Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-23
MANY OFFER SERVICES
TO NATION DURING
CONSUMPTION
SITES GIVEN FREE
POLLING PLACES ARE ALSO BE.
ING TURNED OVER TO GOVERN
MENT WITHOUT COST-OTTA.
WA MEN ARE LATE WITH RE
oUEsTS-MANY TURNED DOWN.

oUESTS-MANY TURNED DOWN.
Volunteers anxious to serve heir
country as registrars on June ) are
keeping Sheriff Davis aud his aids
busy turning down those who were
belated with their requests to assist
at the various polling places. In OF
tawa the chief of registration will
have fifty more men than he can pos
sibly use as only eighteen are necoS-
sary and he has fully half a hundred
who will have to be disappolEt ,d
Today Sheriff Davis and D. H. Me.
Kenny. who Is assisting MIN with the
work of selecting registrars are on
their last drive they the county Yes
terday they covered all that territory
south of the Illinois river and today
are spending their time in the north
end of the county cnlisting volunteers
for service on June 5.
In the first precinct CT ottawa alone
there were eight men anxious to serve
ON the board, but only three could he
chosen from this number In ether
precincts the same condition exists
and the sheriff IL having bally old
time Of II keeping the applicants from
fighting among themselves to see
which will grab off the honors. Rooms
suitable for housing the boards a,e
also being offered gratis to the gov
ernment Among the offers this morn
ing was one made by Manager Mitch
ell, of the Public Service Co, in tend.
ering the use Of the company's entire
salesrocm on registration day without
cost TO county, state or latiun
Others are following in the foot
steps of Manager Mitchell and by to
night II is expected that the last dc
entirely completed II is imperative
that Sheriff Davis send his list of
volunteer registrars and those offer
ing store rooms for registration into
the governor by tomorrow night From
Springfield these lists will be forwar,i.
ed to the provost generals depart
ment at Washington
To Observe Day.
Accompanying the Official guide re-
garding replies TO registration que5
tions, the council Of national defense
thru its director, W. S. Clifford, also
issued recommendation to state
councils of defense regarding the ccle
bration Of registration day
Among the recommendations fol
celebrating the occasion arc the fol
lowing:
"Registration day should be cele
brated as a consecration Of the Amer
icaD people to service and 10 aacrilic
1t should be public expression by
each community of Willingness to sur
render its sons to the country.
1t should be celebrated In seri
GUS spirit and kept as registration
day only
Elaborate and costly decorations
should be discouraged. The sipirt o
volunteer service should be fore
most
"The celebration should be center
ed around the registration places an
those who register should be especa
ly distinguished
"The registration places should b
decorated with the national color
and emblems.
AT Z In the morning. the hour ,
the opening of the registration booth
church and frebells should be run
and whistles blown.
"Bands should be played near tn
registration places, and the parade
should make feature of stoppii
thereat. The men of registration az
should be the feature of the parad,
and should be escorted, where prac
cal, to the registration places vii
patriotic music by their kinsfol
neighbors, and friends.
Badge to Men Who Sign.
"To those registering a badge mi
be given showing that they have a
swered their country's call It shou
be given only to those registering
After the registration booths a
closed large gatherings may be he
with suitable, speeches, songs, mus
and reading of the proclamation a
message OF the president
In communities where there a
considerable groups Of the forci
born who do not understand Engli
posters explaining the registrati
should be printed In foreign langua
and broadly circulated.