The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-06-18
GOVERNMENT
ISSUES ORDERS
NOnessentiaI Occupations Are To Be
Cut Out According to lnstruc-
lions.

Inc local ufaIJ DObru mas TeCelN-
ed stringent orders in regard to the
Governments new policy of work or
fight. Redistribution will take
place and the board will take up the
work as soon as possible.
"Nonessentiap' occupations must
be cut out.
Idlers and producers must
be reported to the draft boards, the
regulations further state. They
say: at shall hereafter be the duty
of all persons connected with the
administration of the Selective Ser
vice Law, and regulations, and Of
all citizens, to report to the nearest
local draft board all facts which
may come to their knowledge con-
corning registrants who are idle or
engaged in any occupation or en-
ployment defined and described in
these regulations or any amend
ments thereof as non-p productive oc-
equations"
The government gives the follow
ing definition of a. productive
occupation:
''In the present emergency it is
not possible to extend the prNtec-
ton of deferred classification to
those registrants engaged in certain
occupations or employments which
are non-productive.
"There is a great demand for la
Dor in I'll productive occupations
and employments, and especially in
agriculture and other necessary in
dustries.. Therefore, registrants
who have been given deferred class
ifcation and who can engage in
some productive occupation or en-
ployment without substantial fnan-
cial loss or hardship to themselves
or others should be willing to seek
some productive occupation or en-
ployment or enter the military SER
vice rather than remain in an oc-
cupatiOn or employment in which
they are rendering no effective as
siStance TO the Nation.
"If registrant is idle, he, of
course, is not occupied or employed
at ALL and his status of idleness
furnishes ground for the withdrawal
of his deferred classification or late
order number; and the regulations
applicable to idle registrants shall
be deemed applicable also to gam
blers of every description and en-
plOyes of race tracks and bucket
shops, and to fortune tellers, clair
vOyants, palmists, and the like,
who, for the purposes of these reg
ulations, shall be considered as
idlers.
"The employment or engagement
of any able-bodied registrant of
military age in any of the following
occupations or employments is not
sufficiently effective, in the present
emergency to Justify the postpone
ment of his call into military SER
vice, Notwithstanding he may have
a late order number and notwith-
standing he may have been placed
in Glass II, III, or ", on the
ground of dependency; and all reg
istrants engaged as follows are to
be considered by local and district
boards as engaged in on-produc-
tive occupations or employments:
"(a) Persons engaged in the SER
wing of food and drink, or either, in
public places, including hotels and
social clubs;
"(b) Passenger elevator opera
tors and attendants; and door men,
foot men, carriage openers and 9TH
er attendants in clubs, hotels,
stores, apartment houses, Office
buildings, and lighthouses;
"(c) Persons, including ushers
and other attendants engaged and
occupied in and in connection with
games, sports and amusements, eX-
cepting actual performers in legiti-
mate concerts, operas, or theatrical
performances;
"(d) Persons employed in domes-
tic service;
i "e) Sales clerks and other clerks
employed in stores and other mer-
camille establishments"
| Reasonable excuses For idleness
or non-produetive employment will