The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-05-23
international News Service.)

That is tho dictum Of the gov
ernment as announced today by
Provost Marshal General Crowder
in an amendment to the selective
service regulations dealing with
tho question Of compelling regis
tered men not engaged in a useful
occupation to Immediately apply
themselves to some form Of labor
contributing to the general good.
The ider, ric or poor, will find
himself confronted with the
alternative of finding suitable en-
ployment or entering tho army.
The new regulation, which becomes
effective July /, will also affect the
following classes.
Persons engaged in the serving of
food and drink, or either, in public
places, including hotels and social
clubs.
Passenger elevator operators and at
tendants, doormen, footmen and other
attendants OF clubs. hotels, stores,
apartment houses, office buildings and
lighthouses.
Persons. including Nushers 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.
Persons employed in domestic
service.
Effective July I.
The regulation provides that
after July I, any registrant who is
found by local board to be
habitua idler or not engaged in
some useful occupation shall be
summoned before the board, given
oh - - nL
absence Of a satisfactory expIa-
ton, be induoted into the mill
tary service Of tho United States.
Any local board will be authorized |
to take action whether 1t has original
jurisdiction of the registrant or not
In other words. any man loafing around
a poo' room in Chicago may be held
10 answer to n Chicago board, even
though he may have registered In New
Y ork and lived there most OF his life.
The regulations which apply to idle
'egstrants will be deemed to apply
,so to gamblers OF all descriptions
md employees and attendants of
bucket shops. race tracks. fortune
ollers. clairvoyants, palmists and the
ike. h
Nonessential Occupations.
Men who are engaged in non
essential occupations or who are
idlers will not be permitted to seek
relief because OF the fact that
they have drawn a late number or
because they have been placed in
Class 2, 3 or q on the grounds Of
dependency. The fact that he is
not ussfully employed will out
weigh both Of the above conditions.
1t is expected that the list of nom
seful occupations will be extended 4
rom time to time as necessity will
equire so as TO include persons in
ther employments.
The war has so far disorRanized
he normal adjustment OF Industrial
IAN power as to prevent the enormous
ldustrial output and national organ
,ation necessary to SUCCESS" said Gen.
rowder. in discussing the new regula-
on. There is popular demand for
rganization OF man power. but no {
irect draft could be imposed at pres :
Mt Steps to prohibit idIeness and
oneffective occupation will be well !
Dmed by the people. .
IdIers Must Work.
I'VE shall give the iders and
men not effectively employed the
eho'oe between military service
and effective employment. Every
man in the draft age, at least,
must work or fight.
This Is not alone a war of military I
aneuvCrs. II is deadly contest of u
and mechanics
Germany must not be thought OF =
merely possessing an army; we u
ust think OF her as being an army y
l army in which every factory and u
ON in the empire is "A recognized part "
n complete machine running night
I'd day at terriice speed. We must
axe Of ourselves the same sort OF ef-
ctiVe machine.
Let Every Man Work.
IT is enough to ask what would
,ppcn II every man In the nation
rned his hand effective work. We
ust make curse yes effective. We |
ust organize for the future. We must
AXE vast withdrHwals for the army
ID Immediately close up the ranks OF |
dustry behind the gap with an ac- |
lcratlng production Of every useful !
ing IN necessary measure. How is |
is 20 be done2
The answer is plain. The first step |
ward the solution OF the difficulty Boz o..
prohibit engagement by able bodied d,
m in the field 81 hurtful employment.
cncss or Intellectual employ mont. and pt
Us induce and persuade the vast. to