The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-05-23

Shoi Aaii VI He6iect Iully to perform
any duty required of him in the ex-
ecution Of this act, SHALL if not sub
ject to military law, be guilty of
misdemeanor and upon conviction in
the district court of the United
States having jurisdiction thereof, be
punished by Imprisonment for not
more than one year or, If subject to
military law, shall be tried by court
martial and suffer such punishment
as q courtmartial may direct
Now therefore, I, Woodrow VIII
son. president Of the United States.
do call upon the governor of each of
the several States and territories. the
board of commissioners of the Dis
trict Of Columbia and all officers and
agents Of the several states and ter
ritories, of the District of Columbia
and Of the counties and municipali-
ties therein-tO perform certain du-
ties In the execution of the foregoing
law, which duties will be COM
municated to them directly in regu-
lations of even date herewith.
"And I do further proclaim and
give notice to all persons subject to
registration in the several States and
in the District, of Columbia in ac-
cordance with the above that the
time and place of such registration
shall be between a. m. and d. m.
on the 5th day of June, 1917, at the
registration place in the precinct
wherein they have their permanent
homes. Those who shall have at
tanned their 21st birthday and who
shall not have attained their 31st
birthday on or before the day here
named are required to register. ex-
cepting only officers and enlisted men
of the regular army. the navy. the
marine corps and the National Guard
of the United States and officers in
and naval militia while in the service
Of the United States and officers in
the officers reserve corps and enlis.cd d
men in the enlisted reserve corps
while In active service. In the ter
r'tories of Alaska Hawaii and Puerto
Rico day for registration will be
named in later proclamation.
And l do charge those who
through sickness shall be unable to
present themselves for registration
that they apply on or before the day
or registration to the county clerk
where they may be for instructions as
to how they may be registered by
agents. Those who expect to be alb
sent on the day named from the
counties in which they have their
permanent homes may register by
mail. but their mailed registration
cards must reach the place in which
they have their permanent homes by
the day named herein.
"They should apply aa soon as prac.
ticable to the country clerk of the
county wherein they may be for in
structions as to how they may accom-
plish their registration by mail In
case such persons as. through sickness
or absence. may be unable to present
themselves personally for registration
shall be sojOurning in cities of over
$1,000 population they shall apply to
the city clerk of the city wherein
they may be sojourning rather than
to the clerk Of the court. The clerks
or counties and of cities of over 80, 600
population in which numbers of ap-
plicatiOns from the sick and from
non-residents are expected are au-
thorized to establish such subagencies
and to employ and deputize such cler-
lcai force as may be necessary to ac-
commodate these applications.
THE power against which we are
arrayed has sought to impose it's will
upon the world by force. TO this
1t has changed the face of war In
the sense in which we ha e been wont
10 think of armies there are no armies
IN this struggle. There arc entire
nations armed. Thus, the men who
remain to till the soil and man the
factories are no less part of the
army that is in France than the men
beneath the battlo flaps II ,,uot ;,o
so with us. 1t is not an army that
we must shape and train for war:
II Is a nation. TO this end our peo-
pie must draw close in one compact
THIS can not be if each man pursuCs
private purpose. All must pursue
one purpose. The nation needs all
men; but Ii needs each man. not in