The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1917-05-25
4 Proclamation

District OF Columbia, and all officers
and agents of the several States and
Territories, of the District of Column
bia, and of the counties and NUM-
cipalities therein, to perform certain
duties in the execution of the fore
going law, which duties will be COM
municated to them directly in regu-
lations of even date herewith.
And / do further proclaim and give
notice to all persona subject to reg
istration in the several States and in
the District of Columbia, in accor-
dance with the above law, that the
time and place of such registrations
shall be between z a. m. and 9 o.
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 attain
ed their twenty-frst birthday and
who shall not have attained their
thirty-first birthday on or before the
day here named are required to reg
lister, excepting only officers and en-
listed men of the Regular Army, the
Navy, the Marine Corps, and the Nat
ional Guard and Naval Malta while
in the service of the United States,
and officers in the Officers Reserve
Corps and enlisted men in the En-
listed Reserve Corps while in active
service. In the Territories of Alas.
ka, Hawaii, and Porto Rico day for
registration will be named in a later
proclamation.
And ] do charge those who through
sickness shall be unable to present
themselves for re gstrar,un thar thew
apply on or befo"a the day of regis
tration to the county clerk of
the county where they may
be for instructions as to how they
may be registered by agent. Those
who expect TO DC absent on the day
named from the counties IN which
they have their permanent homes NAV
register by mail, but their mailed
registration cards must reach the
places in which they have their perma-
nent homes by the day named here
IN. They should apply as soon as
practicable to the county clerk of
the county wherein they may be for
instructions as to how they may ac-
complish their registration by mail.
In case such persons as, through sick
mes or absence, may be unable to pre-
sent themselves personally for regis
tration shall be sojourning in cities
OF over thirty thousand population,
they shall apply to the city clerk of
the city wherein they may be So
Journlng rather than to the clerk of
the county. The clerks of counties
and of cities of over thirty thousand
population in which numerous appli-
cations from the sick and from non
residents are expected are authoriz-
ed to establish such subagencies and
to employ and deputize such clerical
force as may be necessary to accom-
modate these applications.
| The power against which we are
arrayed has sought to impose its will
upon the world by force. To this
end it has increased armament until
1t has changed the face of war. In
the sense in which we have been
wont to think of armies there are no
armies in this struggle There are en-
tire nations armed. Thus, the men
who remain to till the soil and man
the factories are no less a part of tho
army that is France than the man
beneath the battle flags. 1t must he
so with US. 1t is not an army that
we must shape and train for war: it
Is a nation. To this end our people
must draw close in one compact front
against common foe. But this can
not be if each man pursues q private
purpose. All must pursue one mr.
pose. The Nation needs all men. bpt
1t needs each man, not in the field
that viii most pleasure him, but in
the endeavor that will best serve the
common good, Thus, though
SharpShooter pleases to operate a.
tflp-hammer for the forging of great
guns, and an expert machinist desires
TO march with the flag, the Nation
IS beng served only when the sharp-
shooter marches and the machin;s+
remains at hisglevers. The whole Ma
ton must be team in which each
man shall play the part for which
ne is best fitted. To this end Con-
gress has provided that the Nation
shall be organized for war bv Sc
lection and that each mar shall be-
classified for service in the place to
which it shall best serve the general
good to call him
The significance of this can mot