Evening star., 1918-08-19
"Register in the District"

Register in the District"
This is the slogan of local draft ofi-
cials. who today began q campaign
to get every man who Is working and
living in the National Capital and who
will have to register in the draft
either Saturday or in September to
register with local board Of this
city.
Plans center for this week about the
men who have become twenty-one
years old since June s, and who will
be registered Saturday from Z o'clock
in the morning until o'clock that
night. But the men between the ages
Of eighteen and forty-five years. who
will be registered some Saturday in
September, will be told this week why
they should register here.
II want to impress upon the young
men who are to register Saturday the
great Importance Of registering in
the District Of Columbia IL they work
and reside here" Maj. Daniel J. Dom
trict. and chairman Of the central
registration committee, said today.
For Real Transients Only.
Only bona fide transients are to be
with their home boards.
All others will have to register here,
il they work and live here.
Speaking of the twenty-one-year-
registrants who are merely transients
should call at the office of their local
board at once, and have their regis
tration cards filed out. SO that they
may mail them to thei- home town
board. But this applies only IL the
men are actual transients. All others
will have to register here Saturday.
between the hours named.
Ten of the eleven local boards of the
city are located in the District build
ing. Transients who must register at
once. in order to have sufficient time
to send their cards back to their local
boards. should find out Immediately
at the District building which local
Local board for division No. is To-
Gated at the city post office. The other
ten boards are in the District build
ing.
The advisory committee on the regis
tration of so-called out-of-town regis
ira ITS will have printed and posted
throughout the city this week plac-
ards telling the men as to their rights
in re yistering in the District il they
work and live here.
a reristrant IL he insists in register
ing With his home town board Prac-
ticallr all the difficulty experienced in
handl ng the registration of 1917 has
come 20 local boards here through the
enormous number of transfer cases
from boards throughout the country.
This trouble, both to boards and reg
Istrants. will be done away with il
the me will register here instead of
back bome."
No Loss Of Legal Rights.
No loss of legal rights or voting
privileges will result from register
ing here. il was pointed out today
This question. of course. does not
bother the twenty-one-year-old who
register Saturday anyway, near as
much as 1t will trouble the older men,
who will be registered in September.
Congress. In reality. draft officials
point out, there is nothing to worry
about at all, since the act of regis-
tration has nothing to do with ones
voting privileges.
The committee which is handling
the matter i~ composed Of NJ. O..
Chance, city postmaster, chairman !;
Robert L Williams of board No. 10,
Paul S. Myers, chief clerk of the
Treasury Deps rtment; Jessie B. K.
Lee. chief clerk OF the navy yard, ana
E. A. Lycott of the Washington Steel
and Ordnance C Company.
Call for stenographers.
The District Of Columbia was
called upon TODAY to furnish under
the draft fifteen stenographers from
the limited service list. The men
will be assigned to the S0th Aero
Squadron here. rhe call, made by
Provost Marshal General Crowder to-
day, orders the m.n to be ready Au-
gust 26. Ohio " i'll send a similar
number of stenographers on the same
Dayton.
A call for 5.70s white registrants
qualified for general military service,
tn be sent to training schools Sep