Weekly journal-miner., 1918-06-19
LOCAL BOARD ID NAB |DLERS FOR
 ARMY SERVICE
(From Thursdays Daily)

The local exemption board this week received instructions to get busy in the work of rounding mp the idlers and all men of draft age who are not engaged in some productive occupation. the board being notified that all such men found after July lst should immediately be inducted into Class after being given an opportunity 10 find some employment which the board might designate as being a work of necessity or produc- ton.
 Lengthy instructions were received which will be used in guiding the board in the matter of rounding up the loafcrs Supposing that a man, who has family dependent upon his efforts is found waiting tables or running elevators or telling for- tunes, etc. He can be called before the board and if he refuses to change his vocation in favor of some useful job, he will be placed in Class 1, and will forfeit all rights to deferred classification which he may have had prior to that time. There is a great demand for labor in all productive occupations and employments, es- pecially in agriculture and other necessary industries. Therefore, registrants who have been given de- fcrred classihcations and who can en- gage in some productive occupation without substantial loss CT financial hardship 10 themselves or others should be willing to seek some pro- ductive occupation or else enter the army rather than to remain in an oc- cupation where they are rendering no effective assistance to the govern ment
 If a registrant is idle, he, of course, is not occupied or employed at all: and his status as an idler furnishes ground for the withdrawal of his de- ferred classification. The regulations applicable 10 idlers will apply to loafers and gamblers of all descrip- tions, employees of race tracks and bucket shops, fortune tellers, clair voyants, palmists and the like.
 Young men who have heretofore been enabled to live without working by reason of their possession of an income sufficiently large to keep them, will now be compelled to go to work or join the army It is un- derstood that the provost marshars orders were designed to catch the club loiterer and other men of draft age who have never had to resort to labor to get along and after the first of the coming month it will be up to all of the men about town" to at least make a bluff at working in some line which is considered wartime necc Ssity.
 Men engaged in work which can just as well Lc done by women and girls, such as theatre uShers, walters, elevator operators, footmen, domcs. tic servants and sales clerks, will have to find some more useful and masculine forms of employment or else be put into Class
 A few reasonable excuses will be accepted by the board for failure on part of the registrant to take up a profitable line of work. Sickness, a vacation of reasonable length, lack of opportunity to procure employ ment of the right sort and enforced absences from the regular home dis tricts of the registrants will be suit able excuses for failure to comply with the departments ruling in this matter.
 It is a well-known fact that the county is somewhat short of Class 1 men, and in all probability the board will use every means at its command to round mp as many idlers and loaf CTS as possible for army service.