Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-05
100000 MEN
ENROLL FOR ARMY

| tioh piiluSI ISdully SHOWS THIS. IL
| follows:
Who Must Register: All male per-
sons (citizens or aliens) born be-
tween the sixth day of June, 1886,
and the fifth day of June 1896, both
dates inclusive. except members of
any duly organized force, military or
naval, subject to be called, ordered or
drafted into military or naval serv-
ice of the United States, including all
officers and enlisted men of the reg
ular army, regular army reserve, Of
| hcers reserve corps, enlisted mems
reserve corps, National Guard and
National Guard reserve recognized
! by the militia bureau, the navy, the
marine corps, coast guard, naval mi
litia, naval reserve force, marine
corps reserve and national naval vol
unteers recognized by the Navy De-
partment.
When: To-day, between a. m.
and p. m.
Where: In your home precinct.
How: Go in person to the regis
tration place of your home precinct;
II sick send a competent friend. The
clerk may deputize him to prepare
your card.
Penalty For Not Registering: Lii
ability to years imprisonment;
then enforced registration.
Draft BY Lot
To register is not to be drafted
That is another step in the great
plan. AS each man registers to-day
he will be numbered and at a later
time the numbers will be chosen for
service by lot. Not until then will
any man know whether ne has been
drawn for the first increment of
$4,000 men who probably will be
called to the colors for training early
in September before they go to the
battlefields of Northern France or
the trenches of outraged Belgium.
| After the men have been drafted
the question of exemptions will come
up to be decided by fair and impair
tial boards. They will determine
whether physical or mental defects
debar man from service; or wheth-
him, or the country's need of him in
civil life make 1t necessary to eX-
empt him from service at the front.
In the meantime to-day's duty is
registration. The long arm of the
Federal law is reaching out to seize
those who seek to evade this first
duty to which all have been called
and those who by counsel or influ-
ence seek to prevail upon others to
shirk it.
100000 Men
The Department of Justice, for the
time being, has put aside all other
work; the great machinery of the
Federal government has been con-
centrated to-day upon enforcement
of the law. Citizens have been call
ed upon as individuals and vigilance
committees to report any violations
of the law; and while the machinery
of the free national elections is be-
ing utilized to accomplish the regu-
lation the entire fabric of the civil
government is. being employed to see
that it is done.
OF the approximately 100000
men who are registering to-day, the
Census Bureau estimates that about
100000 are married and about s.
100000 are single. BY estimate they
are distributed through the walks Of
life. approximately in this number:
Agriculture, forestry and animal
husbandry 2,864,000.
Manufacturing and mechanical in
! dustries, 3.036,000.
No gainful occupations, 500,500.
Transportation, $4,000.
Trade, 1,054,000.
Public service, $4,000.
Domestic and personal service,
441.00O.
Professional service, $4,000.
Clerical occupations. $4,000.
Extraction of minerals, 364, 1000.
These figures total less than ten
millions. The remainder are scat
tered through occupations not here
classified which are many and
varied.
S79,37S I'm State
The provost marshal generals Of
fee estimates the number of men
subject to register to-day at 10,264,-
S96. Delaware's figures are 29,S25;
Illinois, 642,553; Maryland, 1876, 200;
New Jersey, S09,56S: New York, L.
100,2O6: Ohio, 49S,S96; Pennsylva-
MIA, S79,S7S.
While an approximate report of
the results of the registration may be
| published in the newspapers to-mor
row, it will be several days before a
complete return can be assembled.
The War Departm ent has instruct
! ed precinct and county officials not
| to transmit any incomplete returns
to the governors of their States. 1t
/ will, therefore. be 8 O'Clock tonight
before the first precinct return in the
Eastern States is complete. and it
will be midnight Washington time,
before the precincts are closed on the
Pacific slope. Then. more time must
elapse while these returns are being
transmitted to the State capitals.
| Inc governors nave Deen instructed
not to transmit any partial eturns of
their State to Washington, but to
| hold all returns for a complete re-
port. That will entail another de-
! lay. The complete returns for any
county will be available for local
public knowledge; the complete re-
turns for State will be available for
public knowledge first at a State
| capital and then in Washington.
Complete Returns
For the reason that partial returns
will be misleading, and possibly do
grave injustice to some patriotic
community, War Department officials
have appealed to all newspapers to
publish nothing but complete returns
| for comparison with the official esti-
mates of what the regulation for
given localities should be.
AS the day passes, all employers
of labor are expected to make provi-
sion to permit men to register If
their hours are such. that they could
not do so in any other way. The in
dividtIal, however, is responsible for
his own registration no matter what
its personal inconvenience or cost.
| Any interference with his registra-
| ton will be punished by law. No
man of the registration age may
! leave the United States before 8
o'clock tonight. When the reglstra-
| ton precincts close tonight officials
believe practically every man will
| have done his duty, and that 1t Will
be shown that the antiregistration