Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-05-31
REGISTRATION DAY
NEXT WEDNESDAY.
Three Places Are Fixed In Anne
Arundel For The Young Men
To Report For Duty.
REGISTRARS ARE READY.
Heavy Penalties Will Be Melted
Out To Those Anne Arundel
Countians Who Fail To
Show Up On Time.

Next Wednesday is registration day
for the selective draft for the young
men who have attained their majority
since June 5. 1917. and it is up TO every
one of them to go to their respective
boards on that day to have their
names placed on Uncle Sans ledger
A failure TO do so will incur a heavy
penalty.
To make the registration as conven-
lent as possible and cause as little
inconvenience to the young men and
loss of time from farm or other use
full labor as is necessary, States At
torney Green and other members of
the Anne Arundel County local draft
board has designated three places in
the county for the registration. Reg
istrants are not confined to any one of
these, but may report to the one most
convenient on that day. The places
are Mr.. Green's Office on State Cir
Gle, Annapolis; the police station at
Brooklyn, in. the Fifth District, and
the polling place at Harwood, in the
lower part of the county.
Slackers will not be tolerated by the
government. and anyone who attempts
to evade the law will realize his mis-
take when the general roundup is
begun a little later. No excuses will
be accepted for failure to register, and
the Stacker, besides being subject to
an Imprisonment, will be forced to get
into the army at once.
OF the many difficult problems that
face the local boards none is more
complexed than that dealing with
young men required to register who
for some reason or other are either
out of Anne Arundel County or are
unable to appear before the board.
So that the men temporarily residing
in this city and those who are away
from their homes may know how to
go about registering Wednesday, the
district board has issued certain rules
and regulations which are to be fol-
lowed.
The local board is prepared to fur
nish registration cards to persons tenn
porarily residing in the county who
are therefore out of the jurisdiction of
their respective home boards. The
clerks or members of the local board
are authorized to record the answers of
persons absent from the jurisdiction of
their respective board and to certify to
their registration cards.
The fact that his registration card
has been filled out is not to be under
stood by the registrant that he is
being registered, but it is incumbent
upon him to see that his card, when
certified to by the chief clerk or one
of the members of a local board, is
mailed TO his local board in time to
reach such local board on or before
June 5, 1918. They will not be given
registration certificates by the local
board where they fill out their regis
tration cards, but these will be is
sued by their own local boards upon
receipt of the registration card certi-
fed to as above.
Citizens of the United States or per-
sons who have declared their inten-
tions to become citizens of the United
States who do not register on June 5
! 1918. because of absence from the ter
ritorial limits of the United States are
] required to register within five days
after their return to this country.