Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1917 — JUNE 5 IS REGISTRATION DAY [ARTICLE]

JUNE 5 IS REGISTRATION DAY

All Men Between Twenty-One and Thirty-One Included. President Wilson issued a proclamation Friday night designating Tuesday, June 5, as registration day and on Saturday signed the selective army draft bill, thus making it a law. The proclamation orders the registration of all men in the United States who have passed their twen-ty-first birthday nut who have not passed their thirty-first birthday. The registration must be made in the registration place of the election precinct of which the man is a legal resident. The only men who need not register are those who are already in the military service of the nation. There are no other exemptions, married men being required to register the same as single men. The law says: “Every such person shall be deemed to have notice of the requirements of this 7 act upon the publication of said proclamation or other notice as aforesaid given by the President or by his direction; and any person who shall wilfully fail or refuse, to present himself for registration or to submit thereto as herein provided shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction in the district court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year, and shall thereupon be duly registered, provided that in the call of the docket precedence shall be given in courts trying the same to the trial of criminal proceedings 'under this act.’’ " - The law further provides “that persons shall be subject to registration, as herein provided, who shall have attained their twenty-first birthday and who shall not have attained their thirty-first birthday on or before the’day set for the registration, and all persons so registered shall be and remain subject to draft into the forces hereby authorized, unless exempted or excused therefrom as" in this act provided. Provided further, that in the case of temporary absence from actual place of residence of any person liable >tO registration as provided herein, such registration may be made by mail under regulations to be prescribed by the President.”