Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1917 — STATES SLOW IN MAKING RETURNS [ARTICLE]

STATES SLOW IN MAKING RETURNS

Draft Total Will Be Under 10,200,000 Estimate. OHIO EXCEEDS ITS QUOTA Ix>cal Boards Will Be Appointed for Each 30,000 Pouplation to Pass Upon Claims lor Exemption. Registration Totals States completing their registration] tallies reported us follows: Alienl State. Registered. Aliens. Enemy. Wisconsin ....211.161 5.558 28,709 Connecticut ... 159,761 58*519 1,120 Arkansas 147.522 fc so6 98 Rhode Island.. 53,478 15,043 120 So. Carolina... .128,039 447 58 Vermont 27,058 3,487 72 Delaware 21,864 2,883 92 California 297,482 f

Washington, June 8. —Registration returns continue to come in slowly from Tuesday’s great military census, preventing Anything approaching a conclusive estimate as to the number of men actually enrolled. An official statement, however, said! such partial returns as were at hand] indicated that the 19.290,000 estimate of the census bureau fur the number of men within the prescribed ages woqld not be equaled. A feature of the few complete retdrns Is the high percentage of the Indicated exemption,, averaging approximately 50 per cent of the total registration. Officials said that this did not mean actual exemptions, as the indicated figures Include all married men and those In executive, judl-i dal or legislative office. To pass upon claims for from military service under the con-i scriptton law, local boards will be appointed for approximately each 30,000 population. This was announced by the provostmarshal general’s office, hr a statement saying: “The local boards will have to do| especially with self-executing exemptions —those In which exemption de-1 pends only upon the determination of| facts. “In each federal judicial district 1 there will be at least one board of' review to which appeal may be taken| from local boards, and which will have also original Jurisdiction In the exclusion of discharge from the selective draft.” 266,370 In Indiana. Indianapolis, June B.—Complete un-t official registration figures for Indiana are 266,370, it was announced. Ohio Exceeding Quota. Columbus, <)., June 8 With registration continuing in Cleveland and other Ohio points and figures already reported in excess of 530,000, indications are that Ohio’s military registration will reach 550,000 or more, a| figure far in excess of the original estimate. Figures available aggregate 533,454. Michigan Expects 350,000. Lansing, Mich., June 8. —Officials at the state capitol announced that Michigan’s registration figures probably vVIl! exceed 350,000. They based their estimate upon totals received from about three-fourths of the state. Kentucky Runs Behind. Frankfort. Ky., June B.—Eighty-four of the 120 counties in Kentucky and two of the four cities of 30,000 population today reported a total of 114,673 registrations under. the selective, draft law. Federal estimates exceeded it by 1,101. Kansas 40,000 Short. Topeka, Kan., June B.—Official registration figures for Kansas, With 28 counties and one city of more than 30,000 yet to report, are 89,682. The returns indicate that Kansas, will fall about 40,000 short of the government’s estimate of 180,183. ( Minnesota Figures. St. Paul, Minn., June 8. —Minnesota Registrations are running slightly below government estimates, according to official reports received by Governor Burnquist. Returns from 51 out of 86 counties and the city of Duluth to&il 90,713, against the government estimate of 97,735. To Rescue of Signers. Provost Marshal General Crowder does not want the impression to be created that these of exemptions are due to wholesale claims of exemption on the part of the young men of the country. Lest this impression might gain credence he Issued a statement on the subject as follows: “Some published reports are to the effect that figures received in the office of the provost marshal general indicate millions of claims for exemption. These reports consist of conclusions erroneously drawn and unjust to the •young men of the country. As a matter of fact no claims whatever hav®

been called for or received, and registration card? contain questions that were asked solely for statistical reasons-”: ' ‘Secretary of War Baker stated that he had received a large number of letters |concerning exemptions, but not in a single instance was marriage given as the base of the claim. Many of the letters, on the contrary. were from wiyes «>f men. of military age, declaring that they did not want their husbands to claim exemption from service beca use t key were ma tried.