Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-06
YOUNG MANHOOD
SETS AT NAUGHT
ALL GERMAN PLOTS
Not Single Untoward Event
Mars Country's First
Military Census.
REASSURING MESSAGES
COME FROM EVERY STATE
Governors Unanimous in Report
ing Complete Quiet and
Full Registration.
MORE THAN 10000. 900 ENROLL
Hundreds Of Thousands Of Young
Men Refuse to Claim
Exemption.
R6ASSURING MESSAGES
COME FROM EVERY STATE
MORE THAN 100000 ENROLL
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WASHINGTON. June a.--Morc than
100000" young Americans enrolled
themselves to-day for war service.
Registration Day. with but a few
weeks Of preparation. saw the first
military census ever taken in the
United states completed without a sim
gle untoward event of consequence.
The manhood Of the nation obeyed
the PRESIDENTS call and volunteered
IN mass setting a naught all schemes
ana p'ottinEs OF German sympathizers
and the few cranks who have aEitatcd
against registration. II remains but
to select the men who are to go TO
the front.
QUIET COMPLETE; WITH
FULL REGISTRATION
From virtually every State reassur-
ing messages came tonight to Brira-
er-Gencral Crowder. provost-mar-
shal-General. Federal supervising off,
Ger OF the great enterprise. While no
complete returns from any State were
transmitted up TO late hour. the
Governors were unanimous in report
Ing that complete quiet had prevailed
registration was indicated.
In some precincts the late conner.
forced officials TO keep the polls omen
until long after the r. NJ closing
hour set In the regulations. General
Cro"dcr authorized them TO keep omen
as long as men wished to enroll Them
selves. The result will be further TO
delay the transmission Of returns,
however.
The carly reports. showing a full
turnout all over the country Indicated
that the estimates of the Census Blu
reau as to the number OF men within
the specified age limits would be verb
fed by the count. Wherever partial
figures were available. the estimates
checked closely
y typical message received was that
from Idaho:
Registration will he 100 per cent.
spontaneous and without murmur or
incident"
The situation was so clear and the
response so ready throughout the coun-
Try mat Governors OF forty-Six OF the
forty eight States had forwarded SINH
lar assurances long before resistra-
ton had closed, and the other two
we're close on their heels.
THOU SANDS REFUSE.
10 CLAIM EXEMPTION
feature of the registration was
the refusal of hundreds Of thousands
OF men TO make any reply TO the uues-
ton: DO YOU claim exemption"" Even
men who reported that they had de.
pendent families: men with obvious
physical disabilities and those whose
occupations are certain 10 keep them
at home declined to make such a claim:
Apparently they have entered fully
INTO the very spirit OF the law. They
are content to leave the question OF
exemption to the exemption boards
They have no claims to make. but
are ready 10 do their share. whatever
II may he.
With the closing OF each registration
precinct officials went al once to thu
task of sorting and classifying the
cards. There is much work to be done
in order that the brief synopsis which
each Governor viii make to General
Crowder of the registration of his
state may go forward promptly 1t
viii take some hours in many cases
to do the work, and no hgures for the
state viii come TO Washington until
every precinct has reported. Instruc-
I!pHS u TcSlStldrS were complete and
clear. Their task has been made as
simple as possible. and General Grow.
der is hopeful that another thirty-six
hours Will see the full record OF the
country on his desk.
SUPPLEMENTARY STEPS
REMAIN TO ne TAKEN
There remain several suppleme ntary
steps To be taken. Today's reEistra-
ton included only continental United,
states. Alasku and Hawaii will record ~
their fighting men on dates TO be set
later and III. roll OF Americans now
abroad who are hcseginc consulatcs
all around the world for registration
cards. will add To the great list. The
state Department was called upon for
additional cards to-day by the thous.
and go
Few eleventh. hour rulings were
found necessary. The system devised &
by General Crowdcr OF invoking the
political machinery OF the nation In
the task, worked with "A smoothuesa 4
that spoke OF perfect cooperating by
state. county and municipal officialsis%s
General Crowder made II clear, how y
ever, that registration acted as bar