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Show FIGHT 0RGE1 BUSY SWEEPING EDICT TO IDLERS TO MAKE NATION EFFICIENT IN WAR. IS TO BE IN EFFECT JULY 1 Order Takes Registrants Out of Deferred De-ferred Class Sail Players, Golfers, Clerks, Bartenders, and Others, Must Find , "Useful" Employment. THKSi: M i: JI1T.HY OltDKIt TO I'H.ll V OK W OUtv. O . t) 9 Idtcis. o tiiLinblors. iiuckeL shop onipl'tytrt-.s. 0 Jtnuo truck a ttciuhin ts. 9 Clairvoyants and the like. Professional oiffrs. rrolessiunal baseball iihtyers (probably). e ! Kluvatur operators at clubs and j stores. e Club and hotel doormen. Waiters in hotels and clubs. I :shers in theat ers. 9 Attendance at sports. Persons in domestic service. Clerks in stores. S i it" e i n 1 1 y 1' x c m p t . Actors. c Bulletin. Washington, May y23. General f'rowder's new "work-or-right" regulations regula-tions may require professional baseball base-ball players either to engage in some useful occupation or to join the army. Iiaseball players, as well as jockeys, professional golfers and other professional profes-sional sportsmen. General Crowder said today, will he affected by the regulations reg-ulations if strictly enforced. General Chowder said he did not desire to make specific rulings at this time and would make ridings only when cases came to him from local boards after July 1. Bulletin. Washington, May 2,. Theatrical performers have" been excepted from t lie new draft regulations at the direction di-rection of Secretary Baker, who is said to feel that the people cannot do with out all amusement in war time and . that other amusements could be dispensed dis-pensed with more readily. "The new regulation will also affect the following classes : "(a) Persons engaged in the serving of food and drink, or either, in public places, including hotels and social clubs. "(b) Passenger elevator operators and attendants, doormen, footmen and other attendants of clubs, hotels, stores, apartment houses, office buildings build-ings and bathhouses. "(c) Persons, including ushers and oilier attendants, engaged and occupied occu-pied in, and in connection with, games, sports and . amusements, excepting actual pei-l'ormers in legitimate concerts, con-certs, operas or theatrical performance. perform-ance. "(d) Persons employed in domestic service. "(e) Sales clerks and other clerks employed in stores and other mercantile mercan-tile establishments. "Men who are engaged as above or who are idlers will not be permitted to seek relief because of the fact that they have drawn a later order number num-ber or because they have been placed in class II, ill or IV on the grounds of" dependent. The fact that he is not usefully employed will outweigh both" of ihe above conditions. To Extend Nonusef ul List. "It is expected that the list of non-useful non-useful occupations will be extended from time to time ns necessity will require re-quire so as to include persons in other employments. "Temporary absences from regular employment not to exceed one week, unless' such temporary absences are habitual and frequent, shall not be considered con-sidered as idleness. Regular vacations will not be considered as absences iD this connection. "The regulation further provides that where such a change of employment employ-ment would compel the night employment employ-ment of women under circumstances which a boa I'd might deem unsuitable for such employment of women the board may take such circumstances into consideration in making its decision." de-cision." General Crowder Explains Plan. Explaining the new regulation and tiie necessity for it, General Crowder said : "The war has so far disorganized the normal adjustment of industrial man power as to prevent the enormous enor-mous industrial output and national organization necessary to success. "There is a popular demand for organization! or-ganization! of man power, but ijo direct di-rect draft could be imposed at present. pres-ent. "Steps to prohibit idleness and noneffective non-effective occupation will be welcomed by our people. "We shall give the idlers and men not effectively employed the choice between be-tween military service and effective employment. Every man, in the draft age at least, must work or fight. "Tliis is not alone a War or military mili-tary maneuver. It is a deadly contest of industries and mechanics. Must Copy German Machine. "Germany must not be thought of as merely possessing an army, we must think of her as being an army an army in which every factory and loom in the empire is a recognized part in a complete machine running night and day at terrific speed. We must make of ourselves t lie same sort of effective machine. "It is not enough to ask what would happen if every man in t lie nation turned turn-ed his hand to effective work. We must make ourselves effective. We must organize for the future. We must make vast withdrawals for the army and immediately close tip the ranks of industry behind t lie gap .with an accelerating production of every useful thing in necessary measure, low is this to be done? "The answer Is plain. The first step toward the solutlcn of the difficulty Is to prohibit engagement by able-bodied men in the field of hurtful employment, employ-ment, idleness or Ineffectual employment, employ-ment, and thus Induce and persuade the vast wasted excess Into useful fields. "The very situation we are now considering, con-sidering, however, offers great possibilities possi-bilities in improvement of the draft as well as great possibilities for Ihe composition com-position of the labor, situation by effective ef-fective administration of the draft. Considering the selective service law, we see two principal causes of detriment detri-ment of Ihe call to military service exemption and the order numbers assigned as-signed by lot. "The exemptions Hiemselves fall Info two conspicuous categories dependency depend-ency and Industrial employment. One protects domestic relations, Hie other Ihe economic interests of Hie nation. Between the two there Is an inevitable inev-itable hiatus, foi- It is demonsl ranjy true that thousands, if not millions, of dependency exemptions have no effect ef-fect of Industrial protection whatever. "One of the unanswerable criticisms of the draft has been that It lakes men from the farms and from all useful employments and marches them past crowds of idlers and loafers to the army. The remedy is simple to couple the industrial basis willi oilier grounds for exemption and to require that any man pleading exemption on any ground shall also show that lie Is contributing contribut-ing effecl ivel y lo the industrial welfare wel-fare of the mil Ion." Washington, May 23. Habitual idlers, id-lers, ball players, gamblers, bartenders, barten-ders, and many others are included in aa edict issued today by Provost Marshal Mar-shal General Crowder, providing that every man of draft age must work or fight after July 1, under a drastic amendment to the selective service regulations. All draft registrants engaged en-gaged in what are held to bo nonuse-iul nonuse-iul occupations are to be lulled before local boards and given (heir choice of a new job or the army. Gamblers, race track and bucket chop attendants and fortune tellers head the list, but those who will be reached by the new regulation also include in-clude waiters and bartenders, theater ushers and attendants, passenger elevator ele-vator operators and other attendants of clubs, hotels, stores, etc., domestic' and clerks in stores. Deferred classification granted on account ac-count of dependents will be disregarded disregard-ed entirely in applying the. rule. A man may be at the bottom of class 1, . or even in class 4, but if he fails within with-in the regulation and refuses to take useful employment he will be given a new number in class 1 that will send him into the military service forthwith. Local boards are authorized to use discretion dis-cretion only where they find that enforced en-forced change of employment would result in disproportionate hardship upon up-on his dependents. May Solve the Labor Problem. The statement of the provost marshal mar-shal general's office is as follows: "Provost Marshal General Crowder today announced an amendment to the selective service regulations which deals with the great question of compelling com-pelling men not engaged in a useful occupation immediately to apply themselves them-selves to some form of labor, contrib-. ufing to t lie general good. The idler, too, will find himself confronted with the alternative of finding suitable employment em-ployment or entering (lie army. "This regulation provides that after July 1. any registrant who is found by a local board to be a habitual idler or not engaged In some useful occupation shall be summoned before the board, given a chance to explain and. in the absence of a satisfactory explanation. 1o he inducted into the military service of the United Slates. "Any local board will be authorized to lake action, whether it has an original orig-inal jurisdiction of the registrant or not ; in oilier words, any man loafing around a poolroom in Chicago may lie held to answer to a Chicago board even though be may lave registered in New York and lived there most of Ills life. "The regulations which apply to Idle registrants will be deemed to apply also to gamblers of all description and employees and attendants of bucket-shops bucket-shops and race trails, fortune tollers, i-lai; oyants, palmists and Ihe like, who for the purpose of the regulalii.ns nhall be considered as idlers. |