Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1919 — Records by the Ton. [ARTICLE]

Records by the Ton.

Records of the selective service now in the hands of the adjutant general of the army at Washington, if stacked end to end, would .make a line of filing cases seven miles long, four feet high and 14 inches wide. Twenty acres of floor space will be required to house the papers, officials say, and a force of between 4,000 and 5,000 will be necessary to sort, file and index them.