Work or Fight Edict Targets Idlers in New Draft Rules
General Crowder announces a broad work or fight policy effective after July 1. Idlers and those in nonuseful occupations face reclassification and possible induction, with gamblers, race track workers, bartenders, waiters, ushers, and other service staff named among those affected. The plan aims to ease labor shortages for farmers shipbuilders and munitions makers while extending to all registrants deemed not engaging in useful work.
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Bulletin
Washington
General Crowder
Batte
Selective Service
Wilson
Department of Labor
United States
Chicago
New York
Crowder Explains Plan To Extend Useful Occupations
General Crowder outlines a wartime regulation extending the list of non useful occupations and set rules for substitutions. He argues that every man of draft age must work or fight, with boards weighing domestic hardship and women’s employment in deciding changes.
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Germany
How to win a Seat on the Pittsburgh Car
A New York Sun account describes a trick to gain a seat on a crowded Pittsburgh car. Two tired contenders failed to yield, a late entrant sang The Star Spangled Banner, and the car passengers rose to let her sit. The song ended as she finally sat down.
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Pittsburgh
Boonlway
New York Sun
Potato water substitute for soap advised in Brussels
A Brussels newspaper reports a chemist's tip for housewives during soap shortages. Pour the hot water used to boil peeled potatoes over the linen to be washed, let it soak, then rub as usual without soap. The linen should come out perfectly white.
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Belgium
Brussels
Part of Her Cost
Bernie ran to her grandmother with a dry pressed teat relic from a bygone day found in the big Bible. She says it may have belonged to Eve.
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Bernie
Eve
Boston Transcript
Faith in Your Own Ability Leads the Battle
A compact aphorism urges belief in personal competence as two thirds of success. the quote stresses hard work and perseverance as the path to achievement.
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USA
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Marine Corps
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