The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-23
Gamblers, Race Track At
tendants And Fortune
Tellers Head List
"GET NEW JOB
OR JOIN ARMY
Even Clerks In Stores and
Probably Ball Play
ers Affected
(By Associated Prasa.l

washington, May 23.-Every man
Of draft age must work or fight at
ter July /, under a drastic amend
ment 20 the selective service regula,-
tiops announced today by Provost
Marshal General CroWder.
Not only idlers, but all draft reg
istrants engaged in what are held to
be non-usefm occupations are to be
ha1ed before local boards and given
the choice Of a new job or the army.
Gamblers, race track and bucket
shop attendants and fortune teIIers
head the list, but those who Will be
reached by the new regulations also
include walters and bartenders, thea
ter ushers and attendants, passenger
elevator operators and other at
tendants Of clubs, hotels, stores, etc,
domestics and clerks in stores, and
perhaps professional baseball play
ers.
Deferred classification granted on
account of dependents will be dis
regarded entirely in applying fia
rule. A man nay be at the bottom
Of class l, or even in class 4, but tf
he falls within the regulation and
refuses to take useful employment
he will be given a new number In
class one that will send him into
the military service forthwith. Local
board are authorized to use discre-
ton only where they find that en-
forced change Of employment would
result in disproportionate hardship
upon his dependents.
Far Reaching Plan.
It had been known for some time
that some form OF work. or fightss
plan had been submitted to Pregi-
dent Wilson, but there had been no
tntination that it was so far reach
ing in scope. Both the military
authorities and department Of labor
officials believe that it will go long
way toward solving the labor prob
lem for farmers, shipbuldeTs and
munition makers, and will end for
the present at least talk Of conscrtp-
ton Of labor. The announcement to-
day gives notice significantly that
the LIST of non useful occupations
Will be extended from time TO time
as necessity requires.
The statement Of the provost mar
Shal generals Office follows:
Provost Marshal General Crowder
today announced an amendment to
the eelective service regulations
which deals with the great question
Of compelling men not engaged In
a useful occupation Immediately TO
apply themselves TO some form oc
labor, contributing to the general
good The idler, too, will find him
self confronted with the alternative
of finding suitable employment or
entering the army.
This regulation provides that az
ter July 1, any registrant who is
found by local board to be a habit
ua1 idler or not engaged In sons
9IseFly1 4TrTa ~
ed before the board, given a chance
to explain and, in the absence Of q
satisfactory explanation, to be in-
Quoted into the military services Of
the United States.
Any Board May Act.
ANY local board will be author-
lied to take action whether 1t has
original Jurisdiction Of the regtstrant
or not; in either words, any man
loafing around a pool room in Chi
cago may be held to answer to a
Chicago board, even though he may
have registered in New York and
lived there most Of his Life.
The regulations which apply 70
idle registrants will be deemed to
apply also to gamblers Of all descrip-
ton and employees and attendants
Of bucket shops and race tracks.
fortune tsllers, clairYoyants, paImtsts
and the like, who, for the purpose og
the regulations, shall DO considered
as idlers.
THE new regulation will also az
feet the following classes:
"(a) Persons engaged in the
serving Of food and drinks, or either.
in public places including hotels and
social clubs.
"(b) Passenger elevator opara-
tors and attendants, doormen. foot
men and other attendants Of clubs.
hotels, stores, apartment houses. Of
fice buildings and bath houses.
"(c Persons, including ushers
and other attendants, engaged and
occupied in, and in connection with
games, sports and amusements. ex-
cepting actual performers in Iegiti-
mate concerts. operas or theatrical
performance.
"td) Persons employed in domes-
tic service.
"(e) Sales clerks and other clerks
employed in stores and other m1er-
camille establishments.
Men who are engaged as above
or who are idlers will not be per~
mitted to seek relief because OF the
fact that they have drawn fata
order number or because they have
been placed in class 2, or 4, on the
grounds OF dependency. The feet
that he Is not usefully employed
will outweigh both OF the aboTa
conditions.
VIII Extend List.
1T Is expected that the list af
nor-uEefi1 occupations win be Ags
tended from time TO time as Tiecss
sity win require so as to include
persons In other empIoyments.
Temporary absence from reai1lar
employment not to exceed one week.
unless such temporary absences aFs
habitual and frequent, shall not ba
considered as idleness. Regular vas
cations win not be considered sa
absence IN this connection
The regulation throws E0rag