Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1917-09-21
women
T0REGISTER OCT. IS
GOVERNOR RYE ISSUES PRocLA.
NATION CALLING ON WOMEN
TO REGISTER FOR WAR.
FIGHTING TO UPHOLD TRUTH
Follow Lines Suggested by National
Council Of Defense and Conserve
States Resources-All Women
To Register.

Nashville.-Gov. Tom c. Rye issued
q proclamation setting aside Saturday,
Oct. 10, as woman's registration day
in Tennessee. The proclamation fol-
lows:
"Woman's Registration Day Procla-
nation.
1.-THE history of the world is record
Of conflicts between destructive and
constructive agencies. War, when
pursued for the purpose Of conquest
and the subsection of peoples, is the
destructive force at high tide, When
undertaken for the just liberties of
humanity it is the highest test of eter-
nal righteousness, because involving
the greatest sacrifices. 1t then be-
comes the constructive force, fighting
to uphold the truth that will make men
free. Such a war, upon Americas
part, is the one into which we have
entered. It must be won for the right,
and in the waging of it and in the win
ming of it we shall not forget the spirit
in which we enter or be unfaithful to
humanitys cause. We go into it with
courage in our hearts, the same cour-
age that was the inspiration of our
fathers when at the birth of our nation
they discarded old ideas of govern
ment and set out to build up the hui
man right that those who submit to
authority shall have voice In their
own government. The courage that
builds is greater than the courage that
destroys. That which gives life is
greater than that which deals death.
This greater courage belongs inner
emily to the mothers of men. The world
is fast learning to give due recogni-
ton, and as America enters this world
war we cannot discount the part that
the mothers of men will play in meet
ing the crisis, unfalteringly and una
fraid. They will give their sons, their
brothers and their husbands. This is
not all, they will give themselves, and
the work of their hands and brains.
They will conserve the nations re-
sources and double its power to build.
They will add to the practical eff
cheney necessary to establish and
maintain the defense that is to win
the war for the right. And best of
all, they will ever point us to the high
est aims for which we battle,
1T is fitting, therefore, that every
encouragement be given to their ct.
forts for practical organization, that
they may do most effectively what
they want to do and what the nation
expects of them.
Recognizing the importance Of thor
ough organization in every laudable
undertaking and deeply conscious of
the wholesome and beneficial results
which inevitably follow organized, har-
monious effort upon the part of Ten
nessee womanhood, and in pursuance
of the plans of the National Council of
Defense to bring about this result, l,
Tom G. Rye, governor of Tennessee, do
hereby proclaim Saturday, Oct. Is,
Woman's Registration Day, when the
women of Tennessee, Is years of age
and over, will present themselves for
registration at the regular polling
places in their respective districts and
wards, between the hours of am. and
pm, in order that the relative pro-
portions of trained and unframed
workers may be ascertained, and an
accounting had as TO the woman power
available for the several activities and
occupation women are now pursuing
and may be called upon to pursue dur
ing the war, and an estimate made of
those who will need to have opened to
them opportunities for training to bet
ter fit them for their chosen fields.
The necessity of this registration, in
order that proper aid and assistance
may be given to the National Council
of Defense, looking to the successful
prosecution of the present war, must
be apparent to every woman in Ten
nessee, and in rendering this service
they will be contributing to cause in
which they are vitality interested, and
the history of our womanhood justifies
the belief that there will not be
Stacker in all the state in regard to
this important matter.
in witness whereof have hereunto
subscribed my name on this 9Th day
Of September, 1917, and caused the
great seal of the state to be affixed
hereto. TON C. RYE, Governor"