Evening journal., 1918-07-08
DRAFT ACE YOUTHS
must keep Working
Cover ment Will Call te
Military Service All
Those Who Loaf"
MILITARY BOARDS
OUTLINE PLAN!

General /. Pusey Wickersham, 4 n
tant General for Delaware, called
mil tary draft boards of the state
conference at the Hotel dupont Oh
urday to 20 over the recent 'w0r
fight" orders issued by General g
der The rulings in Delaware affect
following classes in such a manner .Alt
dependency claims viii not protect reg
istrants from being placed in class one
in such cases;
(al Persons engaged in the serving OF
food and drink, or either, in public places
including hotels and social clubs;
tbl Passenger-elevator operators and
attendants; and door men, footmen, car
riage openers and other attendants ir
clubs, hotels, stores, apartment houses
Office buildings and bathhouses;
(c) Persons, including ushers and
other attendants, engaged and occupied
in and in connection with games, sports
and amusements, excepting actual per-
formers in legitimate concerts, operas.
or theatrical performances;
tdl Persons employed in domestic
service;
(e) Sales clerks and other clerks en-
ployed in stores and other mercantile
establishments.
The draft boards reached decisions on
many detailed points interpreting the
rules and should any registrant be un-
certain rs 60 his classification under
any Of the headings, so far as occupa-
tion is concerned, he should seek accu-
rate information promptly from his local
board.
The most important discussion at the
conference had 20 do with an interpre-
tation of the words "habituap and Ere
quent,n as found in the latest rules is
sued by General Crowder. After some
discussion, the draft boards decided
unanimously that any registrant IN any
employment who habitually works less
than the minimum number of hours
specified for the work upon which he
is engaged. comes under the classifca-
tion of idleness and will therefore be
placed in class one, irrespective of any
dependency claims that he may have.
By this action such registrants become
subject to immediate army service.
IL was pointed out at the conferences
that aggregate loss of time resulting
from employees knocking OF" a few
hours or a day or two out of each week,
amounted to a serious reduction in inn
portant work necessary to the winning
/ Of the war. IL was for this reason that
/ the draft boards have decided TO adopt
this strict Interpretation Of Crowder's
rules on the subject of habitual OF fire.
qucnt idlcness.
The draft boards are particularly de-
sirous to have all employers and pa
triotic citizens report TO them promptly
the names of any regstrants who are
persistently working less than the mini
mum hours scheduled for the shop or
farm for which the registrant is work ng
Attention to this request Of the dr. o
/ boards viii result unquestionably n.
speeding up production Of i'm, ortant and
vital work Of which the government is
in urgent and vital need at this time.
It was also decided at the conference
that the local boards would pursue the
policy of going over the questionaires
carefully in order TO determine those
cases which show that the registrant
was engaged in any Of the 'non-pro-
ductive" vocations listed in the Crow
der orders as printed above, at the time
Of filing his QUESTIONABLE.
II is therefore, important that every
man in the draft age, who may now
be employed In productive work and
who was not so engaged at the time
Of filing out his QUESTIONABLE, should
report Immediately his present working
status to his local board.
Also, If there are any registrants who
did not clearly state the nature of the
work they were engaged in at the time
of filling out their questionaires, which
might lead TO a misinterpretation ON
the part of the local boards in applying
the new rules, such registrants should
report Immediately to the local boards
specifically as to the kind of work they
are doing.