Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-12
MEN OF l8 TO as
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need Of and or information can cal there.
The registration places are practically
| the same AS the polling places for the
! election, a lust Of which was pnptcd IN
| Every Evening last Tuesday, there being
| one IN every election precinct.
The process of registration u similar 10
| that previously used A man who appears
| TO bc registered and he must register IN
! the voting prec1nct Of the ward m which
| he lives~is called upon 70 answer 20
| questions, Just PLAIN questions 10 be
answered readily And the answers must
| be truthful In order. ~ AVOID possible
trouble later on.
Each man registered ~ gwen a regis
| tratIon card which he will be expected ~
| have with him at all tunes lie may be
! called upon Unexpectedly 10 show his
! card IN order to establish his standing
After the registration records are com
| plcted the questionn8ires will be sent 70
registrants TO fill IN.
After today every man between lS and
IS must have a registration card or a
classification card II not 80 armed he
will be sent to Jail until he gives good
| and sufficient reason for his failure to
register. At present only men between II
and 81 hold classification cards.
CLASSIFYING RgGIsTRAwrs.
In order 10 speed up the work Of classi-
flying the repstrants who will be subject
10 immediate call, the questiounaires will
first be sent to those of ~ and 20 and
those between the ages of 81 and IS.
General Crowder hopes To got the work
Of classification IN these age groups com
pleted within IS or so days after regis
tration. The first Of the early calls for
active military sevicc will be made uponr
the men included in these age groups who
do not claim exemption and to whom no
deferred classification Is granted at the
request Of employers or others
General Crowder yesterday sent the
| following telegram 70 draft executives in
all States Under the authority of the
| Act Of Congress, approved August 81,
| 1918, the President directs that in calling
and drafting for military service the per-
sons who register September II, 1918,
| only regstrants who on September r.
| 1918, shall have attained their 10Th birth
| day and who shall not have attained their
| 9th, shall be called for military service
until further ordered
Following registration questionnaires
| will be mailed only II the reDstrants IN
| cluded in the above named ages
General Crowdcr says hat the needs
Of the cantonments this month prscti-
| cally would exhaust the registrants In
/ Class ! under the earlier selective service
legislation He referred N the number
| who would be left over after the Septem-
| ber quotas we're filed az negligible
/ They will, in fact, represent only few
who have been made available by the
recent combing over Of the classification
| lists
TRAINING FOR YOUNG VEN.
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number Of men called into active service
will be from the 10 and % classes, and
that the percentage of deferred classii-
cations n be granted 10 men from 80 up
ward VII 10 larger than IN the earlier
| drafts II Il estimated that about 5000 :
600 ~ the younger men will register under
the present draft The War Depart
| ment's estimate contemplates taking
about col 900 Of the 2,3OO 900 men who
Will be needed by next June from the
men between the ages Of 80 and 45, in
elusive
The lS-year-old registrants will be sent
to training schools.
II you are sick or physically unable 70
register today, or If absent, you should
have arranged IN advance for your regis
| tratIon today through an agent or deputy
After registration day YOU will be able
unable 10 produce one Of the blue cards
to be gwen each patriot who registers
! according to law This card, showing he
eagle as II appears on the Great seal Of
the United states, attests the fact that
the man whose name II bears has duly
been registered in such and such a pre-
cinct Of Wilmington.
Men who are now in this city, but
whose homes are elsewhere, who nave
not registered with the local boards
and had tnelr cards sent TO their re-
spective homes. must register tofay IN
this city
The same process viii be followed
regardlng Nilmlngtonlans now OUT ot
he city ana who have lS yet not reg
istered They will he registered today
wherever they may be and their cards
forwarded TO this city 50 that they may
lie furnished with the proper regis
tration card which they VIII &c expected
10 have with hem At al times.
High school gradutes IN a compara-
tivelv small number Of those between
fbe ages Of is and 2t to be registered,
will b gwen chance to enter the nearest
higher educational institution on con-
dItion that they enlist in the students
armv training corps established IN con-
nection with such institution.
Entrance into college, does not eX-
empt one from registering. IL Is after
registration that the registrant becomes
eligible TO enlist in the Students Army
Reserve Corps. In this State, Delaware
College is the only institutions where
a corps Is established and large number
OF high school graduates have already
registered At college before even regis
tering for the draft Il IS not known
, how long these men viii be permitted
10 remain At the college in the training
corps. which will he directed BY an
officer from the War Department, the
period depending entirely on their agC
and the details of the educational leg
islation. IS vet incomplete.
, The task Of registering the men TO-
dav falls upon the shoulders OF volun
teers. The du Pont Co. had offered
100 of its men to be called At any time
during the day when needed TO helE
at the various polling places. Both
men and women volunteered their service;
TO the boards Of exemption.
While today was not actually hoh
dav. in accordance with Gen. Crowder
request, there was large display d
a. o,,I many, mo prlfa curing astah - ~