CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - Extend War age Limit ==================================================================== NEGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the NEGenWeb Archives by Carol Tramp Permission granted by: Rob Dump, Editor, Cedar County News ====================================================================== CEDAR COUNTY NEWS 9-15-1918 Extend War age Limit Men from 18 to 45 to be Registered for Military Service on Sept. 5 Preparations are already under way for the registeration of every man in Cedar county between the ages of 18 and 45 for Military service in anticipation of the push by congress of the bill now being considered raising of the age limits. While the measure, if it becomes a law both lower and raise the age limits, its real intent is to secure a large class of men without dependents and who have no exemptions who can be called into immediate service. In some cases these men will be available for routine duties at the camps and cantonments and behind the lines, releasing for active duty thousands of younger men who have had the military training and who are chafing under the restraint of camp duties and anxious to go to the front. Preparations are already being made by the county exemption board for a county wide registeration of these men. As planned now this will be done Sept . 5th. The local board urges those who acted as registrars on June 15, 1917 to act again this year because of their familiarity with the forms to be used. New registrars will be appointed where the old ones can not serve. County clerk Beaty believes that the new registerations will not produce may class 1 men in Cedar County as the great majority of men, over 32 are engaged in agriculture. The measure will hit hardest in cities where many single men above that age are engaged in occupations which are regarded as none essential.