institution should immediately communicate these facts to the local board. The questionnaire should be filled in with ink and not pencil. Additional affidavits may be typewritten, or legibly written in ink, on one side only on white paper of the approximate size of a page of the questionnaire. The answer "no" or "none" or other synonymous expression should be written to express a negative answer. A dash or other inexplicit mark is improper. No change is permitted in any of the printed parts of the questionnaire. Where advice or assistance is given a registrant, the signature of the person assisting should be written on the line provided for that purpose in the questionnaire, following the registrant's affidavit. Series I-Identification Every registrant must fill in all statements. The answers should be as detailed as possible. Members of the advisory boards should forward any information covering the subject of these statements which can be properly disclosed by them. Series II Physical Condition Every registrant must fill in all statements. Series III-Education Every registrant must fill in all statements. Series IV-Occupation or Activity Statement number 1 must be answered. Every registrant presently working must fill in all statements except number 9. Every registrant who is presently prevented from working merely because of a seasonal or temporary interruption must fill in all statements except statements numbered 2 through 8. Words such as "occupation," "work," and "job" apply to service rendered in any endeavor and to training in any endeavor. Any statement from an employer which the registrant believes the local board should consider in determining his classification should be attached to the page containing the answers to this series. * * The words "training or preparation for any endeavor" in the instructions for this series and the blank under Statement 6 headed "A student preparing for *" should be considered in relation to Series XIII which deals with college and university students. See the discussion on pages 34-35 of this manual under "Industrial Deferments" and "Students."9 9 Certain exceptional cases may require special attention to the act and all of the regulations which bear on the two Series IV and XIII. It is obvious that a student when qualified as such for deferment on the data to be shown in Series XIII is not entitled to claim such deferment beyond July 1, 1941, and for that purpose he may be placed in Class I-D. Being, for example, a man expecting to graduate from a technical or professional school in June 1941, he may be compelled also to anticipate taking examinations for a license to practice his profession or vocation and may be unable to take such examinations until they are regularly scheduled to be given upon a date later than July 1. If such date is not unreasonably far in the future it may be proper in the national interest, and just to all parties, for a showing to be made under Series IV on the basis whereof the student might be placed in Class II and thereby deferred for the special purpose in view. Such deferment must, however, in any case, be strictly limited with respect to the ac. complishment of such purpose, and the definition of "necessary" (sec. 5e, par. 351) must be understood as having a content consistent with the interest of the public rather than of the registrant. Series V-Other Occupational Experience Every registrant should fill in this statement and should include any formal apprenticeship which he has served. Series VI-Agricultural Occupations Every registrant who works on a farm must complete this series in addition to filling out Series IV and V. Series VII-Dependency All statements included under this series are confidential except as to names and addresses of claimed dependents. Every registrant must complete the statements numbered 1, 2, and 3. Only those registrants who believe that one or more persons are dependent on their earnings for support will complete statements 3 through 12: A person shall be considered a registrant's dependent only when the conditions set out on page 36 of this manual are satisfied. Series VIII-Minister or Student Preparing for the Ministry Every registrant who is a minister or a student preparing for the ministry should fill in the statements that apply to him. Series IX-Citizenship Every registrant should fill in statements numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4. Noncitizens in addition should fill in statements numbered 5 through 9. Series X-Conscientious Objectors Only a registrant who is conscientiously opposed to combatant or noncombatant military service by reason of his religious training and belief shall answer this series, and he should obtain from his local board the "Special Form for Conscientious Objector" (D. S. S. Form 47), on which to give substantiating evidence. The local board will determine whether the registrant shall be classified as a conscientious objector on the basis of the information contained in the special form. This form when filed becomes part of the questionnaire. Series XI-Court Record Statement 1 must be answered by every registrant. A registrant who at any time has been convicted of either treason or a felony must fill in statements numbered 2, 3, and 4. This statement is confidential. Series XII-Military Service Every registrant who is in military service or has been a member of the armed forces of the United States must answer these statements. This statement is confidential. Series XIII-Students, Present Members of the Armed Forces, Certain Officials, etc. Every registrant who is a member of one or more of the groups named in this series should check the appropriate item or items and supply any further information there requested. Registrant's Statement Regarding Classification It is optional with the registrant whether or not he fills in the statement under the above title. His failure to answer will not constitute a waiver of claim to deferment or other status. The local board is charged by law to determine the classification of the registrant on full consideration of the facts before it regardless of whether or not this statement is filled in. Registrant's Affidavit Every registrant shall make the registrant's affidavit. If he cannot read, the questions, and his answers thereto should be read to him by the officer who administers the oath and if he cannot write, his "X mark" signature must be witnessed by the same officer. None of the printed matter of the affidavit may be added to or erased or stricken out, except the word "swear" or "affirm" as the case may be. As to the administration of oaths under the Selective Service Regulations, see the instruction on the first page of the questionnaire. 3. Deferments and Exemptions Generally speaking, registrants may be deferred from service because of physical, mental, or moral defects or because of their status as necessary men in industry, students, or officials, or because there are persons dependent upon them for support. In addition to those whose training and service is deferred, those persons who were exempt from registration, nondeclarant aliens (those who have not filed their first papers), ministers of religion and theological students are exempt from training and service; and certain persons with prior military service are exempt in time of peace. Conscientious objectors are exempt from any military service to which they are conscientiously opposed by reason of religious training and belief (sec. 5). (a) Physical, Mental, and Moral Defects Registrants who, after physical examination, are found fit only for limited military service and who are not classified in Class I–Ě shall be placed in Class I-B and, unless reclassified, shall not be inducted until such time as they may be acceptable to and called by the land or naval forces for training and service (par. 343). Registrants who are found to be physically, mentally, or morally unfit for military service shall be placed in Class IV-F. Habitual criminals or persons convicted of treason, or any crime which under the laws of the jurisdiction in which they were convicted is a felony, are included in this class, as are persons who have received dishonorable discharges, bad conduct discharges, undesirable discharges, or discharges not honorable, from the Navy, Army, or Marine Corps. The local board may put a registrant in Class IV-F without physical examination if he has an obvious disqualifying physical or mental disability (par. 362). (b) Industrial Deferments The local board has the responsibility of deciding which men should be deferred because of their civilian activities (par. 350). No deferment shall be made of individuals by occupational groups or groups of individuals in any plant or institution (sec. 5e), but cases shall be considered individually. A registrant shall be considered a "necessary man" in industry, business, employment, agricultural pursuit, Government service, or in any other service or endeavor, including training and preparation therefor, only when all of these conditions exist (par. 351): 1. He is or but for a seasonal or temporary interruption would be engaged in such activity. 2. He cannot be replaced satisfactorily because of a shortage of persons with his qualifications or skill in such activity. 3. His removal would cause a material loss of effectiveness in such activity. The local board shall give due consideration to those registrants engaged in any activity which is essential to the national health, safety, or interest, in the sense that a serious interruption or delay in such activity is likely to impede the national defense program (par. 352). Such deferments shall not be for a period longer than 6 months, although they may be renewed (par. 353). (c) Students A registrant is not entitled to claim deferment for student activities unless he meets all of the following conditions: 1. He shall request that he be deferred from induction. 2. He entered upon attendance in a college or university for the academic year of 1940-41 and before January 1, 1941. 3. He is in substantially full-time attendance at such college or university and is there a bona fide student pursuing a course of instruction which the college or university requires be satisfactorily completed as a prerequisite to conferring degrees in the arts or sciences or as a prerequisite to conferring certificates which are accepted as a credit toward such degrees by colleges or universities which confer such degrees. The taking of a correspondence course shall not be cause for deferment for any registrant (par. 347). Such registrants are deferred from service and training until the end of their academic year, 1940-41, or until July 1, 1941, whichever occurs first (sec. 5f; par. 349). The term "college or university" includes only (i) an advanced educational institution which regularly grants, to students who have satisfactorily passed prescribed courses of instruction, degrees in the arts or sciences; and (ii) any junior college or other college which regularly grants to students certificates which are accepted by such advanced institutions as a credit toward such degrees (par. 348). (d) Officials Deferment from training and service is granted to the Vice President of the United States, Governors of the several States and Territories, members of legislative bodies, and judges of courts of record, while holding office (sec. 5c (1)). The President is also authorized to provide for the deferment of other persons holding offices under the United States or any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, whose continued service in such office is found to be necessary to the maintenance of the public health, safety, or interest (sec. 5c (2)). (e) Dependents Any registrant upon whom one or more dependents depend for support in a reasonable manner shall be placed in Class III (par. 354), but a person shall be considered a registrant's dependent only when all of the following conditions are satisfied (par. 355): 1. Such person must be either the registrant's wife, divorced wife, child, parent, grandparent, brother, or sister, or a person under 18 years of age, or a person who is physically or mentally handicapped whose support the registrant has assumed in good faith. 2. Such person must either be a United States citizen or live in the United States, its territories or possessions. 3. Such person, at the time the registrant is classified, must depend in fact for support in a reasonable manner, in view of such person's circumstances, on income earned by the registrant by his work in a business, occupation, or employment (including employment on work relief projects but excluding employment as an enrollee in the Civilian Conservation Corps and similar employment in the National Youth Administration). 4. Such person must in fact regularly receive from the registrant contributions to the support of such person, and such contributions must not be merely a small part of such person's support. Even though the registrant is unable to furnish to such person money or other support for temporary periods because of the registrant's physical or economic situation, he may be considered to be regularly contributing to such person's support if such person and the community look upon the registrant as the normal source of such person's support. The local board should determine questions of deferments with sympathetic regard for the registrant and his dependents, and any reasonable doubt in connection with dependency should be resolved in favor of deferment. The maintenance of the family as a unit is of importance to the national well-being. Each case must be weighed carefully and decided upon its own merits (par. 354). The term "child" includes an unborn child, a child legally adopted, or a child born out of wedlock, but shall not include any person 18 years of age or over unless he is physically or mentally handicapped (par. 356a). The term "parent" includes a person who is supported in good faith by the registrant in a relationship similar to that of parent and child (par. 356b). The term "brother" or "sister" includes only a person having one or both parents in common with the registrant, who is either under 18 years of age or is physically or mentally handicapped (par. 356c). The term "wife" includes a common-law wife in States where common-law marriages are recognized but not in States which require a ceremonial marriage. (f) Military Service Persons who are relieved from liability for training and service because of their membership in components of land or naval forces and those who are relieved from training and service in time of peace because of prior military service are listed in the act (secs. 5a, b). It |