The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-04
T0PEKAIS READY
TO ANSWER FIRST
CALL TO COLORS
Registration Program Com
pIeted to the Last Detail.
Clerks viii Be on the Job at z
O'clock in Morning.
PARADE AT las O'CLOCK
Patriotic Addresses Will Be
Made in the Evening.
Police Prepared to Cope With
Amy Disturbances.
Clerks VIII Be on the Job at z
O'clock in Morning.
PARADE At las O'CLOCK

Registration at all voting precincts from
o'clock in the morning until o'clock in
evening.
Bevies of Topeka girls stationed at all
prec nets pinnnE badges on coat lapels of
young men registering.
Largest parade in history of Topeka to
form at designated points at :15 o'clock.
Parade starts at As O'Clock.
Patriotic addresses by well known To-
peluns at six street corners on Kansas ave
nue. from o'clock to O'Clock in the eve
ming.
Promptly at : o'clock the Old Abe Fife
and Drum corps. led by Charles Moon.
will form at sixth and Quincy streets and
march up Kansas avenue to the state
house grounds.
At surdown. retreat with the firing of
guns will be presented by Adj. Gen. C. :.
Speaking at state house grounds at s
o'clock
With only a few hours interven-
ing until Topeka must answer present
TO the call of her country for young
men between the ages of 81 and 81
years, not a slip in the cog of
the machinery for the first registra-
ton in the city's history could be not
ed. Kansas, according to dispatches
from Washington, was the first state
TO answer ready with clerks and
registration precincts, and probably
Topeka is among the first of cities of
10000 and more, to have its registra-
ton details irOned out.
Already thousands of American
flags are floating from Topeka homes
Appeals have been made by the Cham
Der Of Commerce for every store and
every home in Tokepa to be decorated
with flags tomorrow.
Despite attempts of a group of To-
pekans and Kansas City agitators to
arouse the young men of Topeka to re-
fuse to register, not a single instance Of
any attempt TO dodge registration had
To 7 Z II
up until noon today. He has instruct
ed the chief of police to station emer-
gency men at police headquarters
ready to answer instantly any call
would be reported. However the
danger of resistance to registration in
Topeka is looked upon as negligible.
A Big Days Work.
DIR. H. /. Clark and Miss Eta Co
veil, members of the registration
board, will be stationed at the city
hall all during the day, ready to visit
in automobiles any registration pre-
cinct where the clerks and registrars
become confused, or are unable to
answer questions. When the polls
close at o'clock, the days work will
not be finished. Then the clerks and
registrars will mail certificates of reg
istration to 500 Topekans, out of the
city, who have sent in their registra-
ton cards from various parts of the
country.
All registration cards will be taken
to the city hall. The next step, the
classification of cards and preparation
for the selective draft is not known al
present by the local registration
board
IF it were not for the fact that the
work is entirely new" said Miss CoveIl
today the registration would not be
as difficult for the clerks as an ordi-
nary election. We estimate that there
are not more than 5000 young men ir
Topeka eligible and that leaves only
about 156 to a precinct"
Estimates on the number of Topeka
young men who will be called On the
first draft vary. Some estimate tina
one out of forty will be selected. L
that proves true only 125 will be
called. Others estimate one out al
twenty which would mean 800 Topeka
young men would be called.
Meals for Clerks.
In obtaining volunteers to furnish
meals for clerks and registrars whit
are working for nothing, the registra
ton board has been disa ppointed. Thu
Virginia, a we'll known boarding anC
rOoming house, will furnish dime
and supper for the clerks and regis
trars in the third precinct of the Sixth
ward Mrs Eva Hote, Mrs. VI. Gragl
and Mrs H. p. French will furnish
dinner for the clerks and registrars il
the third precinct of the Fifth ward.
F. B. Sweet will feed the clerks an,
registrars at the second precinct o
the Fourth ward while dinner will b
given to the workers in the third pre-
cinct of the Fourth ward by the Youn
Women's Christian association. Tn
Bradshaw cafe, 119 West Sixth street
will feed the workers in the first pre-
cinct of the Fourth ward.
The city clerks office was deluge
with letters containing registration
cards from out-of-town Topekans
Many sent the letters by special de
livery while a few registered the let
tiers to insure their delivery.
George Godfrey Moore, chairman o
the entertainment committee of tn
Chamber of Commerce announce
that plans for the monstrous parad
and other entertainments were com
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