Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-05

ton, every officer, in federal state,
county, township and city service has
been called upon to lend hts aid
Sheriff Williams yesterday received
the following telegram from Adjutant
General Lloyd England, at Little
Rock, Immediately carrying out the
instructions given:
''Please notify all deputy sheriffs,
police officers, town marshals in your
county by wire, phone or any other
mode of communication at govern
ment expense, to render every assist
ance possible and see that all male
persons within the designated ages
register on June s."
A sentence of one years imprison-
ment, to be followed by enforced
registration, is fixed as the penalty
for failure to register, under the
terms of the selective draft army
measure.
The registration must be completed
in one day. Machinery to expedite the
enrollments has been provided in CIV
crp village, town. and city of the coun::
try. American history has no record
of such day. In many of the states:
! by gubernatiorial proclamation, it will
be observed as a festival; in all,
whether or not ordinary business is
suspended, the spirit will be the same.
The young men Of nation moro
than 100,0O0,O00 strong self-govern-
! ing and free, will come forward to set
the seal of their approval on the adop-
ton of the principle of universal ser
vice for the sake of democracy. The
principle was adopted by their own
mandate. A nation has volunteered
and all its able-bodied men are to be
assigned to service which will aid che
country in the impending struggle.
Those who do not serve on the battle
line will serve equally we'll in those
industries which are as essential to the
conduct of a great war rs soldering.
The soldiers must be fed and clothed
and supplied with arms and the tools
they require. The wheels of commerce
must be kept in motion. Those who
work on farms and in shops will be
las surely members of the nations
Iarmy for the protection and perpetual
|tion of democracy as the infantry and
larti,lcry, the airmen and the men on
1.-The naval ships.
! Will Select 100000.
It is the present intention to con-
fine the military draft at the begin
ming to 100000 men, who will COM
prise the first increment of the now
national army. But it stands to rea-
son that if the regular army is not
raised to the authorized strength, and
the quota of the national guard is
mot completed in a reasonable time by
the recruiting of volunteers, that those
branches must be filled by drafted
linen.
| It has been the hope of the war
department that the recruiting, now
under the management of competent
and experienced officers, would be CT
Elective and the complement of the
lexisting units all completed early this
summer. That hope has not been
abandoned by any means, and recent
lly the enlistments in the regular army
and the national guard have been num-
erous enough in many sections OF thf
country to encourage the belief thai
drafted men will not be needed. Il
is possible, however, that first draf
| Of more than 100000 may be required
The government. it has been said
Twill not exempt any particular class.
les Of industry from CONSUMPTION, but
Twill deal with cases individually. In
dividuals, however, whose work is con-
lsidered necessary to preserve an eco
tnomic balance will be exempted from
the draft. Nearly every line OF in
ldustry, it is said, has appealed to the