Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-06-08
NATIONS YOUNG MEN
ANSWER IT'S CALL
REGISTRATION DAY QUE I
THROUGHOUT COUNTRY-EN-
ROIlMENT LARGE.

Young America went to the polls
last Tuesday and cast its vote for
world democracy-registering for
service.
Registration day was fair through
out practically all the nation. No
city reported any disturbances Of
consequence and the impromptu elec-
tion machinery, called into service in
the hour when America was selecting
her men to fight Germany, ran
smoothly and easily.
1t was Americas first experience
with compulsory draft from which
there could be no evasion by pur-
chase of a substitute. 1t was the
nations first compulsory demand on
her youth since the days of 81.
Holiday in Many States.
Many states including Washington
made a holiday of the event. Hun
dreds of cities held formal celebra-
tions. There were parades. patriotic
mass meetings, speeches, banners,
bands and pageants. For the most
part America went ''in" with the JOY
Gus enthusiasm of youth-of youth
unafraid, ready to fight.
The disturbances feared by some
in New York and other of the larger
cities, expected to be caused by the
harangues of ANNA Goldman and
similar anarchists. failed to material
ize. In a few instances, individuals
caught distributing anti-registration
harangues of Emma Goldman and
were no riots or disturbances of any
sort at any of the registration places.
At the mining town of Newcastle
in King county. 25 miners. all fore
igners, refused to register; some OF
the Indians of Arizona and Colorado
also refused to register, and in Butte,
Mont, a near-riot started when pat
riotic citizens attacked an anti-war
parade Of several hundred foreign
born residents. But an indication OF
how the day passed or throughout
the country generally Is to be seen
in the fact that in Chicago only nine
men and one woman were arrested
for alleged interference with regis
tration.
More Registered than Estimated.
Though the provost marshal's Of
fice in the war department has not
yet received complete unofficial re-
ports from all the states, indications
are that America has more potential
soldiers than she thought she had, ana
reports from all over the country
show that the response to the war
call was beyond the most optimistic
expectations of government officials
Instead of 10000, 900 men the cell
sus bureau had previously estimated
would register, incomplete returns
indicate that many states exceed the
bureaus estimates. Arkansas, In
diana, Iowa. Michigan. Minnesota.
Missouri. Nevada, Oklahoma, South
Dakota. Tennessee, Connecticut, Mas
sachusetts, West Virginia, Ohio and
Texas, have reported an Unexpectedly
large registration. while all the other
states are running close to the pre-
liminary estimates.
In some of the larger cities the
registration could not be completed
in one day. Chicago. for instance,
not only kept the booths open all
night but most of Wednesday, while
a number of other cities, including
Cleveland, Ohio, had to send to the
war department for more registrn-
tion cards and will not be able TO
complete enrolment until the end
of the week.
Reports from the 81 registration
districts of this state were received
very slowly, but late Thursday night
Lieutenant Governor Hart announced
that the states total enrolment is
1O8,33O, instead Of $4,000 as pre-
viously estimated by the federal Gen.
sus bureau. The discrepancy is ex-
planned on the ground that the fed
eral estimate was far too high, rather
than that any appreciable number OF
young men of the state refused to
register, reports received by state Of.
fcers being that the registration gen.
orally was virtually 100 per cent OF
the young men eligible.
All Of the regular employees of the
city will receive IS more per month