The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-24
MANY |DLERS Affected
BY SWEEPING ORDER


pied in, and in connection with games,
sports and amusements, excepting act
ual performers in legitimate concerts,
operas or theatrical performances.
"(d) Persons employed in domestic
service.
"(e) Sales clerks and other clerks
enipioyeu III sIore3 ana Otner 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 nave drawn q late order number
or because they lave been placed in
Glass II, III, or " on the grounds Of
dependency. The fact that he is not
usefully employed will outweigh both
the above conditions
To Extend NonusefuI List.
''It is expected that the list of nom
useful occupations will be extended
from time to time as necessity will
other employments.
"TempOrary absence from regular
employment not to exceed one week,
unless such temporary absences are
habitual and frequent, shall not be
considered as idleness. Regular vaca-
tions will not be considered as alb
sences In this connection.
"The regulation throws a further
safeguard around men not usefully en-
ployed provided 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 change from nonuseful
employment or occupation would neces-
state removal of the registrant or
his family, local boards may give con-
SideratiOn to the circumstances.
"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-
cision.'
Explaining the new regulation and
the necessity for it, General Crowder
said:
'The war has so far disorganized
the normal adjustment of industrial
man power as to prevent the enormous
industrial output and national organ
izatfOn 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,
''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 military
maneuver. 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 a recognized part in a
complete machine running night and
day at terrific speed. We must make
Of ourselves the same sort of effective
machine.
"It is not enough to ask what would
how tn, fh0
turned his hand to effective work We
must make ourselves effective Me
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 diff
Guilty is to prohibit engagement by
able-bodied men in the field of hurt
full employment, idleness or Intellectual
employment, and thus induce and per-
Suade the vast wasted excess into use
full fields.
1.-THE very situation we are now con-
sidering, however, offers great poss-
bilitieS in Improvement of the draft as
well as great possibilities for the COM
position of the labor situation by ef-
fective administration of the draft.
Considering the selective service law,
we see two principal causes of defer
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 categOries-depend
ency and industrial employment. One
protects domestic relations, the other
the economic interests Of the nation.
Between the two there is an inevitable
hiatus. for it is demonstrably true
that thousands, if not millions, of
dependency exemptions have no effect
of industrial protection whatever.
"One of the unanswerable criticisms
of the draft has been that it takes
men from the farms and from all USE
full emplOyments and marches them
past crowds of idlers and loafers away
to the army. The remedy is simple
to couple the industrial basis with 9TH
er grounds for exemption and to re-
quire that any man pleading ex-
emptiOn on any ground shall also show
that he is contributing effectively TO
the industrial welfare Of the nation.