The Alaska citizen., 1917-07-16
HOW TO ANSWER
 THE QUESTIONS ON
 REGISTRATION CARDS
READ CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU GO TO THE REG ISTRATION TABI-F-HFRE YOU SEE WHAT WILL BE ASKED-STUDY THE QUESTIONS PREPARE THE ANSWERS IN YOUR MIND.

| appear These questions are set out ! below with detailed information to 1 help you answer them. i All answers will be written on the registration card in ink by the regis | trar. who should be careful to spell all names correctly and to write 1 legibly.
 l. Name in full. Age in years
 This means all your names spelled out in full
 State your age today in years only. Disregard additional months or | days Be prepared to say "19,' or "25," not "l9 years, 3 months" or the like
 2. Home address.
 This means the place where you ! have your permanent home, not the place where you work. Be prepared 1 to give the address in this way: '232 l Main Street, Chicago, Cook County | Illinois," that is. give number and name of street first, then town, then county and state.
 3. Date of birth.
 Write your birthday (month, day and year) on piece of paper before going to the registrar, and give the paper to him the first thing. Ex ample: August 5, 1894"
 If you do not remember the year, start to answer as you would if someone asked you your birthday, as August 5th" Then say "on my birthday this year l will be Cor was) - years old" The registrar will then fill in the year of birth Many people do not carry in mind the year they were born This may be obtained by the registrar by sub tracting the age in years on this l year 5 DlEluudy lIoll 15li.
 f. Are you CD a natural-born citi- zen; CD a naturalized citizen; (3) an alien (D or have you declared your intention to become citizen Specify which,?
 (a) If you were born in the United 1 ko and HaWaj you are a natural-born citizen no mat ter what may have been the citizen ship or nationality of your parents. If YOU were born in Porto Rico, you are citizen of the United States, unless YOU were born of alien parent age, If you were born abroad, you are still citizen of the United States if your father was q citizen of the United States at the time vou were born, unless you have eX- patriated yourself.
 (b) You are naturalized cltlzen if you have completed your naturali- zation; that is, if you have taken final papers" But you are not a citizen if you have only declared your intention to become a citizen (that is, if you have only taken out first papersD; in the latter case you are 1 oplv q s.6arlaraOt"
 You are also naturalized citizen if, although foreign born, your father or surviving parent became fully naturaliZed while you were under 2l years of age, and if you came to the United States under 21.
 (c) You are a declarant if, although a citizen or subject of some foreign country, you have declared on oath before a naturalization court your in tention to become a citizen of the United States. Receipt from the clerk of the court of the certified CODY of such declaration is often called taking out first papers" You are not a declarant if your first pa per was taken out after September 26. 1906 and is more than years old.
 (d) You are an alien if you do not fall within one of the three classes above mentioned.
 5. Where were you born?
 First name the town, then the State, then the country, as "Colum- bus, Ohio;" "Vienna, Austria" Paris France:" Sofia, Bulgaria"
 G. If not a citizen, of what country are you citizen or subject?
 This need be answered only by aliens and declarants. Remember that a "declarant" is not yet citl- zen of the United States. If an alien or declarant, state the name of your country, as France" Japan, China" etc.
 '. What is your present trade, oc- cupation, or office?
 This does not ask what you once did. nor what you have done most of the time, nor what you are best