The Independent . Tuesdaypassed off with less disorder than anaverage general election and the largenumber of the men who enrolled, esti-mated at some ten million, is proof thatonly a comparatively small percentageof the young men of the nation can havefailed to comply with the only violence worth recordingthruout the whole country was the re-fusal of some Navajo Indians in Ari-zona and Utes in Colorado to registerand their threats to go on the warpathif any further attempt should be madeto bring them within the scope of thecompulsory service law. The attitudeof these Indians
The Independent . Tuesdaypassed off with less disorder than anaverage general election and the largenumber of the men who enrolled, esti-mated at some ten million, is proof thatonly a comparatively small percentageof the young men of the nation can havefailed to comply with the only violence worth recordingthruout the whole country was the re-fusal of some Navajo Indians in Ari-zona and Utes in Colorado to registerand their threats to go on the warpathif any further attempt should be madeto bring them within the scope of thecompulsory service law. The attitudeof these Indians seems to have beenlargely due to the belief that the actof registration was identical with thedraft and that all who registered wouldbe compelled to enter the army at the nature of the registrationwas explained to the Indians many ofthem registered, but a few fled fromthe reservations. Very few conscien-tious objectors absented themselvesfrom the registration, but a large num-ber applied for
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