The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-06-14
REGISTRANTS NOT
USEFULLY EMPLOYED

The following is an extract from the
notice sent the Local Board regarding
rcgistrants not usefully employed:
1t shall hereafter be the duty OF all
persons connected with the admins
tration of the Selective Service Law
and Regulations, and of all citizens.
to report to the nearest Local Boa-u
all facts which may come to then
knowledge concerning registrants who
are idle or who are engaged in any
occupation or employment defined
and described in these Regulations or
any amendments thereof as non-pro-
ductive occupations or employments.
Definition or Non-P Productive occu-
patton or Employment.
In the present emergency it is not
possible to extend the protection of
deferred classification to those reg
istrants engaged in certain occupa-
tons or cmployments which are non
productive.
There is a great demand for labor
in all productive occupations and en-
Payments, and especially in agricul-
ture and other necessary industries.
Therefore, rcgistrants who have been
given deferred classification and who
can engage in some productive occu-
patton or employment without sub
stantial financial loss or hardship to
themselves or others should be will
ing to seek some productive occupa-
ton or employment or enter the mil
itary service rather than remain in an
occupation or employment in which
they are rendering no effective assist
ance to the Nation.
If registrant is idle, he, of course
is not occupied or employed at all,
and his status of idleness furnishes
ground for the withdrawal of his de-
ferred classification or late order
number; and the regulations applica-
BILE to idle registrants shall be
deemed applicable also to gamblers
of all description and employees of
race tracks and bucket shops, and to
fortune tellers, clairvoyants, palmists.
and the like, who, for the purposes Of
these Regulations, shall be considered
as idlers.
The employment or engagement Of
any able-bodied registrant of military
age in any of the following occupa-
tons or employments is not suffi-
GENTLY effective, in the present emerg-
ency, to justify the postponement of
his call into military service, not
withstanding he may have late Or
der number and Notwithstanding he
may have been placed in Glass ii, Ill
or " on the ground of dependency;
and all registrants engaged as TO-.
lows are to be considered by Local
and District Boards as engaged il
non-productive occupations or en-
Payments:
(a) Persons engaged in the serving
of food and drink, or either, in pub.
lie places, including hotels and social
clubs;
(b) Passenger-elevator operators
and attendants; and door men, foot
men, carriage openers and other at
tendants in clubs, hotels, stores
apartment houses, Office buildings
and lighthouses.
(c) Persons, including ushers ant
other attendants, engaged and occu.
pied in and ir connection with games
SpOElS, hIlu uIluSSHiclfts, SAccpNhS az
tual performers in legitimate concerts
operas, or theatrical performances;
(d) Persons employed in domestic
service;
(e) Sales clerks and other clerks
employed in stores and other mercan-
tile establishments.
Boards are authorized to consider
reasonable excuse for idleness or nom
productive employment.
LOCAL BOARD,
St. Francois County, No.