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REMEMBER FACTS ABOUT DRAFT ACT REGISTRATION 13 REQUIRED OF ALL BETWEEN THE SPECI FIED AGES. INDIVIDUAL IS RESPONSIBLE Each Man Is Held Under Penalty For Putting His Name on Rolls. Rules of the Registration and Other Infor mation Every Man Should Know. Regulations for registration June 6 .under the selective draft act for , the national army have been delivered to every county and city in the Unit ed States. All male persons between the ages of 21 and 30, both inclusive, will be required to register between 7 a. m., and 9 p. m., June 5. Failure is punishable by a year's imprison ment, without the alternative of a fine. Here, in brief, are the points which the secretary of war and the presi dent wish to have clearly fixed in the minds of the people. All men are required to register Who are 21 years old. Whose 21st birthday comes before June 5. Whose 21st birthday comes on June 6; excepting Men now 31 years old. Men whose 31st birthday comes be fore June 5. A man who will become 31 years old on June 5. Men in the regular army or navy of the United States, the marine corps, and the officers' reserve corps. Members of the National Guard and naval militia actually in the service of the United States on June 5. Men in the enlisted reserve corps actively in the service of the United States on June 5. Sickness, physical disability of any kind or absence from home does not excuse failure to register. National guardsmen not mustered into the ser vice before June 5 must register. A year's imprisonment is the penal ty for making false statements, whether about oneself or some other person. Where the person registering Is subject to military law he will be courtmartialed. Failure to register is punishable by Imprisonment, without the alternative of a fine. Upon termination of prison sentence, the regulations prescribe im mediate registration. The registration in each county or similar subdivision in any state and In cities of 30,000 population or over shall be made in the customary vot ing precincts thereof in the places and in the manner ordinarily employ ed In the registration of voters so far as the same is not inconsistent with said act and these rules and regula tions. When a county has a city of 30,000 population or over, the county regis tration board shall have jurisdiction of the county, exclusive of the city, with a city board directing registration within the city limits. Wardens of penitentiaries and other penal institu tions are charged with registration of the inmates of such institutions. Places customarily used for voting purposes in each precinct shall be used. Hours for registration are from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. Though very positive in terms, tie regulations to effect registration for the selective draft June 6, are reason able in their provisions, relative to ab sentees. The place of registration is the domiciliary precinct, but adequate provision is made for enforced ab sence. The burden rests on each in dividual between 21 and 30 years, in clusive, to see that registration certi ficates are entered at his domiciliary precinct on registration day. Absen tees may procure registration blanks from the office of the county clerk of every county or the city clerk of cites of 30,000 population or more. "Upon application by you, your card will be made out by the clerk, turned over to you and by you it must be mailed in time to reach your domi ciliary precinct by the day set for reg istration." Eligibles, whose permanent, homes are in cities of 30,000 or more, may direct the registration card in care of the mayor. A self addressed enve lope should be inclosed with the regis tration card for the return of the reg istration certificate. Failure to get this certificate may cause serious em barrassment. Persons in training camps, schools or colleges or other Institutions may register under the above provisions for absentees. "However, for their convenience, the county clerk or iorks. of cities of 30.000 or more are authorized to deputize a competent persons to certify to the registration cards of non-residents in such institu tions and to furnish a sufficient sup ply of cards to do so. It must be borne in mind that such registration must be made In sufficient length of time before the date set by the presi dent for registration to enable such student to mail the card. The burden of registration in his own domicil iary precinct is on every man; and persons must see to it at their peril that their registration cards are in the hands of the registrar of their domi cilary precinct at the time prescribed in tiie president's proclamation.1 Form 1 REGISTRATION CARD Age, inyrs 1 Name In full ; Um (Given name) (Family name) Home ' 2 address .. , f ; (No.) (Street) (City) (State) 3 Date of birth (Month) (Day) (Year) Are you (1) a natural-born citizen, have you declared your Intention Where were you born? (Town) If not a citizen, of what country are What Is your present trade, occupation, or office 7.. By whom employed?. Where employed? Have you a father, mother, wife, child under 12, or a sister or brother under 12, solely dependent on you for support (specify which)? 10 Married or single (which)?.. 11 What military service have you had? years, ; Nation or 12 Do you claim exemption from draft (specify grounds)?. T - I affirm that I have verified RULES FOR Questions will be asked for you to answer in the order in which they ap pear below. The questions are set out below with detailed, infor mation to help you answer them. All answers will be wTitten on the Registration Card In Ink by the Regis trar, who should be careful to spell all names correctly and to write legibly. 1. Name In full. Age In years, This means all your names spelled out in full. State your age to-day in years only. Disregard additional months or days. Be prepared to say "19," or "25," not "19 yrs. 3 mons.," or the like. 2. Home address. This means the place where you have your permanent home, not the place where you work. Be prepared to give the address in this way: "232 Main Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois;" that is, give number and name of street first, then town, then county and state. 3. Date of birth. Write your birthday (month, day, and year) on a piece of paper before going to the Registrar, and give the paper to him the first thing. Example: "August 6, 1894." If you do not remember the year Btart to answer as you would if some one asked you your birthday, as "August 5th." Then say "on my birth day this year I will be (or was) years old." The Registrar will then fill in the year of birth. 4. Are you (1) a natural-born citizen; (2) a naturalized citizen; (3) an alien; (4) or have you declared your inten tion to become a citizen (specify which)? (1) If you were born in the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii, you are a natural-born citizen, no matter what may have been the citiz enship or nationality of your parents. If you were born in Porto Rico, you are a citizen of the United States, unless you were born of alien parent age. If you were born abroad, you are still a citizen of the United States if your father was a citizen of the United States at the time you were born, unless you have expatriated. 5. Where were you born? First name the town, then the state, then the country, as "Columbus, Ohio;" "Vienna, Austria;" Paris, France;" "Sofia, Bulgaria." 6. If not a citizen, of what country are you. a citizen or subject7 This need be answered only by aliens and declarants. Remember that a "declarant" is not yet a citizen of the United States. If an alien or declarant, state the name of your country. as "France," "Japan," "China," etc. 7. What Is your present trade, occu pation, or office? This does not ask what you once did, or what you have done most of the time, nor what you are best fitted to do. IT ASKS WHAT YOUR JOB IS RIGHT NOW. State bneny, as "Farmer," "Miner," "Student," "La borer (on farm, In rolling mill, in auto mobile, wagon, or other factory)" "Machinist in automobile factory," etc. If you hold an office under state or federal government, name the office you hold. If you are In one of the following offices or employments, use one of the names hereafter mention ed: "Customhouse clerk," "employed in the transmission of the mails," or "employed In an armory, arsenal, or navy yard," "mariner, actually employ ed in the sea service of citizen or merchant within the United States." 8. By whom employed. Where em ployed? If you are working for an individu al, firm, corporation, or association, state its name. If in business, trade, profession, or employment for your- No... (2) a naturalized citizen, (3) an alien, (4) or (specify which)? (State) (Nation) you a citizen or subject?. Race (specify which) ? Rank. branch- State above answers and that they are true. (Signature or mark) REGISTERING self, so state. If you are an officer ol the state or federal government, say whether your office is under the United States, the state, the county, or a municipality. In answer to the question as to where you are employ ed, give the town, county, and stats where you work. 9. Have you a father, mother, wife, child under 12, or a sister or brother under 12 solely dependent upon you for support (specify which)? Consider your answer throughtfully. If it is true that there is another mouth than your own which you alone have a duty to feed, do not let your military ardor interfere with the wish of the Nation to reduce war's misery to a minimum. On the other hand, un less the person you have In mind is solely dependent on you, do not hide behind petticoats or children. 10. Married or single (which)? Race (specify which)? This does not ask whether you were once married, but whether you are married now. In" answer to the ques tion as to your race, state briefly whether "Caucasian," "Mongolian," "Negro," "Malayan," or vIndian." 11. What military service have you had? Rank? Branch? Years? Nation or State? No matter what country you served, you must give conplete information. In answering these questions, first name your rank, using one of the fol lowing words: "Commissioned offi cer," "Noncommissioned officer," "Pri vate." Next, state branch in which you served in one of the following words: "Infantry," "Calvary," "Artil lery," "Medical," "Signal," "Avia tion," "Supply," "Marine," "Navy." Next, state the number of years' ser vice, not counting time spent in the Reserve. Finally, name the Nation or state you served. If you served under the United States or one of the states of the United States, name your ser vice in one of the following terms : "National Guard (of such and such a state)," "Militfa (of such and such a state)," "Volunteers of United States," os "Regular Army (Navy) of United States." i 12. Do you claim exemption from draft? Specify grounds. Because you claim exemption from draft, it by no means follows that you are exempt. For the information of the War Department you should make a claim now if you intend to prosecute it. Some persons will be exempted on account of their occupations or offices, some on account of the fact that they have relatives dependent upon them for support Your answer touching these things will be important in sup porting the claim you now intend to make in your answer to the present questions. Be sure, therefore, that the grounds you now state are in con formity with your answers to ques tions 7 and 8. In stating grounds you claim as exempting you, use one of the following terms: If you claim to be an executive, legislative, or judi cial officer of the state or nation, name your office and say whether It Is an office of the stats or nation. If you claim to be a member of a relig ious sect whose creed forbids its mem bers to participate in war in any form, simply name the sect. If you are em ployed in the transmission of the United States mails or as an arti ficer or workman in an armory, arse- i nal. or navy yard of the United States, ' or f you are a mariner employed in , the sea service of any citizen or mer chant within the united States, so state. If you are a felon or otherwise morally deficient and desire to claim exemption on that ground, state your ground briefly. If you claim physical disability, state that briefly. If you claim exemption on any other ground state youf ground briefly. GURU'S GALL FOR VOLUNTEERS MORE THAN FIVE THOUSAND NEEDED TO FILL UP GUARD RANKS. DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH Doings and Happenings That Mark the Progress of North Carolina Peo ple, Gathered Around the State Capital. Raleigh. Governor BIckett's proclamation calling for more than five thousand volunteers to fill the ranks of the Na tional Guard follows: The War Department has ordered the North Carolina National Guard to be recruited to full war strength. To meet this requirement the follow ing recruits are necessary: First Regiment 1,000 Second Regiment ....1,100 Third Regiment 1,200 Other organizations 1,800 These other organizations include the Coast Artillery, Cavalary, Engi neers, and Sanitary Troops. It is seen that over 5,000 volunteers are needed to bring the National Guard up to ful war strength. It is apparent, therefore, that any one who may have opposed the selective draft because he did not like the thought of being con scripted is now given a chance to vol unteer for militry service. Then, too, there ira several distinct advantages In enlisting In the National Guard: 1. While those who enlist in the National Guard will be required to register they will he exempt from draft. 2. He who enlists has the privilege of selecting the command and branch of service he desired to enter. 3. He will serve under officers he knows and among his own friends and acquaintances. 4. A person volunteering for ser vice in the National Guard will be re quired to enlist only for the duration of the war. 5. A permanent roll of those who enlist will be preserved and the names will be published daily in the news papers. 6. The man who volunteers for ser vice in the National Guard has a bet ter chance for promotion than he who is taken into the army under the selective draft. Conaidering these advantages to gether with the appeal the country makes for men, I confidently expect the patriotic young manhood of North Carolina to quickly fill up the ranks of the National Guard. History does not show where a nation has ever made a worthier appeal than our coun try makes to its sons today. This Re public has unsheathed its sword in de fense of humanity and to prove that Republics have a right to live. Amer ica has planted the emblem of liberty and democracy in the pathway of the tyrant and the autocrat. And she now calls upon her sons to keep it there. We like to sing of the "sweet land of liberty" and "the home of the brave and the free." But the time has como when it is not enough to sing only. We must back the sentiment with act ion in order that that which gave birth to the sentiment shall not perish from the earth. America has lifted her arm in de fense of Christian civilization and she now calls upon her sons to save that civilization. This is no ordinary war. It is a war of ideals. For in it a civ ilization that exalts love and service is pitted against civilization that ex alts power and selfishness. A civiliza tion in which the strong must serve the weak is at war with a civilization in which the weak must serve the strong. It is, in short, a war to de termine whether the ideals of Jesus or the ideals of Thor shall dominate the world. We like to pray, "Thy king dom come." But the time has come when it is not enough to pray only. Now, therefore, I, Thomas Walter Bickett, Governor of North Carolina, do hereby call upon and urge unmar ried men who are fit for military ser vice to enlist in the organizations lo cated in the community in which they reside. And the people of all com munities in which the various com panies are located are earnestly urged to take an active interest In bringing up the organization to their full war strength. No citizen of the State should be content until this is done. Never yet j has the nation called and failed to ( receive prompt answer from the peo- j pie of North Carolina. Let us not j forget that in every crisis in the Re- ' public's liff , from Kings Mountain to ', the present momentous hour, the peo-' Will Not Hinder Enlistments. The War Department telegraphed the Adjutant General of the North Carolina National Guard that young men eligible to enlist In the National Guard can continue to be recruited for the Guard service after they have reg istered or enrolled under the selective draft bill, June 5, until the actual draft is made. The telegram read?: "Men required to register June 5 under the selective draft bill will be allowed to enlist In the National Guard after that date until the actual draft is mad a." pie at this Commonwealth hare ra ponded to their country's call with a spirit of selfsacrifice and devotion tn duty worthy of the best traditions of the Anglo-Saxon race and with a cour age that has challenged the admira tion of mankind in every land where people love liberty and men are not afraid to die for a principle. North Carolina will not fail must not fall in this hour. I know that our people want the State to do its full share of the work that must be done by the States of this Union, not only to preserve free government on this continent, but in order that the whole world may be "made safe for democracy." Therefore, I appeal with confidence to the patriotic manhood of the State. And I expect a response worthy of the sons of the fathers who laid down their lives in order that we might be free. Done at our City of Raleigh, this the 21st day of May, in the' year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and in the one hundred and forty-first year of our American Inde pendence. T. W. BICKETT, Governor, By the Governor. SANFORD MARTIN, Private Sect'y. Care of Rural Cemeteries. W. S. Wilson, legislative reference librarian, has mailed out letters to reg ister deeds of every county asking him to call the attention of the county com missioners to law enacted by the re cent General Assembly in reference to the care and beautifying of rural cem eteries. The act is as follows: An act to provide for the proper care and beautifying of rural ceme teries. The General Assembly of North Car olina do enact: Section 1. That It shall be the duty of the boards of county commissioners of the various counties In the state to prepare and keep on record In the office of the register of deeds a list of all the public cemeteries In the counties outside the limits of incorpor ated towns and cities, and not estab lished and maintained for the use of an Incorporated town or city, together with the names and adresses of the person or persons In possessiou and control of the same. To such libt shall be added a list of the public ceme teries in the rural districts of such counties which have been abandoned, and it shall be the duty of the county boards of commissioners to furnish to the Legislative Reference Librarian copies of the lists of such public and abandoned cemeteries, to the end that he may furnish to said boards for the use of the persons in control of such cemeteries suitable literature suggest ing methods of taking care of such places. Sec. 2. That in order to encourage the persons in possession and control of the public cemeteries referred to in section one of this act to take proper care of and beautify such cem eteries, to distinctly mark their boun dary line with evergreen hedges or rows of suitable trees, and to other wise lay out the grounds In an or derly manner, the board of county commissioners of any county, upon be ing notified that two-thirds of the ex penses necessary for so marking and beautifying any cemetery has been raised by the local governing body of the institution which owns the cem etery, and is actually in hand, be and it is hereby required to appropriate from the general fund of the county, one-third of the expense necessary to pay for such work, the amount appro priated ty the board of commissioners in no case to exceed fifteen dollars for each cemetery. Sec. 3. That the boards of county commissioners of the various counties be and they are hereby required to take possession and control of all abandoned public cemeteries in their respective counties, to see that the boundaries and lines are clearly laid out, defined, and marked, and to take proper steps to preserve them from encroachment, and they are hereby authorized to appropriate from the gen eral fund of the county whatever suryi or sums may be necessary from to time for the above purposes, f Sec. 4. That this act shall 1 force from and after Its ratlflc Ratified this the 1st day of 11 A. D., 1917. Medical Corps Reorganized In a reorganization, of the corps of the National Gua resignations were accepted of promotions given and inal . appointments were nj militia bureau of the War Dr. Paul Carter, of Goldj pointed First Lieutenant cl Corps and assigned? Infantry; Dr. Claude drews, is appointed First .ft the Medical Coirs and Ambulance Company No and Dr. Eugene R. Cocke is appointed First LieutfA Medical Corps and assigij Field Hospital Corps at Asi n.a.H mn v:aAn ran m u i i r a - . Returning from a sheep and wool , conference held at Philadelphia re cently, R. S. Curtis, Animal Husband man North Carolina Experiment Sta tion, says that farmers of the South now have an opportunity to purchase Western range breeding ewes at a very reasonable price. These will be distributed by carlrod lots due to an arrangement made with Western breeders by the Philadelphia Wool and Textile Association. The great valu of the Western range animal is com' parativ freedom from sumach ifOrm J 1 r r NERVOUSNESS AND BLUE Symptoms of More Serious Sickness. Washington Park, EL "I am th toother of four chfldren and have suf fered with female trouble, backache, nervous spells and the blues. 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You may receive a sample size bottle by Parcel Post, also pamphlet telling- about it. Address Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y and enclose ten cents, also mention this paper. DAISY FLY KILI ER nvi ia.v-7 aiia all file. Haat, eteu, ornamental, MDVMllMit, hmp, Laata all MM Mada of aa't iplU or tip orori will net aail or tnj or anything. Our ntwd affactlva. Sold by daalara, or Mnt by -proa prepaid for $1.00. HAROU COMERS. ISO DE HALS AVE., BROOKLYN. N. V. . PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM A tollot preparation of merit. Bale to eradicate dandruff. For Rest oriac Color and Beauty to Cray or Faded Hair. too, and f LOO at Drartrtsta. One-Sided Recognition. They passed on the street without speaking but their eyes held mutual recognition and challenge. She was accompanied by a female friend, and he had a male companion. When they had passed, the girl said : "That was poor Jack Jurgens. He didn't speak, but you noticed his look, didn't you? Poor boy It hurts me to think how he has never got over my refusal to marry him. Of course, he was all broken up at the time, but I thought he would soon get over It. He's thinner, isn't he? I do hope that he hasn't plunged into dissipation. He couldn't trust himself to speak, could he? Oh, dear!" And the man was saying: "Did you see how that dame gave me the eye? I suppose I should have spoken to her, because I can't help thinking I've met her somewhere her face is familiar, but I can't place her." -Cleveland Plain Dealer. Lemon Juice For Freckles Girls! Make beauty lotion at home for a few cents. Try Itl Squeeze the juice of two lemons Into a bottle containing three ounces of orchard white, shake well, and you have a quarter pint of the best freckle and tan lotion, and complexion beau tlfier, at very, very small cost. Tour grocer has the lemons and any drug store or toilet counter will supply three ounces of orchard white for a few cents. 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