Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-05-29

they have drawn a 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 win outweigh both
the above conditions.
To Extend NonusefuI List.
1T is expected that the list Of non.
useful occupations will be extended
from time to time as necessity will
require SO as to include persons in
other employments.
Temporary absence from regular
employment not to exceed one week,
unless such temporary absences are
habitual and frequent, shall not be
considered as tdleness. Regular vaca-
! ions viii not be considered as abb
sences in this connection.
The regulation throws a further
safeguard around men not usefully en-
ployed provided that where there are
compelling domestic circumstances
that would not permit change of en-
ployment by the registrant without dis
proporuonate hardship to his depend
ents or where a change from nonuseful
employment or occupation would neces-
state removal of the registrant or
his family, local boards may give con-
sideratiOn to the circumstances.
THE regulation further provides
that where such a change OF employ
ment would compel the night employ
ment of women under circumstances
which board might deem unsuitable
for such employment Of women the
board may take such circumstances
into consideration in making its de-
cision."
General Crowder Explains Plan.
Explaining the new regulation and
the necessity for ii, General Crowder
said:
'The war has so far disorganized
the normal adjustment of industrial
man power as to prevent the enormous
industrial output and national organ
iZation necessary TO success.
There is a popular demand for or
ganization of man power. but no d.
rect draft could be imposed at pres
ent.
Steps to prohibit idleness and nom
effective occupation viii be welcomed
by our people.
eve shall give the idlers and men
not effectively employed the choice be-
tween military service and effective
employment. Every man in the draft
age at least, must work or fight
This is not alone 4 war or military
L. -
industries and mechanics.
Must Copy German Machine.
Germany must not be thought of as
merely possessing an army. We must
think of her as being an army-an
army in which every factory and loom
in the empire is recognized part In a
complete machine running night and
day at terrific speed. We must make
of ourselves the same sort of effective
machine.
at is not enough to ask what would
happen If every man in the nation
turned his hand to effective work. We
must make o',rselves effective. Me
must organize for the future. We
must make vast Withdrawals for the
army and Immediately close up the
ranks of industry behind the gap with
an accelerating production of every
useful thing in necessary measure.
How is this to be done?
1.-THE answer is plain. The first
step toward the solution of the diff
Guilty is TO prohibit engagement by
able-bodied men in the field of ilurt-
full employment, dleness or Intellectual
and thus induce and per-
suade the vast wasted excess into use
full fields.
1.-THE very situation we are now con-
however, offers great posi-
bilities in Improvement of the draft as
well as great possibilities for the COM
position of the labor situation by eff |
fective administration of the draft. |
the selective service law,
we see two principal causes of defer |
ment of the call to military service
exemption and the order numbers as
signed by lot.
Exemptions in Two Cateeories.
The exemptions themselves fall into |
two conspicuous categories-depend- |
ancy and Industrial employment One
protects domestic relations, the other /
The economic interests of the nation. |
the two there is an inevitable
hiatus, for it is demonstrably true
hat thousands, If not millions. Of
exemptions have no effect
Of Industrial protection whatever.
zone of the unanswerable criticisms
If the draft has been that It takes
men from the farms and from all use
sul employments and marches them
past crowds of idlers and lOafers away
o the army. The remedy Is simple
o couple the industrial basis with 9th
n grounds for exemption and to re-
Iuire that any man pleading ex-
,mption on any ground shall also show
hat he is contributing effectively to
he industrial welfare of the nation.
THE regulation itself makes plain
he determination of the war depart
nent. The great organization of To-
al and district boards which has al
,eady accomplished a notable work
nav be relied upon to catch the spirit
If the movement. and sorely needed
nan power win soon be flowing into
he fields of useful endeavor or into
he other direction of military
strength"
MOB HANGS WOMAN'S SLAYER