New-York tribune., 1918-09-01
Practically All Details Are
Arranged for September
IL Listing of Fighters
Instructions Are Issued
Rigid Inspection Is Ordered
for All Requests for
Exemptions

About 100000 are expected to. reg
ister in New York on September 12
under the new draft act.
Although the question. "Do you
claim exemption or deferred classfica-
tion?" will be in the questionnaire
which every registrant will receive,
provision has been made to consider in
dividually the cases of those entitled to
exemption or deferred classification
who, through pride or neglect, omit to
answer the question. In such cases
claim for exemption or deferred classi-
fication may be made by the wife of
the registrant, his employer or other
interested party.
Will Watch Exemptions Closely
Local boards will initiate proceedings
in deferred classification claims, but
all such claims will be passed upon
finally by an advisory board.
Claims made in behalf of regstrant
will be carefully scrutinized and in
vestigated by the advisory board before
Judgment is passed. and, regardless of
the claim. his value to the nation in his
present capacity will weigh heavily
with the advisory board. The belief is
said to be general in the Office of Pro-
vost Marshal General Crowder that.
many men who are essential to the ma
tion in their present posts will waive
their right to exemption.
Class l of the new registrants will
consist of those who are without de-
pendents and are not essential in in
dustry or agriculture. In Glass will
be married men without dependents and
skilled industrial and agricultural
workers. The other three classes in
clude certain Federal officials, indis-
pensable farm or shop workers. men
whose wives and children are "mainly
dependent on their labor for support" ;"
mariners and directors of industry and
agriculture, and, finally, when other
clhsses are exhausted, other Federal
officials, clergymen, medical and dental
students.
Will Call Youths Last
To make certain that inspection of
exemption claims shall be more rigid
than in the previous draft, all local
boards will receive supplementary in
structions from General Crowder. who
Will appoint the advisory boards with
final jurisdiction in the matter of ex-
emption and deferred classification.
Youths of eighteen will be placed in
separate group to be subject to a
special educational programme, it has
been announced, and will not be called
until the supply of men available in
other classes is exhausted. Their call
ing probably will not be long deferred.
however, as it has been announced that
all men accepted for service in the new
registration will be under arms hv
June 30, 1919
The hours of registration will be
from a. m. to p. m, and all state
and local officials are called on to make
immediate arrangements for mainten-
ance of registration places.
All men within the new ages.
whether citizens of the United States
or not, must register, unless thew are
diplomatic or consular representatives
of foreign nations.
In case OF illness on the registration
day, arrangements for tardy enrolment
may be made with local boards, and
men who expect to be absent from
their homes may register by mall suf-
nclehtiy IN advance that the registra-
ton record reaches the board by Sen.
tember IL. If man has no permanent
resldence he is to register at the place
he is on September 12, and those out
of the country on that day are required
to enroll within five days after their
return.
Strikers Must Show Cause
Although the "work or fight" clause
which would have affected striking
workmen was taken out of the bill be.
fore passage, General Crowder has
planned to apply. vigorously existing
regulations relating to idle men OF
those engaged in non-essential EN-.
ployment to the newly registered men
New York City is already prepared
to register under the new draft law
according to Captain David Asch, deput.
director of the local draft boards. He
said yesterday that only few details
tration places where more than ,00C
New York men between the ages o1
eighteen and forty-hve years will en-
roll.
Details Are All Ready
'sAll we ask is that men who are sub
ject to the new draft shall go at once
to their local boards and learn where
they are to register" said Captain Asch
"The machinery is ready to be set in
motion, even up to the distribution Of
the necessary blanks. We expect be-
tween the hours of 7 a. m. and 8 p. m
to have every man registered without
hitch 0r Yndua iarnminVO
Attention was called to the fact that
the twenty questions which each reg
istrant will be REQUIRED to answer bs-
fore he receives his certificate do not
form the QUESTIONABLE which must
later be filled out.
100000 Workers Petition