The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-10
THURSDAY IS DAY
Thirteen Million Americans
Will Register for the Draft.
Everything in Readiness in To-
peka for Big Registration.
EXPECT 5000 ON ROLL HERE
For County Outside Topeka
2,O47 Men Will Take Cards.
City and County Boards APP.
pointed for the Work Here.


pointed for the Work Here.
Next Thursday, September ~. is the
day when approximately 100000
more Americans will register for mill
tary service in the United States army.
in accordance with the proclamation
new man-power bill as PASSED by con-
gress. All men who have reached
their eighteenth birthday and who
have not yet reached their forty-sixth
birthday on September -: and who
have not registered for military serv-
ice before or who are not actually en-
gagged in the military or naval service
of the United States, must present
themselves at the offices of their local
boards or the booths established by
such local boards, for registration.
Registration will be conducted as
before. Estimates made by the adju-
tant generals department, based on
statistics, indicate that more than
5000 men will register in Shawnee
county, and the city of Topeka. In
$500 men to register and board No 9
expects 1927. The estimate for the
county outside the city is 2,047 men.
On June 5, 1917. the number of men
registering in the county and city was
as follows: City board No. 1. 1906:
city board No. 2. 2.419; county board,
1.544. June 5, 1918, the numbers
We're: City board No. 1, 115; city board
No. 2, 159; county board, 1876. On
August "a. 1918. twenty three men
registered at city board No. 1. forty-
one at city board No. and twenty
eight at the county board.
Questions to Be Asked
Questions which registrants should
come prepared to answer are as fol-
lows Full name and permanent
home address; your age and date of
birth; the race to which you belong;
| whether you are a United States citi-
zen or an alien; if a citizen, whether
you are native born, naturalized, or a
citizen by your fathers naturalization
before you reached your majority; if
you are an alien, whether you are a
declarent or nondeclarent; if not
citizen, what nation you are a citizen
or subject of; your present occupa-
ton; the name of your employer and
his place of business; the name of
your nearest relative; your height,
build. the color of your eyes and the
color of your hair.
Men who are away from home and
| do not expect to be in their home town
| or county on registration day should
| go at once to the office of the local
| board of the town or county in which
| they may be and ask for a registration
| card, which they must fill out and
| mail to their own local board so that
| 1t will reach there before September
| ~, inc1osing a stamped envelope ad-
| dressed to himself for the return of
| his registration certificate. Regis
| trants mailing cards in this manner
| should take every precaution to OBJ
their own local boards in order to
| avoid trouble that might arise over
| nonposseSsion of them.
| Questionnaires will be mailed to
each registrant as soon as possible.
with instructions as to how they
| should be filled out. Men who do not
claim exemption in these question
naires will be placed in class 1. The
men will then be called for physical
| examination. The first drawing on
class of the new registration will be-
gin in a few weeks, it is believed as
the three local draft boards have prac-
tica1ly no men left on their lists with
| which to fill future quotas.
4 In order to properly handle the
| huge number of men who will register
on September IL, and also for the con-
Venlence of the registrants, booths
will be established in all the various
precincts of the city and county.
While it is desired that every man
register in his own precinct if con-
venient, it is understood that no man
will be turned down at a booth in an
other precinct. SO long as he is regis
|
ton of his own local draft board.
All men living in the First, Second
and Fourth wards of the city of To-
peka are under the jurisdiction OF
city board No. 2, with offices on the
second floor of the city building. op-
posite the fire marshaPs office. All
men living in other parts of the city
and within the city limits, are under
the jurisdiction of city board No 1
also on the second floor of the city
building. All men living in Shawnee
county outside the limits of the CITY
of Topeka are under the jurisdiction
of the county board, with offices OF
the third floor of the court house.
Location and Workers.
The location of the registration
booths in the various precincts of the
city and county, together with the
names of the chief registrars of each
booth, are as follows:
City Board No. 1.
Precinct. Registrar. Booth
First :, of Third-B G. Walker, Central
Second of Third. Will Kelley, 9s1 Kan
Third of Third. B. Doncyson, 5o7 Yves
Fourth of Third-L. P. KistIer, woodfor,
Bros Hnntoon and Lane streets.
Fifth of Third-Fred H. Wilson, Contra
Congregational church.
Sixth of Third-R. D. Blaine, Polk school
Seventh of Thrill. L. Peppmeyer, 81
First of Fifth-Mfnnie Addie, Central Parl
school.
Second of Fifth-o K Swayze, q. B
church, Twelfth and Quincy.
Third of Fifth-Maude Watson, Washing
Fourth of Fifth-A T. Daniels, 1885 Kan
Sas avenue.
Fifth of Fifth-O. P. Marken Euclid aven
NJ E. church.
First of sIxth-W. L. Bates Potwin school
Second of SIXTH E. Roudebush, 160
West Sixth.
Third of Sixth-C. F. TuIIoch Shoaf dru
store, Tenth and Morris
Fourth of Sfxth-H. E. Shaffer Lowma
Hill school
City Board No. 2.
First of First-M. W. Oyerton. No. 1 fir