Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-05-25

Those who shall have attained the'l
twenty-irst birthday and who sha!
not have attained their thirty-irst
birthday on or before the day here
named are required to register, except
ing only officers and enlisted men o1
the regular army, the navy, the marine
corps, and the national guard and ma
val militia while in the service Of the
United States, and officers in the offic
ers' reserve corps and enlisted men
in the enlisted service corps while In
active service. In the territories -ol
Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico a day
for registration will be named in
later proclamation.
How to Register by Exceptions.
"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.
tion 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 prac-
ticable, to the county clerk of the
county wherein they may be for In
structions as to how they may accom-
plish their registration 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 10000 population, they shall ap-
ply to the city clerk of the city where
in they may be sojourning rather than
to city clerk Of the county. The clerks
of counties and of cities of over 30,-
900 population, in which numerous ap-
plications from the sick and from non
residents are expected are authorized
to establish such sub-agencies and to
mploy and deputize such clerical force
as may be necessary to accommodate
these applications.
Arraigns German Miitarlsm.
"The power against which we are
arrayed has sought to impose its Will
upon the world by force. To this end
1t has increased armament until 1t has
changed the 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 a part of the army that is In
France than the men beneath the bat.
tlefags. 1t must be 50 with US. 1t Is
not an army that we must shape and
train for war, it is nation. To this
end our people must draw close in one
compact front against common foe.
But this cannot be if each man pur-
sues a private purpose.
Gall must pursue one purpose. The
nation needs all men; but it needs
each man, not in the field that will
most pleasure him, but in the endeavor
that will best serve the common good.
Thus, though a sharpshooter pleases
to operate trip-hammer for the forg'
ing of 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 fo'
service in the place to which it shall
best serve the general good to call
him.