Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-05-31

places, including hotels aud social
clubs
"(b) Passenger elevator operators
other attendants Of clubs, hotels,
stores, apartment houses, Office build
ings and lighthouses.
"(c) Persons, including ushers and
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
ance.
"td) Persons employed in domestic
service.
"(e) Sales clerks and other clerks
employed Ia stores and other mercan-
tile establishments.
Men who are engaged as above or
who are idlers will not be permitted
to seek relief because OF the fact that
they have drawn a later order num-
her or because they have been placed
in class II, III OF ~ on the grounds of
dependency. The fact that he Is not
usefully employed will outweigh both
of tile above conditions.
To Extend Nonuseful List.
ut is expected that the list Of non.
useful occupations will be extended
from time to time as necessity will re-
Quire so as to include persons In other
employments.
Temporary absences from regular
employment not to exceed n week
unless such temporary absences are
habltual and frequent, shall not be con
sldered as idleness. Regular vacations
will not be considered as absences In
this connection.
1.-THE regulation further provides
that where such a change of employ
ment would compel the night employ
ment Of women under circumstances
which a 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 It, General Crowder
said:
'The war has so far d~lsorganized
the normal adjustment of industrial
man power as to prevent the enor-
nous Industrial output and national
organization necessary to success.
"There is a popular demand for or
ga~nizatiOn Of man power, but no d.
rect draft could be imposed at pres
cnt.
"Steps to prohibit ldleness and non
effective occupation will be welcomed
by our people.
1--WE shall give the oilers 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 a war or mill
tary maneuver. 1t is a deadly contest
of 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 a 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 n every man in the nation turn
ed his hand TO effective work. We
must make ourselves effective. We
must organize for the future. We
must make vast Withdrawals for the
army and Immediately close up the
ranks Of industry behind the gap will
an ac%celerating production Of every
useful thing in necessary measure
How is this to be done?
"The answer is plain. The first steI
toward the solution OF the difficulty u
to prohibit engagement by a%ble-bOdie'
men I'm the field Of hurtful employ
r ment, idleness or Intellectual employ
e ment, and thus induce and persuad,
the vast wasted excess into usefu
+ fields.
1.-THE very situation we are now cor
+ siderlng, however, offers great posi-
= bilitles in improvement of the draft n
= well as great possibilities for the CON
h posltlon of the labor situation by et
i fective administration Of the drGf
Considering the selective service law
r we see two principal causes Of detrI
y ment of the call to military service
exemption and the order numbers as
n signed by lot.
1.-THE exemptions themselves fail Int
e two conspicuous categories-depehC
4, ancy and Industrial employment. ON
e protects domestic relations, the othe
the economic interests of the natiOT
d Between the two there is an lne'
liable hiatus, for 1t is demonstrate
n true that thousands, II not millions,
G dependency exemptions have no e
feet Of Industrial protection whateve
zone Of the unanswerable criticism
Of the draft has been that II takes me
Is from the farms and from all usefI
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