South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-06-04

II is your patriotic duty TO register
tomorrow. Your country has called.
and has decided that By means OF
selective conscription il can do the
most for you, and you your best for
it. SO, with that in mind. every
male person between the ages Of 81
and 81 years, not a member of the
federal service, should go 10 the pre-
cinct polling places advertised else
where in this issue and fulfil the re-
quirements Of the registration, Tues
day
There is a penalty for failure 10
register. but while that penalty is
prescribed for as a lever toward get
ting out the full quota of men. no
self-respectins, patriotic American
should need 10 know of it's existence.
Fine and imprisonment awaits the
Stacker, and federal machinery will
be set i'm motion Immediately follow
ing the registration to search that
Stacker out.
Open at O'clock.
Registration booths i'm charge OF
competent clerks. will be opened at
o'clock Tuesday morning in every
precinct in the city. There cards
will be furnished male citizens: upon
these cards will be placed informa-
ton necessary to the success Of the
conscription plan. Absolute truth in
the answering of questions is requir-
ed and demanded. Again, failure
again. this information is carried for
the ediication of the Stacker alone.
A point regarding the penalty for
failure 10 register and failure TO tell
the truth in registering: one may
think that in this large country of
millions Of men it will be possible
to e"ade the CONSUMPTION officers.
But when it is realized that thou
So nds of secret service officers are
now at work preparing for operation
of a veritable drag-net following the
conscription report. the danger OF
evasion is plainly evident.
Not Drafted Right on.
Registration Tuesday does not
necessarily mean that YOU will be
yanked from your employment and
from your family and hurled UMPIRE
pared and unknowing into the thea
ter of war. Care viii be exercised
in the selection of that first 500, 900
Ample time will be given for the ad-
justment of business affairs should
you be chosen.
Registration is urged as a patri-
otto duty. Pres't Wilson has issued
the call for 500. 900 men. and as in
1876. 1912. 1861 and 1898. the young
men of the country are expected to
answer
Pastors Urge Men To- Duty
Registration Sunday" inspired
many of South Bends pastors to
choose the necessity and duty ot reg
1stering as their sermon texts. Most
of them were prompted by a per-
sonal letter sent to ministers
throughout the state by the secre-
tary of the state council for de-
Tense
The letter urged the clergymen tC
impress upon their congregations the
urgent need Of the country for men
and asked them 10 make clear thai
consumption is the most efficient way
to assemble these men. The pastor,
were requested 10 speak OF regis
tration not as an irksOme duty, but
as the highest act of patriotism the
eligible man can perform.
I'VE have been asked. declared
Rev. ". H. Freshley Of the First
Evangelical church. "to make regis
tratiOn day. instead Of a holiday, q
day of devotion, a day of national
/ conservation To the great iHterna-
tional cause. Registration IT, an act
of loyalty 10 the nation, and each
man VINO registers on time has hi:
reward in the resulting efficiency tC
the government. The man who shirks
will be punished by Imprisonment"
Rev. c. A. Decker. Rev. James L
Gardiner. Rev John :. Burns and
Rev W. \. Brundage each devoted
special sermon 10 the subject