The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-16

I Sure, Selective service is Okay- and we got jobs," they tell you. A year with gun is worse than a year in jail to 32-year-old John S. Grieg. He commits malicious mis- chief in Buffalo, N. r., and gets six months from the judge. "Is that all you can give me? l wanted 8 year."
 Drink Is Danger. Drink is the danger, says the Zion Herald, Methodist weekly, and well comes registration day with call for re-enactment of national prohi- bition because i've are potentially at war"
 One United States Senator and IS members of the House of Represen- tativeS are registering. No special service for them. Plans to send a special registrar to the Capitol in Washington to take their names are abandoned. Eligible members of Congress register but they are ex- empt from service.
 Conscientious oh -ctors are sign- ing up, too-or else. Their cases will be considered by draft boards later. The Rev. Emerson s. Schwenk, 35, pastor of the First Universalist Church, Bridgeport, Conn.,, is first to cite his conscience. He registers; says he will not serve if called.
 Draft Is Spreading.
 Nine a: m., EST, 8 a. m., CST, 2 a. m, MST.-The draft is sweeping westward beyond the plains states and into the mountains. There are hundreds of thousands in line now. Eleven questions. Name? First, second and middle? Age? Place of birth -?
 "Okey, buddy, hang onto that card. That's your registration cer- tif1cate. Any cop can ask you for that now and if you run red light or are curbed for speeding he's sure to. Hang onto that card"
 Los Angeles comes in with wholesale bunco racket" Richard Roland Montgomery, 55, is arrested on charges of selling jobs in air. craft factories which would exempt registrants from military service. There aren't any such jobs. The factories are not involved in this fly speck on registration procedure.
 There is considerable big town confusion here and there. 4 lot of registrants do not know where they are supposed to appear.
 Long Lines Now
 Lines are long in the east now. Maybe an hour of waiting to get to the desk but only five or 10 min- utes then until Johnny is out with card in his pocket. Keep that card, Johnny.
 Whats this, 8 press agent? Thir- ty-one-year-ol James Cuccia is ready for the draft at a. m. in New York. He waits, registers and relates that he is the Stork Club barber-shaves all the Roosevelt boys and J. Edgar Hoover when he is in town.
 History repeats-Count Rene De Chambrun, 33-year-old is in the reg istration line. It's in public school near his New York hotel. "Ameri- can citizen," he tells the clerk and that is right because the count, who was a captain in the French army six months ago. is a descend ant of Lafayette who soldiered with George Washington and the Conti- mental Army. A grateful congress voted the marquis and all his de- scendants American citizenship.
 Citizen Before Birth
 T am registering" says De Cham brun, because I was a United States citizen before I was born"
 Sounds like an answer to Gen. eral Pershing's: Lafayette, we are here"
 They are volunteering, too, today. Join up, if you like, or wait for selection. It's all the same army. There's a one-to-four chance that you will be drafted if your name goes into Class IA. First call is for 100000 men before March 1 and 100000 all together by the end of April.