The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-06-01
PROCLAMATION
PRES. WILSON'S
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directly in regulations Of even date
herewith.
And do further proclaim and give
notice to all persons subject to regis
tration in the several States and in the
District Of Columbia, in accordance
with the above law, that the time and
place Of such registration shall be be-
tween a. m. and 8 p. m. on the fifth
day Of June, 1917, at the registration
place in the precinct wherein they
have their permanent homes. Those
who shall have attained their twenty
first birthday and who shall not have
attained their thirty-first birthday on
or before the day here named are re-
quired to register exception only Of
ticers an denlisted 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 Of
ticers' Reserve Corps and enlisted men
in the Enlisted Reserve Corps while
in active service. In the Territories
of Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico a
day for registration will be named in
later proclamation.
! And l do charge those who through
sickness shall be unable to present
themselves for registration that they
apply on or before the day of registra-
ton 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 register by mail, but their
mailed registration 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 ac-
cOmplish their registratino by mail.
In case such persons as, through sick
ness or absence, may be unable to pre-
sent themselves personally for regis
tration shall be sojourning in cities
of over thirty thousand population,
they shall apply to the city clerk of
the city wherein they may be sojourn-
ing rather than to the clerk of the
county. Tho clerks of counties and of
cities of over thirty thousand popula-
ton in which numerous applications
from the sick and from nonresidents
are expected are authorized to estab-
fish such subagencies and to employ
and depstize such clerical force as
may be necessary to accommodate
these applications.
The power against which we are
arrayed has sought to impose its will
upon the world by force. To this end
it has increased armament until it
has changed to 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 part of the army that is
France than the men beneath the
battle flags, 1t 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 COM
mon foe. But this can not be If each
man pursues a private purpose All
must pursue one purpose. The Nation
needs all men; but it needs each man,
not in the field thH will most pleasure
him, but in the s6deavor that will best
serve the common good. Thus
though a sharpshooter pleases to
operate trip hammer for the forg-
| ing great guns, and an expert ma.
chinist desires to march with the flag,
the Nation is being served only when
the sharpshooter marches and the ma
chinist 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
organized for war by selection and
that each man shall be classified for
service in the place to which it shall
best serve the general good to call him.
The significance of this can not be
overstated. 1t is a new thing in our
history and landmark in our pro-
gress. 1t is a new manner Of accept
ing and vitalizing our duty to give
ourselves with thoughtful devotion to
the common purpose of us all. 1t is
in no sense a CONSUMPTION Of the un-
willing; it is rather selection from
a nation which has volunteered in
mass. 1t is no more a choosing of
those who shall march with the colors
than it is a selection of those who shall
serve an equally necessary and devoted
purpose in the industries and lie be
hind the battle line.
The day here named is the time
upon which all shall present them
selves for assignment to their tasks
1t is for that reason destined to be
remembered as one of the most con
spicious moments in our history. II
is nothing less than the day upor
which the manhood of the country
shall step forward in one solid rank
in defense of the ideal to which this
Nation is sonsecrated 1t is impor
tant to those ideals no less than to thu
| pride of this generation in manifest
ing it devotion to them, that there b
| no gaps in the ranks,
| It is essential that the day be ap
preached in thoughtful apprehension
of its significance and that we accort
to it the honor and the meaning tina
it deserves. Our industrial need pre-
scribes that it be not made techni
cal holiday, but the stern sacrifice tina
it is before MS urges that it be carrie
in all our hearts as great day of pat
riotic devotion and obligation whe,
the duty shall lie upon every maj
whether he is himself to be ristered o
not, to see to it that the name of ever
| male person of the designated ages
written on these lists of honor.
II In WITNESS WHEREOF, have herr
unto set my hand and caused the sea
of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washingto
II this eighteenth day Of May
the year of our Lord one tho