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TO MAKE A CLEAN SWEEP OF LADIES HATS
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WE ARE GOING TO PLACE ON SALE ALL THE
LADIES’, MISSES’, AND CHILDREN SUMMER HATS
WHICH WE HAVE IN STOCK.
IF YOU NEED A HAT FOR EVERY DAY USE,
IT WILL PAY YOU TO LOOK OVER THIS SALE OF
HATS.
| LADIES BLACK SAILOR HATS were $1.50 NOW $.50
| LADIES CLOTH HATS WERE $.75 NOW $.45.
LADIES YELLOW, GREY AND TAN SHAPES WERE
$2.00 NOW $1.50. AND MANY OTHERS AT
CORRESPONDING PRICES.
Planters Merc. Co.
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Idlers Must Go To Work
Provost Marshal General
Crowder yesterday announced
an amendment to the selective
service regulations which deal
' 5th the great question of com
pelling men not engaged in a
useful occupation immediately
to apply themselves to some
form of labor contributing to
toe general good. The idler,
too, will find himself confront
ed with the alternative of find
ing suitable employment or en
tering the army.
The regulation provides that
after July 1, any registrant
’ ho is .found by a local board
to be a habitual idler or not
engaged in some useful occu
pation shall be summoned be
fore 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 au
thorized to take action wheth
er it has original jurisdiction
of the registrant or not; in
other words, any man loafing:
around a pool room in Chica-j
go may be held to answer to:
a Chicago Board even though
he may have registered in New
ork and lived there most ofj
his life.
The regulations which apply
to idle registrants will be deem i
ed to apply also to gamblers
of all descriptions and employ
es and attendants of bucket
shops and race tracks, fortune
tellers, clairvoyants, palmists,
and the like, who, for the pur
pose of the regulation shall be i
considered as idlers.
The new regulation will also
effect the following classes:
(a) Persons engaged in the
serving of food and drink, or
either, in public places includ
ing hotels and social clubs.
(b) Passenger elevator op
erators and attendants, door
men, footmen, and other at
tendants of clubs, hotel stores,
apartment houses, office build
ings, and bath houses.
(c) Persons, including ush
ers, and other attendants, en
gaged and occupied in, and in
connection with games, sports
and amusements, excepting ac
tual performers in legitimate
concerts, operas, or theatrical
performances.
(d) Persons employed in do
mestic service.
(e) Sales clerks and other
clerks employed in stores and
other mercantile establish
ments.
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, III or IV on
the grounds of dependency.
The fact that he is not useful
ly 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 the necessity require, so as
to include persons in other em
ployments.
Temporary absences from
regular employment not to ex-j
ceed one week, unless such|
temporary absences are habit-!
ual and frequent, shall not be
considered as idleness. Regu
lar vacations will not be con
sidered as absences in this con
nection.
The registration throws a
further safeguard around men
not usefully employed, by pro
viding that where there are |
compelling domestic circum
stances that would not permit
change of employment by the
registrant without dispropor
tionate hardship to his depend
ents, or where a change from
non-useful to useful employ
ment or occupation would nec
essitate a removal of the regis
trant or his family. Local
boards may give consideration
to the circumstances. The reg
ulation further provides that
where such a change of em
ployment would comple the,
night employment of women
under circumstances which a
Board might deem unsuitable
for such employment of wo
men, the Board may take such
circumstances in consideration
in making decisions.
Provost Marshal General
Crowder, in discussing the new
regulation, said:
The war has so far disor
ganized the normal adjust
ment of industrial man power
as to prevent the enormous in
dustrial output and national
organization necessary to suc
cess.
There is a popular demand
for organization of man power
but no direct draft could be
imposed at present.
Steps to prohibit idleness
and non effective occupation
will be welcomed by our peo
ple.
We shall give the idlers and
men not effectively employed
the choice betweeh military
service and effective employ
ment. Every man in the draft
age, at least, must work or
fight..
This is not alone a war of
military maneuver. It is a dead
ly contest of industries and me
chanics. Germany must not
be thought of as merely pos
sessing an army; we must
think of her as being an army,
an army in which every fac
tory and loom in the Empire
is a recognized part in a com
plete machine running night
and day at a terrifhc speed.
We must make of ourselves the
same sort of machine.
It 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 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 accel
erating production of every
useful thing in necessary mea
sure. How is this to be done?
The answer is plain. The
first stop toward the solution
of the difficulty is to prohibit
engagement by able bodied
men in the field of hurtful em
ployment, idleness, or ineffect
ual employment and thus in
duce and persuade the vast,
wasted excess into useful fields
The very situation we are
now considering, however, of
fers great possibilities in im
provement of the draft as well
as the labor situation by effec
tive administration of the draft
Considering the selective ser
vice law, we see two principal
causes of deferment of the call
to military service, exemptions
and the other numbers assign
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ed by lot. The exemptions
themselves fall into two con
spicuous catagories—depend
ency and industrial employ
ment. One protects domestic
relations, the other the econo
mic interests of the nation. Be
tween the two there is an in
evitable hiatus, for it is demon
strably true that thousands, if
not millions, of dependency ex
emptions have no effect of in
dustrial protection whatever.
One of the unanswerable criti
cisms of the draft has been
that it takes men from the
farms and form all useful em
ployments and marches them
past crowds of idlers and loaf
ers away 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 indus
trial welfare of the nation.
THE BANKHEAD HIGHWAY
The Executive officers of the
Bankhead National Highway
Association are pushing an ac
tive campaign to establish and
mark definitely the Atlanta,
Memphis and Birmingham Di
vision of the Bankhead High
way.
After a conference with
President Plowman and some
of the Executive Committee,
Secretary J. A. Rountree has
written letters to the Probate
Judges, County Commissioners
County and District Officials
of Bankhead National High
way in every county between
Atlanta, Birmingham and
Memphis, asking them to fur
nish certain detailed informa
tion in regard to their roads,
also to urge them to arrange
at once to straighten out the
highway through their respec
tive counties, also to erect the
official signs of the Bankhead
National Highway.
Just as soon as all these de
tails are arranged a logging
party will go over the road
carefully and map this route
so it can be given to the press.
Official maps will also be made
and given to the public.
The official signs of the
Bankhead Highway will be de
cided upon in the next few
days. Already many sign
manufacturers have submitted
designs for this purpose. Presi
dent Plowman will call a spec
ial committee together in Bir
mingham and a decision in re
gard to the material, charac
ter and design will be adopt
ed. Thig sign will be erected
from ashington to Los Angeles
California. It will be perma
nent, unique and famous the
world over.
A tour of the Bankhead Na
tional Highway from Birming
ham to Memphis will be made
by President Plowman and
Secretary Rountree. They ex
pect to visit a number of prin
cipal towns on this road to
stir up interest in regard to
the Bankead Highway. Due
notice of their visit will be giv
en to the various officers and
good roads boosters along the
route.