Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-06-14

According to recent sclective ser
vice regulations, there will be no pos
sible chance for registrants In classes
1, 9, 3 or to get away with idlueness
after July 1st. 1t shall be the duty
of MI persons TO report men of these
classes who are not engaged in pro-
ductive employment, anu VINO evi-
IDENTIFY think "the world owes them
living" The regulations read:
whenever, after July J., 1918, any
registrants III classes l., z, 3 or 4,
wherever he may be located, is re-
ported to or observed by any local
board, whether it be his local board of
origin (that is tho local board having
original jurisdiction OF his rcgstra-
ton and guestionnairc) or local
board having jurisdiction over the
territorial area in which he mny be
found, whether having original juris-
diction over him or not, to be an idler,
OF to he engaged in any occupation or
employment defined and described in
these regulations or any amendments
thereof as II non-productlve occupu-
tion or employment, such local board
shall, by notice as hereinafter pre-
scribed, notify him and set day and
hour when the registrant may APP
pear and present such evidence by
affidavit OF otherwise, bearing upon
the reasons for his stntus as he may
care to submit. The day so set shall
not be less than three nor more than
seven days after the date of such no.
tice unless the local board on account
of distance or other good and suffi-
cient cause extend the time"
OF course notice will be given such
men, and the local boards will be cX-
pected to make their investigation
with sympathy and common sense;
for there may be reasonable cause
for idleness. But idleness will Mt all
times affec. the deferred classifca-
tion OF the men In these classes, The
regulations also contuin the follow
ag:
"lf IL registrant is idle, he of course
is not occupied or employed ut all,
and his status Of idlcness furnishes
ground for the withdrawal of his de-
fcrred classification or late order
number; and the regulations applcn-
bic to idle registrants shall be deem
cd applicable also to gamblers of all
description and employees OF race
tracks and bucket shops, and to for
tune tcllcrs, clairVoyants, palmists and
the like, who, for the purposes of
these regulations, shall be considered
as idlers.
Order Defines Certain NOn-Pr0ductive
Occupations.
"The employment or engagement of
any able-bodied registrnnt Of military
age in any Of the following occupa-
tions or employments is not suffi-
cicntly effective, in the present cmer-
gency, to justify the postponement of
his call into military service, notwith-
standing he may have late order
number and Notwithstanding he may
have been placed in class 2, 3, or 4,
on the ground of dependency; and all
registrants engaged as follows are to
be considered in non-productive oc-
cupations or employments:
"(a) Persons engaged in the serv-
ing of food and drink, or either, in
public places, including hotels and So
cial clubs;
"(b) Passenger elevator operators
and attendants; and door men, foot
men, carriage openers and other at
tendants in clubs, hotels, stores, apart
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lighthouses;
'"(c) Persons, including ushers and
other attendants, engaged and occu-
pied in and in connection with games,
sports and amusements, excepting ac-
tual performers in legitimate con-
certs, operas, or theatrical perform
"(d) Persons employed in domestic
service;
"(e) Sales clerks, and other clerks
employed in stores and other mercan-
tile establishments"
Definition of Non-P Productive Occupa-
tion or Employment.
In the present emergency it is not
possible to extend the protection Of
deferred classification to those regis
trants engaged in certain occupations
or employments which are nonproduc-
tive.
There is great demand for labor
in all productive occupations and en-
ployments, 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
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themselves or others should be willing
to seek some productive occupation
or employment or enter the military
service rather than remain in an oc-
cupation or employment in which they
are rendering no effective assistance
to the nation.
The following grounds shall be ac-
cepted by Local and District Boards
IS reasonable excuse for temporary
idleness or for being engaged in a
non-productive occupation or employ
mcnt:
(a) Sickness.
(b) Reasonable vacation.
(c) Lack of reasonable opportunity
for employment in any occupation
outside Of those described in the fore
going section or those hereafter spec
flied by Regulation or Ruling as pro-
vided in this Section.
(d) Temporary absences (not regu-
lar vacations) from regular employ