New-York tribune., 1918-05-24


ter July / any registrant who Is
found by local board to be an habit
ual idlcr, or not engaged in some use,
full occupation, shall be summoned
before the board, given chance 10
explain and, in the absence OF sat
isfactory explanation. be lnducteo
into the military service of the Unit
cd States.
ANY local board will be authorized
10 take action, whether it has orig
inal jurisdiction of the registrant or
rot; in other words, any man loahng
around a poolroom in Chicago may
be held TO answer to Chicago board
even though he may have registered
in New York and lived there most OF
his life.
idle reclstrants will be deemed TO
anply also to gamblers Of all descrlp-
tions and employees and attendants OF
bucket shops and racetracks, fortune
tellers, clairvoyants, paimis,s ana
tie like. who for the purpose of the
regulations shall be considered as
idlers.
Classes Affected
"The new regulation will also af-
feet the following classes;
"Ia) Persons engaged in the
serving of food aud drink. or either
in pubhc places, including hotels
and hotel clubs.
"(b) Passenger elevator opera
tors and attcndantss doormen, foot
men and other atte .dants Of clubs,
hotels. stores. apartment houses,
Office buildings and bath houses.
"(c) Persons. including usherss
and other attendants engaged and
occupied in connection with games,
SPORTS and amusements. except act
ual performers in legitimate con-
certs. operas or theatrical per
formances.
I'D Persons employed in do
mcstic service.
"(e) Sales clerks and other
clerks employed in stores and other
mercantile establishments.
Men who are engaged as above or
who arc idlers, will not be permitted
to seek relief because of the fact that
they have drawn a late order number
or because they have been placed IN
Glass II. III or " on the ground OF
dependency. The fact that he is not
usefully employed will outweigh both
of the above conditions.
at is expected that the list of non
useful occupations will be extended
from time to time as necessity VIII
REQUIRE. so as to include persons IN
other employments.
"Temporary absences from regular
employment not to exceed one week,
unless such temporary absences are
habitual and frequent, shall not be
considered as idleness. Regular va
cations will not be considered as abb
sences in this connection.
Safeguards Provided
"The regulation throws a further
safeguard around men not usefully
employed by providing that where
there are compelling domestic cir
that would not permit
change of employment by the regis
tran. without disproportlona hard
ship to his dependents, or where
change from non-useful to useful en-
ployment or occupation would neces-
state a removal of the registrant or
his family, local boards may give con-
sideration to the circumstances. The
regulation further provides that
where such a change of employment
would compel the night employment
Of women under circumstances which
a board might deem not suitable for
employment of women, the board
may take such circumstances into
consideration in making its decision
Explaining the new regulation, Gen
.ral Crowder said: T
"The war has so far disorganized,
the normal adjustment of indust trial
man power as to prevent the enor-
nous Industrial output and national
organization necessary to success.
"There is popular demand for or
ganization of man power, but no
direct draft could be imposed at
present.
Steps to prohibi. idleness and
non effective occupation will be well
coined by our people.
Must Work or Fight
I'VE shall give the idlers and men
not effectively employed the choice
between military service and eff
fectivc employment. Every man, in
the draft age at least, must work or
tight
This IS not alone a war of mill
tary mannuvre. 1t is deadly con-
test of Industries and mechanics.
Germany must not be thought of as
think of her as being an army-an
army III which every factory and
loom IN the empire Is recognized
part of a complete machine running
night and day al terrific speed. We
must make of ourselves the same
sort OF effective machine.
ut is enough to ask what would
happen If every man in the nation
turned his hand to effective work.
We must make ourselves effective.
We must organize for the future. We"
mus make vast Withdrawals for the
army and Immediately close UP the
ranks of industry behind the gap with
an accelerating production of every
useful thing in necessary measure
How is this to be done? The answer
IS plain. The first step toward the
solution of the difficulty is to pro
hibit engagement by ablebodied men
IN the held of hurtful employment.
ldleness or Intellectual employment,
and thus induce ana persuade the
Vast wasted excess into useful fields.
Possibilities of Improving Draft
The very situation we are now
considering. however, offers great
Foss'oiiitIes IN improving the draft,
as wen as great possibilities for the
composition of the labor situation by
eHectlve administration of the draft
considering the selective service
law. we see two principal cases of
aeierment TO the call to military SER
h'ce-eScmptlon and the order num-
Uers assigned by lot. The exemp
mons themselves fall into two conspi
cuous categories, Dependence and
industrial employment. One protects
domestic relations, the other The eco
homic interests of the nation. Re-
tween the two there is an inevitable
hiatus, for it is demonstrably trne
mat thousands, if not millions ~
aepehdency exemptions have no ef-
tee' OF industrial dcferment what