The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1918-06-06
LIST OF NoN-EsSENTIALs GIVEN
WHO MUST CHANGE
Clerks in Stores Named on List Of
NOn-Essentials ~ More Occupations
VIII Be Added Later-GOes Into
Effect July LIST.

The Office of the Provost Marshal
General has issued the following:
Provost Marshal General Crowder
on May %, announced an amendment
to the selective service regulations
which deals with the great question
of compelling men not engaged IN
la useful occupation Immediately to
apply themselves to some form Of
labor contributing to the general
good. The idler, too, will find him
self confronted with the alternative
Of finding suitable employment or
entering the army.
This regulation provides that after
July / any registrant who is found
Iby 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, to be indicted into the
military service of the United States.
ANY local board will be authorized
to take action whether it has original
jurisdiction of the registrant or not.
In other words, any man loafing
around a pool room in Chicago may
be held to answer to a Chicago board
even though he may have registered
in New York and lived there most Of
his life.
The regulations which apply to
idle registrants will be deemed to APP
ply also to gamblers of all descrip-
tions and employees and attendants Of
bucket shops and race tracks, fortune
tellers, claivoyants, palmists and the
like who, for the purpose Of the reg
ulations, shall be considered as idlers
The new regulations 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 build
ings and bath houses.
(c) Persons, including ushers ond
other attendants, engaged and occu-
pied in, and in connection with games,
sports and amusements. excepting
actual performers in legitimate con-
certs, operas or theatrical perform
ances.
(dA Persons employed in domestic
service.
(el Sales clerks and other clerks
employed in stores and other mercan-
tile establishments.
Men who are engaged as above
or who are idlers will not be permit
ted to seek relief because Of the fact
that they have drawn late order
number or because they have been
placed In Glass II, III or ~ on the
grounds of dependency. The fact
that he is not usefully employed will
outweigh both Of the above conditions.
List Will Be Extended
1t is expected that the list of nom
useful occupations will be extended
from time to time as necessity will
require, SO as to include persons in
other employments.
Temporary absences from regular
employments not to exceed one week,
unless such temporary absences are
habitual and frequent, shall not be
considered as idleness. Regular va
cations will not be considered as abb
senoes in this connection
The regulation throws a f,,4
safeguard around raN o usof-i
employed, bv Yidin~ hat where
'ho9a ara eDmpcr domestic cireum
tannas hat would not narnlit Of
change Of employment Nv the regis
trant without disnrsportionate hard
ship to his dependents, or where a
change from nonuseful to useful en-
nlNvment or oecnpation would neces-
state 2 removal Of the registrant
or his family, local boards NAV give
consideration to the circumstances.
The regulation further provides that
whore such change Of emnlovment
would compel the night EMPLOYMENT
Of women under circumstances which
d hoard might deem unsuitable for
such employment of womea, the board
may take s,ch instances into
IN maxine it's decision.
Statement of Gen. Cr0wder
Provost Marshal General Crowder,
in discussing the new regulation, said:
"The war has SO far disorganized
the normal adjustment of industrial
man power as to prevent the enor-
nous industrial output and national
necessary to success.
"There is a popular demand for or
ganization Of man power, but no di-
rect draft could be imposed at pres
emf.
"Steps to prohibit idleness and non
occupation viii be welcomed
By our people.
eve shall rive the idlers and men
not effectively employed the choice
between military service and effective
Every man in the draft
ace. at least, must work or fight
"This is not alone q war of military
# is a deadly contest Of
Industries and mechanics. Germany
must not be thought Of as merely
an army: we must think
of her as being an fvmy--an army
II which every factory and loom N
the empire is a recognized part IN a
complete machine running night and
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