Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-05-23
MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY: THOU CA
\, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3D. 1917
Apply for Instructions.

practicable to the County Cler, OF
the county wherein they may be for
instructions as to how they may ac-
compliSh their registration by mail.
In case such persons as, through sick
ness or absence, may be unable to
present themselves personally for
registration shall be sojourning in
shall apply to the City Clerk Of the
city wherein they may be sojourning
rather than to the Clerk Of the Court.
The Clerks Of counties and Of cities
Of over 10000 population in which
numbers of applications from the
sick and from non-residents are eX-
pected are authorized to establish
such subagencies and to employ and
deputize such clerical force as may be
necessary to accommodate these ap-
plications.
"The power against which we are
arrayed has sought to impose it's will
upon the world by force. To this
end it has increased armament until
1t has changed the face Of war. In
the sense in which we have been wont
to think Of armies there are no az
mics in this struggle. There are en-
tire 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 battle flags. 1t must be
so with us. 1t Is not an army that
we must shape and train for war;
1t Is nation. To this end our peo-
pie must draw close in one compact
front against a common foe. But
this cannot be If each man pursues
a private purpose. All must pursue
one purpose. The nation needs all
men; but it needs each man, not in
the field that will most please him,
but in the endeavor that will best
serve the common good. Thus,
though sharpsbooter pleases to ope-
rate trip hammer for the forging of
great guns, and an expert machinist
desires to march with the flag, the
nation Is being served only when the
| sharpshooter marches and the ma
| chinist remains at his levers. The
whole nation must be team in which
each man shall play the part for
which he is best fitted. To this end,
Congress has provided that the ma
tion shall be organized for war by Sc
| lection and that each man shall be
classed for service in the place to
which 1t shall best serve the general
good to call him.
New Step in History.
''The significance of this cannot be
overstated. 1t is n new thing in our
history, a landmark in our progress.
| 1t is Il new manner of accepting and
| vitaliZing our dtuy to give ourselves
with thoughtful devotion to the COM
mon purpose Of using all. 1t is in no
| sense 4 cOnscriptiOn Of the unwilling;
it is rather, selection from a nation
which has volunteered in masse. 1t
| ..1>
shall march with the colors than it
is a selection of those who shall
serve an equally necessary and devot-
ed purpose in the industries that lie
behind the battle line
| THE day here named is the time
upon which all shall present them
selves for assignment to their tasks.
| 1t Is for that reason destined to be
remembered as one of the most con-
spicuous moments in our history. 1t
IS nothing less than the day upon
which the manhood of the country
shall step forward in one solid rank
in defense Of the ideals to which this
nation Is consecrated. 1t is import
ant to those ideals no less than to the
pride Of this generation in manifest
ing its devotion to them, that there
be no gaps in the ranks.
| IL Is eSSSHtldl IliaC Lne uay De ap-
preached in thoughtful appreciation
OF It's significance, and that we accord
to it the honor and the meaning that
1t deserves. Our industrial need pre-
scribes that 1t be not made q techni-
cal holiday, but the stern sacrifice
that is before us urges that it be car
ried in all our hearts as a great day
OF patriotic devotion and obligation
when the duty shall lie upon every
man, whether he IS himself to be reg
istered or not, to see to 1t that the
name Of every male person Of the
designated ages is written on these
lists OF honor. In witness whereof I
have hereunto set my hand and
caused the zeal Of the United States
| to be aXed.
Done at the City Of Washington
this 18th day of May, in the year of
our Lord. 1917. and OF the Independ-
ence OF the United States Of America
| the 141St.
| "BV the President.