South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-23
ATect Other Classes.


alternative of finding suitable EN-
Affect Other Classes.
The new regulation. which be-
comes effective July !, Will also af-
feet the following classes:
Persons engag ged in the serving of
food and drink, or either, in public
places, including hotels and social
clubs.
Passenger elevator operators and
attendants. door men. foot men. and
other attendants Of clubs. hotels,
stores. apartment houses, office
buildings and bath houses
Persons including ushers and
other attendants, engaged and oc-
cupied in and in connection with
games. sports and amusements. ex-
cepting actual performers in legit-
innate concerts, operas or theatrical
performances
Persons employed in domestic
service
Sales clerks and other clerks en-
plOyed in stores and other mercan-
tile esta blishments.
Liable TO Service.
The regulation provides that after
July ]. any registrant who is found
by a local board to be a habitual
idler or not engaged in such useful
occupation shall be summoned be-
fore the board, given a chance to
| explain and in the absence Of a salts
factory explanation, he inducted into
the military service OF the United
States.
Any local board will be authorized
10 take action whether il has orig
inal jurisdiction of the registrant or
not.
The regulations which apply 20
idle regisrrants will be deemed to
apply also to gamblers and all de-
scriptions and employees and attend
ants of bucket shops, race tracks,
fortune tellers. clairvOyants, palm
lists and the like.
Men engaged in non-essential oc-
cupations and who are idlers will
not be permitted to seek relief be-
cause of the fact that they have
drawn a late number or because
they have been placed in Class >.
3, or on the grounds of depend
ency The fact that he is not use
fully employed will outweigh both
of the above conditions.
The provost marshal general was
! asked whether baseball players and
other professional athletes would
come under the purview of the or
der. He said that pending reference
I of an actual case 10 him by some
local board no ruling would be
made. Inasmuch, however, as the in
struction 10 local boards specified
| persons engaged and occu-
pied in and in connection with
games. sports and amusements," it
was thought here that baseball
| players of draft age would have to
show very good reason why they
were indispensable 10 the public
good.
May Extend List.
It 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-
"The war has so far disOrganized
the normal adjustment Of Industrial
man power as TO prevent the enor-
nous Industrial output and national
orga nization necessary to success. %
said Gen. Crowder in discussing the
new regulation There is a pop
luIar demand for orga nization Of
man power. but no direct draft
could be imposed at present steps
to prohibit idleness and non-effec-
tive occupations would he welcomed
by the people.
We shall give the idlers and
men not effectively employed the
choice between military service and
effective employment. Every man.
in the draft age at least, must fight
or work.
Contest of Industries.
This is not alone a war Of mill
tary maneuver. II is a deadly con-
test Of industries and mechanics.
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
land loom in the empire IS a recog-
nized part in a complete machine
running night and day ar terrific
ispeed We must make Of ourselves
the same sort OF effective machine
"It is not enough 20 ask what
would happen II every man in the
nation turned his hand 10 effective
work We must make ourselves ef-