The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-29
To Make Registration Day
The Greatest Patriotic
Holiday In States
History
Provost Marshall General Crow
der Urges Every Effort Be
Made To Insure A 100 Per-
cent Registration

! teen million men between the ages
! of IS to As for war service will be
raised in the United States immedi
! ately. The War Department, through
Provost Marshal Crowder has called
upon the Louisiana Council of De
Tense to make registration day the
greatest patriotic holiday in the his
tory OF the state. kilograms and
letters are pouring into the State
Council office at Baton Rouge from
Washington urging that every effort
be made in Louisiana to make the
registration one hundred per cent.
1t is requested by the War Depart
ment that every flag be raised and
that every band be utilized at the pa.
triotic celebrations to be held at every
point of registration.
Provost Marshal General Crowder
has addressed the following letter to
the Council Of National Defense, and
his letter has been sent to John Mar
shall, secretary ii the State Council
of Defense. 1t follows:
"The approaching enactment of
the War Departments bill extending
ages of military duty under the Sc
lective Service Law down to Is and
up to As will require the registration
of approximately thirteen million
more men early in September. This
signifies that every effort must be
made by my office to insure 10 per
cent registration.
"In this task of reaching every
community and every individual with
in the new ages, / shall have to rely
upon the assistance of those agencies
of the government which have an or
ganization calculated to be effective
in accomplishing that purpose. The
Council of National Defense is un-
doubtedly one of the most important
of those agencies. Its nation wide
organization, and its direct touch
with each community, will enable it
to carry this appeal so emphatically
that the response on Registration
Day will be completely assured.
81, therefore, invoke the assistance
of your council in rapid campaign
condensed into the next twenty days.
"The details of it can be taken up
with the appropriate committees and
subcommittee. AS illustrative Of
their scope Il want to have every flag
flying and every band playing on Reg
istration Day., so that the local SEN
timent of enthusiasm will embrace
every one in it's contagion.
II know that l need only state the
case to receive your assent; but 1 de-
sire to expires my appreciation Of the
value and effectiveness of the power
which your council will thus place at
the disposal Of this office.
"Yours faithfully,
(Signed) "E. H. CROWDER,
provost Marshal General"
Supplementing the letter of Gen
eral Crowder, Mr.. Arthur H. Fleming,
chairman of the State Councils Sec
ton of the Council of National De-
Tense, has issued the following letter
to all State Councils:
Registration Day for men from
Is to as, both inclusive, unless pre-
viously registered, will be held some
time early in September. The exact
date will be announced through the
press, as soon as Congress acts and
the President fixes the date.
"The problem before the War De
partment and the agencies associated
with it in the plans for Registration
Day is Of great Importance. Aside
from the mechanical task of conduct
ing the actual registration, they are
faced with the necessity of making
certain that every man Of the thir
teen million who are subject to reg
lister knows of the call, receives the
Presidents message proclaiming his
duty to register, and come forward
frankly and honestly to answer it.
To reach every individual with an ir-
resistible appeal to his patriotism and
his conscience necessitates the most
thorough publicity The office of the
Provost Marshal General with the co
operation of the committee of public
information will use for this pur-
pose Geographic press dispatches,
newspaper advertisements, the mo-
ton picture business, the four minute
men, foreign language papers, farm
papers, trade papers, chambers of
commerce, manufacturing associa
tons, labor unions, libraries, banks,
churches, general stores, rotary clubs,
clubs, postoffices, railroad
station agents, school teachers, bill