Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1917 — DRAFT EXEMPTION CANCELED BY U.S. [ARTICLE]

DRAFT EXEMPTION CANCELED BY U.S.

Class Two to Be Called Only After Class One Is Exhausted. RULES IN EFFECT NOV. 20 New Regulations Announced by Orowder—•Classification of Registered Men Will Start at Once. I ■ Washington. Noy. 16. —All exemptions and discharges in the first draft will be canceled by the new regulations that take effect November 20. The new regulations announced by Provost Marshal General Crowder call for the classification of all registrants not now In the service. The process of selection and classification will begin on December 15. Under the new system only 19 forms will be used by the local boards. Most of them are postal card forms. The old system used approximately 180 complicated forms. Crowder Issues Statement In a preliminary statement issued here the provost marshal general says: “The new regulations not only repeal all preceding regulations, but cancel all exemptions and discharges which have • been granted by local boards under the present system. This will restore every man to his original status, and the local boards will send a questionnaire to every man who is not in the service. “Under the hew regulations the local hoards will send out 5 per cent of their questionnaires each day for a period covering 20 days. This method of distribution will allow the local boards, with the aid of their legal advisory boards and other volunteers, to Instruct complete and file each day’s questionnaire without the confusion and congestion which would attend the effort to require a larger number. Men Ready for Service. “The military needs of the nation require that there be provided in every community a list of names of men who shall be ready to Ih* called Into service nt any time. The economic needs of the nation, while deferring to the paramount military necessity, require that men whose removal would interfere with the civic, family, industrial and agricultural institutions of the nation shall be taken In the order in which they best can be spared. For this reason the names of all men liable to selection shall be arranged In five classes in the Inverse order of their importance to the economy Interests of the nation, which include the maintenance of necessary Industry and agriculture and the support of dependents. "The group of registrants within the jurisdiction of each local board is taken hs the unit to be classified. Within each class the order of twenty is determined by the drawing, whiu. haß litherto assigned to every man an o» jer of availability for military service ■elative to all men not permanently or “temporarily exempted or discharged.

Call All Class 1 First. "The effect of classification In Class L Is to render every man so classified presently liable to military service in “he order determined by the national W raw Ing. The effect of classification fin Class 2 is to grant a temporary dlsharge from draft, effective until Class in in the jurisdiction of the same local Cfeard is exhausted. The effect of ossification in Class 3 is to grant a thimporary discharge from draft, efi« active until Classes 1 and 2 in the juridiction of the same local board are fQxhausted; and similarly Class 4 becomes liable only when Classes 1. 2 t! and 3 are exhausted. The effect of 21asslfication in Class 5 is to grant exemption or discharge from draft. The pterin ‘deferred classification’ as used these regulations is equivalent to j the term ‘temporary discharge.’ **