French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-06-27
GETTING BEHIND THE LoArERs.

Governor T. W. Beckett in a proc
,amation has given out a plan which,
it is hoped, will prove the loafer
problem in this state. He would have
all the county councils of defense to
register with the war departments all
the James Of those men who not only
do not work, but work only a little
bit. And to register the names of
those who should be employed at
something more useful. The follow
ing is the governors proclamation:
TO the People of North Carolina:
81 am profoundly convinced thai
the people who do not work, or work
only half time, do not understand that
their idleness e death to our SOL
diers in the trenches, but that is ex-
actly what it does mean
Il appeal to all good citizens to stop
talking about fdleness and go straight
to the man you know is an idIer and
explain to him in a kindly spirit that
his failure to work mean the pro-
longation of the war, and this means
death to the men who fight.
ITO fail to supply our soldiers with
food and clothing, munitions and i'm
plemonts of war is both treason ana
murder. Please go to the idle rich as
we'll as to the idle poor. Go to the
man who drives an eight cylinder as
we'll as to the man who pushes a
wheel-barroW. Neither wealth nor
social position affords any excuse for
manslaughter, and in this hour of the
nations peril idleness is manslaugh-
ter.
IF the idIer will not agree to take
q job and stay On it, then report tina;
idler by nane to the county counc1i
Of national defense. The county
council is. uS sed to summon all par
ties complained of before it and ex-
plain to them just what idleness
means to the nation at this time. Let
the council further explain that IN
less an idler goes to work it will be-
come the duty of the council to send
his name and address to the COVER
nor Of the state, who, in turn, will
forward all such names to the war
department at Washington. The
! name of every idler will then be on
file with the war department, and
this list will he used as the basis Of
an amendment to the draft law EN-
towering the local exemption boards
to put in class ore all abIe-kodied
men between the ages Of IS and 80
who refuse to do regular work. There
is no desire TO conscript any nan 20
work for any private individual Or
corporation, but the people of this
country have made up their minds
that if a ma won't work he must be
made to fight.
At have instructed all police OIL
Gals to rigidly enforce the vagrant
laws. All men, rich or poor, black or
white, who refuse 20 work for five
avs in the week after having been
| given notice by the county council OF
national defense should be prosecuted
for vagrancy.
In some cases such parties will he
able 10 sh0rY that +echn+"2I'v "n"9T
existing laws they are not legal va
Grants. but are only moral Migrants.
| When The court finds ihia to re true,
hen / urge the courts 70 enter a
| ;"deIroni. and have it d:tlv recorded
that the cuHr5 find tne accused guilty
t0f moral vagraacy, hut owing TO the
!uiiatiCns Of the statute it is unable
20 jr:-0sc n~l2ish9.ent. This will
l. eac!i he idle rich as we'll rs he idle
trooT
The defendants 50 convicted will
lea hlve $he;~ rau2es listed in Wash
| llr;Oa IS sIac'.ars and traitors to OR
j aoldiC~s ard n tho records OF the
! or.mun,ty Whcyc th&r To IS nlo~2l
Migrants. Ss
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10. 20 ia1nI2o il whC;o~2ia charges
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