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Show 00 NO EXEMPTIONS FOR REGISTRANTS Within the next few days, hundreds hun-dreds of young men, married and single, sin-gle, living in Ogtlen will receive the "questionnaire." They are part of the army of 0,000,000 registrants In the United States. On the first page of the questionnaire will be found the name qi the registrant, his serial and order numbers, telephone call and address, ad-dress, and- Just below this introduction introduc-tion will appear this notice: "You are requested by law to return this questionnaire filled out In accordance with instructions contained herein within seven days from date of this notice. Failure Fail-ure to do so is a misdemeanor punishable by fine or imprisonment imprison-ment for one year and may result . in the loss of valuable rights and in". Immediate induction into military mili-tary service." On Monday Provost Marshal General Gen-eral Crpwder issued a statement that no man will be granted exemption fronr the draft because he has dependents, depend-ents, saying: "War must . bring inconveniences and sacrifices to all. The selective service law' exepapts no person from military service on the ground pf dependency. de-pendency. The reclassification scheme is designed to defer the Induotlon into the army of registrants upon whom other persons are mninly dependent for support until after persons without actual dependents have been called." "The military needs of the nation require that there be provided in every ev-ery community a list of names of men who shall be ready to be called into service att any time. The economic needs of the nation, while deferring to the paramount military necessity, require re-quire that men whose removal would Interfere with civic, family, Industrial and agricultural institutions of the nation, na-tion, shall be tdken in the order in which they can best be spared. For this reason the names of all men liable lia-ble to selection are to be arranged in five classes in the inverse order of their importance to the economic in teresfs of the nation, which Include th.e maintenance of necessary industry and agriculture and the support of dependents. de-pendents. "Section 4 of the selection service law exempts no person from military service on the ground of dependency. The present scheme Is devised by tho creation of several classes, arranged in tho order of their availability for military service, to defer the induction induc-tion into the army of the registrants upon whom other persons are mainly dependent for support until persons without actual -dependents have been called. "While an actual dependency must be established before any kind of dis-charge dis-charge can be granted, there are certain cer-tain conditions of dependency which it Is advisable to recognize to a fuller full-er extent than others. "The present classification is designed de-signed to afford the maximum of protection pro-tection to dependent relatives consistent consis-tent with the military necessity of the nation." Young men who were under age when tho draft was ordered, but have since reached 21 years, may be relieved- of uncertainty by tho following follow-ing declaration: J, Desplto the agitation in congres- slonal and other governmental circles to bring under the draft the class of men who have reached the age of 21 since June 5 last and make accessible the classos of 20 and 19, thereby guaranteeing guar-anteeing the practical exemption of married men with dependent families, it was indicated officially yesterday that the war departments would oppose op-pose any extension of the draft until the present registered men have been "used up." To bring in one or more tho present machinery and the new classification, both of which were carefully prepared and worked out, it was slated. . on . |