Show LAST DRAFTED MAY MAYI I I BE FIRST TO GO GOt GOI t I TO Questionnaire aire Replies to Fix Eligibility and Determine Time of Call the the front before Dick Tom may mY go SO to number follows a his hill draft although thousand behind Dick Dicks hundred or a a. simple way of ex explaining explaining explaining ex- ex Is the Ute most This the rul rule promulgated by a B new marshal general In that all provost dealing with the draft have stories been lorle more or less Involved it Is the desire de- de sire alre to simplify to tho greatest extent concerned will under- under that all aU men so 10 stand at nd Hence Tom and Dick figure alone atone In this this story the sent out by By a II questionnaire marshal general which provide pro provost pro certain classifications Toni Tom vide sides for whether he has hall to leave for fot forthe will Ill know before Dick or tho the mobilization camp whether Dick has to go first All An the tho men who registered red In tY Utah I Juno 5 fi will receive a copy of the questionnaire It will be mailed to them December 16 15 and they must return re return return re- re turn It to the local draft board within seven days duly filled out PURPOSE OF QUIZ The questionnaire 13 is directed t to men who come under one or another of five classifications If Tom Is In the first dais claw he will go KO to tho the camp before Dick If the latter happens to be in inthe Inthe inthe the second or succeeding classes How How- ever eU If It both men are in the same class tho the numbers will control their availability availability availability avail avail- ability for tor the tho call to military duty In connection with the questionnaire 1 I V. V FitzGerald secretary to o Governor Damberger amberger and disbursing agent forthe for forthe forthe the States government under the selective service ice law sent the following fol tol- following lowing letter lotter to all aU local and district boards board In the state yesterday There has Just been approved a new plan for tor tho the selection of men for tor military military mili mili- tary service Tho The government go has prepared pre pre- pared a questionnaire which answers the purpose of practically all aU the tho forms hitherto used by registrants in presentIng present- present lug Ing t their claims to local and district boards boarde and which in addition requires answers to questions which search the entire economic domestic Industrial or agricultural relation of the registrant A date will Ill be bo set on which local boards board are to send to every registrant on their lists a COP copy copy- of tho the questionnaire questionnaire question question- 1 with a return envelope Seven day days are allowed for the return of ot the qu questionnaire fully tully completed Theiron The I iron front age of the questionnaire cont con- con t Ulna lna a succinct analysis of Its Us content con con- tents tent T new regulations prescribe avery a acry avery very cry simple method by which local boards may classify registrants by examining examining ex ex- ex- ex the questionnaire thus sub sub- The method of ot classification I provided is so simple and effective cUve that it Is 18 expected pe ted that thal he process will wilt be complete within sixty days after atter it is begun DEFERRED CLASSES The new system will wiil place In de deferred deferred deterred de- de classes men who might have o been discharged under the old system and there may bo be some pressure brought to bear to reopen ca cases es already decided and to apply the principles of ot the new system In the tho reconsideration of at matters already resolved under the old It cannot b be too strongly or too promptly impressed that this is absolutely i Impossible and cannot ev even n be considered The selective service law does not and and cannot look to the fostering fostering fos tos- of individual interest t and under it such Interest can only benefit when it coincides with the Interest of ot the nation I It may also be bo urge urged l that a change in the order of ot liability for lor military service service ser ser- vice as determined by the drawing In Washington is made mado by the new S eys teb This is not so BO and if it It were It would be Irrelevant It Is only when all things in respect of the obligations of a man to serve his country are equal that we are reduced to the tho hazard of chance to determine who shall haU go first When we ve find reasons I based on the most essential and Important Important im important Im- Im economic considerations why I one man should go Jo o before another the reason for tor the tho rule of ot chance falls tails and the rule falls laUs with it Men Ien have havo been i placed in each class on an within their class and within each I class the order numbers control their availability for lor call caU to military dut duty but men within the first class are more necessary to the armies of the nation than men within the second class class For oer this reason men in the first class must go before men In the second second sec sec- ond class regardless of their order numbers A few tew copies of ot the questionnaire are now being mailed you These are aro aref f lor on your our Information and study and not for tor distribution Within a few tew days copies sufficient for tor all aU registrants inthe in tho the Jurisdiction of ot each local board willbe will willbe willbe be mailed to each local board which board will address them and preparo prepare to begin distribution to all registrants on a date to be later fixed by the government gov gov- |