Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-20
PRESIDENT CALLS
MEN OF DRAFT AGE
Issues Proclamation Ordering
ALI Young Men to Register
Their Names : n June
Fifth.

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aids another to evade the require
ments of this act or of said regula-
tons, or who, in any manner, shall
fail or neglect fully to perform any
duty required of him in the execution
of this act, shall if not subject to mill
tary law, be guilty Of misdemeanor,
and upon conviction in the district
court of the United States having
jurisdiction thereof, be punished by
Imprisonment for not more than one
year, or if subject to military law,
shall be tried by court martial and
suffer such punishment as a court
martial may direct.
Registration Day june S.
Now, therefore, !, Woodrow Will
son, president of the United States,
do cali upon the governor of each Of
the several states and territories, the
Board of Commissioners OF the Dis
trict of Columbia, and all officers and
agents OF the several states and terri
tories, Of the District OF Columbia and
of the counties and municipalities
therein to perform certain duties in
the execution of the foregoing law,
which duties will be communicated to
them directly in regulations of even
date herewith.
And / do further proclaim and give
notice to all persons subject to regis
tration in the several states and in the
District of Columbia in accordance
with the above law that the time and
place of such registration shall be be-
tween 7 a. m. and 9 p. m. on June 5 Of
1917, at the registration place in the
precinct wherein they have their
permanent homes. Those who shall
have attained their twenty-first birth
day and who shall not have attained
their thirty-hrst birthday on or before
the day here named are required to
register, excepting only officers and
enlisted men of the regular army, the
navy, the marine corps, and the Ma
tional Guard, and naval militia while
in the service OF the United States and
officers in the officers reserve corps
and enlisted men in the enlisted re-
serve corps while in active service.
In the territories of Alaska, Hawaii
and Porto Rico, a day for registration
will be named in later proclamation.
May Register by Mail.
And | do charge those who, through
sickness, shall be unable to present
themselves for registration that they
apply on or before the day OF regis
tration to the county clerk Of the
county where they may be for instruc-
tons as to how they may be regis
tered by agents. Those wha> 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 heie They should
apply as soon as practicable to the
county clerk of the county wherein
they may be for instructions as to
how they may accomplish their regis
tration by mail IT, case such persons
as, through sickness or absence, may
be unable to piesent themselves per-
sonally for reg stration shall be so.
journing in cities of over 10000 pop
ulation, they shall apply to the city
clerk of the city wherein they may
be sojourning rather than to the clerk
OF the county
The clerks OF counties and OF cities
OF over 10000 population in which
numerous applications from the sick
and from nonresidents are expected
are authorized to establish such sub
agencies and to employ and deputize
such clerical force as may be neces-
sary to accommodate these applica-
tons.
Changed Face Of War.
The power against which we are ar.
rayed has sought to impose its will
upon the world by force. To this end
it has increased armament until it has
changed the face OF war. In the sense
in which we have been wont to think
OF armies there are no armies i'll this
struggle. There are entire nations
armed.
Thus, the men who remain to till
the soil and man the factories are nc
less a part of the army than the mer
beneath the battle flags. 1t must bt
SO with us. 1t is not an army that
we must shape and train for war; il
is a nation. To this end our people
must draw close in one compact iron
against common foe. But this can
not be If each man pursues private
purpose All must pursue one pur'
pose. The nation needs all men; but
it needs each man, not in the field thai
will most pleasure him. but in the EN-
deavor that will best serve the com
mon good. THUS, though sharp
shooter pleases to operate a trir
hammer for the forging OF great guns
and an expert machinist desires tt
march with the flag, the nation |.
being served only when the shart
shooter marches and the machinist re
mains at his levers. The whole natior
must be team in which each mar
shall play the part for which he i.
best fitted. To this end, congress ha:
provided that the nation shall be or
ganized for war by selection and tina
each man shall be classified for serv
ice in the place to which it shall bes
serve the general good to call him.
New Thing in Our History.
The significance of this cannot b
overstatcd, 1t is new thing in on
history and landmark in our prog
ress. 1t is new manner OF accepting
and vitalizing our duty to give our
selves with thoughtful devotion to tn
common purpose Of us all, 1t is in n
sense a CONSUMPTION of the unwilling
II is rather, selection from a natio
which has volunteered en- masse II
no more a choosing of thos. who sha
march with the colors than it is
selection of those who shall serve a
equally necessary and devoted pur
pose in the industries that lie benin
the bate line
The day here named is the tim
upon which all shall present them
selves for assignment to their tasks,
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