Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-05-30
ALL |DLERS MUST
FIGHT OR LABOR
GENERAL cRowDER ISSUES Or
DER COVERING VARIOUS
SPORTS AND TRADES.
--DIcT IN FORCE JULY FIRST

Amendment to Selective Service Regu-
lations to Make Nation Efficient
In War Takes Registrants Out
Of Deferred Class.
Bulletin.
Washington, May %. - General
Crowders new "work-or-fght" regula-
lions may require professional base
ball players either to engage in some
useful occupation or to join the army.
Baseball players, as well as jockeys,
professional golfers and other profess
sional sportsmen, General Crowder
said today, will be affected by the reg
ulations if strictly enforced. General
Crowder said he did not desire to make
specific rulings at this time and would
make rulings only when cases came to
him from local boards after July 1.
Bulletin.
Washington, May 23.-Theatrical
performers have been excepted from
the new draft regulations at the di-
rection Of Secretary Baker, who is said
to feel that the people cannot do with
out all amusement in war time and
that other amusements could be dis
pensed with more readily.
Washington, May 23.-Every man
Nf l,.of off, Gfr1RA
after July /, under a drastic amend
ment to the selective service regula-
lions announced today by General
Crowder, provost marshal general.
Not only idlers, but all draft regis
trants engaged in what are held to be
nonuseful occupations are to be hailed
before local boards and given the
choice Of a new job or the army.
Gamblers, race track and bucket
shop attendants and fortune tellers
head the list, but those who will be
reached by the new regulation also inr
clude walters and bartenders, theater
ushers and attendants, passenger ele-
vator operators and other attendants
of clubs, hotels, stores, etc., domestics
and clerks in stores.
Deferred classification granted on ac-
count of dependents will be disregard
ed entirely in applying the rule. A
man may be at the bottom of class L,
or even in class 4, but if he fails with
In the regulation and refuses to take
useful employment he will be given a
new number III class that will send
him into the military service forthwith.
Local boards are authorized to use dis
erection only where they find that en-
forced change of employment would
result in disproportionate hardship up
on his dependents.
May Solve the Labor Problem.
1t has been known for some time that
some form of work or fight plan has
been submitted to President Wilson,
but there has been nc intimation that it
was so far reaching in it's scope. Both
the military authorities and depart
ment of labor officials believe that it
will go long way toward solving the
labor problem for farmers, shipbuild-
ers and munition makers and will end,
for the present at least, talk of con-
scription of labor. The announcement
today gives notice significantly that the
list of nonuseful occupations will be ex-
tended from time to time as necessity
requires.
The statement Of the provost mar
shall generals Office is as follows:
Provost Marshal General Crowder
today announced an amendment to the
selective service regulations which
deals with the great question of COM
pelling men not engaged in a useful
occupation Immediately to apply them
selves to some form of labor, contrib.
uting to the general good. The idler
too, will find himself confronted with
the alternative of finding suitable en-
ployment or entering the army.
'This regulation provides that after
July 1, any registrant who is found by
local board to be habitual idler OF
not engaged in some useful occupation
shall be summoned before the board
given chance to explain and. in the
absence Of satisfactory explanation
to be indicted into the military service
of the United States.
ANY local board WILL be authorized
to take action, whether It has an orig
inal Jurisdiction of the registrant OF
not; in other words, any man loafine
around a poolroom in Chicago may be
held to answer to a Chicago board ever
though he may have registered II
New York and lived there most Of his
life.
The regulations which apply to idle
registrants will be deemed to apply
also to gamblers of all description ant
employees, and attendants of bucket
shops and race tracks, fortune tellers
clairvoyants, palmists and the like
who for the purpose of the regulation.
shall be considered as idlers.
New Rule Is Sweeping.
1.-THE new regulation will also affec
the following classes:
"(a) Persons engaged in the servin;
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