Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-31

REGISTRATION
MACHINERY RUNS
MOST SMOOTHLY

With the smoothness and popular.
ity OF any army field headquarters.
work at the office Of the central reg
issratien board proceeded 10 day.
Executive Officer +. j. Green. Chair
man Wul Wayne. Recorder Charles
NJ. Coster. and Judge AutonIo Perry
:sEai adviser. were all present at an
Ssriy hour.
On the Eva lanai Of the capitol sat
through tic day = constantly chang
iIg group Of 20 men. These were
fhe owners OF automobiles yolun-
tecred FOR service. Al the telephone
in the board headquarters an officer
from police headquarters received
tcalls.
"Ring.g-sg:"
This is board headquarters. Yes.
first of the Fourth. Need one more
Filipino Interpreter. All right
A call goes in for the sheriffs Of
flee,
Sheriff Rose. they need another
Filipino interpreter at the First OF
the Fourth All right, thank you
A boy scout steps up to Officer
Green's desk and salutes.
Some pen points needed In the
Seventh of the Fifth, sir.
Pen points. Chairman Wayne steps
to the lanai and motions to ]. Asa
man Beaver. Beaver leaves with the
lad in his. auto. Registrars at the
precinct will soon be signing names
with brand new pen points from Be
aven's shelves.
1t is this spirit of whole-hearted
service that charactertzes the entire
force OF volunteers.
Again the telephone rings. A reg
istrar sends In a question.
Does the word race mean the
man or his wife? II follows right
after the query as to whether he -
! married. The inquirer is tod that
1t means the man."
Uncle Sam isn't going to draft the
wives yet and doesn't care what race
they are.",
Edward B. Lynch. a sailor on the
Doris who was TO leave this after
noon on the Wilhelmina. reported at
headquarters this morning:
Il was registered in Seattle, pre-
cinct ISL" he says. 81 have lost my
card In some way that cant under
stand. What had better do? I'm not
n Stacker and don't want to run the
chance Of being classsd as one.
Lynch Is questioned for a moment
to determine his identity, then given
a signed statement over his sigma
ture, to the effect that he has called
Mt the office OF the board of regisfra-
ton in Hawaii stating that he has
lost or misplaced his certificate.
At $50 o'clock the End Infantry
hand rolled up to the capitol In q big
auto truck, headed by two auto loads
Of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
| Frederick Funston Rost ~. a string
OF military airs were played.
Bring the Good Old Bugle. Boys
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are
Marching" and Johnny Comes
Marching Home. brought applause
from the capitol lanai and the scat
tered knots OF men and boys in the
yard. Then the soldiers and former
soldiers rolled away on their rounds
OF the registration booths to stir men
to this big national duty.
During the day the capitol grounds
proved q sort Of assembling place f0r
men who had been summoned to yfri-
Gus tasks as well as for the curious
bystander. Regulars In khaki often
strolled through to hear the bands
play or watch the boy scouts at work
These had headquarters In tents IN
the yard with bicycles for short err
rands and automobiles for longer
ones. Brig. Gen. Samuel I. johnson
was among those who had volunteered
automobile service. He answered .
call brought In by boy scout and
the two whisked away in the generals
big car. One fancied that the scout
sat Just a little more erect as he
passed out Of the capitol yard with
him N HE chanffanr