The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-06-14
Reports From Governors Throughout
Country Indicate That Enrolment
10 In Excess OF 100000.
Quiet Reported Everywhere.

young Americans enrolled themselves
Tuesday for war service.
Registration day, with but few
weeks OF preparation, saw the first
military census ever taken in the Unit
cd States completed without single
untoward event Of consequence.
The manhood Of the nation obeyed
the Presidents call and volunteered en-
mass, setting at naught all the schemes
and plotting Of German sympathizers
and the few cranks who have agitated
against registration. II remains but
TO select the men who are to 60 to
the front.
From virtually every state reassur.
ing messages came to Brigadier-Gen.
eral Crowder, Provost MarshalGeneral,
Federal supervising officer Of the great
enterprise.
In some precincts the late comers
forced officials to keep the polls open
until long after the 9 p. M. closing
hour set In the regulations. General
Crowder authorized them to keep open
as long as men wished to enroll them.
selves. The result will be further to
delay the transmission Of returns, how
ever.
The early reports, showing full
turnout all over the country, indicated
that the estimates OF the Census Blu.
reau as to the number Of men within
the specified age limits would be veri-
fed by the count. Wherever partial
figures we're authoritative the esti-
mates checked closely.
A typical message received was that
from Idaho: Registration will be 100
per cent" II said. Spontaneous and
without murmur or incident"
The situation was SO clear and the
response SO ready throughout the
country that Governors OF 46 Of the
48 states had sent similar assurances
long before registration had closed,
and the other two were close on their
heels.
A feature Of the registration was the
refusal Of hundreds OF thousands of
men to make any reply to the ques.
tion, do you claim exemption" Even
men who reported that they had de.
pendent families; men with obvious
physical disabilities and those whose
occupations are certain to keep them
at home declined to make such
claim. Apparently they have entered
fully into the very spirit CT the law.
They are content to leave the question
Of exemption TO the exemption boards.
They have no claims to make, but are
ready to do their share, whatever 1t
may be.
Many Yet To Register.
There remain several supplementary
steps to be taken. Tuesdays registra-
tion included only continental United
States. Alaska and Hawaii will rec
ord their fighting men on dates to be
set later, and the roll Of Americans
now abroad, who are beseiging con.
sulates all around the world for reg.
istration cards, will add to the great
list. The State Department was called
upon for additional cards by the thou.
sand.
Few eleventh-hour rulings were
found necessary. The system devised
by General Crowder of invoking the
political machinery Of the nation in
the task worked with a smoothness
that spoke Of perfect cooperation by
state, county and municipal officials.
Free Yet To Enlist.
General Crowder made II clear, how.
ever, that registration acted as bar
against no man who wished to enlist
in the army, navy or marine corps
Any man who enrolled himself Tues
day, but whose patriotic impulse bids
him step into the ranks now and not
await selection day. will pass from the
registration lists automatically. man
may take his choice as to the part Of
the great national army in which he
will serve-regulars, National Guard
or selective army.
Many cards mailed by men absent
from their home precincts failed TO
show the present address of the indi.
vidual.
Four Arrests Reported.
Only four arrests were officially re.
portedt the Department of Justice-at
Hamilton. Ohio; Hartford Conn;
Richmond, Va, and at small place
near st. Louis.
Quieter Than Election.
0fiicial reports showed that the reg.
istration passed without even such ex.
citing disturbances as mark q general
political election. Reports were slow
In coming into the Department of Jus.
tice, which was gratifying to officials
because 1t indicated lack OF trouble in
view Of the strict instructions sent
everywhere to report trouble instantly
TO Washington.
Cards Ran Out
There was some delay in Gary. Ind.
and in some Chicago districts because
the registration had to be stopped to
permit the printing of more cards, reg.
istration exceeding all expectations.
In Texas, where the Governments
investigation OF the anticonscription