The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-05-30
REGISTRATION
ON JUNE 9Th
MEN q SINCE JUNE MUST REPORT
Registrations Will Be Conducted BY Draft
Boards at Voting Precincts the
Same as Last Year

Wednesday, June ), is date of great
Importance to every man in the United
States who has attained the age of q
years since registration day June 5,
one year ago. For on this coming June
will be held another registration day,
on which every man who has passed his
2lst birthday since last June 5 must
register with his local draft board.
This applies to non-eiti2ens as well
as to citizens. No man who comes
within the age limit is exempted from
registering, unless he is already in the
military or naval service of the United
States. And men q years old who for
any reason have been discharged from
the military or naval service must reg
lister June 5.
The registration will be conducted by
the local draft boards throughout the
United States. Each draft board is re-
quired to post publicly the location of
its registration place, and men Il years
old must present themselves there June
5 for registration. The registration
places will open on registration day at
z O'Clock in the morning, and will be
open until O'Clock that night.
No excuse will be accepted for fail
ure to register. The burden of inform
ing himself of the time and place for
registration is by law placed on the
registrant himself. Failure to regis
ter is punishable by Imprisonment up
to one year in jail.
Attempts to evade registration will
bring disaster to the evader. All city,
county, state and United States peace
officers have been specifically directed
to assist in bringing about a complete
registration of men q years old, and
to examine the registration lists and
report Immediately to the federal au-
thorities the names of any persons liza
BILE to registration known by.them to
have failed to register.
Men who are too i'll to appear at the
registration place in person must send
some competent person to the local
board to obtain registration card with
authority to fill it out. This card when
filled must be mailed or taken in per-
son to the local board in time to be
filed on registration dav, Jufe S.
Provision is also made for registra.
tion by mail of men 2l years old who
will unavoidably be absent from their
home jurisdictions on registration day.
All such persons should proceed inn
mediately, without waiting for regis
tration day, to the local board nearest
to the place in which they happen to
be, and have their registration cards
made out by this board. The card must
then be mailed by the registrant, to
gether with a self-addressed and
stamped envelope for return Of a reg.
istration certificate, to the registrant s
own local board As this registration
card must reach the local board by
June 5, men q years old who will be
absent from their home jurisdiction on
June 5 should make haste now to have
their registration cards filled out SC
they can mail the cards without delay
to the proper board.
The War department has issued the
following official warning to all men
coming within the q year old age
limit:
Caution All male persons, citizens
of the United States, and all male per-
sons residing within the United States
who have, since the 5th day of June,
1917, and on or before the day set for
registration by the Presidents procla-
nation (this coming June 81, attained
the age of 2l years, must register
The only exceptions are persons in the
military or naval service Of the United
States, s.which includes all officers anC
enlisted men of the regular army, the
navy, the marine corps, and the ma.
tional guards and naval militia, while
in the service Of the United States, and
officers in the officers reserve corps
and enlisted men in the Enlisted re-
serve corps while in active service.