The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-19
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cnarSeu Wlth Sueh Outy or haNihS anu exercising any authority under said act, regulations or directions, who shall knowingly make or be party to the making of any false or incorrect registration, physical examination, ex- emptiOn, enlistment, enrolment, or muster; and any person who shall make or be n party to the making of any false statement certificate as to the fitness or liability of himself or any other person for service under the provisions of this act, or reeula- tiOns made by the President there under, or otherwise evades or aids another to evade the requirements of this act. of said regulations, who. in any manner, shall fail neg feet to perform any duty required of him in the execution of this act, shall, if not subject to miIitay law, be guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction in the district court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof. be punished by Imprisonment for not more than one year, or, if subject to military law. shall be tried by court-martiaI and suffer such pun ishment the court-martiaI may hi- rect.
 Now, therefore, |, Woodrow Will son. Presidetn of the United States, do call upon the governors of each of the several states and territories, the board of commissioners of the District of Columbia, and all officers and agents of the several states and terri tories. of the District of Columbia. and of the counties and municipalities therein. to perform certain duties in the execution of the foregoing law, which duties will be communicated to them directly in regulations of even date herewith.
 REGISTRATION JUNE5
 and do further proclaim and give notice to all persons subject to regis- trafion in the several states and in the District of Columbia in accordance xvitt the above law that the time and place or such registration shall be between d. Tn. and D. m. on the 9th day of tune, l9l7. at the registration place in the precinct wherein they have their permanent homes. Those who shall have attained their 21st birthday and who snail not have attained their 31st birth day on or before the day here named are required to register, excepting only officers and enlisted men of the regu- lar army. the navy, the marine crops and the National Guard and naval mili- tia while in the service of the United states, and officers in the officers re- serve corps and enlisted men in the en- listed reserve corps while in active ser vice. In the territories of Alaska, Ha- waii and Porto Rico a day for regis- tratiOn will be named in a later proc lamatiOn.
 IN CASE OF ILLNESS
 And l do charge those who through sickness shall be unable to present themselves for registration, that they apply on before the day of registra- hOn to the county clerk where they may be for instructions as to how they may he registered by agent. Those who expect to be absent on the day named from the counties in which they have their permanent homes may register by mail. but their mailed registration cards must reach the place in which they have their permanent homes by the day named herein. They should apply as soon as practicable to the county clerk of the county wherein they may he for instructions to how they may ac- cOmplish their registration by mail. In case such persons as, through sickness or absence, may be unable to present themselves personally for registration shall be sOjOurning in cities of over 30,- 900 population they shall apply to the city clerk of the city wherein they may he sOjourning rather than to the clerk of the county. The clerks of counties and of cities of over 3O,OOO population in which numerous applications from the sick and from nOnresidents are ex- pected are authorized to establish such subagenctes and to employ and deputfxe such clerical force as may be neceS- sary to accommodate these applications.
 NATION MUST ANSWER
 The power against which we are ar rayed has sought to impose it's will upon the world by force. To this. end it has increased armament until it has changed the face of war. In the sense in which we have been wont to think of armies there are no armies in this struggle. There are entire nations armed Thus, the men who remain to till the soil and man the factories are no less a part of the army that is in France than the men beneath the battle flags. It must be so with us It is not an army that we must shape and train for war; it is nation. To this end our people must draw close in one com pact front against a common foe But this cannot be if each man pursues 8 private purpose. All must pursue one purpose. The nation needs all men; but it needs each man, not in the field that will most please him, but in the en- deavor that will best serve the common good. Thus, though sharpshooter pleases to operate a trip-hammer Tor the forging of great guns, and expert ma chinist desires to march with the flag, the nation is being served only when the sharpshooter marches and the machinist remains at his levers. The whole nation must be a team in which each man shall play the part for which he is best fitted. To this end, Congress has provided that the nation shall be organized for war by selection and that each man shall be classified for service in the place to which it shall best serve the general good to call him.
 NEW THING IN HISTORY The significance of this cannot be overstated. It is a new thing in our history and a landmark in our progress. Ii is new manner of accepting and vii tslizing our duty to give ourselves with though dey otion to the common pur-
 pose of us all. It is in no sense a con- scription of the unwilling; it is rather, selection from nation which has volun- teeIed in mass. It is no more a choosing of those who shall march with the col ors than it is selection of those who shall serve an equally necessary and de-