Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-06-05
IGNORANCE IS NO EXCUSE
FOR FAILURE TO REGISTER
Man Who Enters This Plea
Will Find Courts Will
Not Accept 1t
Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
No man of military age can evade
registration tomorrow on the preteXt
that he didn't know the government
expected him to register.
Special notice to this effect has been
received by Governor Harris from the
authorities in Washington, who state
that people in some localities are claim
ing they have not yet received notice
of the presidents proclamation calling
on men of military age to register, to-
morrow, June 3.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse,
and the man who attempts TO plead lS-
norance as an excuse for falling TO
register will find himself without de-
Tense when he faces trial in a tederaI
court.
Another matter to which Governor
Harris and Acknowledgement Nash call
particular attention is a change in the
manner of handling the registration
cards. after the registration has been
completed, and a change in the manner
of filling out registration summary
blanks. These changes do not AFFECT
the men who register. They are Tor
the guidance of the registrars
The first change set forth in the
following telegram:
Studies being made in preparing
regulations governing the selection
and determination of exemptions
indicate that it is desirable to keep
registra ton cards clearly segregat-
ed into groups corresponding to the
registration precincts to which they
belong until all local boards have
been designated by the president
SO much of paragraph thfrty-elght
as requires the cards for each
N
In alphabetical order is therefore
suspended until further orders.
Registration boards should make
the copies of cards required by par
agraph thirty-eight, keeping both
originals and copies in precinct
groups The list required by para
graph thirty-nine should be made
and published in precinct groups,
but the cards should not be number
ed and the copies should be re-
tanned by the board until further
orders. Cards of persons registered
under paragraph forty should be
filed in proper precinct groups.
Please insure that all registration
boards in your state are informed
in ample time.
The second change deals with the fill
ling out of standardization blanks by
registrars ana Is set lOIlH III the IOl-
lowing telegram:
instruction of secretary commu-
nicated in my number $50, render
ing the answer to question II not
obligatory. and the fact that ex-
emption regulations have not yet
been prescribed, necessitates change
in the manner of filling columns
top of page %, headed column A."
Substitute therefor the following
Deal out all cards on which the
answer to question II indicates a
claim of exemption on any ground"
Strike out the word "occupational
exemption" in line 4 of that para
praph Substitute for the words
ationahexemption" in the last
two lines OF page 81 the words
physical disability" Change the
headings of columns and IL on
form 2 to read probable exemp-
tions not indicated in columns 1,
and g." Please communicate
these changes to all registration
boards with instructions to COM
municate them to registrars before
registration day.