting list. will be used by the war department il obtaining men for special work. These were the instructions received by the local exempeion boards today, witf blanks for the new work.
 j The new classification will not cal for any action on the part of the regis thants themselves, as all the date re { oujred will be taken from the question: naires. The men will then be listed by vacations and when men trained in special line of work are needed by the arm,, these lists will be used to ob- tain them. The draft officials state that this method will enable the draft ed man to obtain congenial work as surely as tho he had enlisted in a special branch of the service.
 School Teachers to Help. On account of the great amount of work this new ruling will impose upon the already overworked local boards, the president has issued letter to all the school teachers of the United States asking them to lend their aid l in doing the work The letter is as follows:
 "To All Teachers:-
 "The success of the selective ser vice system has been largely due to the reliance that has been placed on the cooperation of all citizens in it's execution. In the registration, the election officers of the several states were called upon to perform speci- fife task and they performed it unani- mously and efficiently. Latterly, l have had occasion to call the lawyers and the physicians of the country to specific duties and they have respon- ded in n solid rank. The time has now come when the teachers of the country can perform very necessary task and have no doubt that they will respond in the same manner.
 The process of classification of all men within the field of selection is proceeding rapidly. It becomes neces- sary to carry forward with this process. the making of very com plet index which shall accurately To- cate any specifically qualified man among the ten millions on the enroll ment lists. The local boards are so over -burdened with the work of clas- sification that this work cannot be put unon them, and yet the necessities of the nation reuuire that it be perform ed with the greatest possible dispatch and accuracy. This duty can be per formed best by the teachers of the various communities. Under authori- ty conferred upon me by the select i've service law I therefore call upon all teachers to present themselves tc the local boards having jurisdiction over areas in which they reside, for the purpose of examining the question naires and filling out the index cards in accordance with more specific i'm structions to be issued by the provost marshal general.
 1 WOODROW WILSON" Formerly Done at Camps.
 This vocational classification of thf selected men has been heretofore done the cantonments after the men report ed for duty but the provost marsha generals office has decided that the interests of the service can be better 1 he served hy havinp if donn hv tho h.