The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-08-26
(By Winfield Jones.)

States, the number of males comprls-
ing the natural militia of the country,
as shown by the returns of the Thir-
teenth Decennial Census, taken as OF
April 10, 1910, has been issued by
Director Durant of the Bureau of the
Census.
In the total population of the Unit
ed States exclusive of contiguous
territories or possession there was il
1910, 20,473,6S4 males of militia age,
that is, from Is to Al years, inclusive.
In 1900 the males of militia age mum
bered 16,1S2,7O2. The figure for 1910
exceeds that for 1900 by 4,29O,9S2.
While the total population of the
country has increased during the de-
cade II per cent, males of militia
age have in the same period increased
26.5 per cent, and, as a consequence
they constituted a somewhat greater
proportion Of the total population in
1910 than they did in 1900. OF the
total population of both sexes and all
ages in 1910, 223 per cent were male
of militia age, the corresponding
lercentage for 1900 being 21.3.
The tact that males of militia age
increased more rapidly than the total
population is accounted for IN part by
immigration, which has been during
the last decade to a greater degree
than in earlier years, predomi-
nantly male. Among immigrants the
proportion IS to Al years of age
greatly exceeds the proportion in
those ages among natives, and con-
seuuently the northern and western
states to which immigrants chiefly go
have, as compared with the southern
states, a greater proportion of their
population males of militia age. The
eastern divisions, however, lose some
norton of their adult male population
by migration westward, and an effect
of this westward migration appears
in the higher percentages shown for
the states of the Rocky Mountain and
Pacific coast regions.
AS com pared with the general ay-
erage noted above for the country as
a whole, of 22.3 per cent, males Of
militia age in 1910 formed 22.3 per
cent OF the total population in the
four northern divisions taken togeth
er, rs per cent in the two far western
divisions and 1873 per cent in the
three southern divisions taken to-
gether. The percentages in the indi-
vidual northern states are with few
exceptions close to the average for the
country as a whole; in the far west
ern states they are generally con-
siderably above and in the southern
states generally below this average.
Among states the percentage for
Wyoming is highest, males of militia
age in 1910 constituting 31.4 per cent
OF the population. Other states with
| high percentages are Nevada 35.9,
Montana 1928, Washington 29.S, Ari-
zona 2S.9, Oregon 2S.3, and Califor-
mia 2S, all of these states being in the
Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast
regions. The percentage for North
Carolina, 17.S, is the lowest.
of the 2O,473,6S4 males of militia
age in 1910, 2,156,361 were in the
single area of New York. OF the in
crease for the decade amounting tC
4,99O,9S2, nearly one fourth, 1,074,424,
was in the Middle Atlantic division,
comprising the states of New York,
New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The
male population of militia age in New
York state increased 516,966, in
Pennsylvania 3S2,7O3, in California
2SG,645, in Illinois 2S9,OS4, in Texas
2O5,759
In each of the states except five,
males of militia age constituted a
greater proportion of the total popu-
lation in 1910 than they did in 1870
In four states maine, New Hamp-
shire, Montana, and Colorado) the
proportion declined slightly, and in
one (Kentucky) it was unchanged.
: Nevada shows the greatest change in
the percentage of males of militia
age, from 27.4 to 35.9 per cent.
Males of militia age constituted 43.3
per cent of the total male population
of the country in 1910, the corre-
spending percentage for 1900 being
All. In five states the male popula-
ton in 1910 was more than half of
militia age-Wyoming 59.6 per cent,
Nevada $50, Montana 54.9. Washing