Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-05-23
RECISTRANTS ENGAGED IN NON
USEFUL WORK WILL Be TAKEN
Deferred Classification Will Not Be
Considered in Cases of Idlers-List
OF Non-Useful Occupations
Will Be Extended From
Time to Time if Ruling
Is Adopted

considered as idleness. Regular vaca- b,
tions will not be considered as
absences in this connection.
"The regulation throws a further
safeguard around men not usefully
employed, by providing. where there
are compelling domestic circum.
stances that would not permit change
of employment by the registrant with
out disproportionate hardship to his
dependents, or where q change from
non-useful to useful employment or
occupation would necessitate. a re-
moval of the registrant or HIS family.
local boards may give consideration to
the circumstances. The regulation
further provides that where such a
change OF employment would compel
the night employment of women un-
der circumstances which a board
ployment OF women. the board may
take such circumstances into consid
Grafton in making its decision.
Explaining Athe new regulation and
| the necessity for it, General Crowder
said:
| 1.-THE war has SO. far disorganized
| the normal adjustment Of Industrial
{, man power aaa,to prevent the enornl-
GUS industrial output and national or.
ganization necessary 10 success.
| Big Demand for Men.
There is popular demand for orr
! gantzation OF man power but no direct
draft could be imposed at present.
| Steps to prohibit idleness and nom
effective occupation will he welcomed
by our people.
This is not alone war Of military
maneuvers, it is deadly contest OF
| industries and mechanics. Germany
must not be thought of as merely
| possessing an army, we must think OF
j her as being an army--an army In
which every factory and loom in the
/ plete machine running night and day
at terrific speed. We must make Of,
ourselves the same sort of effective
; machine.
1T is enough to ask what would
happen if every man in the nation
turned his hand to effective work We
must make ourselves effective. We
must organize for the future. We
iriust make vast withdra walls for this
(, ranks of industry behind the gap with
an accelerating production of every
useful thing in necessary measure.
How is this TO be done?
| Answer is Plain.
The answer is plain. The first step.
toward the solution of the difficulty is
T! to prohibit engagement by able bodied
mer in the field of hurtful employ
ment, idleness or Intellectual employ
nent and thus induce and persuade
! the vast wasted excess into useful
fields.
= "The very situation we are now
considering. however, offers great pos
sibilities for the composition of the
labor situation by effective admins
!; trat:on of the draft. Considering the
/ selective service law, we see two prin-
cipal causes of deferment of the call
/ to military service--exemption and
the order numbers assigned by lot.
The exemptions themselves fall into
two conspicuous categories-depend
ency and Industrial employment. One
protects domestic relations, the other
the economic Interests of the nation.
Between the two there is an inevitable
hiatus. for it is demonstrably true
that thousands, if not millions Of de-,
4 pendency exemptions have no effect
on industrial protection whatever
Ono Criticism.
4 zone Of the unanswerablec criticisms
Of the draft has been that it takes
lmen from the farms and from, all use
full employments and marches them
i past crowds Of idlers and loafers away
4 to the army. The remedy is simple
4 to couple the industrial basis with
other grounds for exemption and to
lrequire that any man pleading ex-
j emption on any grounds shall also
4 show that he is contributing efec-
4 lively to- the Industrial Welfaretof the
4 nation. s y@s5f e s gs &
''The regulation itself makes plain
1.-The determination of the war depart
ment, The Y great organisation Of
local and district boards which has al
j ready y6accomplished a notable work,
may be relied upon to catch the spirit
OF the movement and sorely needed
: the field OF useful ende4yor or into
3 the other direction OF military