Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19

ply to the City Clerk of the city
wherein they may be 'sojournirg
rather than to the clerk of the
county. The clerks OF counties and
cities of over thirty thousand popu-
lation in which numerous applica-
tions from the sick and from nom
residents are expected, are author
lzed to establish such sub-agencles
and to employ and deputize such
clerical force as may be necessary
TO accommodate these applications.
Nations at Arms
The power against which we are
arrayed has sought to impose its Will
upon the world by force. To this
end 1t has increased armament until
II has changed the face of war. In
the sense in which we have been
wont to think of armies there are no
armies in this struggle. There are
entire nations armed. Thus, the!
men who remain to till the soil and
man the factories are no less part
of the army that is in France than
the men beneath the battlehags. 1t
must be so with us. 1t is not an
army that we must shape and train
for war, IL is nation. To this end
our people must draw close in, one
compact front against common
foe. But this cannot be if each man
pursues a private purpose. All must
pursue one purpose. The nation
needs all men; but it needs each
man, not in the field that will most
please him, but in the endeavor that
will best serve the common good.
Thus, though a sharp shooter
pleases to operate a trip-hammer
for the forging of great guns, and
an expert machinist desires to march
with the flag, the nation is being
served only wheI. the sharpshooteG
marches and the machinist remains
at his levers. The whole nation must
be a team in which each man shall
play the part for which he is best
fitted. To this end, Congress has
provided that the nation shall be
organized for war, by selection and
that each man shall be classified for
Service in the place to which il shall
best serve the general good to call
him.
Progress of America
The significance of this cannot
be overstated. 1t is a new thing in
our history and a landmark in our
progress. 1t is a new manner of ac-
cepting and. vitalizing our duty to
give ourselves with thoughtful de-
votion to the common purpose of us
all. 1t is in no sense a conscription
of the unwilling; it is, rather, selec-
IlOAl ALOlAl a halAOiA lllNA has NOluAl-
teered in mass. 1t is more a choos-
ing of those who shall march with
the colors than ii is a selection of
those who shall serve an equally
necessary and devoted purpose in
the industries that lie behind the
battle line.
THE day here named is the time
upon which all shall present them
selves for assignment to their tasks.
. iC haI
remembered as one of the most con-
spicious moments in our history. 1t
is nothing less than the day upon
which the manhood of the country
shall step forward in one solid rank
in defense of the ideals to which
those nation is consecrated. 1t is
important 20 those ideal no less than
to the pride of this generation in
manifesting its devotion to them,
that there be no gaps in the ranks.
1T is essential that the day peI
approached in thoughtful appre-
hension of its significance and that
we accord to it the honor and the
meaning that it deserves. Our in
dustrial need prescribes that it be
not made a technical holiday, but
the stern sacrifice that is before us,
urges that 1t be carried in all our
hearts as a great day of patriotic
devotion and obligation when the
duty shall lie upon every man,
whether he is himself to be regis
tered or not, to see TO it that the
name of every male person of the
designated ages is written on these
lists of honor.
IN witness whereof I have here
unto set my hand and caused the
seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington
this eighteenth day of Nav in the
year of Our Lord One Thousand
Nine Hundred and Seventeen, and of
the independence of the United
States of Amreica the One Hundred
and Forty-first.
by the President:
ROBERT LANSING. -.
Secretary of State"