The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-23
REGISTRATION FOR
'18 Men SATURDAY
AT Least 5000 Kansans Will Qualify
for Draft Tomorrow.
Almost Automatically These Men VIII
Be Placed In Service.
TO COLORS IN TWO WEEKS
Little Delay in Calling All Who Have
Reached 2f Recently.
In Larger Cities Physical Exams VIII
Be Conducted Immediately.

More than 5000 Kansans-men who
have attained their majority since
June 5-will register with local regis
tration boards in every county in KAN
sas Saturday. In many localities the
registration booths will remain open
until o'clock at night that every per-
son within the military draft age may
enroll for classification and examine
ton.
Almost automatically the class
men from Saturdays registration will
be indicted into service to meet cur
rent calls: The general estimates of
army and draft officials place the
number of new class / men at 1000.
At least 1900 of these men will be
called to the colors during the first
five days of September
Owing to the extreme emergency
which confronts registration boards in
Kansas, every effort will be made to
hasten the examination and classified.
ton OF all registrants. In rural and
small town districts, registrants will
fill out. missionaries and be held for
physical examinations almost within
the hour of their enrolment Exam
lining physicians in the small towns
and sparsely settled counties will at
tempt to examine registrants as
rapidly as they appear before the
boards. In Topeka, Wichita, Kansas
City and other large cities physical ex-
aminations will be held next week, and
all registrants will be given notice to
appear.
To Colors in Two Weeks.
Estimates of totals in Saturdays
registration are based on results of
the enrolment Of June s, when the
state listed slightly more than $4,000
men who had reached the age of 81
years since the enrolment of June 5,
1917. The number of class / men
from the new registrants averaged be-
low so per cent, altho reclassifications
are expected to increase that number.
Draft officials believe that the Satur-
day registration will provide. SIS to 10
per. cent of the total for front rank
service. $3.50 T.
Every registrant will receive his
questionable when he~appears before
the registration board. He will be ex-
pected to Immediately fill out the
blanks and send the document to the
demand for immediate army service.
draft officials are discouraging de-
ferred classifications except in the
most Imperative cases. Probably SO
| per cent of the men who register Sat
urday will be called to the colors
within two weeks and the entire ad-
vance class of new registrants will
answer.calls before October I.
The registration affects all men
regar dless of physical eonditfon-who
\ have fea ched the age OF 22eyears since
June s. or who may be. 81 years old
| on the day of registration.
Registration in Topeka.
Registration In Topeka will be con-
Quoted August "a in the usual manner.
| with the possible exception of the
| county draft board, where it is thought
| that the men will register. fill out their
questionnaires and receive physical
| examination all on the same day. At
| the two city boards the questionnaires
will be mailed to the men later.
The coming registration will be the
| lightest yet held. City board No. l
expects from twenty-five to thirty
| men, and city board No. 2 from forty
| five to fifty men. The county board
probably will not register over twenty
| five men at the most.
| In the county outside the city, the
| small number of men who will regis
| ter would not justify the establish
! rnent OF booths at various points as
| has been the custom. All men must
come to the local board on the third
| floor of the court house to register.
| The usual form of registration will
| be observed by the city boards. All
men living in the First, Second and
Fourth wards will register at the fire
| marshars office, while those living
elsewhere in the city will register at
! local board No. 1. Both these boards
/ are on the second floor of the city