The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-05-29

tered into the war forces. 1t merely
means that about one in twenty of
you will be chosen FOR the first army
of half a million.
Ii you are not fit for service YOU
will not be picked, but that has moth
ing to do with your registering. Your
Job is to get on the roll; the govern
ment's job is to choose the men for
the army. You will have an oppor-
tunlty to urge your reason for ex-
emption, if you have a reason, later
on. The government does not want
you IT you are unfit to be a soldier,
but the government reserves the right
to decide on your fitness or unfitness;
that is not left to you.
Absence from your home town does
not relieve you of the necessity of
registering. If your home is in Daw-
son the Dawson registration officers
must have your card filled out,
though on June you may be in New
York, ,Tallapoosa or Timbuctoo. If
you are in the rural districts or in
small town the county clerk will take
your registration. 1t is your business
to hunt him up, and he will fill out
your card. If you are in a city of
over 10000 population the city
clerk is the man you must go to, and
if you are in foreign country the
nearest consular agent will perform
the service.
The government does not intend
that any man between the ages of 81
and 81 shall be omitted from the ac-
count of the nations war material.
Washington VIII Select.
The registration cards will all be
forwarded to Atlanta by the local
board of registrars, and the names of
those who will be called to army SER
vice will be selected there.
Fhe number who should register
in Terrell, including white and black,
is estimated at from $50 to 1000.
Those in town who will be requir-
ed to register are urged to do so ear
ly, before those from the country
come in, and thus prevent waiting
around the registration office.
Farmers are urged to see that ne
groes on their farms who are subject
to army service register on next
Tuesday.
Local Exemption Boards.
Exemptions and discharges are to
be determined by local boards to be
named by the president The boards
consist of persons not connected with
the military service, one board for
each county and one for each 10000
inhabitants of cities. Appeal boards
are appointed in each federal court
district, to which cases from the local
boards may be taken for review,
where they may be set aside or modi-
fed. The law says that the appeal
boards judgment is final.
Rules under which the local and
appeal boards are to operate have not
been announced, and the department
declined to express an opinion on the
probable working of the law or con-
structions to be given hereunder, for
fear such opinions might be mislead-
ing.
The County Registrars.
For the information of the public
The News again prints the registrars
who have been appointed for Ter
rell county;
DAWSON. A. Laing, F. M. Nulty,
E. T. Jordan, B. C. Perry, Gay
Raines, W. A. Baldwin.
Parrott-R. F. Cook, L. G. Pink
ston, S. j. Carter.
Twelfth District. S. Jones, c..
F. Oxford, A. G. Mulholland.
Bronwood-W. W. Massey, Had
ley Stapleton, J. Fred Ball.
Sasser-C. c. Anthony, John Nc
Tendon, A. E. Johnston.
Heroic. M. Harris, j. L. Hass.
Ernest Brim.
Dover-W. D. Gay, C. S. Lee, DR..
L. Thomas.
Graves-I H. Kimble, D. NJ. Dis
nuke, Tom Jennings.
New Eleventh-G. w. Bell, T. W.