The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-23
DRASTIC AMENDMENT TO SELECT
SERVICE LAW PUTS MAN POWER
At WORK TO OFFSET HUN POWER
Work or Fight Will
Be Order To Euery
Loqfer and ParasHe

and frequent shall considered as ideness Regular va
cations will not be considered absences this
The regulation throws further safeguard around men
not usefuy employed providing that where there
peng domestic circumstances that would permit change
employment by the regstant without dsproporona hard
10 ms dependents or where change from nonuseu to
useful occupation would necesate removal of the regran
or his family local boards give consideration the cir
cumstanceS
THE regulation further provides that where change
of employment would compel the night employment of
under circumstances which board might deem unsuitable
such employment Of the board may ccun
stances into consideration in making its decision"
Statement by Crovder.
Explaining the new regulation and the necessity for it, Gen
The war has so far disorganized the normal adjustment
of industrial man to the industrial
output and national organization necessary
There is popular demand for organization of man
but direct draft could be imposed present
Steps to prohibit ideness non-efectivs occupation
will be welcomed by people
We shall give the idlers and not effectively
poyed the choice between military service and effective
poymen Every man in the draft age at least must w-r
This is not alone of military dead
contest OF industries and mechanics Germany must not
be thought of merely possessing army must think of
empire recognized part in complete machine running
night and day at terrific speed We make Of ourselves
the sort Of effective machine
Nation Must Become Effective
is enough to ask what would happen every man in the
aon turned his hand to effective work We must make
selves effective We must organize for the We
make vast Withdrawals for the and Immediately close
ranks of industry behind the with acceeratng
to be done?
Of the difficulty prohibit by able bodied
the field of hurful employment ideness Intellectual
Doment and thus induce and the vast wasted
nto useful fields
THE very situation considering however of
great possibilities in Improvement of the draft well as
great possibilities for the composition of the labor situation by
effective administration of the draft Considering the seectve
service law principal deferment of the call
military service Exemption and the order numbers assigned
lot The exemptions themselves fall into two conspicuous
and industrial employment. One
domestic relations the other the economic interest of the
ation Between the there inevitable hiatus, for it is
exemptions have effect industrial protection what
"Unanswerable" Criticism Answered.
Zone of the unanswerabe criticisms the draft has been
takes from the farms and from all useful emopy
and marches them crowds of der and oae
the The remedy is simpeto couple the industrial
with other grounds exemptions require that
pleading exemption ground shall also show that he
contributing effectively the industrial welfare the
"The regulation itself makes plain the determination of
department The great organization of local and dis
boards which has already accomplished notable work
nay relied upon catch the spirit of the movement and
orey needed power will be flowing into the fields
useful endeavor into the other direction Of military
trength.'