Show r REGISTRARS A AWAIT WAIT YOU IS MESSAGE OF GENERAL CROWDER 0 WASHINGTON Sept iL 11 On n.-On On the thc eve cYe of the great muster o of the nations nation's manhood for the war Provost Pro Marshal General Crowder summed up the thc situation in ill a brief message e addressed to the thc men between 18 and 45 years who will register tomorrow The registrars are arc at their posts awaiting you Ott His last word cord to prospective registrants was Upon every er e man between the a ages es of oC IS and 13 45 5 years year both bolh inclusive not heretofore te registered or not already In active military and naval na service rests the obligation to register Thursday Through this Je registration It Is proposed to enroll the tho names of or approximately approximately approximately men not subject IH heretofore to tho the draft This task tash completed AmerIca will have taken a census of or its available manpower With this enrollment and the registrations of ot June 5 1917 June Juneo u o 1918 1913 an and August 24 24 4 1918 we shall have placed in this reservoir the names of or approximately men From those we wo select choosing for tor the arm army those best suited physically and b by circumstances for the tho field of or battle batlle and classifying classifying- those remaining In accordance with the extent to which their energies en energies en- en ergle's are needed for Cor tho the support of or the nation at homo home and the maintenance of oC the m military military- tar establishment It Is thus thu that we must proceed If It we are arc most effectively to distribute tho the energies of or our people for tor tho time task of or winning the warThe warThe war The obligation atlon resting upon the individual this da day is cut clear and not notto notto notto to be bo mistaken The patriotism and the honor of or our manhood furnish the main reliance of the nation at this hour Patriots will not fall to respond Slackers must respond For those who would e a evade e their obligation the tho law provides punishment swift and certain A years year's Imprisonment faces the man who evades e And no man can buy his escape from this penalty through payment payment payment pay pay- ment of oC a fine The registrars arc at their post awaiting you rou you |