Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-23


Quoted into the military service o.
the United States.
ANY local board will be author
lied to take action whether 1t ha'
original jurisdiction of the registrar
or not, in other words, any man ioaI'
ing around a poolroom in Chlcago
may be held to answer to ChlcaSo
board even though he may have reg
istered in New York and lived there
most of his life.
Gamblers Head List
THE regulations which apply !c
idle registrants will be deemed tc
APP also to gamblers OF an at'
scriptions and employees and at
tendants of bucketshops and race
tracks, fortune tellers, clairvoyants
palmists and the like, who f@r the
purpose of the regulations shall DC
considered as idlers.
THE new regulation will also al
feet the following classes:
"(a) Persons engaged in the
serving of food and drink, or
either, in public places, includ-
hotels and hotel clubs.
"(b) Passenger elevator opera
tors and attendants, doormen'
footmen and other attendants
of clubs, hotels, stores, apart
ment houses, Office buildings
and lighthouses.
"(c) Persons, including ushers
"(c) Persons, including ushers
and other attendants engaged
and occupied in connection with
games, sports and amusements,
except actual performers in le-
gitimate concerts, operas OF
theatrical performers.
"(d) Persons employed in DO
mestic service.
"(e) Sales clerks and other
clerks employed in stores ana
other mercantile establishments.
Later Order Numbers Useless
MEN who are engaged as above
or who are idlers. will not be per
mitted to seek relief because OF the
fact that they have drawn late or
der number, or because they nave
been placed in Glass 2, or 4, on the
grounds of dependency. Inc 1act
that he is not usefully employed Will
outweigh both of the above conol-
tions.
TT is expected that the list of
non-useful occupations will be ex-
tended from time to time as neces-
sity will require so as to include
nersons in other employments.
Temporary absences from regu-
lar employment not to exceed one
week. unless such temporary ab-
sences are habitual and frequent
shall not be considered as idleness.
Regular vacations will not be con-
sidered as absences in this connec-
ton.
"The regulation throws a further
around men not usefully
employed, by providing that Where
there are compelling domestic CIR
that would not permit
change of employment by the reg
istrant without disproportionate
hardship to his dependents, or where
a, change from non-useful to uSeful
employment or occupation would
a removal of the reg
istrant or his family, local boards
may give consideration to the cir
cumstances. The regulation further
provides that where such a change
of employment would compel the
night employment of women under
circumstances which board might
deem not suitable for employment
of women, the board may take such
circumstances into consideration IN
making it's decision"
General Crowder Explains
General CroWder said
"The war has so far disorganized
the normal adjustment of industrial
manpower as to prevent the enor-
nous industrial output and national
organization necessary to success.
There is a popular demand for
organization of manpower but no di-
rect draft could be imposed at pres
ent
Steps to prohibit idleness and
non effective occupations will be well
coined by our people.
1--WE shall give the idlers and men
not effectively employed the choice
between military service and effec-
tive employment. Every man, in the
draft age at least. must work OF
fight.
This is not alone a war of mill
tary maneuver. 1t 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--a7
army in which every factory and
loom in the empire is a recognized
part in a complete machine, run
ming night and day at terrific speed
We must make of ourselves the sam5
Nation Must Be Effective
1T is enough to ask what would
happen if every man in the nation
turned his hand to effective work
We must make ourselves effective
We must organize for the future. We
must make vast Withdrawals for the
army and Immediately close up the
ranks of industry behind the gar
which an accelerating production OF
every useful thing in necessary meas
ure. How is this to be done? The
answer is plain. The first step to-
ward the solution of the difficulty is
to prohibit engagement by able
bodied men in the field of hurtful
employment, idleness or Intellectual
employment, and thus induce and
persuade the excess into useful
fields.
Helps Army and Industry
The very situation we are now
considering, however, offers great
possibilities in improving the draft
as well as great possibilities for the
composition of the labor situation by
effective administration of the draft
Considering the selective service law
we see two principal cases of defer
ment to the call to military service
exemption and the order numbers
assigned by lot. The exemptions
themselves fall into two conspicuous
categories, dependency and indus
trial employment. One protects do
mestic relations the other the eco
nomic interest of the nation. Be-
tuaen the tWo thera 10 an newt hi q