New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-06-01
NO ONE EXCUSED
FROM REGISTERING
All Of Specified Age Must Respond
on June 5 to Call Of
Nation.
QUERIES TO BE ANSWERED
Government Has Issued Circulars
Making II Easier for Those Who
Register to Respond to Inter.
rogations That Will
Be Made.

There is but one answer to ever.
question asked regarding registration
and 1t Is this:
Every man between the ages o
twenty-One and thirty years, inclusive
whether native born, al alien, or ever
an alien enemy, must register June !
This applies also to lnvalidS and per
sons who are i'll. A man Is thirty unit
his thirty-first biz hday anniversary.
The government has adopted n plaI
to facilitate and simplify the filling II
of conscription registration cards JUNE
D.. Circulars containing the twelve
questions to be asked and advice rs Il
how they should be answered have
been prepared for distribution.
Answers to the Questions.
The circular, which bears the head
Ing, How to Answer Questions or
Registration Cards. reads as follows
'Questions will be asked for you tC
answer in the order in which they np
pear on this paper. These questions
are set out below with detailed infor
nation to help you answer them.
"Do not write IN, mark or otherwise
mutilate these instructions. DO not re
move them. They should be carefully
read SO that you will have your an
swers ready when you 60 before the
registrar.
"All nswer will be written on the
registration card in ink by the regis
trar, who should be careful to spell all
amc correctly and to write legibly.
81. Name in full. Age in years, -
'"This means all your names spelled
out in full.
state your age today in years only,
Disregard additional months or days.
Be prepared to say nineteen or
'twenty-tive,' not nineteen years
three months or the like.
"2. Home address.
This means the place where you
have your permanent home, not the
place where you work. Be prepared
to give the address in this way '232
Main street, Chicago, Cook county, H.
linois : that is, give number and name
Of street first, then town, then county
and state.
Have Birthday Date Ready.
date of birth.
write your birthday (month, day
and year, on a piece of paper before
Uninr fn thn auiSt,.a OpI uiI-n fhn no
per to him the first thing. Example:
August 8, 1894
'If you do not remember the year,
start to answer as you would If some
one asked you your birthday, as 'Au-
gust s. Then say, 'on my birthday
this year l will be Cor was) - years
old The registrar will then fill in
the year of birth. Many people do not
carry in mind the year they were
born. This may be obtained by the
registrar by subtracting the age in
years on this years birthday from
1917.
~. Are you C) a natural born citi-
zen; (2) n naturalized citizen; (3) an
alien; (4) or have you declared your
intention to become Il citizen (specify
which,?
"U) If you were born in the United
States, including Alaska and Hawaii,
you are a natural born citizen, no mat
ter what may have been the citizen
ship or nationality of your parents. If
you were born in Porto Rico you are Il
citizen of the United States, unless
you We're born of alien parentage. If
you We're born abroad, you are still Il
citizen of the United States, if your
father was a citizen of the United
States at the time you were born, IN
less you have eXpatrlated yourself.
"(2) You are a naturalized citizen if
you have completed your naturaliza-
ton that. is, if you have taken final
papers, But you are not a citizen if
you have only declared your intention
10 become a citizen Chat is, if you
have only taken out first papers) /; in
the latter case you are only a 'declar-
ant
You are also n naturalized citizen
if, although foreign born, your father
or surviving parent became fully nat
uralized while you were under twenty
n years of age, and if you came to
the United States under twenty-One.
"(3) You are n declarant If, although
q citizen or subject of some foreign
country, you have declared on oath be-
fore a naturalization court your inten-
tiOn to become a citizen of the United
States. Receipt from the clerk of the
court of the certified copy of such
declaration is often called taking out
first papers You are not a declarant
If your first paper was taken out after
September %. 1906, and is more than
seven years old.
"(4) You are an alien if you do not
fall within one Of the three classes
above mentioned.
.. Where were you born?
First name the town. then the state,
then the country. as Columbus, o.
Vienna, Austria; Paris, France; )
Sofia. Bulgaria.
&c. If not a citizen, of what country
are you a citizen or subject?"
'This need be answered only by
aliens and d%eclarants. Remember that
a 'declarant' is not yet a citizen of