The Nevada County picayune., 1917-05-31
NJ 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 It Easier for Those Who Register to Respond to Inter-
 rogatons That Will
 Be Made.


 There is but one answer to every question asked regarding registration, and 1t is this:
 Every man between the ages of tweuty-ohe and thirty years, inclusive, whether native born, an alien, or even all alien enemy, must register June ,. This applies also To iH5altds ana per sons Who are ill. A man is thirty until his thrty-first birthday anniversary. :.
 The government has adopted plan to facilitate and simplify tle hiline ih of conscrtPti9n registration cards June s. Circulars containing the twelve questions to be asked aud advice as to 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 on Registration Cards, reads as follows:
 "QUcsdons will be asked for you to answer in the order in which they ap pear on this paper. These questions are set out below with detailed infor- nation to help you answer then.
 DO not write on, 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 go before the registrar.
 Al! answers will be written on the registration card ill ink by the regis trar, who should be careful to spell all names correctly and to write legibly.
 "l Name in fuli. Age i'll 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-five, hot nineteen years three months or the like.
 70 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: '22332 Main street, Chicago, Cock county, H. Nnois;' 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 Il piece of paper before going to the registrar and give the pa per to him the first thing. Example: August ;. 1S24.'
 If you do not remember the year, start 10 answer Hs you would il some one asked you your birthday as 'Au- gust Il. Then say 'on my birthday this year will be Ger was) - wears 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 bo obtained by the registrar by subtraeting the age in years on this years birthday from 1917.
 "4. Are you GD a natural born citi- zen; (2) fl naturalizea citizen; 63) an alien; CD or have you declared your intention to become citizen tzpeeifH whch)?
 "0D If you were born in the United States, including Alaska and TawaiE you are a natural born citizen. no mat ter what may have e=heeu the citizen ship or nationality of Your parents. If you were born in Porto Rico you are q citizen of the tniled States. unless you Were born 8f alien paeea93ge. + you were born abroad, you are stlll a citizen ef thr United States, If your father was a citizen of the United States a; Ihe time yHu were AerHs HH- 'e. you have eNpatIated yourself
 "t2) You are a natHralized citizen jr you have completed your HauraIiza tion; that Is. if you have taken final papers, But you are not Il citizen if you have only declared your intention to become citizen Chat Is, If you have oHlH taken eHt first papers9 in the latter case you are only a 'Geclar- ant
 You are also a naturaized citizen f. although foreign born, yaur father or surviving parent became fully nal uralized while you were under twenty one years of age, and if you came to the United States under twenty-one
 "(3) You are ii deelarant if, although citizen OF subject of some foreign country. you have declared on oath be fore a naturalization court your iHten- ton 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 deelarant If your first paper was taken out after September 26 1906, and is more than seven years old.
 "(4) You are m 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, Bul -aria.
 "6 If nO{ citizen of what country