.7% A jr ALL IDLERS MUST II j, i .y ,,r 4 ft/. wt k^'l* y-'ju--' j# v.- GENERAL OROWDER ISSUES OR DER COVERING VARIOUS SPORTS AND TRADES. EDICT IN FORCE JULY, FIRST Amendment to Selective Service Regu lations to Make Nation Efficient In War Takes Registrants Out of Deferred Class. Bulletin. Washington, May 23. General Crowder's new "work-or-fight" regula tions may require professional base ball players either to engage in some useful occupation or to join the ariny. Basel tall players, as well us jockeys, professional golfers and other profes sional sportsmen, General Crowder said today, will be affected by the reg 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 1. Bulletin. Washington, May 23.—Theatrical performers have been excepted from the new draft regulations at the di 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 1, under a drastic amend ment' to the selective service regula tions 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 haled before local boards ipnd 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 waiters and bartenders, theater ushers and attendants, passenger ele vator operators and other attendants of clubs, hotels, storesi etc., domestics *nd clerks in stores. Deferred classification granted on ac ount 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 aseful employment he will bo given a new number in class 1 that will send Win into the military service forthwith. Local boards are authorized to use dis cretion only where they find that en forced change of employment would result in disproportionate hardship up n his dependents. May Solve the Labor Problem. It has been known for some time that some form of "work or light" plan has been submitted to President Wilson, out there has been no intimation that it was so far reaching in its scope. Both Uie military authorities and depart ment of labor officials believe that it will go a long way toward solving the jabor 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 '«ist of nonuseful occupations will be ex tended from time to time as necessity requires. The statement of the provost mar shal general's 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 pelling 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 em oloyment or entering the army. "This regulation provides that after July 1, any registrant who is found by a 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 inducted into the military service Of the United States. "Any local board will be authorized to take action, whether it has an orig inal jurisdiction of the registrant or not in other words, any man loafing around a poolroom JUi Chicago may be held to answer to a Chicago board even though he may have registered In New York and lived there most of his life. "The regulations which apply to idle registrants will be deemed to apply also to gamblers of all description and employees and attendants of bucket shops and race tracks, fortune tellers, clairvoyant?, palmists and the like, who for the purpose of the regulations shall be considered as idlers. New Rule Is Sweeping. "The new regulation will also affect the following classes: "(a) Persons engaged In the serving of food and drink, or either, in public places. Including hotels and social dubs. "(b) Passenger elevator operators end attendants, doormen, footmen and other attendants of dubs, hotels, stores, apartment houses, office build ings and bathhouses. "(C) Persons, Including ushers and other attendants, engaged and decu pled In, and In connection with, games, •ports and amusements, excepting •cCaal parformsra la legitimate THESE Alii: HIT BY ORDER TO FIGHT OH WOtU£. 9 Idlers. Gamblers. Bucket shop employees. w Race track attendants. W Clairvoyants and the like. Professional golfers. Professional baseball players (probably). Elevator operators at clubs and «torcs. Club and hotel doormen. Waiters in hotels and clubs. Ushers in theaters. Attendants at sports. Persons In domestic service. Clerks In stores. Specially Exempt. Actors. certs, operas or theatrical perform ance. "(d) Persons employed in domestic service. "(e) Sales clerks and other clerks employed in stores and other mercan 'lle establishments. "Men who are engaged as above or who. are Idlers will not be permitted to se k relief because of the fact that they have drawn a later order num ber or because they have been placed in class II, III or IV on the grounds of dependency. The fact that he is not usefully employed will outweigh both of the above conditions. To Extend Nonuseful List. "It is expected that the list of non useful occupations will be extended from time to time as necessity will re quire so as to include persons in other employments. "Temporary absences from regular employment not to exceed one week, unless such temporary absences are habitual and frequent, shall not be con-, sidered as idleness. Regular vacations will not be considered as absences in this connection. "The regulation throws a further safeguard around men not usefully em ployed by providing that where there are compelling domestic circumstances that would not permit change of em ployment by the registrant without dis proportionate hardship to his depend ents or where a change from nonuseful to useful employment or occupation would necessitate a removal of the registrant or his family, local Nboards may give consideration to the circum stances. "The regulation further provides that where such a change of employ ment would compel the night employ ment of women under circumstances which a board might deem unsuitable for such employment of women the board mny take such circumstances into consideration in making its de cision." General Crowder Explains Plan.' Explaining the new regulation and the necessity for It, General Crowder said: "The war has so far disorganized the normal adjustment of industrial 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 di rect draft could be imposed at pres ent. "Steps to prohibit idleness and non effective occupation will be welcomed by our people. "We shall give the Idlers and men not effectively employed the choice be tween military service and effective employment. Every man, in the draft age at least, must work or fight. "This is not alone a war or mlll tnry maneuver. It is a deadly contest of industries and mechanics. Must Copy German Machine, "Germany must not be thought of as merely possessing an army, we must think of her as being an army—/n army in which every factory and loom in fhe empire is a recognized part In a complete machine running night and day at terrific speed. We must make of our solved the same sort of effective machine. "It is not enough to ask what would happen if every man in the nation turn ed his hand to effective work. We must make ourselves effective. We must organize for the future. We must make vast withdrawals for the army and immediately close up the ranks of industry behind the gap with an accelerating production of every useful thing in necessary measure. How is this to be done? "The nnswer is plain. The first step toward the solution of the difficulty is to prohibit engagement by able-bodied men in the field of hurtful employ ment, idleness or Ineffectual employ ment, and thus Induce and persuade the vast wasted excess Into useful fields. "The very situation we are now con sidering, however, offers great possi bilities in improvement of the draft as well as great possibilities for the com position of the labor situation by ef fective administration of the draft Considering the selective service law, we see two principal causes of detri ment of the call to military service— exemption and the order numbers as signed by lot. Exemptions In Two Categories. "The exemptions themselves fall into two conspicuous eategnri es—-depend ency and Industrial employment. One protects domestic relations, the other the economic Interests of the nation. Between the two there Is an inev itable hiatus, for It Is demonstrably true that thousands. If not millions, of dependency exemptions have no ef fe« of Industrial protection whatever. "One of the unanswerable criticisms of fhe draft has been that It takes men from the farms and from all useful employments and marches them past crowds of Idlers and loafers to the army. The remedy Is simple—to couple the Industrial basis with other grounds for exemption and to require that any man pleading exemption on any ground shall also show that he is contribut ing effectively to the industrial wel Xar* tf tfaa nati«(i." .N' NEWS OF THE STATE A RESUME OF IMPORTANT HAP PEN1NQ8 OF THE WEEK. Hog cholera has practically been suppressed through tha stats. Four railroad men were sent from Brown county to Fort Benjamin Har rison. After completing his spring farm work Victor Juro, of Nemo, went to Lead and enlisted In the army. Watertown now boasts of a farm tractor factory, which is turning out the Elliott tractor, named after tha inventor. Henry M. Sparks, Mitchell, was com missioned second lieutenant of engi neers, national army, by the war de partment. More than 100 persons from all parts of the state attended a conservation meeting in Aberdeen called by C. N. Herreid, state food administrator. The state fire marshal's bulletin for May shows that the fire loss In tha state for March was kept down to the comparatively low figure of $17,603. Henry Laurence, of Onida, a wealthy retired larmer, who refused to pur chase Liberty bonds, had his automo oiie painted yellow from top to bot tom. Ole Flow, candidate for county judge of Lawrence county, is totally blind, having lost his eyesight in youth. In spite of the handicap Mr. Flow is a successful lawyer. Abraham Abdnor, a rancher living near Millboro, Tripp county, was shot and wounded by William Gould, a neighboring rancher, as the result of a difficulty between them. More than 500 pounds of beef had to be burled at Doland because It had spoiled en route from St. Paul. The records show it had taken eight days for the beef to come from St. Paul to Doland, a distance of about 300 milea. Harold Safford, telegraph editor of the Aberdeen Daily America, has re signed to enter the recruiting service of the United States army, under Lieut. William Anshelm, in charge of the recruiting office for the tfakotas, with headquarters in Aberdeen. Plans for obtaining additional In formation as to the practicability and advisability of state owned terminal elevators, flour mills and packing plants, were outlined by the South Dakota investigation committee, ap pointed by Gov. Norbeck, at Its first regular meeting. The Liberty loan auction sale held at Yankton of stock belonging to the Mennonites brought in something over $14,000, which, after the legitimate ex penses have been paid, will be in vested in United States Hiberty bonds of the third Issue. These will be held In escrow for the benefit of who ever the Mennonites may direct pay ment to be made to. Legitimate ex penses do not include anything to auc tioneers or to the committee who were responsible for bringing the cattle to town. It only includes the cost of feed and eare of the animals. That the fighting front in France is not the only place where American soldiers 'are In danger of being shot, is shown by the experience of Clifford Hammond, a Yankton county young man. In a letter to the home folks from his station in a navy yard in the United States, he states that he is In the hospital recovering from two bullet wounds, one in the arm and the other in the hip. His arm is at least temporarily paralyzed from the bullet which struck it. Efforts are being made to remove the bullets. While young Hammond was on duty at the navy yard a prisoner turned a Colt gun loose and young Hammond re ceived two of the shots before he could get out of range. At a term of circuit court for Greg ory county held at Burke one of the cases disposed of was that Involving the ownership of a tract of land val ued at $66,000. The title of the case was Oltooa vs. Renard, the land In volved containing a full section. In 1904 Olson gave a deed to the land to Renard, who was president of a bank at Wausa, Neb., to secure a note of $20,000, bearing 6 per cent Interest, with the understanding that the land was to be sold to olear up the Indebt edness agataet It. Renard has had pos session of du land and collected the rents, bat had never made an account ing to Otaum. On the other hand, no Interest had been paid on the note. Renard elaVroed clear title to the land. Judge Wlib&mson, after hearing the evidence in Um PHILIP WEEKLY REVIEW case, held that the dead was bat a trust deed and or dered Renard to make an accounting of the renta, etc., collected from the place, and gave Renard an equity la the tsaot of land to the amdunt of tha note with accrued Interest. Word 1m» reached Aberdeen that Ueut. Col. W. A. Hazle, formerly of the South Dakota national guard, is now In aotive service on the front In France. He is assigned to the 103d field artillery, which la the second na tional guard regiment to go into ac tive service. Residents generally have signed a petition asking the city commissioners to authorise the Sioux Falls traction system to pat Into effect a 6-cent fare rate and It Is expected the new rate wfll be pot Into eCeot k tha near to tare. I-'. U 1| leaders of the Mennonite colonies throughout the state again deny the re ports that they expect to move to Canada. Deputy U. S. Marshal Lee Brooks arrested Herman Plunzke, a rancher living near Volunteer, as being an alien enemy and took him to Dead wood for trial. Walter Southwick, a 16-year-old boy of Twin Brooks, was killed when he attempted to alight from a moving freight train. He was drawn under the wheels, A. J. Miller, postmaster of Lennox, Is reported to have tendered his resig nation of the office, and desires to re tire by July 1 if his successor can be appointed and qualifies by that time Mitchell's street car line went out of business last year, when the city, council annulled the franchise held by C. E. Cassem, who had not complied with the terms agreed upon. Now a force of men is taking up the two miles of track and the rails and other effects are offered to the highest bid der. Telegraphy will be taught at the University of 'South Dakota this sum mer for the men who are subject to the draft, it was announced by Dean Akeley, of the college of engineering. The course will begin May 27 and will continue for five months or for such other period as is necessary to make competent the students who are to be prepared for service. The grand lodge of Odd Fellows in their recent session at Pierre se lected as officers for the coming year: W, A. Herron, Custer, grand master J. W. Siberson, Salem, deputy grand master C. E. Palmer, Brookings, grand marshal Henry Robertson, Dell Rapids, grand representative Harvey J. Rice, Huron, grand secretary Geo. W. Snow, Springfield, grand treasurer. Within a comparatively short time after Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Costlow, of Chester, had received a letter from their son, Ralph Costlow, from San Francisco, where he was under army training, stating that he had received his uniform and "felt like a regular soldier" because he had been appoint ed to serve on guard duty, they re ceived a telegram stating that he had died in a San Francisco hospital. Unknown persons entered the high school building at Lennox and carried away all tbe German text books. No trace of the books can be found and it is presumed they have been de stroyed However, this will make no difference in the teaching of German until the close of the present school year, when it had been decided to abanadon the teaching of this lan guage. New text books will be se cured to fill out the term. Two brothers, Otto Hovren, of Vic tor, S. D., and Cornelius Hovren, of Great Falls, Mont., had an unexpected meeting at a port in France a short time ago. They had enlisted from dif ferent parts of the country unknown to each other and arrived on the other side only two days apart. The one arriving first had gone down to the steamer landing to .witness the arrival of other American troops, when to his great surprise he discovered his broth er among the disembarking troops. A trip over the stale fair grounds at Huron shows that when the people of the state go fo the fair this fall, they will find a decided change in many features on the grounds. The biggest improvement wfll be the new relnforoed concrete grandstand, which will be larger than the old grand stand, and a large part of the eld stand will be used as bleachers to help han dle the crowds. Besides this, Secre tary Mcllvaine says that a new build ing will be ready before the fair in which the employes and others having business on the fair grounds will And sleeping and eating accommodations. The educational building is being in creased in size and other buildings im proved. No more wooden buildings are being put upon the grounds, the new work being concrete and stucco, which will improve the appearance of every building erected from now on. Wheat rust Infection has been found on South Dakota common barberry bushes at Vermllloin and Brookings by government men. "This means," says H. C. Gilbert, field assistant, "that all common barberries not now dug up and destroyed are a serious menace to this year's wheat crop. A citizen who owns even one of these bushes can do more for his country by de stroying it than by buying all the bonds he Is able to pay for. The common barberry bushes on the state college campus have been destroyed and loyal citizens in the southeastern counties of the state have been dig ging them up faithfully." Mr. Gilbert says hurry-up action is necessary. Every windy day and every damp day favor the spread and growth of rust Any one who desires special informa tion on the subject of barberries and black stem rust of wheat may secure it by writing to H. C. Gilbert, field assistant, U. S. department of agri culture, Brookings. George Welch, of Beresford, who is a British subject, has been notified by the British government to Hold him self In readiness to be called for serv ice In the British army. Welch has no objection to entering the army, but prefers to do his lighting tinder tha Stars and Stripes, and accordingly will make an effort to enlist In the United States army for service In France. Chas. N. Herried. state federal fbod commissioner, reports that tb«re la in Meade county surplus flour aooontiii to 20,00 pounds, held by E! 49 representing 192 peraoM. people A 1 Thte Reason. "Your patient certainly does np, nurse." "That's natural, clocSos. lie's an aviator." Vienna Sausage Favorite Dish Everywhere Prepared from dainty bits of choice, selected meat, skillfully seasoned and cooked by Libby's own expert chefs— these sausages have that delicacy of flavor, yet spicy zest that makes them favor- ites everywhere. Order Libby's Vienna Sausage today. You, too, will find it "savory, satisfying dish and easy to prepare 1 Libby, McNeill & Libby, Ckic&gfr iiSSiiiiiSiiiiiaSialiiiiilifiSiiliiaiiSivHiSiiB Only About Half the Steer is Beef Live Weight 1200 pound* Dressed Weight 672 pounds of Beef 56% market as beef the other 528 pounds consists of hide, fatv other by-products, and waste When the packer pays 15 cents A pound for a steer, he sells the meat to the retailer for about 24 cents. But the packer gets only about 6 cents pound for the other 528 pounds. This means that the packer gets about 16 cents a pound for all the products from a steer for which he pays 15 cents. The difference of 1 cent per poond covers the cost of dressing, preparation of by-products, freight on beef to all parts of the United States, operation of distributing houses, and leaved a net profit of only about Y4 of a cent por pound on all dressed beef sold. Large vohimeofbusiness and ut tion of parts that were formerly make this achievement possible. Year Book of interesting and loatructhre facta sent oo request Address Swift & Company, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Dlhiola Swift & Company,U. S. A. C0M One Help. "Cun you throw any light upon thit thoory of astral bodies?" "Well, wt haw some good astiul lamps." 1 v •i*' rtWf 4 it ., Swift & Company a steer weighing 1200 pounds, only about 672 pounds goes 'J *. to f"X ft 4 'ill 'y 3* 1 1 1 •A Iff v. ^7 .' V .. S? "l •.:f ,ry