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Show BOYS REACHING MAJORITY TO REGISTER WEDNESDAY ! With the signing by President Wilson Wil-son of the bill and proclamation designating desig-nating Wednesday, June 6, as the day ; on which all men who have reached 'the age of 21 since last June 5 shall register for military service, Provost Marshal General Crowder's office immediately im-mediately began preparation for the enrollment of the men. Instead of using us-ing the election machinery as was done last year. Gen. Crowder will call upon the local boards. It is believed that their experience during the past year has peculiarly fitted them to handle the new registration economically and efficiently. ; Gen. Crowder has estimated that probably three-quarters of a million 1 men will be added to the American Army by the new registration. His ! estimate is based on the fact that almost al-most 10,000.000 men registered last year. This number included all between be-tween the ages of 21 and 31, and sta- tistics collected by Gen. Crowder's office show that a little more than 10 per cent of these men were 21 years , old. On that basis it is estimated by draft officials that the total registration registra-tion will exceed 1,000,000, of which ,750,000 will be'available for military service. This makes proper allow-l allow-l ances for physical defectives, exemptions exemp-tions because of dependents, and other bars to military service. The law provides that every young man in the United States who has reached the age of 21 years since June 5, 1917, or will reach that age on or before June 5, 1918, must register. The only exceptions are in the cases i of men who are actually in active ! military or naval service. All male j persons, citizens or aliens, born between be-tween June 8, 1896, and June 5, 1897, ! inclusive, except officers and enlisted ' men of the Regular Army, Navy, and ! Marine Corps, and the National Guard and Naval Militia while in Federal service, and officers in the Officers' Reserve Corps and enlisted men in i the Enlisted Reserve Corps while in active service, must register. Some j misunderstanding has been caused by j the publication of reports that mcdi-, mcdi-, cal and divinity students need not ; register, and Gen. Crowder has issued I the following statement: I "Divinity students and students of medicine must register. Under the terms of the law signed by President Wilson on Monday students who were preparing for the ministry in recognized recog-nized theological or divinity schools, and students who were preparing for the practice of medicine and surgery in recognized medical schools on May 20, 1918, are exempt from the draft. However, the law does not relieve such ! students from the duty of registering Ion Wednesday, June 5. Registration j comes first, exemption afterwards. It is absolutely necessary that these stu- dents register." I The registration will be held in the i office of the local board at the County , Court house in Castle Dale, between I 7 a. m. and 9 p. m. on Wednesday, ! June 5, 1 918. j It is necessary to go to the registra-: registra-: tion place in person. Any man who i expects to he absent from home on Wednesday, June 5, 1918, should go at once to the office of the local board i where he expects to be and have his ' registration card filled out and certified. certi-fied. He must then mail this card to ' the office of the local board having ! jurisdiction of the place wherein he ' permanently resides, and in view of j the tact that this card must be received re-ceived by his home local board on or before June 5, it is essential that anyone any-one who expects to be away from home j on that date arrange for his rcglstra-i rcglstra-i tion immediately. : Anyone who is sick on June 5 and 'unable to present himself in person at ' the office of the local board may send I some competent friend, who may be I deputized by the clerk to prepare his ' card. ! It is not anticipated that many will be delinquent. It is hoped that, none j will be, but for those who do fail to perform their duty Congress has provided pro-vided a very heavy penalty. Failure to register on June 5 constitutes a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment imprison-ment for one year, and may result, furthermore, in the loss of valuable rights and privileges and immediate induction into military service. w. s. s. |