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FIGHT OR WORK,
CROWDER'S ORDER
Ball Players, Bartenders, Golfers,
Clerks, Gamblers, Must Find
Useful Employment.
ACTORS ON EXEMPTED LIST
Sweeping Edict, Effective July 1, to
Make Nation Efficient in War,
Takes Registrants Out of the
Deferred Class.
4 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 army.
Baseball players, as well as 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.
Vo
Ly 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.
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FIGHT OR WORK.
Idlers. :
Gamblers.
Bucket shop employees.
Race track attendants.
Clairvoyants and the like.
Professional golfers.
Professional players
(probably)
baseball
Elevator operators at clubs and
stores.
Club and hotel doormen.
Waiters in hotels and clubs.
Ushers in theaters.
Attendants at sports.
Persons in domestic service.
Clerks in stores.
Specially Exempt.
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Washington, May 23.—Provost Mar-
shal General Crowder today announ-
ced that every man of draft age must
work or fight after July 1. The order
is under a drastic amendment to the
selective service regulations. All
draft registrants, besides idlers, in
what are held to be nonuseful occupa-
tions, will be given an opportunity be-
fore local boards to choose a new job
or join 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, stores, etc., domestics
and clerks in stores.
Deferred classification granted on ac-
<ount of dependents will be disregard-
-d 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
useful employment he will be given a
new number in class 1 that: will send
him 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-
wn his dependents.
I" May Solve the Labor Problem.
J 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-
ployment 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 in 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 attendant$ of bucket-
shops and race tracks, fortune tellers,
clairvoyants, palmists and the like,
who for thc purpose of the regulations
shall be considered as idlers.
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“The new regulation will also affect
the following classes:
“(a) Persons engaged in the serving
of food aud drink, or either, in public
places, Including hotels and social
clubs.
“(b) Passenger elevator operators
and attendants, doormen, footmen and
other attendants of clubs, hotels,
stores, apartment houses, office build-
ings and bathhouses.
“(¢) Persons, including ushers and
other attendants, engaged and occu-
pied in, and in connection with, games,
sports and amusements, excepting
actual performers in legitimate con-
certs, operas or theatrical perform-
ance. v
“(d) Persons employed in domestic
service.
“(e) Sales clerks and other clerks
employed in stores and other mercan-
tile establishments.
“Men who are engaged as above or
who are idlers will not be permitted
to seek relief because of the fact that
they have drawn a later order num-
ber or because they have been placed
in class II, 14I or IV on the grounds of
dependency. The fact that he is not
usefully employed will outweigh both
of the above conditions.
“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 id other
employments.
“Temporary absences Yrom regular
employment not to exceed one week,
unless such temporary absences arc
habitual and frequent, shall not be con-
sidered as idleness. Regular vacations
will not be considered as absences in
this connection.
“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 may take such circumstances
into consideration in making its de-
cision.”
General Crowder Explains Plan.
Explaining the new regulation and
the necessity for it, Gen¢ral Crowder
said :
“The war has so far +isorganized
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 mili-
tary maneuver. It is a deadly contest
of industries and mechanics.
Must Copy German Machine.
“Germany must not be thought of as
think of her as being an army—an
army in which every factory and loom
in the empire is a recognized part in
a complete machine running night and
day at terrific speed. We must make
of ourselves 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 answer 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 cou-
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 categories—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 eft
fect of industrial protection whatever
“One of the unanswerable criticisms
of the draft has been that it takes men
from the farms and from sll nseful
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 coatribut-
ing effectively to the industrial wel-
fare of the nation.”
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the interior of barrels used in brew-
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An oven has been invented to utilize
for baking the smoke and hot gases
that ordinarily would pass out of a
chimney from a residence heating
plant.
The cherry gets its name from Ce-
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sea. whence came the first garden
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merely possessing an army, we must
NE
HE battle in which the allies
and the central powers have
been engaged in northeastern
France often is referred to
in the dispatches as the “Batle of Pic-
ardy,” although as a political subdi-
vision the province of Picardy no long-
er exists. Since the division into de-
partments was made, Picardy was cut
up into the departments of the Somme,
Pas-de-Calais, Aisne and Oise. In the
ancient days when it existed as one of
the great historic provinces of France,
its boundaries extended from Hainaut
and Artois on the north and from
Champagne on the east to the province
of Normandy and the English channel
on the west, with a maritime frontier
running from the mouth of the Aa to
the cliffs of Caux, and it included with-
in its boundaries the whole of the basin
of the Somme river and a great part
of that of the Oise.
Under the Romans it was inhabited
by the Morini, the Ambiani, the Vero-
mandui, the Bellovaci and the Sues-
siones, whose names are still preserved
in the modern cities of Amiens, Ver-
mandois, Beauvais and Soissons. It
was a battleground in Caesar's day and
the ‘Romans built military roads
through the province and erected de-
fensive citadels along the banks of the
Somme.
It was in Picardy, too, that the first
nucleation of France as a nation took
place, under the Merovingian kings in
the fifth century. “The history of an-
cient France,” says Michelet, “had its
sources in Picardy.” Here Clovis made
his first capital at Soissons and Charle-
magne feunded his at Noyon. Famous
battles were fought within its borders
long before the first Prussian set foot
upon its soil. Crecy, where Edward
the Black Prince won his spurs, and
Agincourt, where Henry V of England,
with his bowmen, wrought such havoc
with the French army—the bowmen
whose spirits were said to have ren-
dered miraculous assistance to the al-
lies at the Battle of the Marne.
Land of Beautiful Landscapes.
A land of beautiful landscapes is the
vasting Hun plowed up its fair fields,
tore up its roads and laid low its for-
ests and its famous avenues of aspens
and poplars—as “Picturesque Picardy”
it was known to poets and artists and
writers and travelers. David Murray.
the famous Scottish landscape painter,
gave its pastoral beauties to the world
in almost three score of his canvases.
Many of Corot’s finest landscapes are
laid in the valley of the Oise or Somme.
Ruskin and Robert Louis Stevenson
have glorified it in art and literature.
But today it is a scene of ruin, ravage
and desolation. Many of its age-old
towns have been made level with the
plain, some of its historic cathedrals
and chateaux are heaps of ruins and
great craters of shell holes mark the
face of the land. As Lord Byron said
of Greece, “’'Tis Picardy, but living
Picardy no more.”
And now again the guns of the Huns
have been thundering in the heart of
Picardy and at the gates of its ancient
capital, Amiens, the beautiful, the
«Venice of Picardy,” home of rare art
treasures and city of the cathedral
which has been named by the Picards
themselves the “Cathedral of the Beau-
tiful God,” and by art lovers the “Par-
thenon of Gothic architecture.
The cathedral of Amiens is one of
the largest churches in the world, be-
ing surpassed in the magnitude of its
construction only by St. Peter’s at
Rome, St. Sophia’s at Constantinople
and the cathedral of Cologne. Into its
sculptured stones and statues have
been wrought by its builders almost a
complete biblical history, both of the
01d and New Testaments. Ruskin calls
the cathedral “the Bible of Amiens,”
and in his lecture under that title he
has given an interpretation of its thou-
sands of sculptured figures and of its
“germons in stones.”
The cathedral was built chiefly be-
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Amiens and Its Cathedral.
tween 1220 and 1288. Its architect
was Robert de Luzarches. It consists
of a nave nearly 140 feet high, with
aisles and lateral chapels, a transept
with aisles, and a choir ending in an
apse surrounded by chapels. The total
length is 469 feet, its breadth 216 feet.
The facade, which is flanked by two
square towers without spires, has
three portals decorated with a pro-
fusion of statuary, and over the cen-
tral portal is the remarkable statue
of Christ, of the thirteenth century,
which has given to this entrance the
name of the “porch of the beautiful
God.” Surmounting the portals are
two galleries, and above these a fine
rose window.
Wood That Leaps Like Living Flame.
Ruskin went into raptures over the
wood carvings of the choir. “What-
ever you wish to see, or are forced
to leave unseen at Amiens,” he said,
“if the overwhelming possibilities of
your existence and the inevitable ne-
cessities of precipitate locomotion in
their fulfillment have left you so much
as one quarter of an hour, not out of
breath, for the contemplation of the
capital of Picardy, give it wholly to
the cathedral choir. Aisles and
porches, lancet windows and roses,
you can see elsewhere as well as
here—but such carpenter’s work you
cannot. It is latefully developed flam-
boyant just past the fifteenth century,
and has some Flemish stolidity mixed
with the playing French fire of it; but
wood carving was the Picard’s joy
from his youth up, and so far as I
know there is nothing else so beau-
tiful cut out of the goodly trees of the
world. Sweet and young grained wood
it is; oak, trained and chosen for such
work, sound now as four hundred years
since. Under the carver’s hand it
seems to cut like’ clay, to fold like
silk, to leap like living flame. Can-
opy crowning canopy, pinnacle pierc-
ing pinnacle—it shoots and wreathes
itself into an enchanted glade, inex-
tricable, imperishable, fuller of leaf-
age than any forest, and fuller of
story than any book.” ;
Ruskin notes that the dominant tone
of the sculptures that so profusely
decorate the cathedral is that of peace
and mercy.
Summing up his interpretation of
the Amiens cathedral, the “Bible of
Amiens,” as Ruskin asks:
“Who built it, shall we ask? God
and man is the first true answer. The
stars in their courses built it, and the
nations. Greek Athena labors here,
and the Roman Father Jove, and
Guardian Mars. The Gaul labors here
and the Frank; knightly Norman,
mighty Ostrogoth, and wasted anchor-
ite of Idumea. The actual man who
built it scarcely cared to tell you he
did so; nor do the historians brag of
him. Any quantity of heraldries of
knaves and faineants you may find in
what they call their history; but this
is probably the first time you ever
read the name of Robert of Luzarches.
Where Time Is Money.
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or grow everything they want and im-
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Cosme. The workmen have seven
hours’ work a day and earn not money
but time. Their wages are hours and
half-hours. These are sometimes saved
up till they have a week in hand. Then
they go off on an excursion or spend
their savings in some other pleasure-
producing manner. If a man wants a
chair or table he pays for it in hours
of work which are deducted from the
balance to his credit.
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