The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-06-18
BOARD OF EXEMPTION EXPLAINS
"WORK-OR-FGHT" ORDER"

Because of the numerous requests
for information made to the Bourbon
County Board of Exemption as to
the provisions of the recently-issued
order from the office of Provost Gen
eral Crowder, regarding idlers, the
Board acting in conjunction with the
Bourbon County Council of National
Defense, has given out the following
excerpts from the law for publica-
ton.
This is done in order that many
false impressions that have gotten
out may be corrected, and that a full
explanation may be made of the mat
ter. The sections with which the peo-
pie are mostly concerned, and publi-
cation of which was stated by the
Board as being of the most supreme
Importance at this time, are as fol-
lows:
"B. Classifying Registrants-
121A.-Duty to Report Facts Con-
corning Registrars Who Are
Idlers or Engaged in Certain Nom
productive Occupations or Employ
ments.
ut shall hereafter be the duty of
all persons connected with the ad-
mln1stration of the Selective Service
Law and Regulations, and of all cit
liens, to report to the nearest Local
Board all facts which may come to
their knowledge concerning regis
trants who are idle or who are en-
gagged in any occupation or employ
ment defined and described in these
Regulations or any amendments
thereof as non-productive occupa-
tions or employments.
"A Local Board of origin shall have
the authority to issue notice to and
investigate the case of any of it's reg
istrants, whether they be found with
in or without it's territorial jurisdic-
ton.
Section 121D-Local Board to Inves.
tigate.
"The Local Board issuing the no.
tice, whether it be the Local Board
OF origin or not, shall thereupon
promptly investigate the circum-
stances of the case, giving the regis
trant reasonable opportunity to sub
NIT such evidence as he may desire
to submit, by affidavit or otherwise,
and shall proceed as hereinafter pre-
Scribed.
Section 121K-Defnition of Non.
productive Occupation or Employ
ment.
In the present emergency it is
not possible to extend the protection
of deferred classification to those reg
1strants engaged in certain Occupa-
tions or employments which are nom
productive
There is a great demand for labor
in all productive occupations and en-
pigments, and especially in agricul-
ture and other necessary industries.
Therefore, registrants who have been
given deferred classification and who
can engage in some productive occu-
patton or employment without sub
stantial loss or hardship to them
selves or others should be willing to
seek some productive occupation or
employment or enter the military SER
vice rather than remain in an occu-
patton or employment in which they
are rendering no effective assistance
to the Nation.
IF a regiStrant is idle, he, of
course, is not occupied or employed
at all, and his status of idleness fur
nishes ground for the withdrawal of
his deferred classification or late or
der number; and the Regulations ap-
plicable to idle registrants shall be
n0QnnQ6 leo 70 Ii
of all description and employees of
race tracks and bucket shops, and to
fortune tellers, clairvoyants, palmists
and the like, who, for the purposes of
these Regulations, shall be considered
as idlers.
"The employment or engagement of
any able-bOdied registrant of military
age in any of the following occupa-
tions or employment is not suffici-
emily effective, in the present emer-
gency, to justify the postponement of
his call into military service, not
withstanding he may have late or
der number and Notwithstanding he
may have been placed in Glass II,
III, or w, on the ground of depend
ency; and all registrants engaged as
follows are to be considered by Local
and District Boards as engaged in
non-productive occupations or en-
pigments:
"(a) Persons engaged in the serv-
ing of food and drink, or either, in
public places, including hotels and
social clubs.
"(b) Passenger-elevator operators
and attendants; and door men, foot
men, carriage openers and attend
ants; and door men, footmen, carri-
age openers and other attendants in
clubs, hotels, stores, apartment
houses, office buildings and bath
houses.
"(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.
"(e) Sales clerks and other clerks
employed in stores and other mercan-
tile establishments