Evening star., 1940-10-12

Eight-Puge Document
Will Be Mailed Later
To Registrars
An eight-page QUESTIONABLE on
the basis of which registrants are
to be classified under the Selective
Service Act was disclosed last night
as a simplified fact finder, of con-
fidential nature, to lay on local draft
boards great responsibility for plac-
ing draftees in the right place,
whether that be in the armed serv-
ices, or in deferred status at home,
because of dependents, occupational
or other reasons.
While the registrant is given the
opportunity OF filling out state
ment of his own opinion" as to
where he should be classified. it
was emphasized that he will not
have to fill out such a statement
in order to be exempted or to get
a deferred status
It will be up to the local boards,
officials at national selective service
headquarters emphasized, to get all
the facts about their men, and to
place them in the right place,
whether the registrants ask for de-
ferment, exemption, or not.
This questionable is not to be
used registration day next Wednes-
day, but is the one which will be
sent out by draft boards later on,
to help classify the men who are to
be called or deferred. A much
shorter. simpler form is to be used
on registration day.
Will Be Mailed Out.
The big questionnaireS will be
mailed out, not more than SO each
day, by the local boards later on to
a sufficient number Of men to get
a reservoir from which to fill the
first military quota for the area.
The remainder of the questionnaires
will not be mailed out to other reg
istrants until they are needed to
help fill the quota. The delay will
be a more practical procedure than
mailing out all queStionnaires at
once. because a registrant'S status
for dependency, or for his occupa-
ton may be under great change in
the interim between his registra-
ton and the time he is really
needed.
Although about 100000 or more
men are expected to register next
Wednesday throughout the country
on registration day. it is expected
that the local boards will have to
mail out this fall only about 1,000,-
900 questionnaires to get the quota
of 100000 men needed This was
estimated by DR.. Frederick Osborne,
chairman of the Advisory Commit
tee on Selective Service, and Col.
William H. Draper, jr., a member
of the committee, at press confer
ence. Another million question
naires would be needed next spring
to get the second group of men into
the armed services, it was estimated.
For this fall it appears that only
about one man in three who regis
ters is likely to receive a question:
naire, DR.. Osborne pointed out.
The public probably don't realize
yet he said, "hoW few men are
likely to be called out of each draft
board area"
Determined by Lottery.
The order in which the question:
naires will be mailed to men who
have registered will be determined
by the national lottery, where cap
suleS will be taken from a bowl in
Washington. The men whose num-
bers are on the top of the list of
numbers drawn out of the bowl will
be the first to receive the big ques-
tionnaire.
In some cases, it was explained by
DR.. Osborne, men will volunteer
for service before they are inducted,
and so their individual "order num-
ber" in the national lottery may be
moved up to permit them to 60 into
service much earlier than they
otherwise would be called.
The QUESTIONABLE is an eight-page
document of about 1000 words, with
13 sections, about half as long as
the QUESTIONABLE used in the pre-
vious World War.
One of the most important sec
tions of the QUESTIONABLE and the
longest is that relating to de-
pendency.
!. Dependent" Defined.
OF special interest to the prospec-
tive registrants and their families
is the definition of the word de
pendent" as used in the question
naire. That word, the definition
says, means any person to whose
support the registrant contributes
more than merely a small part of
such persons support Cor to whose
support the registrant would con-
tribute were he not temporarily pre-
vented from so doing by the regis
trant's physical or economic situa-
tom who is either ca the regis
trant's wife, divorced wife, parent,
foster parent or grandparent, or (b)
the registrant's child, unborn child,
brother, half brother, sister or half
sister, who is under 18 years of age,
or is physically or mentally handi-
capped, or Co a person whose sup
port the registrant has assumed in
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