Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1917 — TEN MILLION ARE SUBJECT TO THE DRAFT [ARTICLE]

TEN MILLION ARE SUBJECT TO THE DRAFT

Census Bureau Estimates That Is Number of Men Between 21 and 30. __ TEN FER CENT OF POPULATION Figures Show Men of Draft Age in the Several States and in the Leading Cities—Government Ready for Registration. Washington. —According to a statement issued by Director Sain L. Kogers of the bureau of the census, department of commerce, there are estimated to be in the United States at the present time, in round numbers, 10,000,000 men between the ages of} twenty-one and thirty, inclusive. Tills number represents very nearly 10 per cent of the estimated population of the country —between 103,000,000 and 104,000,000. The table below shows, for the United States, and for the leveling cities, the numbers of males between the ages of twenty-one and thirty, inclusive, on July 1, 1917. The figures for that date are estimated on the assumption that the annual numerical increase since 1910 in each state lias been the same as the average annual numerical increase between 1900 and 1910. Subject to Draft. July 1,1917 (estimated). United States ........................10.078,900 Alabama . 309,900 Arizona - 34.(00 Arkansas California - 3b2,0W Colorado N9,y00 Connecticut Delaware .... ...........• • • ?0,100 District of Columbia 3J.400 Florida 95,300 Georgia ............................... 255,400 Idaho .. • 51,800 6?9:wo Indiana Idwa ?..... 799,000 Kansas Kentucky Maine * .§7*2x2 Maryland Minnesota 244,700 Mississippi Missouri -J5.000 Montana Nebraska I®.*** Nevada ......... —iS>x2? Nev Hampshire 'MBOO -New Jersey ...... New Mexico ’■ New York •North Carolina • l-h. 400 North Dakota 89.000 Ohio 491.300 L Oklahoma ■■■ *3.500 Oregon • • • Pennsylvania J.. 874,000 Rhode Island 60,300 South Carolina •» 13<.100 South Dakota «-600 Ten nessee .. - rr........ i*.w Vermont West Virginia 1 ’« Wisconsin • •••• zg.ow ’Wyemfur-•«- ■• ■ ■ Cities’ quota. 700 Chicago, 111. •« ?-i sno St. Louis, Mo Boston. Mass .•••• •••••? Li'rain Cleveland. O. £'222 Baltimore, Md. "1'”22 Pittsburgh, Pa. O'- 200 Prepare sot Registration. Acting on these figures, the war department began the distribution of upward of nine million registration to be filled in at the polling ’and other designated places by the men who fall within the draft ages. The blank cards contain spaces for

answers to 12 questions, which will embody all the Information, will ch the government desires of each individual. Commercial travelers and others within the' ages of twenty-one andthirty, inclusive, who happen to be absent from their homes on registration days will be required to procure cards wherever they may be on that date and mail them to the county clerks in their home registration dlstricts. ' . l