Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-24
Work or Join Army Die
tum of Provost Mar
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TAKEN OUT OF LOW
CLASSIFICATIONS
Bartenders, Ball Play
ers, and Gamblers Hit
by New Order.

Washington, May % - The
War Department is about to is
sue new draft regulations un-
der which all registered men
must engage in useful product
i've employment or enter the
army Immediately. All deferred
classification will be abolished
in the cases of men not SO en-
gagged.
Gamblers, race track attendants and
fortune tellers will stand at the head
of the list, but many other employ
ments also will be declared non-pro-
ductive. Registrants must immedi-
ately accept employment other than
as walters, bartenders, elevator at
tendants, household servants, clerks
in stores, etc. Refusal to accept pro-
ductive employment will mean that
the man will be taken into the army
forthwith.
1t will make no difference whether
the man is at the head of Glass /,
or in Class a. ...
A statement issued today says:
Provost Marshal General Crowder
announced today an amendment to
the selective regulations which deals
with the great question requiring men
not engaged in useful occupation to
immediately apply themselves to
some form of labor contributing to
the general good. The idler, too, will
find himself confronted with the al
tentative of finding suitable employ
ment or entering the army.
This regulation provides that after
July 1 any registrant who is found by
local board to be a habitual idler
or not engaged in some useful occu-
patton shall, be summoned before the
board, given a chance to explain and,
in the absence of a satisfactory ex-
PLANTATION, to be inducted 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 pool room in Chicago may bt
held to answer to 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 ap-
ply also to gamblers of all descrip-
tions and employees and attendants OF
bucket shops, and race tracks, fortune
tellers, clairvoyants, palmists and the
like, who for the purpose of the reg
ulations shall be considered as idlers.
THE new regulations will also af-
feet the following classes:
"(a) Persons engaged in the serv-
ing of food and drink, or either, in
public places, including hotels and no.
tel clubs.
"Gb) Passenger elevator operators
and attendants, doormen, footmen and
other attendants of clubs, hotels, stores
apartment houses, office buildings and
bath houses.
"(c) Persons, including ushers and
other attendants engaged and occu
pied in connection with games, sport:
and amusements, except actual per
formers in legitimate concerts, op
eras or theatrical performances.
"Cd) Persons employed in domestic
service.
"(e) Sales clerks and other clerk!
employed in stores and other mercan
tile establishments.
Men who are engaged as above o
who are idlers will not be permitte
to seek relief because Of the fact tina
they have drawn later order mum
Der or because they have been plac
ed in class II, III or " on tn
grounds of dependency. The fac
that he is not usefully employed wi
oh
tions.
''It is expected that the list of nor
useful occupations will be extende
from time to time as necessity wi
require so as to include persons
other employments.
Temporary absences from reguls
employment not 20 exceed one weel
unless such temporary absences al
habitual and frequent. shall not
considered as idleness. Regular VI
cations will not be considered as al
sences in this connection.
The regulation throws a furth'
safeguard around men not useful
employed by promising that whel
there are compelling domestic ci
cumstances that would not perm
change of employment by the regi
tFant without disproportionate har'
ship to his dependents, or where
change from non-useful to useful en-
ployment or occupation would necess
tate a removal of the registrant
his family, local boards may gi
consideration to the circumstance
The regulation further provides tn
such a change of employment wou
compel the night employment of W
men under circumstances which
board might deem not suitable I
employment of women, the board mi
take such circumstances, into CO