Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-06

name Of the community In Italy where
he was born had hard time. He had
! two chances at it, and finally succeeded
In completing some sort OF a record OF
! himself. This man, another Italian ana
one Filipino were the only aliens re-
| porting for registration. There are a
| number OF Chinese in the precinct. but
all are believed to be above age.
A prize exemption plea was let loose
on one of the registrars at the Adams
School. The young man. without hnn
or kin dependent upon him, ansmeIeu
every question in an absolutely sa, rs
factory manner until he came TO the
twelfth.
DO you claim exemption" asked the
| registrar.
Yes. do. and under rather unusual
circumstances" answered the young
man. IF you will listen Just sec
ond think I can make myself clear.
Here's the way the thing stacks up
| ] feel that l am constitutlonail9 I'M
fitted to become a soldier. ] come from
race of towards. Funny. isn't u
You see. had grandfather. ana ms
two brothers-my uncles, OF cour
who did not enlist in the civil war. AZ
three of them had just been married
and they did not want to leave their
young brides at home and go Oft 10 the
war. They were drafted. but beiore
the provost marshal could get tneih
they packed up their buds. put their
blushing brides behind them on their
horses and jumped to Canada. where
they raised pumpkins for the remain
der Of the war.
my family does not possess the
strain of warrior blood. That's the
| long and short of the whole matter
What is your plea for exemption?
asked the registrar.
We'll. if it's all the same to you, just
put down 'Natural-born coward and
that ought to let me out"
Registrations in the precincts Nos.
| 1911 and cd, the former representing
Langdon and the latter the section just
| east Of North Capitol street in and
| around Rhode Island avenue, fell away
below the number estimated. In the
| aforementioned precinct 236 out of an
estimated 400 received cards. II was
| in the Langdon district, though, that the
real shortage was felt. Prior to yes
! terday it was thought there would be
I a registration of about 1.2SO but the
big force at the Langdon School re-
ceived only 179 registrations during
Brookland School. and representing
Brookland, more than measured up. to
| expectations, a total of $40 signing
the papers which made them subject
to call for the first national army The
estimate for this district was 500.
| Four Germans, according to law alien
enemies because they had not become
naturalized, presented themselves at
precincts 1o-I. cd and 10-H for regis
| trations. One applied for naturaliza-
| ton papers more than year ago. but
| had neglected to take out his second
papers. In each instance the men APP
| peared fully cognizant OF their status
| and were as pleasant and cheerful
! about their tasks as any of those re-
ceiving cards
| Aided by the Red Cross. the citizens
| associations of Brookland and Langdon
| provided excellent luncheons and din
| in arye n q q
| were grateful in their praise of the
manner in which their welfare had
| been looked after.
Throughout yesterday the Peabod,
School was a busy place. Only for q
short period yesterday afternoon wa:
there a break in the line of young mer
awaiting -egistration- Between ant
9 o'clock last night there was still {
line of men Eating to register, ant
George NJ. ROBERTS, superintendent o.
weights. measures and markets. chic
registrar, called upon several add
tional assistants to aid in getting al
of them signed up by o'clock Thu
school provided chairs for the youns
men and fifty or more at time wer'
able to rest while awaiting their turf
to sign up.
A negro. who is deaf. dumb and un
able to write. responded to the Presi
dents call at Arthur School. Arthu
place between street and Indian,
avenue. Z. E. Lewis. one of the as
sistant registrars. and E. E. Helm
Registrar, had considerable difficulty fl
obtaining the necessary information
from the man in order that his car,
could be properly filled in. He hat
taken his name, written by some on
else, on a piece of paper. When 1
came to his age he was asked first on
age and then another until the cor
rect one was guessed. Difficulty wa
also encountered in endeavoring t
have him tell his occupation and b.
Whom he was employed. After som