The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-09
new DRAFT CLASSES
ARE MADE PUBLIC BY
PROVOST GENERAL
Five Classes Are Provided For in the
Considerations and Married Men
Will Be Dealt With
Leniently.

The five cIassifications into which
the registrants of Sept. IL will be di-
vided after claims for exemptions have
been acted upon and the question
naires have all been sorted out are as
follows:
Class /.
Single man without dependent rela-
tives
Married man with or without chill
dren, or father of motherless children
who has habitually failed to support
his family.
Married man dependent on wife for
support.
Married man with or without chill
dren, or father of motherless children
man not usefully engaged family sup
ported by income Independent OF his
labor.
Unskilled or not necessary farm
labOrer
Unskilled or not a necessary indus
trial laborer.
Registrant by or in respect of whom
no deferred classification is claimed.
Registrant who fails to submit ques-
tiOnnaire and in respect OF whom no
deferred classification is claimed.
Registrant not deferred and not in
cluded in any of the above divisions.
Class 2.
Married man with children, Or faith
er of motherless children, where such
wife or children or such motherless
children are not mainly dependent
upon his labor for support for reason
that there are reasonably certain re-
sources of adequate support (exclud-
ing earnings or possibly earnings from
labor of wife, available, and that the
removal of registrant will not deprive
such dependents of support.
Married man, without children.
whose wife, although registrant is en-
gagged in a useful occupation, is not
mainly dependent upon his labor for
support, for the reason that the wife
is skilled in some special class of work
which she is physically able TO per-
form, and in which she is employed, or
in which there is an immediate OPEN
ing for her under conditions that will
enable her to support herself decent
ly and without suffering or hardship.
Necessary skilled farm laborer i1f
necessary agricultural enterprise.
Necessary skilled industrial laborer
in necessary industrial enterprise.
Class 2
Man with dependent children mot
his own, but toward whom he stands
in relation of parent)
Man with dependent aged or infirm
parents.
Man with dependent helpless broth
ers or sisters
County or municipal officer.
Highly trained fireman or police
man in service of municipality.
Necessary custom house clerk.
Necessary employe of United States
in transmission Of the mails.
Necessary artificer or workman in
United States armory or arsenal.
Necessary employe in service of
United States.
Necessary assistant, associate, or
hired manager of necessary agricul-
tural enterprise
Necessary highly specialized techni-
cal or mechanical expert of necessary
industrial enterprise.
Necessary assistant or associate
manager of necessary Industrial enter
prise.
Class 4.
Man whose wife or children are
mainly dependent on his labor for
support
Mariner actually employed in sea
service of citizen or merchant in the
United States.
Necessary sole managing, controll-
ing, or directing head of necessary az
ricultural enterprise.
Necessary sole managing, controll-
ing or directing head of necessary in
dustrial enterprise.
Class 5.
Officer : Legislative, executive or
judicial, of the United States or OF
state, territory or District of Column
bia
Regularly or duly ordained minister
Of religion
Student who on May 10, 1917 Or on
May 20, 1918, or since May 20, 1918
Was preparing for ministry in recog-
nized theological or divinity school, or
who on May 20, 1918, or since May 20
ielS, was preparing for practice OF
medicine and surgery in recognized
Medical school,