Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-05-23

be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction in the District Court of the
United States having jurisdiction
thereof be punished by Imprisonment
for not more than one year or, if sub
ject to military law, shall be tried by
court-martial and suffer such punish
ment as a court-martial my direct
Now, therefore, l, Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States, do
call upon the Governor each of the
several States and Territories, the
Board of Commissioners of the Dis
trict Of Columbia and all officers and
agents of the several States and Ter.
ritories, of the District of Columbia,
and Of the counties and municipal1-
ties therein to perform certain duties
in the execution of the foregoing law,
which duties will be communicated
to them directly in regulations OF
ever date herewith.
And l do further proclaim and give
notice to all persons subject to regis.
tration in the several States and in
accordance with the above law that
the time and place of such registration
shall be between Z a. NJ, and 9 p. m,
on the 9Th day of June, 1917, at the
registration place in the precinct
wherein they have their permanent
homes. Those who shall have attain
ed their twenty-irst birthday and who
shall not have attained their thirty
first birthday on or before the day
here named are required to register
excepting only officers and enlisted
men 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 Of.
ficers in the Officers Reserve Corps
and enlisted men in the Enlisted Re.
In the territories of Alaska, Hawaii
and Porto Rico, a day for registration
will be named in a later proclamation.
And l do charge those who through
sickness shall be unable to present
themselves for registration that they
apply on or before the day of regis.
tration to the county clerk where they
may be for instructions as to how
they may be registered by agent.
Those who expect to be absent on the
day named from the counties in which
they have their permanent homes may
register by mail, but their mailed reg
%istration cards must reach the place
in which they have their permanent
homes by the day named herein.
They should apply as o as practical
BILE to the county clerk of the county
wherein they may be for instructions
as to how they may accomplish their
registration by mail. In case such
persons as, through sickness or alb,
sence, may be unable to present them.
selves personally for registration shall
be sojourning in cities of over 10000
population, they shall apply to the
city clerk of the city wherein they
may be%sojourning rather than to the
clerk Of the county. The clerks Oh
counties and of cities of over 30,0
population in which numerous appli
cations from the sick and from non
residents are expected are authorized
to establish such s~ub-agencies and to
employ and deputize such clerical
force as may be necessary to econ,
modate these applications.
The power against which we are
arrayed has sought to impose it's will
upon the world by force. To this
end it has increased armament until
it has changed the face Of war. In
the sense in which we have been
armies in this struggle. There are
entire nations armed. Thus the men
who remain to till the soil and mar the
factories are no less a part of the
army that is in France than the men
beneath the battlefags. 1t must be
so with US. 1t is not an army that
we must shape and train for war; il
is a Nation. To this end, our people
must draw close in n compact front
against a common foe. But this can.
not be if each man pursues a private
purpose. All must pursue one pur
pose. 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
best served only when the sharp.
shooter marches and the machinist
remains at his levers. The whole ma
tion must be a team in which eacl
man shall play the part for which
he is best fitted. To this end, Con.
gress has provided that the Nation
shall be organized for war by selec.
ton and that each man shall be classi.
fed for service in the place to which il
shall best serve the general good to
call him.
The significance of this cannot be
over-stated. 1t is a new thing in our
history and a landmark in ou1
progress. y 4
1t is essential that the day be APP
preached in thoughtful apprehension
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