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Questions, Answers About Conscription Q. How long must I be married before I can claim exemption from Selective Service? A. There is no specified period. In each case the local board will decide whether a man is needed at home or can be spared. Ob viously, those who married just to evade training will get no con sideration on this ground. Q. When I register, should I tell the local board that I have to support my parents? A. No. The time for that will come when your number is pick ed out and you are sent a ques tionnaire to answer. Q. I am twenty-six and help support a father, sixty-seven, a mother and a sister. I have two married brothers and sisters but am the only (me working in the family. My father receives old illifllglliwil Elkin's F 1 ¥ Superior Newest JLLi JLj Am Sound THEATRE Thursday, October 10—(Today)— "QUEEN OF DESTINY" In Technicolor) With ANNE NEAGLE Selected Shorts Admission 10c-30c Friday, Matinee and Night— "MAN WHO TALKED TOO MUCH" With George Brent - Virginia Bruce Latest News Events Admission 10c-30c Saturday, Matinee and Night— GEORGE O'BRIEN "PRAIRIE LAW" Red Ryder Serial - Comedy - Cartoon Admission 10c-30c Note: Boys and Girls, We Will Give Away Another "Red Ryder" Rifle at the End of First Matinee Saturday. Monday-Tuesday, Matinee and Night— raft#v-®lupTno BOGART s>/ / A WARNER BROS.-Rnt M** mm Latest News Evehts Admission 10c-30c Wednesday, Matinee and Night— "MILLIONAIRES IN PRISON" With Lee Tracy Serial: "Drums of Fu Manchu" Admission 10c-15c Coming: "All This and Heaven Too" ■ iliflflWlWAß age and social security payments. Will I be conscripted? A. The final decision, of course, rests with your local board but it would appear that these facts en title you to a place in a deferred class. • Q. I intend to get married this week, can you tell me if I will be exempt from Selective Service? A. No. Marriage will constitute a claim for exemption through placement in a deferred class, however. The local board, after a complete study of your case, will then decide what to do about you. Q. I am twenty-two, wear glasses and have difficulty work ing without them. Will I be ex empted from conscription be cause of this? A. A number of readers have THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN. WORTH CAROLINA asked us the same question. In each case the answer is that the physical examination given at your local board after your num ber is drawn will determine your fitness for training. Q. Will men of Selective Ser vice age employed by police, fire or other city departments be conscripted? A. They must register but be- j cause of the nature of their jobs it is likely they will be placed in deferred classes. Q. I am a registered pharmacist of Selective Service age. Will I be sent away for training or ex-j empted as essential to public' health? A. Your local board will have to decide just how essential your position is. Q. Are musicians exempted? How about* music students? A. Students registered in estab lished schools will be deferred for service until the school year is up. Q. I am of Selective Service 1 age, but do intend to register. 1 How can anybody find out if I. don't? A. We would advise you to reg-. ister. In the first place, every man who registers will be given a! card which he must carry at all times. Besides, there are in numerable ways in which you' can be checked up. Failure to; complyE- shandr shandr andr a register will bring heavy penal-1 ties. Q. My mother and father, with 1 whom I live, own property on which they get rent. I turn my salary in to them. Will I bei conscripted? A. If the local board finds they; have enough to live on without y.our salary, it probably will place you in Class 1. Q. I am twenty-two, single,' and support my mother and father, both of whom are sick. I My father works occasionally, but 1 does not earn much. May I claim; exemption? A. Yes, anyone upon whom others are dependent can claim j exemption. Q. I am twenty-eight, married and have a child, and work as { superintendent of an apartment! house. Will Ibe exempted? A. Information from Washing-; ton is that married men with 1 children will not be called out unless there is a drastic emer gency. Q. I am twenty-eight, single, and employed in the State Public Health Service. Will I be requir ed to register, and if so, will I be exempted? A. You must register. Your 10-! cal board will later notify you whether you are exempt becausa of your position. Q. If I am conscripted will my employer be compelled to re-hire j me and will he have to pay me' while I am away? A. He will have to re-hire you ! if you apply within 40 days after! finishing your training. He WTT.T, NOT have to pay you while youi are away. Some employers are | doing it but it is entirely volun tary. Q. Both my brother and I are eligible for conscription. We have no dependents. Will it be possible for one of us to defer training until the other completes his year? A. Present the case to your lo cal board if one or both of you j are called. If there are any le- I gitimate reasons why you should not serve at the same time, the board probably will make adjust ments. Q. I have been married two years and my wife and I have no children. What ai«e my chances 1 of being drafted? A. The chances are small if your wife is dependent on you for support. Q. I am buying a home. What j will happen to it if I am drafted? j A. There is a section of the law 1 which protects drafted men from losing their homes. Q. I shall be twenty-one a few days before registration day. Do I have to register? A. Yes. Q. My husband and I were married last Wednesday. An ar ticle in the newspapers said per sons married after 3:08 P. M. last Monday, the time that President Roosevelt signed the conscription bill, might be regarded as having been married so that the husband could escape conscription. How can one show this was no reason for the marriage? A. If persons married after this time are asked by draft boards to show they were not married for this reason, they can point out that the marriage date had been set some time ago, by calling rel-1 atives as witnesses, can furnish proof of engagement, or prove they had been acquainted for some time, or any other evidence that the marriage was not an act to avoid conscription. Q. How about men in the milk industry. Are they exempted? A. They have to register like all men in the age limit. It will be up to the draft advisory boards as to whether any particular line of work is under the heading of "essential." President Roosevelt is now considering these angles. Q. Can I get information about whether I will be exempt when I register? A. No. They will just take your I name, age and address and where you work. They just want to know who you are and where they can reach you If you are drawn. | Q. lam working and able to keep my family, but my father Is frail. If I were drafted and my father's health failed, who would iketep the home together? ! A. You must register for the draft, but if drafted you should place your circumstances before ithe draft advisory board, which would probably defer your train ing. Q. If I was drafted and my j father did become ill, could I be released from training to come back and help? ! A. There is no provision now for such cases, but it is likely I that some method would be ! found. The law says the Presi dent has the power to prevent undue hardships resulting upon I dependent families. Q. Will the draftees be given the same physical examinations and meet the same standards as j those wanting to enlist? j A. No change has been ordered {so far. Q. What is meant by com panies on defense work whose employees are exempt? I A. The law says that training may be deferred for men in es sential industry—but* the list of j these has not yet been made. All | must register. Q. I am engaged to be married. Should I put off getting mar ried? Would getting married ex empt me from the draft? A. Putting off your marriage 'has nothing to do with the draft. ' You must register, and if you are called, and want to claim ex emption as a married man with i a wife then you must put your case before the draft board. It | will decide. ! Q. My son will be twenty-one on November 22? j A. He is out of the draft and 'need not register. Q. What are the present re j quirements concerning height, weight and ratio between the two for enlistment in the Army? j A. You must be at least five I feet four inches tall and weigh at 'least 115 pounds. Other heights and the required corresponding i weights follow: 5' 5"—117; 5'7" — 125; 5*8"—129; 5' 10"—137; 5' 11" —141; 6* 3"—157; 6' 4"—161; 6' 5"—165; 6' 6"—169. Six feet six is the height limit, and a recruit cannot be too fat to slow down overmuch his physical activity. These are general rules; If the Army feels a man who does not meet these figures has a good physique, he may be accepted. Q. How will I know where to j register? A. A list of the registration {places will be published in the j newspapers as soon as it is re pleased by Selective Service au j thorities. Q. I have a son and two daugh j ters. My son is a movie operator i and our sole support. Will he be conscripted? A. We are certain that the lo cal board will place your son in a deferred class if it appears con scription will work hardship on your family. Q. I have two sons of conscrip tion age and depend on their salaries. Will both be conscript ed—or only the younger one? A. If conscripting your sons might work undue hardships on you, we are certain proper ad justment will be made by the lo cal board in your area. It is pos sible for both to be called, but we do not believe any local board - would do it. Q. I have been upder a doc tor's care with an infectious dis ease for about five years. Will I be exempt from the draft? A. If the disease might endan i ger other men in the service you ! will not be ordered into training. Q. I will be leaving home be fore October 16 with a traveling orchestra. Will I have to return to register? A. No. You may register wher ever you happen to be on October 16. The first solid iron rails used by railroads in this country were imported from England in 1831 and were 18 feet long. RADIATORS i Cleaned and Repaired Ail Work Guaranteed W. C. 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