Evening star., 1917-06-04

you will be put into prison and forced
to register or be registered for draft
against your will. If you don't register
your name will be noted as absent on
the lists which will be published in con-
spicuous places after registration day,
and your neighbor Is under the duty of
informing against you. Any officer.
whether of the secret service, the Dis
lice, will have right to demand of you
proof. OF your having registered If
arrested.
9. ! honestly don't know how old
am. Must I register?
A. Yes, il you are in doubt you must
register.
Q. I have an automobile I am willing
to lend to the government tomorrow I
viii drive 1T myself. To whom shall
apply for the service?
A. Apply to Mr.. Hazen, room 405, Dis
trict building. telephone Main 5000,
pranch 13O. He will assign you to duty.
No fee will be paid to those who volun-
teer.
9. I am a Japanese subject. twenty
four years Of age. What will be the
penalty If do not register?
A. II you do not register you will be
liable to Imprisonment for one year.
The fact that you are a Japanese sub
1ect does not excuse you from compli-
ance with local police regulations and
the laws of the land.
Q. Will you kindly tell me in your
paper why, in addition to the reouire-
ment of racial identity. any one of
African descent must have his blank
made more distinctive by having the
corner cut on?
A. The tearing Off of the corner is
facilitate the sorting of the cards into
classes. There Is no other significance
attached to the matter.
Q. 1 am young man, twenty-five
years old. single and live with my
father and aunt. My father is seventy
one and my aunt sixty-flve. I am
their support, my father being able
to earn but $40 per month. Tell me in
your paper what I should say in an
swer to the question as to whether
wife. child or sister or brother under
twelve?
A. You must answer no. The law
does not contemplate relatives as re-
mote as aunts, uncles or cousins. Your
father Is not solely dependent on you.
You may state the fact that you have
other dependents when you register in
the ace-provided for claims Of ex-
emption.
@. Will you please tell me In your
City and has registered as an alb
sentee in the District, will have to
come all the way back here for exam
ination II he is drafted.
4u0 IS ne Will
have to come back to Washington. 1t
may be that arrangements will be
made by the War Department to cover
such cases, but as yet no announce
ment has been made on the subject.
@. Please enlighten me on the fol-
my age and refuse to register and
later am brought to trial by the gov
ernment for not registering. Is the
burden of proof on the government or
<nvN
required?
A. The burden will be upon you. By
not registering you will be holding
yourself out to the world as being out
side the age limits. If called upon
you. who have set up that claim, must
prove the validity of it.
Q. Please advise me II man who
works to support his wife, but whose
wife also works to help out. Is exempt? ?
A. No one is exempt from draft who
thirty-one, both inclusive. Whether
you will be exempt from military serv-
ice is a question for the exemption
board to pass upon after 1t is organized.
Q. I was born July I. 1896. Would
you kindly tell me in your answer to
queries whether must register?
A. No. You will not be twenty-one
years old until July I.
Q. have registered by mail some
time ago with the sheriff of my home
county. but have not yet received a
registration certificate. Can you tell
| me what to do?
A. Wait patiently. No certificates of
registration can be issued until after
June 5. After that date your certifi-
cate will be mailed to you.
@. My husband was judged insane a
year ago and was put into an asylum
for the insane. He was released a short
while ago and has been pronounced
! cured. Must he register?
A. Yes, he must register. Even those
who are now confined in the various
| institutions throughout the country be-
cause Of insanity are required to regis
ter. and special registrars have been
appointed for the purpose of register
| ing them.
Q. Please answer in your columns:
| l know a young man who has tried
four different times to enlist, but has
| always been rejected. He says he will
not register. feel much interested
| IN him. II he does not register how
will they find him out?
A. His name will be noted as absent
| from the list of those whose names
Will be published as registered. It will
be your duty as we'll as the duty OF
any one else to inform the authorities.
He may be accosted at any time by
an officer of the law, who can demand
proof Of the fact that he has regis