Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-05-31

of food aul drink. or either, "a public
places, including hotels and social
clubs.
90 Passenger elevator operators
and attendants. doormen, footmen and
other attendants Of clubs, hotels
stores, apartment houses, Office build
ings and lighthouses.
"(c) Persons, including ushers and
other attendants, engaged and occu-
pied ln, and in connection with, games,
sports and n~musements, excepting
actual performers IN legitimate con
certs, operas or theatrical perform
ance.
I'D Persons employed b domestic
service.
@(e) Sales clerks and other clerks
employed IN stores and other mercan-
tile establishments.
Men who are engaged as above or
who are idloTs will not be permitted
10 geek relief because Of the fact that
they have drawn a later order NUN
Der or because they have been placed
In class IL. III or " on the grounds OF
dependency. The fact that he Is not
uscfully employed will outweigh both
Of the above conditions,
To Extend NonuscfuI List.
1T is expected that the list of non
useful occupations will be extended
from time to time MS necessity VIII re-
qnirc so as to include persons in other
cmplOyments.
"Temporary absences from regular
employment not to exceed one week,
unless such temporary absences nre
habitual and frequent, shall not be con-
9dered as idleness. Regular vacations
will not be considered as absences In
this connection.
The regulation further provides
that where such a change OF employ
ment would compel the night employ
mcnt OF women under circumstances
which Il 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.
1Mplaining the new regulation and
the necessity for II, General Crowder
said:
THE war has so far disorgnnized
the normal adjustment OF Industrial
man power MS to prevent the enor-
nous Industrial output and national
organization necessary to success.
"There Is Il popular demand for or
gunization OF man power, but no d.
rect draft could BE imposed at pres
cnt.
steps to prohibit idleness and non
effective occupation will be welcomed
by our people.
-We shall give the idlers and men
not effectively employed the choice be
tween military service and effective
| employment. Every man, In the draft
age Mt least, must work or fight.
This Is not alone a war or milf
| tary mnnpuver. 1t Is a deadly contest
| OF Industries and mechanics.
Must Copy German Machine.
Germany must not be thought OF Us
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 n recognized part In
n complete machine running night and
day ut terrific speed. We must make
oRurselves the same sort II effective
machine.
at is not enough to ask. what would
happen II livery man in the nation turn
ed his baud to effective work. W.
must make ourselves effective. We
must organize for the future. W.
must make vast Withdrawals for TIT
army and Immediately close up TIT
ranks of industry behind the gap will
IN accelerating production OF ever,
useful thing in necessary measure
How Is this to be done1
1.-THE answer is plain. The first stel
toward the solution OF the difficulty
to prohibit engagement by a%ble-bodie'
men In the field Of hurtful employ
ment, idleneSs or Intellectual employ
ment, and thus induce and persuad
the vnst wasted excess into usefu
fields.
"The very situation we are now cor
sidcrlng, however, offers great poss
hilities in Improvement OF the draft n
we'll ms great possibilities for the con
position Of the labor situation by q
fective administration of the draf
Considering the selective service law
we see two principal auses OF detr
mcnt OF the call to military service
, exemption and the order numbers n
l signed by lot.
= The exemptions themselves fall INF
two conspicuous categories-depent
g., cncy and industrial employment OR
protects domestic relations, the othC
the economic interests OF the natio'
Between the two there Is nm Inc
table hiatus, for 1t is demonstrate
r true that thousands, II not millions,
dependency exemptions have no c
feet of industrial protection whateve
"One Of the unanswenhle criticism
Of the draft has been that II takes ms
s from the farms and from all usef