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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."
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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