Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-06-06

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tions may require professional base
ball players either to engage in some
useful occupation or to join the army
Baseball players. as well as jockeys
professional golfers and other profes'
sional sportsinen. General Crowde,
said today. will be affected by the reg
ulations II strictly enforced. General
CrOwder said he did not desire to make
specific rulings at this time and would
make rulings only when cases came to
him from local boards after July /.
Bulletin.
Washington. May 23.-Theatrlcal
performers have been excepted from
the new draft regulations at the d.
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 dis
pensed with more readily.
Washington, May 23.-Every man
Of draft age must either work or fight
after July l, under a drastic amend
ment to the selective service regula-
tiOns announced today by General
Crowder, provost marshal general.
Not only idlers, but all draft regis.
trants engaged in what are held to be
nonuseful occupations are to be hailed
before local boards and given the
choice Of a new Job Oh the army.
Gamblers, race track and bucket
shop attendants and fortune tellers
head the list, but those who will be
reached by the new regulation also in.
clude walters and ~bartenders, theater
ushers and attendants, passenger ele-
vator operators and other attendants
of clubs, hotels, stores. ETC., domestics
and clerks In stores.
Deferred classification granted on &C.
count Of dependents will be disregard
ed entirely In applying the rule. A
man may be ut the bottom Of class /,
or even In class 4. but il he fails with.
In the regulation and refuses to take
useful employment he will be given a
new number in class ! that will send
him into the military service forthwith.
Local boards are authorized to use dis
cret!on only where they find that en-.
forced change Of employment would
result In disproportionate hardship up
on his dependents.
May Solve the Labor Problem.
1t has been known'for some time that
some form OF work or fight" plan has
been submitted to President Wilson,
but there has been no intimation that it
was SO far reaching In its scope. Both
the military authorities aud depart.
ment Of labor officials believe that It
will 80 q long way toward solving the
labor problem for farmers. shipbuild-
ers and mnnition makers and will end,
Tor the present at least, talk OF con.
scription of labor. The announcement
today gives notice significantly that the
list Of nonuseful occupations will he ex.
tended from time to time us necessity
requires.
The statement Of the provost mar.
shal generals Office Is as follows:
provost Marshal General Crowder
today announced an amendment to the
selective service regulations which
deals with the great question OF com.
pelling men not engaged In q useful
occupation Immediately to apply them.
selves to some form Of labor, contrib.
uttng to the general good. The idler,
too, will find himself confronted with
the alternative Of finding suitable EN-.
ployment or entering the army.
"ThIs regulation provides that after
July !, any registrant who Is found by
. local board to be q habltual idler or
not engaged In some useful occupation
shnll be summoned before the board.
gwen q chance ~ explain and. In the
absence Of u satisfactory explanation,
to be Indicted into the military service
ef the United States.
ANY local board will be authorized
to take action, whether II has an orig.
Snal jurisdiction Of the pgistrant or
not In other words. any o loa!ins
around . p%oolrooIn In Chicago may be
held to answer to II Chicago board even
though he lnay have registcreu IN
New York and lived there most of his
Me.
THE regulations which apply to idle
reg1strants will he deemed to apply
a'so to gamblers Of oil description and
employed and attendants Of bucket.
shops and race trucks, fortune tellers,
c'~nirvoyants. pnlmists and the like,
who for the purpose If the regulations
snail he considered a. idler1.
New Rule 10 oweep,n0.
The new regulation will also affect
tAe following classes:
S(a) Psrsons engaged In the serving
q food end drink. or either. in public
places, including hotels and social
clubs.
"(b) Passenger elevator operators
and attendant, doormen, footmen aud
other attendants Of clubs, hotels
stores, apartment houses, once build.
lnts and bathhouSeA.
"tc) Persons, Including uahers and
ether attendants, engaged and IHcu,
ned IN. and In connection Vlth. ~Asn~u