The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-05

between the ages of Fl and
 31 are expected to register today in Birmingham. Promptly at 7 o'clock this morning registration offices will be opened at 57 differ
 ent locations in the greater
 city. There will be a suffi-
 cient corps of registrars at
 each place to handle the thousands who will present themselves for registration. The polls will remain open until 9
 o'clock tonight.
 The mayor announces that the
 city is ready and that all details of the local registration have been worked
 out to nicety. The captains of the various registration precincts have
 been thoroughly advised and drilled as
 to their duties and it is predicted that
 the tedious work of enrolling the thou
 sands of Birmingham's young man
 hood into the country's service will
 operate like well oiled machine. NO MERCY FOR SLACKERS | No mercy or consideration will De shown slackers or those who by either direct or indirect efforts attempt to retard or embarrass registration Gov ernment, state, county and city off,
 cials are all on the alert and any word or action seeking to prevent regis tration will be promptly dealt with. Both the United States district at torney and the mayor urge that all persons guilty of interference with to- days registration will be promptly reported.
 "AII state, county and municipal Officers,' said Robert N. Bell. uni- ted States district attorney. "and all patriotic citizens of the North ern district of Alabama, are here by requested to give me immediate
  ibIe to registration who has will fully failed to register on June 5. Such information. together with tke names of persons who know the facts, will be greatly appre- ciated by this office and used for the. purpose of prosecuting such individuals for such failure to reg ister Your act will be a patriotic one.
 "PersOns who try to persuade or prevent others from registering will be dealt with as severely more so than person who is elig- fble to register and does not do sO."
 ALL NAMES PUBLISHED And Mayor Ward said Within six days after registration day complete lists of those who have registered will be in type. The name of every young man who registers will be published. Also a complete list of the names will be open to public inspection and third list will be kept by the city department of public justice. "The public is requested to read this list carefully and report at once to the authorities the names of acquaintances who are of known military age and whose names do not appear. The source of all such informa- tion reaching this office will be held in the strictest confidence. The case will be investigated, ar rests will be made and prosecution by the government result We wish to doubly warn young men, who even consider evading the registration, that not only are such thoughts unpatr-
 otic, but if carried out will result disastrously for them. No agitators against registra- tion are going to be permitted to do much agitating today" declared the mayor, and anybody who at tempts it will get into trouble quickly"
 No trouble. however. is anticipated by any of the authorities. and it is expected that Birmingham full war strength will be registered without any effort at evasion or hindrance. City Clerk Lloyd has already re- ceived by mail more than 2500 regis tration cards from citizens of Br- mingham who are absent from home and who have consequently been com pelled to register in other cities. Tn addition many have been registered in the past few days who are com pelled to be absent from the city to- day
 Of the 1s,Ooo who are expected to register today. it is estimated that 50 per cent are white. Birminghams $ quota of the first army of 500.000 will be, it is said. approximately 300.