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Show FIVE WAITING DRAFT DIVISIONS BECOME PUBLIC Washington, Oct. 22. The five classifications into which men waiting wait-ing draft will be divided, under the new regulations approved by President Presi-dent Wilson, have become public much before the time planned by the provost general's office. It was discovered that what was to have remained an official secret for a week or more was divulged Saturday Satur-day night at a dinner in New York which Secretary Baker and Provost Marshal General Crowder attended. The provost marshal general discussed dis-cussed the new regulations without intending to make public the classifications, classi-fications, but some members of a New York local exemption board, thinking think-ing to elucidate the general's speech, printed the classifications on the back of the menu card. The classifications are as follows and show every man registered, to which class he belongs and in what order the different classifications will be called to service: . " The Three Divisions , Class One 1 Single man with out dependent relatives. 2 Married man (or widower with children) who habitually fails to support his family. 3 Married, dependent on wife for! support. ' j 4 Married (or widower with: children) not usefully engaged; fam-i ily supported by income independent of his labor. 5 Men not included in any other description in this or other classes. 6 Unskilled laborer. Class Two 1 'Married man or father of motherless children, usefully use-fully engaged, but family has sufficient suffi-cient income apart from, his dally j labor to afford reasonably adequate support' during his absence. 2 Married man, no children, wlfei can support herself decently and without hardship. ' 3 Skilled farm labor engaged in necessary industrial enterprise. 4 Skilled industrial laborer en-i gaged in necessary agriculture enter-; prise. Public Officials I Class Three 1 Man with foster children dependent on dally labor; i for support. 1 I 2 Man with aged, infirm or in-! in-! valid parents or grandparents de-: de-: pendent on daily labor for support, j 3 Man with brothers or sisters j incompetent to support themselves, j 1 dependent on daily labor for support, j 4 County or municipal officer. I 5 Firemen or policemen. ! 6 Necessary artificers or work-i work-i men in arsenals, armories and navy yards. 7 Necessary custom house clerks, j 8 Persons necessary In transmis-I transmis-I sion of mails. j 9 Necessary employes in service I of United States. ! 10 Highly specialized admlnls-; admlnls-; trative experts. ! 11 Technical or mechanical experts ex-perts in industrial enterprises. 12 Highly specialized agricultural agricultur-al expert in agricultural bureau of 1 state or nation. I 1 3 Assistant or associate manager man-ager of necessary industrial enter-; enter-; prise. j 14 Assistant or associate man-lager man-lager of necessary agricultural en- terprise. Fourth and Fifth Class Four 1 Married man with wife (and) or children (or widower with children) dependent on daily labor for support and no other reasonably rea-sonably adequate support available. 2 Mariners in sea service of merchants mer-chants or citizens in United States. v 3 Heads of necessary industrial enterprises. 4 Heads of necessary agricultural agricultur-al enterprises. Class Five 1 Officers of states of the United States. 2 Regularly or duly ordained ministers. 3 Students of divinity. 4 Persons in military or naval military. 5 Aliens. 6 Alien enemies. 7 Persons morally unfit. 8 Persons physically, permanently permanent-ly or mentally unfit. 9 Licensed pilots. |