The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-07
GREAT ARMY OF
REGISTRARSIS .
READY FOR JOB
Between 1850 and 5000 VOlun-
teer Workers to Serve Next
Thursday
MEN OF As MUST ENROLL
Manpower Act Applies to All
= Who Have Not Reached 46th
Birthday

Between 4,5O0 and 5000 registrars
are now girding their loins in prepar
alton for the monumental task which
confronts them next Thursday when
they will be called upon to sign up as
units of Uncle Sans manpOwer some
$1,000 North Dakolans. North Dakota
has 3,l65 registration precincts, and
next Thursday it will endeavor to
provide registrar for each so peo
pie, which Will mean two or more
registrars in a large number Of the
counties. In BurIeigh, for instance,
there are "a voting precincts, but
there will be IS registrars. Cass coun-
ty has IS registration precincts ana
will probably use 80 registrars; Grand
Forks, with 81 precincts, will use 70
to Is registrars; Ward county, with
Is precincts, probably will employ 80
registrars, and Williams, with 81 pre-
cincts, and Stutsman, with IS will pro-
vide registrars in proportion.
Registrants throughout the state
are to present themselves at their
voting precinct between the hours OF
a. IN. and 8 p. m. next Thursday
September II. Prospective registrants
who will be away from home on that
date may now register in person. Reg
istrants who are now out of the state
and who will not return to their home
precincts on or before September II,
may register before the local board
in the community in which they now
chance to be, provided that their regis
tration certificate is mailed in tins
to reach the local board in their home
precinct not later than p. M, Sep
tember ~.
Under this clause two Philadelph-
ians registered with the Burleigh coun'
ty board Thursday, and it is probable
that 80 or 40 non-residents have by
this time filed their regis tration be-
fore local registrars in this county.
The adjutant general repeats his
warning that everyone who has reach
ed his 18th birthday and who has not
reached his 46th birthday must regis
ter under the new manpOWer act. This
includes men of As and it also in
cludes boys of IS. A man who may
be 46 on September 13 is on Septem-
her ~ within the provisions of this
act and must register according as or
the age of 45.
a Order numbers will be drawn by
lottery at Washington as soon az
General Crowder shall have determ'
ined that every registrant has receiv'
ed his registration card and serial
number. The drawing probably will
be conducted as have the other draft
lotteries, and numbers will be drawn
from "Ohe' to the highest serial num-
ber reported by any county registra-
tion board. Men will be called for SER
vice in the order in which their num-
bers are drawn at Washington, as was
done in the first registration.
While theer is no positive informa-
ton available on the subject, it is not
regarded probable that any of the new
registrants will be drafted before the
first of November at the earliest.
There will be new calls the latter part
Of September and the first OF October,
but it is the present opinion OF drafc
that these will be filled from
registrants of the last three classes.
It is possible. of course. that volun-
tary induction Of new registrants Will
be permitted i'm some Of these calls.