The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-02
Governor Capper First to Re-
port Preparations Complete.
General Holiday Turnout e. S.
Proclaimed for June 5.
BADGES FOR REGISTERING
Women and Girls Will Pin on
HOnOrs at Booths.
Only Crushing Welcome for
Anti-Draft AgitatOrs.

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cry is ready and the holiday prepared
! for war next Tuesday.
| And as for Observation-Disclosures a
crushing welcome awaits them at
every registration booth, from Maine
to California, and from the Great
Lakes to the Gulf where ten million
! Americans from p to 80 years of age
will appear and answer present
as Uncle Sam calls the roll.
Nation wide reports to the United
Press today show that so prompt and
hearty has been Americas answer to
President Wilson's first call to the col
ors under the new draft law, that if
| registration were today instead of
three days hence, it would go thru
without a serious hitch.
| While sporadic anti-conscription
reports came in, and anti-fight plot
j tiers were arrested in Cincinnati, Kan
sas City, Detroit, San Antonio and
| Boston by federal secret service
agents, the government seems to have
crushed organization opposition to the
| draft and the great majority of the
| reports were of enthusiastic plans for
q prompt and successful registration
| Tuesday.
Squelch All Rioters
Plans are today complete to squelch
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a tight rein on anti-draft Socialists,
l. w. WIS. anarchists, slackers and
other opponents of the draft in other
parts of the country.
| Governors of many states have pro-
claimed June a legal holiday. Thou
sands of great industrial organizations
will give their 1aborers the day off
with pay. Parades, speeches and pa
geants will fill the land with the spirit
of celebration that day.
ho nj tot oft IL
lage, ward and precinct organizations
! ofe-the Republican, Democratic and
suffrage parties have been called to
the colors to serve Uncle Sam in get
ting his young fighting men together.
Girls to Pin on Badges.
Thousands of girls and women will
put in the day at the registration
they step up to register and pinning
honor badges and registered arm
lets on them as they come out.
Saloons will be closed, by order in
some instances, out of patriotism IN
others, in many parts of the country.
In New York registration day will
be a festival Police Commissioner
Woods expects no trouble. but every
precaution has been taken. In the
midst of parades, blaring bands, red
fire confetti and mass meetings, thou
sands Of mounted and foot police
Il secret service men and armed officers
in motors will patrol the city. Field
telephones will be installed at street
intersections AMI at night myriadS OF
searchIights will sweep the darkness
in. over and around the metropolis tc
> guard against possible anti-conscrip-
, ton outbreaks.
) Kansas Reports First.
Kansas was the first state ready fol
registration. Preparations there were
complete last Saturday. Governor
Capper has proclaimed a holiday
Municipal receptions in honor of those
registering have been prepared in eV-
cry city. Kansas City, Kan, and To
peka will have big registration pa
rades of lodges, civic organiza tons
city and military officials.
Dodge City, Kan, women have
made khaki armlets to be given the
men as they register Other cities
give badges
Illinois is ready. At Springfield
bands playing patriotic music will ride
the street cars. There will be a gian1
military parade in the afternoon. Gov
ernor Lowden will speak at big mass
meeting at the state arsenal at night
Heavy Guard in Chicago.
In Chicago, all schools, municipa
and county courts and most factories
and business houses will be closed
Fort Sheridan troops will be ready to
uuell any trouble and special details
| of detectives will be stationed every
few blocks. Hundreds of special po-
lice will guard the registration booths
In Iowa cities women and girls will
present each registered youth with a
COPY of PresidentWilson's war mes
sage Factory whistles will be blown
at frequent intervals to remind men
to register.
No Holiday i'm Colorado.
In Colorado Governor Gunter issued
a proclamation saying that industrial
necessity prevents making reGistra-
ton day a holiday, but urges its pa
triotic observance turnout the COM
rnonwealth.
New England states and the rest OF
the east are equipped and ready for
the draft. In Pennsylvania boy
scouts, girls and women defense
Lacquer will make house to house
canvasses in Philadelphia and other
towns to rout out the young men.
Stock exchanges in Boston, New
York and other eastern cities will
close June 5. The exchanges have
urged their conscriptable members
and clerks to register.
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