Ellsworth American., 1917-05-23

ascertsin Maine's resources IN r,s, o..
- purposes, not merely for fighting with
oayoness and cannon, but for building Of
ships, raising OF food, transportation OF
supplies, manufacture OF ciothin shoes.
smells and other commodities, necessary
to q nation at war.
After this taking account of stock "a
completed, the next step, the segregation
OF the physically unfit, the men with de-
pendents, and the men needed ON tho
farms and in the industries, will be taken
This process will undoubtedly reduce tina
total number OF men subject to draft for
active military service, very considers blv.
The third and final step will be the cali
ing by the President OF the fighting men.
In order that they may be properly trained
and equipped to care for themselves ana
strike the most effective blow at the
enemy.
The places ordinarily used for voting on
election day will be used by the regis
tration ofiieer and, unless special ar
rRngrments are made for registration
elsewhere, men will register where they
ordinarily cast their ballots on election
day.
Every man must register IL be has al
ready reached the age of twentv-one
years or viii reach that age during the
year 1917, and il he has not yet passed
his thirty-frst birthday. lie must do
this even II he Ia not citizen. even II he
has wife, children or others dependent
upon him for support, even II he is a
cripple. He must register, no matter how
important . public Office he happens to
hold or what sort of work he is doing.
II he Is sick, arrangements will be made
to nave competent person take his
registration. IL he is In Jail or state
prison, the authorities will register him.
II he Is student in school, he will be
given an opportunity to ali up his reg
istration card and mail it to his home
town.
No man betwcent twenty .one and thirty
one years OF age Is exempt from registra-
tion, though undoubtedly many will be
later exempted from military service.
The penalty for not registering, either
through neglect or refusal, is 4 term in
Jail, and that applies to the rich as we'll as
the poor. No man will escape because he
has money to pay fine.
After the other questions have been
answered, the clerk in charge OF the regis
trstiou win ask each man II he wishes to
claim exemption from military service.
The registrar must enter upon the card
the reasons man gives for thinking he
ought not to serve. On the reasons given
at that time will be based the procedure
later, when the claim Is investigated.
some persons will be exempt because OF
the kind OF work they are doing, some be-
cause they have children or other de-
pendenis whom they must feed and
clothe, and some because they are already
In the military or naval service.
While the class from which soldiers are
to come is to be segregated by DR. aft, the
Law is careful to provide for avoiding the
misery that war brings to dependents at
home aud for q choice OF those whose
military service the nation most needs
and whose civil and domestic service can
bes, be spared.
After every man bet cen the prescribed
ages has been registered, after the
physically unfit have been eliminated and
the others who are needed more at home
have been excused, then boards consist
ing OF the sheriff, clerk OF courts and a
physician in each county, will attend to
the duty OF drawing, by lot, the names of
enough men to Ill Maine's quota in the
great army. The boards will also draw
the names OF set OF aiternstes, who may
be called when q man selected first is
rejected for any reason.