Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-06-06
OTTAWA PLAYS TRUE.
TO FORM-TUESDAY
WAS EPOCH MAKER
NO DISORDER EVIDENCED HERE
DURING, REGISTRATION - FOR
EiGNERS SURRENDER ALL OF
RIGHTS TO ANSWER NATIONS
CALL IN CASE OF NEED.

Ottawa played true to form and ira
dition yesterday.
Forecasts that registration day
would be an eventless occurrence in
which every eligible man would go to
the registrars to do his duty as citi-
en- and as a man, were falteringly
true from the time the booths opened
at 7 O'Clock in the morning until they
closed at o'clock at night.
So far as the authorities now know
not one man evaded subjecting him
self to draft regulations. The orders
of the government were carried out
with neathess and dispatch by all
parties connected with the epoch-mak
ing days task. The registrars worked
voluntarily and rendered service that
election boards would willingly pay
double for--if they could hire it.
Eligibles were early on hand where
their labor permitted early registra-
tion, and those who were delayed be-
cause of their vocations came as soon
after O'Clock as possible, thereby Civ
ing the volunteer registration boards
a chance to get their tabulations com.
pleted at a seasonable hour.
Not one word against the draft was
heard upon Ottawa streets. The po-
lice and sheriffs office were not COM
PEELED to drag any recalcitrants to the
booths for registration.
Ottawa surely played true to form
and to the traditions built about It by
its historic and patriotic past.
Many Declare Loyalty.
Perhaps the greatest impressions re.
sultant from the day were left upon
the registrars, who were able, by right
of their position. to get many inside
facts that were kept from the general
public Revelation followed revela-
ton, particularly when men classified
as aliens we're examined and an
nounced their loyalty to old glory with
6rmness and determination that left
no room to doubt their sincerity.
In the first precinct of Ottawa, fully
score of Greek young men were reg
istered. To man they admitted hav
ing dependents who trusted In them
: for food and supplies, because of the
disordered conditions of their own
country and to man they denied hav
ing any reasons why they should be
exempt from service.
To a man they voiced yes when
asked If they would fight for America.
Simmered to the same meaning each
CT these aliens" proudly patted him
self upon the chest and announced
OUR country first If 1t needs me
am ready to 60. Nothing can stand
before OUR country and the flag >
! Greece, torn and rent by internal
strife, is a land almost as barren as
Servia or Belgium. Parents who were
left in comparative comfort are with
out the necessities of life. The boys
over here send money home from time
to time and one registrar yesterday
displayed a recent receipt showing he
had cabled to his old mother $3.50 tt
buy food with His answer, like the
others was, 81 am ready to 60 at any
time OUR country wants me-
The Greeks, who have been more ol
less misjudged since their coming t
Ottawa began to assume a new guls'
in the estimation of the registrars
J They rose in leaps and bounds ant
t their conduct at registration will leave
: an everlasting impression upon TIT
e men who were handing them out thei
registration cards as extremely suit
T. able for emulation among some ou
n own native borns.
o Among the aliences taken into tn
s registration places were two or thre
Creations Both of them, togethe
with third who was too old to be res
istered, we're anxious to get back t
deliver some leadened messages t
Germany the trenches. The
= came from that part of Croatia ina
has been the Alsace and Lorainne G
Austria and Servia. They are Serb
y by blood and want to avenge tn
t. wrong their country suffered at tn
,f hands of their foster country.
4 Among the Austrians there was d
N sire to evade service in certain pr
d. cincts because of relatives fighting tn
|e fa,herland's cause,
ir Other foreigners, such as Italian
Of English, French and Poles, were vii
ing to 20 back and fight for their n
st tive lands under the colors OF tt
C.. good old L. s. A.
d. Glass Factory Men Register,
~ About one hundred men employed
the Federal Plate glass factory, repr
sening many of the nations now
war, submitted to registration witho
x. protest This morning Superlnten
ent Charles f. Claudin announced tn
m every man had his registration Ger
rv hcate TO Indicate he had performed b
ng duty uncomplainingly
,at At the sixth precinct, or seven
he ward, where 1t was feared there mig
nv. be some trouble because Of the lar
Ier foreign population that registers the