Tombstone epitaph., 1918-06-02

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 "(d) Persons employed in 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 idlers will not be permitted to seek relief because of the fact that they have drawn q later order num- Der or because they have been placed in class II. III or " on the grounds of dependency. The fact that he is not usefuliy employed will outweigh both of the above conditions. To Extend Nonusefui List. Tt is expected that the list of non- useful occupations will be extended from time to time as necessity will re quire 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 con sidered as idleness. Regular vacations will not be considered as absences in this connection.
 "The regulation throws a further safeguard around men not usefully en- pioyed by providing that where there are compelling domestic circumstances hat hap nf ployment by the registrant without dis proportionate hardship to his depend ents or where a change from nonuseful to useful employment or occupation would necessitate removal of the regisirant or his family, local boards may give consideration to the circum- stances
 The regulation further provides that where such a change of employ ment would compel the night employ ment of women under circumstances which a board might deem unsuitable for such employment of women the board may take such circumstances Into consideration n making Is de cis!on."
 General crowder Explains Plan. Explaining the new regulation and the necessity for 1t, General Crowder said:
 "The war has so far disorganized the normal adjustment of industrial man power as to prevent the enor- nous industrial output and national organization necessary to success.
 There Is a popular demand for or ganization of man power. but no d. rect draft could be imposed at pres ent.
 Steps to prohibit ,:eness and non- effective occupation will he 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 at least, must work or fight.
 This is not alone a war or mili- tary maneuver. It Is a deadly contest of industries and mechanics.
 Must Copy German Machine.
 Germany must not be thought of as merely possessing an army. we must think of her as being an army-ln army in which every factory and loom in the empire is recognized part In a complete machine running night and day at terrific speed. We must make of ourselves the same sort of effective machine.
 "It Is not enough to ask what would happen if every man In the nation turn ed his hand to effective work. We must make ourselves effective. We must organize for the future. We must make vast withdrawals for the army and immediately close up the ranks of industry behind the gap with an acceIerating 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 prohibit engagement by able-bodied men in the field of hurtful employ ment, idleness or intellectual employ ment, and thus induce and persuade the vast wasted excess into useful fields.
 "The very situation we are now con sidering, however, offers great pOssi- bilifies in improvement of the draft as we'll as great possibilities for the com position of the labor situation by ef- fecfive administration of the draft. Considering the selective service law. we see two principal causes of detri- ment of tine call to military service exemption and the order numbers as- signed by lot.
 Exemptions in Two cateeories
 "The exemptions themselves fall into two conspicuous cafsgories-depend- ency and industrial employment. One protects domestic relations. the other the economic interests of the nation. Between the two there Is an inev- liable hiatus, for it Is demonstrsbIy true that thousands, if not millions. of dependency exemptions have no ef- feet of industrial protection whatever.
 sOpe of the unanswerable criticisms of the draft has been that 1t takes men from the farms and from all useful employments and marches them past crowds of idlers and Ioafers to the army. The remedy is simpIe-to couple the industrial basis with other grounds for exemption and to require that any man pleading exemption on any ground shall also show that he is contribut Ing effectively to ths industrial wse