The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-05-19

the above law that the time and place
OF such registration shall be between
a. m, and 8 p. IN. on the fifth day OF
June, 1917, at the registration place in
the precinct wherein they have their
permanent home. Those who shall have
attained their 2lst birthday and who
shall not have attained their 3lst birth
day on or before the day here named are
required to register, excepting only ofii'
GERS and enlisted men of the regular
army, the navy, the marine corps and
the National Guard and naval militia
while in the service of the United States
and officers in the officers reserve corps
and enlisted men in the enlisted reserve
corps while in active service. In the ter
ritories of Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico
a day for registration will be named in a
later proclamation.
"And | do charge those who through
sickness shall be unable to present them
selves for registration that they apply
on or before the day of registration TO
the county clerk of the county where
they may be for instructions as to how
they may be registered by agent Those
who expect to be absent on the day
named from the counties in which they
have their permanent homes may regis
ter by mail, but their mailed registra-
tion cards must reach the places in which
they have their permanent homes by the
day named herein. They should apply as
soon as practicable to the county clerk
| of the county wherein they may be for
instructions as to how they may accom-
plish their registration by mail. In case
such persons as, through sickness or abb
sence, may be unable to present them
selves personally for registration shall be
sojourning in cities of over 10000 popula-
tion, they shall apply to the city clerk of
the city wherein they may be soiourning
rather than to the clerk of the county. !
The clerks of counties and of cities of
over 10000 population in which numer
Gus applications from the sick and from
non-residents are expected are authorized |
TO establish such sub-agencies and to |
employ and deputize such clerical force
as may be necessary TO accommodate |
these applications.
"The power against which we are ar
rayed has sought to impose its.will upon
the world by force. To this end it has
increased armament until it has changed
the face of war. In the sense in which
we have been wont to think of armies
there are no armies in this struggle.
There are entire nations armed. Thus,
the men who remain to till the soil and
man the factories are no less a part OF
the army that is in France than the men
beneath the battle flags. 1t is, must be
so with us. 1t is not an army that we
must shape and train for war; it is a
nation. To this end our people must
draw close in one compact front against
common foe. But this cannot be if
each man pursues private purpose. All
must pursue one purpose. The nation
needs all men; but it needs each man,
not in the field that will most pleasure
him, but in the endeayor that will best
serve the common good. Thus, though a
sharpshooter pleases to operate a 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 maehinist 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 nation shall be or
ganized for war by selection and that
each man shall be classified for service {
in the place to which it shall best serve l
the general good to call him.
THE significance of this cannot be
overstated 1t is new thing in our
history, and a landmark in our progress. !
It is a new manner OF accepting and Vi
talizing our duty to give ourselves with +
thoughtful devotion to the common pur- t
pose of us all. 1t is in no sense a con g
,cription of the unwilling; it is rather,
selection from a nation which has vol v
Inteered in mass. 1t Is no more cheos | p
ng of those who shall march with the 8
,olors than it is selection OF those {
Who shall serve an equally necessary and e
devoted purpose in the industries that lie {
,ehind the battle line. a
"The day here named is the time upon A
which all shall present themselves for ID
assignment to their tasks. II is for that q
eason destined to be remembered as one Ii
# the most conspicuous moments in our Ii
history. 1t is nothing less than the day is
lpon which the manhood of the country c,
hall step forward in one solid rank in
efense of the ideals to which this ma "
ion is consecrated. Il is important to b.
hose ideals no less than to the pride of k
his generation in manifesting its devo- II
ion to them, that there be no gaps in ce
he ranks. n,
at is essential that the day be APP re-
reached in thoughtful apprehension of "a
rs significance and that we accord to it n,
he honor and the meaning that it de- u
erves. Our industrial need prescribes al
hat it be not made a technical holiday, a,
ut the stern sacrifice that is before US m
rges that il be carried in all our hearts
5 a great day of patriotic devotion and h,
litigation when the duty shall lie upon W
very man, whether he is himself to be 10
egistered or not, to see to it that the p,
anne of every male person of the desig h.
ated ages is written on these lists of ~
onor. of
"In witness whereof / have hereunto
It my hand and caused the seal of the
nited States to be affixed. Done at the
ty of Washington, this 18th day of