The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1917-05-25
Ow to Answer Questions on Registration Cards
carefully before 60 to the table Here you will be asked
Study hequetionS. Prepare the answers in your mind

Questions will be asked for you to answer in the order
III which they appear this paper These questions
are set out below with detailed information to help you
4 answer them.
b' not write on, mark, or otherwise mutate these
instructions. Do not remove them. They should be
carefully read that you will have your answers ready
= whcr You go before the Registrar.
III answers Will be written on the Registration IN ink
dy the RegSr0r who should be careful to spell all names
4 correctly and to write legiby
4 l. NAME IN FULL. AGE IN YEARS, -
= This means all your names spelled out in full
State your age in gears only. Disregard additional
months or days. Be prepared to say "19" or 25 not
Il '19 yrs, mos, or the like
i = HOME ADDRESS,
inns 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, Illinois," that u.s. give number and name
u street first then town then county, then State.
= 8 DATE OF BIRTH.
Write your birthday month day. and YEAR, on piece
of paper before going to the Registrar and give the pa
per to him the first thing. Example: august 5, 1894"
If You do not remember the year. start to answer as
you would if somebody asked you your birthday as eau
gust 5th," Then say son my birthday this gear will
4 be Tor Was) -- years DID, The Registrar will then
: fill in the year of birth. Many people do not carry in
mind the year they born This may be obtained by
the Registrar by subracting the age in years on this
= years. birthday from 1917.
: ARE YOU ~ ANATURAL-BORN CITIZEN; (2)
4 ANATURALTZED CITIZEN: (3) AN ALIEN; az
4 OR HAVE YOU DECLARED YOUR INTENTION
TO BECOME A CITIZEN SPECIFY WHTCH'
~ IF you were born in the United States, including
4 Alaska and Hawaii you natHrol-bOyn ctiaen no
matter what may have been the citizenship of nationality
of your parents If you were born in Porto Rico, you
citizen of the United States unle you were born of
alien paTentage If you born abroad you still
citizen of the United States if your father was citizen
of the United States at the time You we're born unless
4 You have eXpatriated yourself.
(2) You are nataralise9 citizen if you have COM
pleted your naturaization that is if you have aken
final papers, But you not citizen if you have only
declared your intention to become citizen hat is, if
you have only taken out first papers in the latter
you are only declarant."
You also nauralized citizen it, although foreign
born, your father surviving parent became fully nat
uraized while you under q years of age, and if
you came to the United States under q.
g You are decEarant if although citizen or sub
ect of foreign country you have declared on oath
before naturalization court your intention to become
citizen of the United States Receipt from the clerk of
the court of the certified copy of such declaration is often
called "takng out first papers," You are not decar-
ant if your first paper taken out after September
I g. 1906, and is more than years old
az You are an alien you do not fall within one of
three classes above mentioned
s. WHERE WE'RE YOU BORN?
First name the town. then the State then the country
as Columbus Ohio;" vienna, AUSTRIA" "Paris
France "Sifa, Bulgaria"
6. IF NOT A CITIZEN, OF WHAT COUNTRY ARE
YOU A CITIZEN OR SUBJECT?
This need be answered only by aliens and declarants
Remember that 'decaran' is not yet citizen of the
United States If alien or decaran state the name of
your country, as "Franee, Japan, ""China, etc
Z. WHAT IS YOUR PRESENT TRADE, OCCUPA-
TION, OR OFFICE9
This does not ask what you once did, nor what you
have done most of the time what you are best fitted
to do TT ASKS WHAT YOUR JOB rs RIGHT NOW
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