The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-05-30
AMENDMENT TO THE sELEcTIVE
SERVICE REGULATIONS HITS
IDLERs, GAMBLERS AND
MANY OTHERS.
LOCAL BOARDS GIVEN
POWER TO TAKE ACTION
Be Prosecuted On Their Return
No Matter How Long
After the War.


under a drastic amendment to the
selective service regulations announc-
ed Thursday by Provost Marshal Gen.
Crowder
Following close on the heels of this
drastic announcement came a second
blow at shirkers, from Attorney-Gen-
eral Gregory, who announced that
men who leave the country to escape
the draft will be prosecuted under the
selective service act on their return,
no matter how long after the war that
may be.
Crowder's Statement.
The statement of the provost mar
shall generals Office follows:
Provost Marshal Gen. Crowder
Thursday announced an amendment to
the selective service regulations which
deals with the great question of com.
pelling men not engaged in a useful
occupation Immediately to apply them
selves to some form of labor contribu-
ting to the general good. The idler,
too, will findthimself confronted with
ployment or entering the army.
This regulation provides that after
July /, any registrant who is found by
local board to be a habitual idler or
not engaged in some useful occupation
shall be summoned before the board,
given chance to explain and, in the
absence OF satisfactory explanation,
will be indicted into the military SER
vice.
ANY local board will be authorized
to take action whether it has original
jurisdiction of the registrant or not !;
In other words, any man loafing around
a pool room in Chicago may be held
to answer to a Chicago board even
though he may have been registered
in New York and lived there most of
bis life.
SAMPLERS and Walters Put Under Ban.
Besides gamblers, fortune tellers,
etc, the new regulations also will
affect the following classes:
"(A)-Persons engaged in the serv
ing of food and drink, or either, in
public places, including hotels and
social clubs.
"B)-Passenger elevator operators
and attendants, doormen, footmen and
other attendants of clubs, hotels,
stores, apartment houses, Office build
ings and bath houses.
"(C)-Persons, including ushers and
other attendants, engaged and &C.
cupied in, and in connection with
games, sports and amusements, ex.
cepting actual performers in legiti-
mate concerts, operas or theatrical
performances.
"D)-Sales clerks and other clerks
employed in stores and other merch-
antile 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 late order number
or because they have been placed in
class H., ILL.,, or w. on the grounds of
dependency. The fact that he is not
usefully employed will outweigh both
Of the above decisions.
List May Be Extended.
at is expected that the list of non
useful occupations will be extended
from time to time as necessity will
require so as to include persons in
other employments.
Temporary absences from regular
employment not to exceed one week,
unless such temporary absences are
hobituo1 opA fraunanf oha1l not no
considered as idleness. Regular vaca-
tons Will not be considered as absence
In this connection"
Provost Marshal crowder Explains.
The regulation throws a further
safeguard around men not usefully
employed, by providing that where
there are compelling domestic cir.
cumstances that would not permit
change of employment by the regis.
trant without disproportionate hard
ship to mis- dependents, or where a
change from non-useful to useful EN-.
ployment or occupation would neces
state a removal of the registrant OF
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 wo
men under circumstances which 9
board might deem unsuitable, tho
board may take such circumstance,
into consideration in making its deci
sion.
Explaining the new regulation anC
the necessity for It. Crowder said:
There is a popular demand for or
ganization of man power but no direc
draft could be imposed at present. W.
shall instead give the oilers and mel
not effectively employed the choic'
between military service and effective
employment. Every man, in the draf
age at least. must work or fight.