, 1918-05-30

ulations If strictly enforced. General
Crowder said he did not desire to make
specific rulings at this time and would
make rulings only when cases came to
him from local boards after July L.
Bulletin.
Washington. May 23.-Theatrical
performers have been excepted from
the new draft regulations at the d.
rection of Secretary Baker, who Is said
to feel that the people cannot do with
out all amusement in war time and
that other amusements could be dis
pensed with more readily.
Washington, May 23.-Every man
of draft age must either work or fight
after July l, under a drastic amend
ment to the eselective service regula-
tons announced today by General
Crowder. provost marshal general.
Not only idlers, but all draft regis
trants engaged in what are held to be
nonuseful occupations are to be hailed
before local boards and given the
choice Of a new job or the army.
Gamblers, race track and bucket
shop attendants and fortune tellers
head the list, but those who will be
reached by the new regulation also in
clude walters and ~bartenders, theater
ushers and attendants, passenger ele-
vator operators and other attendants
of clubs, hotels, stores, etc, domestics
and clerks in stores.
nafArraI nj oCeiR na tfnn nronfnI m ~
count of dependents will be disregard
ed entirely in applying the rule. A
man may be at the bottom of class 1,
or even in class 4, but If he fails with
in the regulation and refuses to take
useful employment he will be given a
new number in class 1 that will send
him into the military service forthwith.
Local boards are authorized to use dis
erection only where they find that en-
forced change Of employment would
result in disproportionate hardship up
on his dependents.
May Solve the Labor Problem.
It has beer known for some time that
some form of "work or fight" plan has
been submitted to President Wilson.
but there has been no intimation that 1t
was SO far reaching in its scope. Both
the military authorities and depart
ment Of labor officials believe that 1t
will 60 a long way toward solving the
labor problem for farmers, shipbuild-
ers and munition makers and will end,
for the present at least, talk Of con-
scription of labor. The announcement
today gives notice significantly that the
list of nonuseful occupations will be ex-
tended from time to time as necessity
requires.
The statement Of the provost mar
shal generals office is as follows:
"Provost Marshal General Crowder
today announced an amendment to the
selective service regulations which
deals with the great question of COM
polling men not engaged In a useful
occupation Immediately to apply them
selves to some form of labor, contrib
uting to the general good. The idler,
too, will find himself confronted with
the alternative of finding suitable en-
ployment or entering the army.
'This regulation provides that after
July /, any registrant who is found by
n local board to be a habitual idler or
not engaged in some useful occupation
shall be summoned before the board
given a chance to explain and. In the
absence of a satisfactory explanation
to be indicted into the military service
Of the United States.
ANY local board will be authorized
to take action, whether 1t has an orig
inal Jurisdiction of the registrant or
not; In other words, any man loatng
around a poolroom in Chicago may be
held to answer to a Chicago board ever
though he may have registered In
New York and lived there most OF his
life.
"The regulations which apply to idle
reaistrapts will be deemed to apply
also to gamblers Of all description anc
employees and attendants of bucket
shops and race tracks, fortune tellers
c~lairvoyants, palmists and the like
who for the purpose Of the regulations
shall be considered as idlers.