Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-06-20
NEW DRAFT ORDER


fight is going to result in the re-
classification of a large number
OF registrants in Iowa who now
have deferred classification.
SO says Adj. Gen. Guy r. Logan.
II have received numerous in
quiries asking for an interpreta-
tion of this order," said the ad-
jutant general. Briefly, ii means
that after July 1 any registrant
with deferred classification en-
gagged in nonproduclive work will
be placed in class 4 by his local
board.
1t will extend to many men in
classes 2, Band 4, who did not
dream of being affected by it
when it was first promulgated.
The rule as laid down by the
department designates men who
are idle OR engaged in any occupa-
tion or employment defined as
nonproductivc," as the ones af-
feclcd.
In the definition of the terms
used idle registrants are said to
be not only those who are not
working, but also gamblers of all
descriptions and employees of race
tracks and bucket shops, fortune
tellers, clairvoyants, palmists and
the like. Among persons engaged
i'll non-productive occupations
are the following:
Persons engaged in serving
food and drink in public places,
including hotels and social clubs.
This takes in walters and clerks
at soda fountains and at lunch
counters.
Next come passenger elevator
operators and attendants, door,
men, footmen, carriage openers,
and other attendants in clubs, ho-
tells, stores, apartment houses. 1t
lis probable that under this class
ification will come janitors in Of
flee buildings. Ushers and other
attendants occupied in and con-
nection with games, sports and
amusemcnts, except actual per-
formers i'm legitimate concerts,
opera or theatrical performances.
This will affect a lot of men en-
gagged in the moving picture bust
ness, las ball players, wrestlers
and others.
Persons employed in domestic
service, which will take in male
servants, cooks and the like.
The provision most sweeping in
what it includes is the one referr-
ing to. sales. clerks and other
clerks employed in stores and OF
her mercantile establishments.
Business places that come un-
der the head of mercantile estab-
llishments arc probably more nu-
merous than any others and in
clude every business where mer-
chandise is sold. The employees OF
these establishments who would
come under the rule would be moi
only statesmen, but bookkeepers
stenographers and any other per
son engaged in clerical work.
Some of the big stores in the
state" said General Logan, "havt
already given such of their en-
ployes as are registrants a two
weeks notice to find other jobs
Hhey base this action upon a pa
triotic ground.
In order to escape being placed
in class 4 , the classes OF employees
enumerated will have to seek en-
ploymenL i'm lines that are con-
sidered as producing materials
| that will help win the war.
Factory workers, men engaged
| i'm various productive trades, rall-
road work and similar lines vii.
he exempt from rcclaSsificatlOn
When a case Of this kind is re-
ported the board is required to IS
sue notice to the registrant t(
appear on certain day and show
cause why he is idle or in non
productive occupation. If no pro-
per reason can be given, the reg
istrant will be placed lin class 4.
"The net result" said General
Logan, " will be large increase
in class men, subject to imme-
diate call. And this is only the be-
ginning. | am looking for other
rulings that will take still more
men out OF deferred classified
ton and place them in line fol
service"