Arizona republican., 1917-05-26
ARIZONA READY
 FUR DRAF I, |S
 WIRED MESSAGE.
Governor Tells Provost of United States Arizona Has Completed Plans for the Big Registration Job
Arizona is ready"

Arizona is ready
 That is the message sent by wire yesterday by Governor Thomas E. Campbell to Provost Marshal General Crowder in Washington, in charge of the selective draft registration which will take place on June ,. It conveyed the information that this state was fully prepared to take a registration of all male inhabitants of the state be- tween the ages of 21 and 30 according to the regulations sent out from Wash ington.
 Every sheriff in Arizona had prev iously wired to Governor Campbell bell that they had received all their supplies for registration day and had appointed registrars and arranged for registration offices in every voting precinct within the.r county.
 With the registration ten days away and everything in readiness is ample evidence of the efficiency of the sher- ifs of Arizona. All this work was done in seven days, the presidents procla- nation having been issued on May IS.
 REGISTER
 Every Male Citizen From 21 to 30 Years of Age in the United States
 MuSl fteSlSleT on
 JUNE 9TH
 Whether You Are a Citizen of Some Other Country. Disabled or III.
 You Must Register Only Citizens of the United States of America Will he Drafted For the
 War.
 By Order of the President.
 REGISTER
 Posters wOrded as above in many languages will be sent out today from the office of the Arizona Council of De fense to every city, town and hamlet in the state to enlighten foreigners in regard to the registration to take place on June and that they will not gain the incorrect impression that foreign CTS. although required to register on that day. will not be drafted for ser vice in the United States army during the present war.
 Among the languages in which the poster will he printed will be Slavon- ian, Greek, Spanish, Montenegrin and Italian.
 Information has been brought to the council of defense that owing to a mis- understanding among the foreigners of Arizona, many of whom have been wrongly told that the registration of their names on June meant that they might later he drafted for the army large numbers would cross over the United States boundary into Mexico to escape the registration.
 Arizona already is short of labor and is making every effort to prevent fur ther exodus which is threatened be- tween now and June }. Instructions have been sent to members of the Council of Defense in every town of the state and especially where large numbers of foreigners are employed to hold public meetings at which speakers will in the language of the laborers. explain that there is no intention on the part Of the United States to draft the foreigners into the army; that the reg istratiOn is for the purpose of ascer- taining the male population of the United States between the ages of 21 ard 90.
 Ten thousand of these posters will be sent to all sheriffs who are instructed to display them where the foreign ele- ment abounds.
 Every effort of the Arizona Council of Defense now is being exerted to aid the campaign of recruiting for the First Atlzona Infantry to raise it to war strength. Letters have been sent to every chamber of commerce in the