The Monticellonian., 1918-05-31

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the following classes:
"(a) Persons engaged In the serving
of food and drink, or either, in public
| places, including hotels and socia
| clubs.
"(b) Passenger elevator operators
| and attendants, doormen, footmen and
other attendants of clubs, hotels
stores, apartment houses, office build
| ings ana lighthouses.
"(c) Persons, including ushers and
other attendants, engaged and occu-
pied In. sd in connection with, games
| sports and amusemen5., excepting
actual performers in legitimate con
certs, operas or theatrical perform
ance.
I'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 OF
who are idlers will not be permitted
10 seek relief because Of the fact that
they have drawn a later order mum
Der or because they have been placed
in class II, III or " on the grounds OF
dependency. The fact that he is moi
usefully employed will outweigh both
Of the above conditions.
ut is expected that the list of non
useful occupations will be extended
from time to time as necessity will re-
nI1irn CO TO inplnHn in nthpr
employments.
Temporary absences from regular
employment not to exceed one week
unless such temporary absences arc
habitual and frequent, shall not he CON
sidered as idleness. Regular vacations
this connection.
THE regulation further provides
that where such a change of employ
ment would compel the night employ
ment of women under circumstances
which board might deem unsuitable
for such employment of women the
board may take such circumstances
into consideration In making its de-
cislon."
General crowder Explains Plan.
Explaining the new regulation and
the necessity for 1t, General Crowder
said:
1.-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 di-
rect draft could be imposed at pres
ent.
Steps to prohibit idleness and non
effective occupation will be welcomed
by our people.
1--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 Mt least, must work or fight.
This is not alone war or mill.
tary maheuver. 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-an
army In which every factory and loom
in the empire is recognized part in
complete machine running night and
day at terrific speed. We must make
of ourselves the same sort of effective
machine.
at 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 aud Immediately close up the
ranks of industry behind the gap with
an aeeelerating production of every
useful thing in necessary measure.
How Is this to be done?
1.-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
1.-THE very situation we are now con-
sidering, however. offers great posi-
bilities in Improvement of the draft as
well as great possibilities for the com
position of the labor situation by eff
fective administration Of the draft.
Considering the seleetive service law,
we see two principal causes of detri-
ment of the call TO military service
exemption and the order numbers as
signed by lot.
Exemptions in Two Categories.
1.-THE exemptions themselves fall into
two conspicuous ategories-depend-
ency and industrial employment. One
protects domestic relations, the other
the economic interests of the nation.
Between the two there is an inev-
table hiatus, for 1t Is demonstrably
true that thousands, If not millions, of
dependency exemptions have no eff
feet of industrial protection whatever.
Zone 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 loafers TO the
army. The remedy is simple-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 the industrial wei
| fare of the nation"