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...manufacture non-essentials in time of war is to deprive essential industries of supplies and to withdraw labor from more necessary occupations. It is the most effective method of competing against the Government, both in forcing up prices and in limiting the wherewithal for prosecuting the war. Under these conditions the War Department now puts into force a measure which will effectively limit such production, and which will draw men into useful trades...
...from any previous economic legislation. All able bodied male residents of the state between the ages of eighteen and fifty years are required to be engaged regularly in some lawful and recognized employment, trade or profession until the end of the war. A minimum of thirty-six hours of labor a week is also set. But the law does not stop with the definition of the crime; it was enacted to be effective and severe penalties are included for non-compliance with its provisions...
...West Virginia the enforcement of the Compulsory Labor Law has been singularly successful since its passage a year ago. As a part of his punishment the convicted loafer must work upon the roads or other public works. A larger fine and longer imprisonment for delinquents are provided in the Maryland act. In their essentials, however, the laws of the three states agree...
...economize and live on the bare necessaries of existence. The war has made economy the watch-word of human actions. The luxuries and non-essentials of society must be curtailed so that raw materials will not be drawn away from more useful channels of war production and so that labor will not be engaged in producing articles of no immediate value. The complexity of modern life and the need of preparing for after-the-war reorganization, however, must necessarily limit these restrictions upon non-essential production...
...college next fall, almost all of them have vacant positions and are entirely willing to give men the jobs temporarily. It is to be noted, however, that but few of the places open to college men for the summer are of a clerical nature, the vast majority entailing labor of a heavier sort...