The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-30
REGISTRATION DAY
TO BE BIG EVENT
War Department Wishes Every Means
to Secure Publicity in Order That
There Be 100 Per Cent
Registration.

The enactment OF the war department
bill extending the ages of military duty
under the selectiye service law down to
eighteen and up to forty-iv will require
the registration of approximately thir-
teen million men early in September
Every effort Is being made by the war
department and the agencies associated
with it in the plans for registration day
to obtain 100 per cent registration
They are faced with supreme necessity
of making certain that every man of the
thirteen million liable to registration
knows of the call, receives the presi-
dents message proclaiming his duty 70
register, and comes forward frankly and
honestly to answer, To reach every in
dividual with an irresistible appeal to
his patriotism and his conscience necessi.
tates the most thorough publicity.
The office Of the provost marshal gen.
eral in cooperation with the committee
on public information is preparing to
issue publicity from Washington through
all available channels, and Is relying es-
pecially upon the state, county and local
committees of public safety to make il
certain that every man turns out on reg
istration day, You are asked, therefore,
to take whstever measures may be nee.
essary to reach every man in your To-
cality who should register.
The council of national defense makes
the following recommendations:
First, that arrangements be made for
patriotic meetings at which information
may be laid before the community. The
eve of registration day Is perhaps the
best time for these meetings and every
meeting should include patriotic music
and singing.
Second, that you arrange locally to
have registration day day of solemn
patriotic celebration; and to have the
bells ring, to have the flags flying and
to make use Of bands and patriotic mu-
SIC wherever possible.
Third, that you consider the advisable
ity in mobilizing the automobiles in your
locality on registration day so that men
who live at distance from their place
Of registration may register with mini
mum time lost from necessary occupa.
tons This will prove necessary in many
farming districts"
The provost marshal general counts
upon the active cooperation from every
county and local committee of public
safety to insure the army and the ma,
tion a 100 per cent registration.
General Crowder says TO the state,
county and local committees Of public
safety, II want to have every flag flying
and every band playing on registration
day"
To guarantee a 100 per cent complete
registration on registration day, every
available measure must be employed to
concentrate public attention and enthu-
siasm in each locality on that date For
that purpose one of the most effective
measures will be patriotic band music
at the registration place in every vicini-
ty,
This committee understands that di.
rections have been issued to all com
handing officers at military camps au-
thorising them to place military bands
Of their organizations at the disposal of
mayors Of nearby cities on that date, so
far as not inconsistent with discipline
and other conditions of military con-
venience
All mayors of cities are requested to
invite the universal display Of flags by
citizens and the calling out of all pri-
vate military bands. This recommen.
datiun will include notice that mayors
Of cities proximate TO military and naval
post can, by timely request made to
the commanding officer, obtain an assign
ment of band or detachment thereof
for the purpose, pursuant to the author.
fty given as above. II is understood that
the mayors request would include an
assurance Of transportation and subsist-
ence for the day for the detachment and
that no longer absence would be per-
mitted than between reveille and taps on
the day of registration.
Will you put every effort possible be-
hind these measures, in order TO make
It absolutely certain that every man
whose age renders him liable to reRistra.
tion, viii accept the responsibility will.
ingly and without question, thereby in
surfing the army and nation 100 per cent
registration
Leighton P Slack, chairman.
Joseph G. Brown, secretary.
Vermont Committee of Public