Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1917 — The Registration Day Program. [ARTICLE]

The Registration Day Program.

In addition to preliminary mass meetings and patriotic church services to be held in advance of June sth, general celebrations should be the order for registration day. Church bells and fire bells should be rung at the hour of the opening of the polls, meetings should be arranged for public places with addresses; parades should be organized in which young men of registration age will be given places of honor. Every ibusiness place and private residence should fly a flag. The day should end with a grand rally with speeches, songs and music and some special mark of hon - or shown those who have registered. All men must register who have attained by June sth, their twenty-first birthday and must not have attained their thirty-first birthday, regardless of nationality. Sickness, physical disability of any kind or absence from home does not excuse failure to register. National Guardsmen not mustered into the service of the United States before June sth must register. A years’ imprisonment and enforced registration are the penalty for failure to register. A year’s imprisonment is the penalty for making false statements at registration whether about one’s self or any other person. Where the person failing to register is subject to military law he will be courtmartialed. Men exempt from registration are those who on June. sth have not attained their twenty-first birthday and those who have attained their thirtyfirst birthday and the following: Men in the navy or regular army of the United States, the marine corps, the officers’ reserve corps. Members of the National Guard and naval militia actually in the service of the United States on June sth. Men in the enlisted reserve corps in the service of the United States on June sth.