Arizona republican., 1917-05-19

tration in the several states and in the District of Columbia in accordance with the above law that the tame and place of such registration shall be between a. m., and g p. m., on the fifth day of June, 1917, at the registration place in the precinct wherein they have their permanent homes. Those who shall have attained their twenty first birth day and who shall not have attained their thirty first birthday on or before the day here named are required to register, excepting only officers and enlisted men in the regular army, the navy, the marine corp and the national guard and naval militia while in the service of the United States, and off cers in the officers reserve corps and enlisted men in the enlisted reserve corps while in active service. In the territories of Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico a day for registration will sJJe named in later proclamation.
 And I do charge these wbo through sickness shall be unable fo present themselves for registration that they apply on or before the day of registra tion to the county clerk of the county where they may be, for instructions as to how they may be 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 regis tration cards much reach the places 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 ""''@+v wherein they may be for instructions as to how they may acColnl,lIsn lllU44' registration by mail.
 Every One Must Help
 In case such persons as, through sick ness or absence, may b- unable to pre- sent themselves personally for regis tration shall be sojournng in cities of over thirty thousand population they shall apply to the city clerk wherein they may be sojOurning rather than to the clerk of the county. The clerks of counties and of cities over 30,0G0 popu- lation in which numerous applications from the sick and from non- residents are expected are authorized to estab- fish such sub-agencies and to employ and deputiZe such clerical force as may be necessary to accommodate these ap- plications.
 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 urt'l 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 a nation. To this end our people must draw close in ono ~@--~ front against a common foe. But this cannot be If each man pu.s.1. - Y -- vate purpose. All must pursues one pur- pose. 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 a sharpshooter pleases to operate a trip hammer for the forging of great guns, and an eX- pert machinist 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.
 Not a Consciption
 The significance of this cannot Nn overstated. It is a new thing in our history and landmark in our progress It is new manner of accepting and vitalizing our duty to give ourselves with thoughtful devotion to the com on f,f,
 conscription of the unwilling: it is rather selection from a nation which has volunteered en masse. It is no more choosing of those who shall march With the colors than it is a selection of those who shall serve an equally necessary and devoted purpose in the industries that lie behind the battle line.
 1 The day here named is the time upon Which all shall present themselves for assignment to their tasks. It is for that reason destined to be remembered as i one of the most conspicuous moments In our history. It is nothing less than the day upon which the manhood of the country shall step forward in one 1 solid rank in defense of the ideals to which this nation is consecrated It is | important to those ideals no less than f to the pride of this generation in man ifesting it's devotion to them, that there be no gaps in the ranks.
 ! It is essential that the day be ap- preached in thoughtful apprehension of it's significance and that we accord to it the honor and the meaning that it deserves. Our industrial need prescribes that it be not made a technical holi- day. but the stern sacrifice that is be- fore us urges that it be carried in all our hearts as a great day of patriotic devotion and obligation when the duty | shall lie upon every man, whether he is himself to be registered or not, to see to it that the name of every male