Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1917 — Fear Double Quotas Will Not Suffice. [ARTICLE]

Fear Double Quotas Will Not Suffice.

One thing that is now apparent is that more than twice the men required will have to be called and examined before the counties will get their quotas. It is said that in most of 3 the counties of the state at least fifty per cent of the registrants are inending ot claim exemption because of disabilities, family dependents and occupational reasons, in addition to the special classes exempted in the president’s proclamation. If the per centage of exemptions indicated is maintained, one-half of the first contingent calle dwill be exempted, leaving only one-half of the net quota asked, out- of which to secure one hundred per cent. This is not possible, for out of fifty per cent not claiming exemption, which corresponds to the net quota asked, a large number of men will be rejected for physical disability. In the civil war draft, 25.77 per cent were rejected for physical defects and physicians estimate that about thirty per cent of the men not seeking exemption will be disqualified for the army. If this percentage should be maintained generally in the first examinations, which* begin this week, then approximately eighty per cent of all the men summoned for examination, including those entitled to exemptions, will be rejected for the fighting quota. On this basis it will require the summoning of more than double the number already called for the next enumerations before the net quota is secured.