Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-19
REGISTER FOR SELECT SERVICE ON II

tholHy Act regulations, directions who shall
knowingly make or be party to the making of any false
or incorrect registration physical examination exemption
enlistment enrolment or muster and any person who
shall make or be party to the making Of any false
ment or certificate as to the fitness of liability of himself
or any other person for service under the provisions of
this Act or regulations made by the President hereunder
or otherwise evadeS or aides another to evade the
quiremens of this Act or of said regulations Who in
any manner shall fail or neglect fully to perform any duty
required OF him in the education of this Act SHALL if not
subject to military law be guilty of msdemeanor and
upon conviction in the District Court of the United States
having jurisdiction thereof be punished by imprisonment
for not more than year. if subject to military law
shall be tried by court martial and suffer such punishment
as court martial may direct
ORDERS PREPARATIONS FOR THE DRAFT.
Now therefore l. Woodrow Wilson PRESIDENT Of the
United States do call upon the Governor of each of the
ea States and territories the Board of Commissioners of the
District OF Columbia and all officers and agents of the several
States and territories of the District of Columbia and of the
counties and municipalities therein to perform certain duties
the execution of the foregoing law which duties will be
with
And do, further proclaim and give notice to all persons
subject to registration in the several States and in the District
OF Coumpa IN accordance with the above law that the time
and place of such registration shall be between A. NJ and
p M on the fifth day Of June 1917 at the registration place
IN the precinct wherein they have their permanent homes
Those who shall have attained their wenyf birthday and
who shall not have attained their thirty rs birthday be-
tore the day here named are required to register excepting
only officers and enlisted of the regular army the navy
the marine corps and the National Guard and Naval Militia
while in the service of the United States and officers in the
officers reserve corps while active service In the teor
les of Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico, day for registration
will be named in later proclamation
And do charge those who through sickness shall be u
able present themselves for registration that they apply or
or before the day of registration to the County Clerk of the
county where they may be for instructions how they may
be registered by agent Those who expect to be absent the
day named 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 herein They should apply
practicable to the county clerk of the county wherein they
may be for instructions as to how they may accomplish their
registration by mail In such persons through sickness
absence may be unable present themselves personally for
registration shall be oiournng in cities of thirty thouS
and population they shall apply to the City Clerk of the city
wherein they may be sooung rather than to the clerk of the
county The clerks of counties and cities of thirty houS
and population in which numerous applications from the sick
and from non-esdens expected authorized to estab
sh such subagences and to employ and depuze such clerical
force may be necessary to accommodate these applications
The power against which we aTrayed has sought to
impose its will upon the world by force To this end has in
creased armament until has changed the face of the war In
the in which have been wont to think of armies there
armies in this struggle There entire nations armed
Thus the who remain 70 till the soil and the factories
are no less part Of the army that in France than the be-
meath the battle lags. II must be with 1t is not an
army that must shape and train for war; it nation. To
this end people must draw close in compact front
against common foe But this cannot be each man pusue
private purpose All must pursue one purpose The nation
needs all men, but it needs each not in the field that will
please him. but in the endeavor that will best serve the