The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-05
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CREDIT To
HOME AND
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Officials Are
Pleased at Response to
Solemn Duty All Day
Long.
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place az 5o7 Morton avenue, East Ham
mond, reported there were no more
cards there and none could be secured
Fifty men were in Line and thirty or
forty had left without registering. The
precinct had been given only 100 cards,
Ton Lurte, the clerk reported.
Long lines of young men, among
them laborers and university
graduates, Caucasian, Mongolian,
Ethiopian and Malayan - all
Americans-today waited at one
hundred and forty-one precinct
polling places in Lake county to
register for service in the armies
of the United States while volun-
teer clerks labored with hardly a
pause.
Exceeding all estimates, tn.
registration at noon indicated
Lake county would have over 15,-
600 names from which its allot-
ments for selective military SER
ice are to be drawn.
BIG REGISTRATION.
Hammond and East Chicago wers
expected to register between $500 ana
5000 each. Gary 5000. Whiting 1Gn
and the remainder of the county 9.aan
to 5000. according TO the estimates
officials.
The registration was marked bv ord
er in all parts of the county through
out the forenoon with congestion in
many precincts of Gary Hammond ana
East Chicago due largely to the diff
Guilty non speaking foreigners had in
understanding and answering the quos-
tfons. Interpreters were in great de-
mand.
SHERIFF BARNES BUSY.
Sheriff Barnes of the Lake COUNT
draft board which has jurisdiction over
all parts of the county excluding Car
and East Chicago which have their
own boards. hurried to Hammond at
noon with thousand additional regis
tration cards. Shortage was also re-
ported in many Gary precincts Gary
began the registration with $500 cards
and Hammond with 2.160. Only one
disturbance was reported. and that in
Tolleston. When the police reached
the scene the disturbance had ended.
The number thirteen was every
where taken as certain indication that
the holder would be called. 1t is safe
to say that in each of the 141 precincts
of the county the young man having in
his possession registration card number
1S considers the matter settled. In one
precinct the recipient of card number
13 said: That settles it, boys, I'm not
even going to wait to be called III
enlist"
While some were very anxious to
take advantage of exemption because
they had dependents a great many
made no claim to exemption and per-
mitted question No Il, which it is not
obligatory, TO remain unanswered
However. one man with three small
children, took his wife and the children
to the polling places to present them as
exhibits and evidence Of why he should
be exempt.
The average young man went to the
registration place in the best of hunor
and did not complain when compelled
to stand in line for an hour But oc-
casionally individual would display
nervousness. One instance was report
ed of young man who had the great
est difficulty in remembering his name
when asked by the clerk and stammer-
ed over all the answers to the oues-
tions.
BY courtesy of the Chamber of Com
merce those registering in Hammond
received coat lapel celluloid buttons
and red. white and blue ribbons, which
they displayed proudly.
Five hundred out of town men reg
istered in Gary and 200 in Hammond
up to late hour today. At St Mar
garets hospital in Hammond il was re-
ported that severel men within the ag,
limits declined to register when the
clerk went to that institution to ac-
them Being i'll and not hav- .
ing read the papers for the past two
weeks they did not understand the pur-
pose of the registration and could not
be convinced il was necessary for them
TO register in their Nresent physical
condition.
IN HAMMOND
In the seventh precinct of Hammond
at noon over a hundred had registered
1t eleven o'clock SIS had registered in
the ninth. 55 in the twenty-first and
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