Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-04

Preparations for any antidraft reg
istration campaign, announcement
that all local bars will be closed to-
morrow in compliance with the re-
quest of Mayor Charles A. Miller, and
offers from many residents of the
city and county to cooperate wher-
ever it is possible were the final de-
Velopments as city and county regis
trarS and registration boards prepar-
ed to enroll the men between the
ages of 2l and 80 years. inclusive.
city and county officials do not an
ticipate any attempts to escape regis
tration or any refusal, but intimated
that should this happen, stringent
measures will be adopted and arrests
made at once.
Ready For Returns
Arrangements have already been
started at the Courthouse for the
returns from each city and county
district so that the tabulations can
be started early Wednesday morn
ing. Need of personal workers, au-
tomobiles, Interpreters and clerks by
the city and county resulted in some
volunteers offering to serve, but
many more can be used.
Final instructions with orders for
slight changes in some of the forms
for tabulation and in the require
ments OF the registrars We're receiv-
ed and will be transmitted by the
local boards at once.
Bars Will BE Closed
Stanley G. Jean, secretary of the
Dauphin County Liquor Dealers Pro-
tective Association, announced last
night that the licensed dealers of
the city and county will close to-
morrow during the hours of enroll
ment. 1t is understood also that Il
number of licensed clubs throughout
the city and county will take similar
action.
Want Men Exempted
in the churches yesterday practi-
cally every Protestant and Catholic
minister called the attention of the
congregations to the registration to-
morrow. Special sermons and pa
triotic services in the morning and
evening voiced the cooperation of
the clergy of the city and county.
Among the pastors who spoke at
length on the draft were the Rev.
DR.. George Edward Hawes, of Mar
ket Square Presbyterian Church; the
Rev. DR.. Clayton Albert Smucker,
Stevens Memorial Methodist; the Rev.
DR.. Robert Bagnell, Grace Methodist,
while other ministers brought the
question into their sermons indi-
rectly.
Efforts of the Bell Telephone Com
pany and the Western Electric Com
pany to win exemption from con-
scription for all their employees has
been submitted to the Department of
Justice at Washington. Form letters
have been sent out to employees of
the companies named, instructing
them how to answer questions Z, 8
and ~, pertaining to employment
and exemption claims. A somewhat
similar move, it is understood, Will
be made by the Harrisburg Pipe
and Pipe Bending Works, where
hundreds of employees are at work
making shells.
Long Line to Register
To-day was a record-breaker at
the office of City Clerk r. Ross Sea-
man Off signing up nonresidents and
persons who will be out of the city
tomorrow. Long before the office
opened the men lined up in the hall
and during the morning City Asses
sor James G. Thompson, with a num-
ber of clerks of city offices, Mercer
b. Tate, j. William Bayles and b.
Frank Mead, of the subboards, as
sisted in the work. Another crowd
kept County Clerk Ed II. Fisher, of
the county board, with assistants.
working during the day.
Few of the men registering claim
ed exemptions, many of them not
even answering question II on the
registration card. One of the men,
signing up carly in the morning,
claimed exemption because he had
been given dishonorable discharge
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