The Elbert County tribune., 1918-05-31

"(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
usefully employed will outweigh both
of the above conditions.
To Extend Nonuseful List.
at is expected that the list of nom
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-
ployed by providing that where there
are compelling domestic circumstances
that would not permit change of en-
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
registrant or his family, local boards
may give consideration to the circum-
stances.
1.-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 In making its de-
cision"
General Crowder Explains Plan.
Explaining the new regulation and
the necessity for it, 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 d.
rect draft could be imposed at pres
ent.
"Steps to prohibit idleness and nom
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 at least, must work or fight
"This is not alone war or mill
tary maneuver. 1t is 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-fn
army in which every factory and loom
in the empire is a recognized part In
complete machine running night and
day Mt 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 and Immediately close up the
ranks of industry behind the gap with
an accelerating 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.
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 selective 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.
"The exemptions themselves fall into
| two conspicuous acknowledgement
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 1t is demonstrably
true that thousands. II not millions, of
dependency exemptions have no eff
feet Of Industrial protection whatever.
"One 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