Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-05
CROWD BOOTHS
TO ENROLL FOR
WAR SERVICE
Practically Full Registra.
tion to Be Secured Thru
ont Country.
FEW DISORDERS
BRING OUT GUARDS

snins -Attitsds-ons Hundred Theu..
sand Government and Ieeal Officials
on Duty = lnsure enforcement Of
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America is stepping forward today to
DO her part In making the world safe
for democracy.
In every city and town, in the most
remote valley hamlet and at the wild
est mountain crossroads, 100000 sons
OF liberty are inzcrtbing their names
on the honor roll Of the ages, that the
free governments for which their
fathers died may not perish from the
earth.
White or black. married or single;
sick or we'll, alien or native born
sven enemy subjects Of the kaiser-
I'll men between the ages of q and 30
were expected to present themselves
today between q N. and 3 p. m. for
res1Stration. Il does not matter il 4
man Tor An1 yeaSon IL unit for army
duty: that VIII be established later.
II does not matter that he may claim
and b entitled to exemption from army
service that Will be attended to in an
other wAy. It does not matter that he
= not = citizen Of the. United States.
Every man between those ages Il re-
qptge6 = JNeister today unless ho al
lfeaAX Il NE railitaS1 AArYica n souao,
" \ Otk ~ - I'm - s
Necessarily M1nn pruft.
4 ~ s11eee = not % 10 drafted. That;
~ S6ce 1txp n tho xrcAt nlan. B A.
each man registers today he win be
numbered and ak later time the nuin-
,bers .will be chossa Tor service by lot
Not until then viii any man know
whether he has been drawn for the first
increment Of zoo mon who probably
will be called to the colors for training
early in September before they 60 to
the. batteaelds Of northern France or
In the trenches OF outraged Belgium.
After the men have been drafted tho
question OF exemptions win oome up to
be decided By . fair and Impartial
hoard. They win determine whether
physical Or mental defects debar Z man
from service or whether tho depend
ence or others on him or the countrys
need sof him In civA life mako It neces.
gary to exampt him from servica 1t the
front
Law 0ssiss Siaeksrs.
IN tho meantime today's duty IL reg
istration. The long arm OF the federal
law r reaching out to seiSo those who
seek TO evade. this Arst duty to which
all havs been called and those who by
counsel or influence seek to prevail
upon others to shirk It.
5A = he department cS 4nst!ce foc the
time being has put aside al other
work.
The srsat machinery Of the federal
government has concentrated today on
the endorsement Of the law. vigilance
committees hsve been formed to $50
that every one does his duty: and
while the machinery Of the elections 70
utilised % .ccomplish the registration.
the entire fabricum Of tho civil gov-t
eminent u being employed 70 ses thai
1T is done.
Nearly oas-haK Married.
OF the approximately 10000. 900 men
who arc ragisterine today the census
bureau estimates that about 100000
are married and aboilt s.soo. 900 are sin
gle. ny estinnate they, ars distributed
thru the waiis Of life approximately
III this number: @
Agriculture. forestry ana animal hus-
bandr1. l.Ss4. 40.
Nfanufh cturing ana mechanical In.
dustr1ss. I, 3,oSt;oo0.