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The Great War?1390tti Day of finding suitable employment or entering the army. ..M +Vint af "This regulation provides that ? 1er July 1 any registrant who w ounrl b.v a local board to be;?n habit? ual idler, or not ?n**HLina?r?0ned fui occup?t ion. ?hall be tWjm*?e? before the board, given a chancei gplain and. in the absence ?????, tefcetory explanation. Irt '????? [nto the military service of the l mi Cd. ??fv'ocal board will be authorized to take action, whether it hM orig? inal jurisdiction of the registrant or et in other words, any man loa mg ?round I poolroom in Ch-?^ ?-> be held to answer to <i Chi? : ago I |o*rd even though hiWhWW?? ?T, New York and lived there most 01 h??Th?'regulations which apply id'e registrants will regulations shall idlers. Class?.? Affected ?The new regulation will also af? fect the following classes: Va Persons engaged in tin cervine of food ami drink, or either. 5 public places, including hotels ?rid hotel clubs. -,h> Passenger elevator opera? tors and attendant* J?rnen foot? men and other attendante of.clubs hotels, stoies. apartment houses, Xe buildings and b*Uh houses. ?? c. Persons, including usheis and other attendants engaged a.ul occupied in connection with games sports and amusements, except act? ual performers in legitimate con? certs! operas or theatru_al pel f?TanCep8erson8 employed in do m^5 "g$S' clerks and other clerks employed in stores and other mercantile establishments. ??Men who are engaged as above wh are idlers, will not be permitted to -^eek relief because of the fact tna. hev have drawn a late order number or because they have been placed in Class II, HI or IV on the ground of depmdeney The fact that he ? not ?S. employed will outweigh both of the above conditions. ??I is expected that the list of non useful occupations will be extended from time to time as necessityJ ill require, so as to include peisons in other employments. , ?Temporal absences from regular employment not to exceed one week unless such temporary absences are habitual and frequent, shall not be considered as idleness. R?gulai va? cations will not be considered as ab . eines in this connection. Safeguards Provided "The regulation throws a further .afeguard around men not usefully .mploved by providing that where 'here 'are compelling domestic cir? cumstances that would "of permit change of employment by the regis? trant without disproportionate hat d ship to his dependents, or where? change from non-useful to useful em plovmcnt or occupation would neces? ?tate a removal of the? registrant or his familv. local boards-.maygive con? sideration to the circumstances. ne regulation further provides that where such a change of employment would compel the night, employment. of women under circumstances which n board might deem not suitable for employment of women, the board ; may take such circumstances into , consideration in making its decision. Explaining the new regulation, Genv eral Crowder said: \ ?'The war has so far disorganize*^. the normal adjustment of industrial i man power as to prevent the enor? mous industrial output and national organization necessary to success. "There is a popular demand for or? ganization of man power, but no nirect draft could be imposed at present. , "Steps to prohib?* idleness and non-effective occupation will be wel- | corned by our people." Must Work or Fight "We shall give? the idlers and men not effectively employed the choice between military service and ef? fective employment. Every man, in the draft age at least, must work or < light. "Tins is not alone a war of mili? tary man?uvre. It is a deadly con test of industries am! mechanics. Germany must not be thought of as merely possessing an army; we must think of her as being an army an army in which every factory and loom in the empire is u recognized part, of a complete machine running night and day at terrific speed. We must make of ourselves the same sort ci' effective machine. "II 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 mus! organize for the future. We must make vast withdrawals for the army and immediately close up the rank's of industry behind the gap with an accelerating production of every useful thine; in necessary measure. How ir. this to be done'.' The answer is plain. The lirst step toward the Rotation of ihe difficulty is to pro? hibit engagement by ablebodied men in the lield of hurtful employment. idleness or ineffectual employment, and th 11 r. induce ana persuade the vas* wasted excess into useful fields. Possibilities of Improving Draft "The very situation we are now considering, however, offers ereat possibilities m 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 deferment to tjie call to military ser? vice?exemption and the order num? ber, assigned by lot. The exemp? tions themselves fall into two conspi? cuous categories, dependency and industrial employment. One protects domestic relations, the other the eco? nomic interests of the nation. Be? tween the two there is an inevitable hiatus, for it is demonstrably true 'hat thousands, if not millions, of dependency exemptions have no ef? fect of industrial deferment what c \er. "(.?ne of the unanswerable criti? cisms of the draft has been that it takes men from the farms and from ?II useful employments and marches them past crowds of idlers and loaf? ers away to the army. The remedy is simple to couple the industrial has:, with other grounds for exemp? tion and to require that any man pleading exemption on any ground shall also show that he is -contribut? ing effectively to the industrial wel? fare of the nation. "The regulation itself makes plain the determination of the War De? partment. The great organization of local and district boards which ha. already accomplished a notable work, may be relied upon to catch the spirit of the movement and sorely ^y Captain R.Hugh Knyvett In OVER THERE WITH THE AUSTRALIANS he tells "how scouts are trained to walk like blind men. sensing each step."? Chicago Sews. $1.50 n*t. CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS needed manpower will soon be flow? ing into the fields of useful endeavor i or into the other direction of mili- i tary strength." Draft Test Case Will Fix Status Of Ball Players I WASHINGTON', May 23.?Whether the new "work or fight" army draft reg? ulation announced to-day shall apply to professional baseball players. and ; thereby probably put the big lcapuc. out of business for the period of the? war, will not be decided until the point is raised on appeal to the provost mar? shal general's office after the regula? tion becomes effective July 1. The War Department was bombarded with queries on the siib.lect soon after the new regulation was made public. At first it was indicated that ball play ers certainly would be classed among those in non-useful occupations who must seek new jobs or go into the army. Provost Marshal General Crow? der announced, however, that there would be no decision until a case arose through official channels Later the War Department issued this formal statement: "No ruling as to whether baseball \ players or persons engaged in golf, ten? nis or any other sport come under the' regulations regarding idlers or non essential pursuits will be made until a specific case has been appealed to the Provost Marshal General's office." Secretary Baker explained that the status of baseball players had been discussed before the regulation was I approved, and it was agreed that the question could not be disposed of until i all the facts relating to the effect upon | the baseball business had been brought ! out through the hearing of a case ap? pealed from a local hoard. The Secretary did not profess to ? The Official Statements LONDON, May 23.?Field Marshal Haig's reports from British Headquarters in France to-day said: NIGHT. Hostile raids were repulsed with loss during the night at Aveluy Wood and scuth of Hebuterne. A German machine gun post in Aveluy Wood was attacked by a party of our trcops and the machine gun destroyed. A few prisoner- nnd a machine gun were captured last night, by French troops in a successful raid north of Bailleul and east of Locre. DAY. The enemy rushed one of our post3 in the Aveluy Wood sector last night. Two of our men are missing. We carried out. successful raids in the neighborhood of Ayette and Leux St. Marc Wood, inflicting a num? ber of casualties on the enemy and capturing a machine gun. The enemy also attempted to raid our positions in the vicinity of Riez du-Vinagc. He was driven off by rifle and machine gu? fire. The hostile artillery was active last night in the Ancre Valley, south of Lens, east of Robccq and east of the Forest of Nieppe. Artillery Active South of Avre, Paris States PARIS, May 28.? The War Office to-day gave out the following: NIGHT. The artillery activity was intermittent at various points sauth of the Avre, but no infantry action took place. On May 20 an enemy machine was brought down in an aerial engage? ment. It is confirmed that eight German machines were destroyed by our pilots, one on the 16th, another on the 16th, and six on the 19th, in addi? tion to two machines brought down by our special guns on the 20th and 21st. On May 20 and the night following our bombing escadrilles dropped 17,000 kilos of projectiles in the region of St. Quentin, Noyon and Tergnier; on the stations at Peronne, Rosi?res and Nesle, r.nd on the aviation ground at Villeselve. Two big fires caused by explosions broke out at St. Quentin and Nesle. On May 21 and the night of May 21-22 our airplanes dropped 30,000 kilos in the same regions, causing new fires. Cantonments and stations in the region of Ville-au-Bois, Hirson, Le Gateau and Aulnoye received in the same period 11,000 kilos of explosives. Italian machines took part in these expeditions. Gunfire Heaviest in Kemmel Region, Says Berlin BERLIN, May 28.?German General Headquarters to-day ga?ve out the folloiving: DAY. In the Kemmel region the increased artillery activity continues. On the other battlefronts fighting activity was not revived yesterday until evening, and then only on some sectors. During the night there was lively activity on the part of the French on the western bank of the Avre. Frequent attempts by the enemy to ad? vance were repulsed and prisoners were taken during our reconnoitring operations. The enemy's aerial attacks against Belgian territory, which have in? creased in frequency recently, have inflicted heavy damages and losses on the civilian population, but no military damage has been caused. Bombs have been dropped successfully on large enemy munition depots northwest of Abbeville, which were destroyed. Bombs were also dropped on Paris. Italians Entered Village, Rome Reports ROME, May S3.?The Italian War Office has made public the fol? lowing : On the mountain front both artilleries were active. Hostile parties were driven back in Val Arsa. On the slopes of Sasso Rosso there was bomb fighting. An enemy attack at Capo Silc bridgehead was repulsed. At Cava zuccherina we drove back an enemy outpost and destroyed the defences. Five enemy 'planes were brought down. An aviation camp near Motta di Livenza and troops or. the march, as well as a wagon transport on Asiago Plateau, were effectively bombarded. (May 22.) Along the mountain front the activity of our rcconnoissance parties continues with profit. South of Asiago a British patrol penetrated the enemy's lines and brought back some prisoners. Our assault troops captured an outpost northeast of Monte di Valbella and entered the vil? lage of Staccareddo, where they inflicted losses on the enemy garrison and blew up an ammunition dump. The action of both artilleries was fairly intense east of Pointe-di Piave, and at Zenson our tire against hostile batteries was particularly effective. The activity of our own <ind Allied airmen was considerable, and eight enemy machines were brought down. Vienna Admits Italians Entered Austrian Positions VIENNA, May 28.?The following has been given out by the Aus? trian War Office: (May 22.) On the mountain front increased fighting activity continues. During Monday night two enemy companies penetrated our positions north? west of Col del Orso. They were driven back with heavy losses by counter attacks. Decreased Gunfire on American Sectors WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Wednesday, May ?ji\?The official statement issued at American Headquarters at 9 o'clock to-night reads: The artillery activity has decreased. There are no new developments to report. Novelty Hats?Styles that are un? usual as well as distinctive?Smart small hats of hemp, liser? and milan? sailors in rough straws with "Rumchunda" dotted and figured bands?Japanese crepe bands in batik and oriental effects -$10. Windsor Tie? to mttch if de_i.ee!. 3J31i$$p pitia Sf Own_ 564 ?_56 166 Ji?fih-ArPrlUe 0n\% AT4e*STMt. know how seriously application of the rule to professional ball players would affect the leagues. He did not know that a large majority of the major league players were of draft age and were exempted only because ?of de? pendents, but on the contrary was un? der the impression that most of them were outside the draft limits. The paragraph of the new regula? tion which may touch the ball players is a subdivision of the enumeration of classes affected, and says: "Persons, including ushers and other attendants, enpaped in and occupied in and in connection with games, sports ami amusements, excepting actual per? formers in legitimate concerts, operas or theatrical performances." 2,205,720 Men Work At Pursuits Named By General Crowder It is estimated that approximately 33.000,000 males above the ape of ten aie now gainfully employed in the United States. Rather more than 2,000,000 of them are engaged in the pursuits named in Genera! Crowdcr's statement, as will appear from the following table, based on the census of 1910 and the increase in popula? tion since then: Clerks (except in stores).... ..60,000 Sales and othci clerks i stores) . 990,000 Klevator tenders. 27,600 Servants .? ?. 290,000 Waiters. 112,500 Bartenders . 110,000 Fortune tellers. 420 Professional sportsmen-.... 15,00o Total .2,205..20 No account can be taken of gam? blers, as there is, naturally, no statis? tical record of their existence. About one-fifth of this number are affected by the Provost Marshal's ?uling. Military Comment By William L. McPherson LIEUTENANT GENERAL BRIDGES, the chief of the British Mili? tary Commission in this country, is credited in "The Evening Sun" with the prediction that the third drive of the present German offensive will begin on June 1 next and will be directed by General Mackensen. Mackensen has not yet appeared on the Western front. If he appears next week, the "Eastern group," now controlling the German High Command, will have played in Flanders and Picardy the last card of Eastern strategy. The Easterners have been completely in the saddle for some time past. At their head are Hindenburg and Ludendorff. The most impor? tant r?les in the great offensive of March 21 were intrusted to three generals transferred from the Eastern front?von Hutier, von Marwitz and von B?low. Von Hutier had invented a new storming formation _>nd tried it out with marked success at Riga. He broke the lines of the British Fifth Army, west of St. Quentin, and thus made the progress of his own forces west as far as Montdidier a mere matter of keeping close at the heels of an enemy who required a good deal of elbow space in order to consolidate and reorganize?. To von Hutier's left was von Marwitz, also a veteran of the Galician y.r.d Balkan campaigns. He profited by the breach made by his colleague and pushed without much difficulty across the old Somme battlefields toward Amiens and Albert. Next to him on the north was von Biilow, who had distinguished himself in East Prussia, Poland and Courland and on the Southeastern front. Von Biilow accomplished less because he faced the very strong Allied positions in the Arras sector. Mackensen is greater in reputation than any of thesef Perhaps he was too big a figure to be summoned at once, because he had to be subordinated not only to Hindenburg and Ludendorff, but also to the two hereditary figureheads who have divided the Western command between them?the Crown Prince William of Prussia and the Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. Mackensen rose to fame at the Dunajec, where he smashed his "phalanx" through the Russian line midway between the Carpathians and the Vistula River fortresses in Poland. The big Russian West front salient crumpled and the Grand Duke Nicholas began a retreat which ended only at the line of the Dwina and the Pinsk marshes. Mackensen next directed the campaigns which crushed Serbia and thrust the Ru? manians out of the Dobrudja and Wallachia. Recently he has been inactive, and there were rumors that he had been sent to Aleppo to organize a counter attack against Jerusalem. Should he appear in the West, it will be evidence that Germany has pretty well cleaned up for the present on all her Near Eastern military ventures and has thrown everything she has into her present Western offensive. In our Civil War, on the Northern side, the West was the training school of successful generals. The East, on the contrary, was the grave cf military reputations. With Germany in this war it has been just the reverse. The East has offered all the golden opportunities. The West has blasted career after career. No German general who figured prominently in the Marne campaign remains on the scene. Yet Foch, who won glory there, has now become the Allied generalissimo. In two senses, therefore, Eastern and Western strategy will come again to a spectacular clash when the third phase of the German West? ern offensive opens. Franklin Simon skeleton suits for Men are as deleted as a cen? sored dispatch, cool as a cucum? ber, light as a feather, and smooth as a rhyme, yet they will hold their shape Indefinitely because the shape is hand-tailored in Definitely. Men's Hand-Tailored Suits ?25 to ?55 Men's Clothing Shop?8 West Thirty-Eighth Street Separate Shop on the Street Level .bone 6000 Greeley and we will call for your Fur Coat, Fur Lined Coat. Over? coat,Dress or Business Suitsand put them in Cold Storage at a moderate rate British Fliers Spread Havoc in German City Twice Raid Mannheim, Starting Five Fires and Destroying Poison Gas Factory?-Bomb Lorraine Stations and Attack Docks at Bruges LONDON, May 23. British flier. i twice have bombed the German city of Mannheim, can. iiipr in all live large tires and creating widespread havoc, (specially in the chlorine poison gas factories there. The first attack was '. Tuesday night and the second Wednes- i ]: day night. In addition, on Tuesday and Wednes- | day a day and night of unceasing activ- j ity, large conflagrations were caused near Liego, the railway there and sta- j .lions in German Lorraine were dam-; aged and an important electric power station at Kreusewald was injured. The Metz-Sablon railway station, air dromes and docks at Bruges and a train on which several direct hits were1 made were other targets. The intense | British air attacks in the immediate vi cinity of the front were continued with good results. The statement to-night on aerial op? erations says; "Our airplanes continued on Wednes? day their artillery work, 'photography and bombing. Airdromes used by the enemy's night-flying machines were re attacked, eighteen tons of bombs being ; dropped on these and on hostile billets. "Thirteen German machines were brought down in fighting. Two were brought down out of control and an- ? other by gunfire. Three British air? planes are missing. "Four tons of bombs were dropped on the very important electric power station at Kreusewald. cast of Saar? br?cken. One bomb struck the boiler house and another caused a large cloud of steam to arise from one build ing. All the British machines re? turned. "The Metz-SablOn railway station was heavily bombed at il o'clock in the morning of Thursday. Bombs were seen to burst in the engine sheds and on the railway. The hostile gunfire \f_ts con-! siderable, but all the machines returned: safely." "After dark eleven tons of bombs ? were dropped on hostile airdromes, docks at Bruges and billets in the ? Somme area. Several direct hits were made upon a train, causing it to burst into flame?. "Mannheim was again attacked. Twenty-four hcavv bombs were dropped on a chlorine factory there, causing two large tires. The blackene.d girders of buildings gutted by the fires caused by the bombing of the preceding night, were clearly visible in the moonlight." In aerial' fighting Tuesdav British aviators destroyed sixteen German air? planes and two observation balloons, and drove down two airplanes out of control. Bombing of military targets behind the German lines continued ac? tively and the latest official statement on aerial operations says that 1,200 bombs were dropped during the day and more than twelve tons at night. The statement reads: "Reconnoissances and bombing by our airplanes continued uninterrupted? ly Tuesday. Some 1,200 bombs were dropped on various targets, including four of the enemy's large airdromes near Ghent and Tournai and billets in the neighborhood of Armentieres, I-upaume and Bray. ' "A good deal of fighting again too_ place around our bombing machines Sixteen German airplanes were de I stroyed and two driven down out oi -ontrol. The observation balloons alsc were destroyed. Three of our air planes ara missing. "During the night both ours and tht enemy's bombing airplanes were ac i live. Over twelve tons of bombs wen dropped on airdromes used by tin enemy's night-flying machines and ot billets at Bray and Bapaume. All ou; ' machines returned. Two German ma j chines were brought down by gunfin | behind our lines. "Two tons of bombs were droppec | on a chloride factory at Mannheim | causing three large fires, and anothei ! two tons on railway stations at Thion ; ville and Karthaus. One of our ma chines failed to return. "At dawn Wednesday two formations j set out on a long distance -raid tc I bombard the important railway triangle ; at Li?ge. All the machines reachei ; their objectives and dropped twenty two heavy bombs. Those dropped b> the first formation caused three verj large fii-.s, which were burning fiercel> three-quarters of an hour later wher the second formation flew over Liege Other machines dropped twelve heavy bombs on the railway stations at Metz All the machines returned." The series of raids carried out bj British airmen in the last week shows ?says the "Daily Mail," that the ait service is best in cultivating the offensive spirit, it continues: "As the British air forces develo} we shall be able to reach every cit> of western and central German: and compel the enemy to weaken hi: front greatly by detaching large ai forces for defense at home. The Ger man staff is well aware of this risk i which will increase greatly when th> I American air forces have arrived ii ? strength later this year. ''Hence, the enemy is certain to at 1 tempt to paralyze us by negotiations : He could accomplish no more brillian stroke than to get us to abandon raid | for a promise that he would do th j same, which promise would be re pudiated at the first convenient mo ? ment. But the fast growing strengt I of the Allies in the air will be use ? with increasing vigor and will play very large part in bringing the wa home to the German nation." Berlin Now Discusses How to End Air Raid BERLIN, May 23.?Replying to question as to whether air raids o i towns could not be stooped by a I agreement, Chancellor von Hcrtlin said to-day that no definite proposals had come from the enemy. Should this happen, he said, the mili? tary authorities would be first charged with an examination of the proposals American Fliers Help French Clear Sky of Germans l By The Asenriated Pre?s\ WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE, May 23. Thirty-seven Ger? man airplanes have been ie?troyed, sixty others have been forced to land badly damaged within their own lines and eight captive balloons have been destroyed by French aviators since the weather became favorable. In the period between Mav 15 to May 18 there were 105 aerial combats. American and Italian squadrons have participated in the aerial opera? tions. 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