The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-06-15
Draft Board Instructed to Investigate
All Registrars Not In Pro-
ductive Employment

The local draft board has been in.
structed by the provost marshal gen.
eral to investigate registrants who
are oilers or who are engaged in GER
tain non-productive occupations or
employments The instructions,
which have just been received, are
as follows:
1T shall hereafter be the duty of
all persons connected with the admin
istration of the selective service law
and regulations, and all citizens, to
report to the nearest local board all
facts which may come to their knowl-
edge concerning registrants who are
idle or who are engaged in any occu-
patton or employment defined in these
regulations as productive occupations
or employments:
Whenever, after July L. any regis
trant in Glass 1, 2, 3, or 4, wherever
he may be located, is reported to or
observed by a local board to be an
idler or in nonproductive occupation
or employment, such local board
shall, by notice as hereafter pre-
scribed, notify him and set day and
hour when the registrant may appear
and present such evidence, by affida-
Wit or otherwise, bearing upon the
reason for his status, as he may care
to submit"
Immediately after the decision Of
the local board, after the hearing,
the registrant may appeal to the dis
trict advisory board from the decision
of the local board, and may appeal
from the decision of the district board
to the president.
"If the local board and its decision
is affirmed by district board, shall
find that the registrant is an idler or
is engaged in a nonproductive occu-
patton or employment. it shall enter
an order that the deferred classified
tion if any, and the order number of
the registrant, shall be withdrawn;
and the registrant shall thereupon be
liable to be indicted Immediately into
military service.
IF registrant is idle. he, of
course is not occupied or employed at
all, and his status of idleness fur
nishes ground for the withdrawal of
his deferred classification or late or.
der number; and the regulations ap.
plicable to idle registrants shall be
deemed applicable to gamblers of all
descriptions, employees of race tracks
and bucket shops, fortune tellers
.clairvoyants, palmists and the like
who shall be considered as idlers.
Those Affected
"The employment or engagement OF
any able-bodied registrant of military
age in any of the following occupa
tons or employments is not suffici
emily effective, in the present emer
gency, to justify the postponement
of his call into military service, not
withstanding he may have late or
der number and notwithstanding hi
may have been placed in class 2, OF
on the ground of dependency; an(
all registrants engaged as follows are
to be considered by local and distric
boards as engaged in non-productivt
occupations or employment:
la Persons engaged in the serv
of food and drinks or either, in public
places, including hotel and socia
club;
"(b) Passenger-elevator operators
and attendants; and door men, foot
men, carriage openers and other at
attendants in clubs, hotels, stores
apartment houses, Office buildings
and lighthouses;
"(c) Persons, including ushers and
other attendants. engaged and occu
pied in and in connection with games