Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-29
United States Has 2O,473,.
684 Men Who Are 10 TO
a Years Of Age
Is an Increase Of 1865
Over 1900, Which Sur.
passes Six States

United States has a natural militia
Of 2O,473,6 This announcement was
issued today by Director Durand Of
the bureau of the census Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor, being
based on the returns of the thirteenth
d%ecennial census. The militia stats.
tics We're compiled under the direc-
ton of William c. Hunt, chief Stats.
tician for population in the bureau,
and does not include Alaska, Hawaii,
possessions of this country. All males
between the ages of eighteen and
fOrty-four years are considered as
members of the natural militia.
TO this total of more than twenty
millions the District of Columbia con.
tributes 7S,349, as against 62,9Sl in
1900. Though this does not appear
to be a large number when the total
is taken into consideration, it sur.
passes the following states, with their
respective populations: Vermont,
1865; Delaware, 44,G34; Wyoming,
1864; New Mexico. 1897; Arizona,
1862; Nevada, 29,3S3.
Districts Increase 1888.
The district, it may be noted, shows
an increase of 1860 over 1900. It's
contribution of males of militia age
is now 1871 per cent of its total pop.
u%lation, as against a percentage Of
22.6 in 1900. The total number of
males of militia age in the district
is slightly less than half, 49.G per
cent, of the total male population.
The south Atlantic division Of
states, in which the district is includ.
ed, contains a militia population Of
2,405 ,S95, being greater than the New
England, east south central, west
south central, mountain and Pacific
divisions. The several divisions ex-
elusive of the one Of which the dis
trict forms part follow: New England,
l,45S,900; middle Atlantic, 4,542. 493;
east north central, 4,102,692; west
north central, 2,G12,095; east south
central, 1,G27,471; west south central,
1,S13,OAS; mountain, 7l4,143, and Pa.
cific, l,l96,947.
Total Increase 4,290,98
In 1900 the total number of males
of militia age in the United States
Was 1912, TOP. The figure for 1910
exceeds that for 1900 by 4,290,9S2.
While the total population of the
country has increased during the de-
cade 81 per cent, males of militia age
have in the same period increased
26.5 per cent, and, as Il consequence,
they constitute a somewhat greater
1910 than they did in 1900. OF the
total population Of bth sexes and all
ages in 1910, 1928 per cent were males
of militia age, the corresponding per.
centage for 1900 being 21.3.
The fact that males of militia age
increased more rapidly than the total
population is accounted for in part
by immigration, which has been dur
ing the last decade to a greater de-
gree 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 conse-
quently the northern and western
states, to which immigrants chiefly
go, have, as compared with the south
ern states, a greater proportion Of
their population males of militia age.
The eastern divisions, however, lose
some portion OF their adult male
population by migration westward,
and an effect of this westward mi
grafton appears in the higher percen-
tages shown .or the states of the
mountain and Pacific coast
regions. ...ta.F. d.
Average Percentages in North.
AS compared with the general av-
erage for the country as a whole of
22.3 per cent, males of militia age in
1910 formed 22.S per cent of the total
population in the four northern divi-
sions taken together, rs per cent in
the two far western divisions ano
1873 per cent in the three southern
divisions taken together. The per-
centages in the individual northern
states are, with few exceptions, close
ito the average for the country as a
whole; in the far western states they
ire generally considerably above,
and in the southern states generally
below this average.
Among the states the percentage
'or Wyoming is highest, males Of
age in 1910 constituting 37.4
Der cent of the population. Other
states with high percentages are Ne
1ada. $3.50; Montana, 3".S; Washing
ton, 20.8; Arizona, ESQ; Oregon, 2S.3,
Ind California, %, all of these states
)eing in the Rocky mountain and Pa
life coast regions. The percentage
North Carolina 1f.S, is the low
let.
One Of he obstacles in the way Of