Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1917 — New Drafts Wrawing Plan Under Consideration. [ARTICLE]

New Drafts Wrawing Plan Under Consideration.

Washington, Oct. 17. —A comprehensive new plan for applying the army selective draft which , would take first only men without dependents and of no particular value to war industries, and establish various grades of dependency and industrial value from whcih future drafts would be made strictly on the selective basis has been worked out tentatively by the provost marshal general’s office and discussed with the president. It is proposed to formulate in each local draft district a table of all registrants, placing each in a column denoting his dependents and industrial value in the war’s prosecution. For instance, horizontal columns or classifications would be based on dependency. Men with no dependents would be placed in the first class, those with dependent distant relatives in the second class, those with wives in the third class, those with a wife and one child in the fourth and so on. Similarly the vertical columns might represent certain industries arranged according to their respective merit as war necessities. Industrial classes under consideration in this connection are farmers, ship yard employes, munition workers, railway and transportation employes, miners, steel plant and motor ndustry workmen, and certain other individual plants or industry branches to be designated from time to time iby the president or the war department as temporarily essential.