The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-27
NEW DRAFT RULINGS
Local Board Receives Rulings Ex-
planatory Of the Work or
Fight" Order of Last
Week.

The secretary of the local board
has received the following. rulings on
the Work or Fight" order of Gem
erai Crowderc
In the present emergency it is not
possible to extend the protection of |
the deferred classification to those |
registrants engaged in certain Occur
pations or employments that are non
productive.
There is great demand for labor |
in all productive occupations and en-
Payments, and especially in the ag-
ricultural and other necessary indus
tries. Therefore, registrants who
have been given deferred classified
ton and who can engage in some
productive occupation or occupations
without substantial loss or hardship
to themselves or others should be
willing to seek some productive oc-
cupation 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 idleness fur
nishes ground for the withdrawal OF
his deferred classification or late or
der number; and the regulations APP
plicable to idle registrants shall be
deemed applicable also to gamblers
Of all descriptions and employees of
all race tracks and bucket shops, to
fortune telle.s, clarivoiants. palmists,
and the like, who for the purpose OF
these regulations shall be considered
as idlers.
The employment or engagement OF
any ablc-bodied registrant of military
age in any of the following occupa-
tons or einployments is not suffi-
GENTLY effective, in the present emer-
gency, to justify the postponement OF
his call into the military service, not
withstanding he may have late or
der number and notwithstanding he
may have been placed in class II, III
or w on the ground OF dependency,
and all registrants engaged as follows
are to be considered by local and dis
trict boards as engaged in non-pro-
ductive occupations or employnents:
Persons engaged in the serving OF
food and drinks in public places. in
GLIDING hotels and clubs.
Il Passenger elevator operators and
attendants, door men, footmen, car
riage openers and other attendants at
hotels, clubs, office buildings, etc.
Ushers and other attendants en-
gagged and occupied in connection
with games, sports and amusements,
except actual performers engaged in
legitimate concerts, operas, or theat-
rical performances. 1t is expected
that the enforcement of this section
will, within a short time, close most
of the professional ball parks in the
country, as nearly all OF the players
are of military age and ball playing
has been held not to be productive
occupation.
All persons employed in domestic
Service. This will apply to all coach
men, caretakers, buffers, and servants
of that class.
Sales clerks and other clerks EN-
ployed in stores and other mercantile
establishments Managers or heads
of departments, employees OF the re-
ceiving and shipping departments, de-
livery drivers and others doing
heavy" work outside of the usual
work of clerks, are excepted from the
order. The words sales clerks and
other clerks are intended to include
the clerical force of the office and in
all departments of stores and mer-
camille establishments.
Local boards are instructed to as
sist those not employed or employed
in non-productive occupations to Sc
cure employment in productive occu-
pations.
1t is made the duty of all citizens
to report to the local board any facts
that may come to their knowledge re-
garding registrants who are idle or
who are engaged in any occupation
or employment described and defined
as non-pr oductive. The local board
will thoroughly investigate the cir
cumstances of the case, giving tho
registrant ample opportunity to sub
nit such evidence as he may desire