Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-02-04
Police Department in Webster City
is Doing Work Herein Other
Towns of County Post.
masters are in Charge.
MUST BE ALL DONE IN WEEK.
Task is n Big One and is Being Fol.
lowed in Same Way all Over
United States.

Ills photograph and niger prints Will
be taken by the department of JUS
tice in national registration week
beginning today.
Chief of Police Thompson is carry
ing on the work here. A number Of
aliens have registered here today,
but more in some of the rural dis
tricts of the county.
A certified card, showing that he
has been registered must be carried
at all times on the person of Ger
man aliens and he may not change
his place of residence without first
notifying and obtaining the permits
sion of the police or postmaster of
the town or city in which he lives.
Earlier plans for the gradual regis
tration of Germans in the United
States with those in the eastern
section to come first were abandoned
when it was intimated that some
Germans might avoid registration by
moving from one district to another. |
The present penalty for violation
of any of the provisions of President |
Wilson's alien enemy proclamation
is internment for the period of the
war but if policy suggested by
high government officials is pursued
there will be revision of the law
in order to make the punishment
more drastic.
Finish This Week.
Before the clock strikes midnight
Saturday every one of the German
aliens in this country--not including
sam1s ;,sr5sr4ssider the age of
Il wars, must Rave have registered or
will be informed. The registration
does not apply to Austrians or Hun
garians.
In announcing the provisions and :
requirements for the registration the
department of justice took care to
avoid creating the impression that
the government looks on each Ger
man with contempt.
"Registrants are not to be z:
treated as persons of evil dispo-
sitions," instructions to regis
trars point out, land the regis
tration officers are urged to deal
with them in courteous and
friendly manner"
Cooperation Of police, federal :
officers, postal employees and
private citizens is expected by :
the department to see that the
United States government has :
accurate information of every
German alien within the borders :
OF this country.
Certificates will be issued to =:
registrants only after every item
declared has been checked from
all possible angles and found to
have been correct. :
Information so gathered Off
Gals believe, will be of material :
assistance in tracing plots against
this government and in discover
ing just which of the Germans
here should be most closely :
watched.
The task of registration is a great |:
one. In cities of 5000 or more popu-
lation, as shown by the census of /:
1910, the chief OF police and his as
sistants will have charge of the work.
In Rural Districts. :
In smaller communities and rural :
districts registration will be con-
Quoted by the postmasters. with the :
postmaster in the largest Office in the
local judicial districts, which in most !:
cases is the equivalent of county
in charge. 1t will be his duty to
gather the reports and forward them
to the department of justice. In
most cities the work will be done by
precincts. :
Every German must go to the
Office of the registrar and make out :
triplicate affidavit information blanks, :
and furnish four photographs Of him :
self-one for each of the blanks and
one for his certificate. The photo
graphs must bear his signature writ
ten across the front and must not
be larger than three inches square.
1t must be on thin paper and have a F.:
: light background.
The following information must /.
be furnished on the information /.
blanks; name, address, age, place Of :
birth, occupations and residence :
since January l, 1914, date of arrival s.
in the United States, whether married =