The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-05-31
~ % Answer Questions on the
Registration Cards.


Read carefully before you 90 to
the registration table. Here you see
what you will be asked. Study the 9a
questions. Prepare the answers IN
The questions appear on the card
in the order in which they appear
below, and detailed information is
here given to help YOU answer them
correctly. They should be read care
ready when you 60 before the regis
$trar. All. answers will &c written on
the registrars card in ink by the
registrar. who shall be careful to
spell all names correctly and to write
4. Name in full. Age in years:
This means sf al your our names {o sReG ID
years only. Disregard additional
month or days. Be prepared to say
"nineteen," or TWENTY-FIVE" 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
H232 Main street, Chicago, Cook
county, Illinois, that is give number
and name of street first, then town,
then county anu state.
3. Date of birth.
Write your birthday, (month, day
and year, on piece of paper before
going to the registrar, and give the
Die: august 5, 1894" If you do
not remember the year, start to an,
swer as you would if someone asked
Then say ION my n4rthday this year !,
Th wl re 81 9r VIII wifi then l ea in the
year Of birth. Many people do not
carry in mind the year they were
born. This may be obtained By tie
registrar by. subtracting the age IN
years on this years birthday from
4. Are you (D a natural born citi-
zen; (2) naturalized citizen, '3)
an alien, % or have 20" declared
your intention to become u citizen
(specjfy which).
ID If you we're born in the Unit,
ed States, including Alaska an ana
Hawaii, YOU are natural ,,1ds porn h c1e,7
the citizenship or nationality OF your
parents If you were born in Porto
Rico, you are citizen OF the United
States unless you were born OF alien
parentage. II you were born abroad
you are still citizen of the United
states II your Idtnei was a c!liAoA "
1.-THE United States at the time you
were born, unless you have expatri-
ated yourself.
ca You are a naturalized citizen
if you have completed your naturali-
cation; that is, ii you have taken
final papers" But you are not
citizen if you have only declared your
if you have only taken out first pa
norsnl in the latter case Won are
only a "declarant." You are also a
naturalized citizen, if, although for
eign born, your father or surviving
parent became fully naturalized
while you were under twenty-one
years of age, and ii you came to the
} go You are a declarant, if al
though citizen or subject Of some
foreign country, you have declared
on oath before a naturalization
court your intention, to become
citizen of the United States. Receipt
, from the clerk of the court Of the Ger
tilted copy is otter en- called not taking ing
clarent il your first paper was taken
out after September &c. 1906, and
Is more than seven years old.
p a. You are an alien if you do
not fall within one of the three class
es above mentioned.
Where were you born?
First name the town, then the
state, then the country, as "Colum-
bus, Ohio, Vienna, Austria, Par
6. III you are not citizen, of
what country are you = citizen or
g This need be answered only by
aliens and declarants. Remember
that "declarant' is not yet citi-
zen of the United States. If an alien
or declarant, state the name Of you,
. seaissy', etc as France Japan
z. What is your present trade,
occupation or office?
This does not ask yhat you once
did, nor'what you have done most OF
TIE time, nor what you are best Ut,
SR IS RIGAT SSW; STATE sen briefly
sIaborer ION farm, in rolling mill,
in automobile, wagon or other fac
|tofy, "Nachinist in automobile fac
Tory" elc. If you hold an office I'M
Nr state or federal government,
ZINE the office you hold; II you are
IN one of the following offices or en-
hereafter mentioned: Custom house
clerk" employed in the transmits
sion of the malls or employed in
an armOry, arsenal or navy yard
mariner actually employed in he
sea service of citizen or merchant
within the United States
9. BY whom employed? Where
Vff you are working for an indi-
riduai, firm, corporation, or associ-
alton, state it's name. If in business,
trade profession, or employment for
vaarseif, SO state. II you are an Of
fiser of the state or federal govern
meAt, say whether your office is w
der the United States, the state, the
county or a municipality. In answer
to Che question as to where you are
em2loyed, give the town, county and
state, where you work.
o. Have you q father, mother, wife,
child under twelve, or q sister or
brother under twelve solely depend
ent upon you for support (specify
which,?
", If it is true that there is another
mouth than your own which you
alone have duty to feed, do not let
yoNf military ardor interfere with
the wish of the natilQ to reduce the
or,c ,oicorv tO snSRinimum On the