The Pensacola journal., 1917-06-28
FULL RETURNS
Of SELECTIVE
DRAF 7 MADE
Allowing for 100000 Enlist
ments Registration Gives
Total of 1O,O79,OOO.
1883 ARE
GERMAN SUBJECTS
Labor Shifts Responsible for
Variation in Certain
States.
GERMAN SUBJECTS
SPECIAL TO THE JOURNAL.


rector Sam. L. Rogers, of the Bu-
reau of the Census, Department of
Commerce, today authorized the fol-
lowing announcement:
Returns from every state in the
Union, with Niagara county, n. Y,
and three precincts in Wyoming miss
ing, show a total registration of g.,
659,382, or 95.9 per ant of the Cen
sus Bureaus estimate, allowance be-
ing made for the missing territory.
The apparent shortage, about 413,000
is considerably less than the number
Of men q to 80 years Of age, in
elusive, who are estimated by the
War Department to have been in the
various branches of the military and
naval services Of the United States
on June S, and for that reason ex-
empt from the requirement of regis
tration. This number is 100000. On
the face Of these figures, therefore,
it appears that the number of men
between the ages of q and 81 in the
United States is slightly in excess
of the number estimated by the Cen
sus Bureau on May 12-10,O79, 900.
Of the 9,659,382 registrants re-
ported, 7,347,794 are white citizens;
953,899 are colored citizens; 1925, 1865
are unnaturalized foreigners from
countries other than Germany; ILL.,
S23 are unnaturalized Germans, in
cluding ''declarants," that is, persons
having declared their intention to be-
come citizens but not having received
their final naturalization papers; and
6,001 are Indians. The registrars
were instructed by the War Depart
ment to include with white citizens
all declarants from countries with
which the United States was not at
war, but a comparison of the regis
tration figures with the reports of the
Census Bureau and the bureaus of
immigration and naturalization indi-
Gates that most of the declarants
registered as aliens.
There is nothing in the returns to
indicate that there has been any gen.
eral attempt at evasion of registra-
tion by any important element of the
population. In a few states the reg
istration was far below the estimates,
but this shortage was offset by reg
istration in excess of the estimates
in other states. This is. because the
last Federal Census was taken in
1910 and only a few states have
enumerated their inhabitants since
that year, so that the Census Bureau
had few reliable data as to the abb
normal shiftings of population which
have taken place between certain
parts of the country in recent years,
and particularly since the outbreak
of the war gave so great an impetus
TO the manufacture of munitions and
other commodities l-eeded by the
belligerents. The manufacturing in
dustTies thus affected are located
mainly in the northeastern states
and as a result the population of
these states has increased with alb
normal rapidity at the expense of
other parts of the country. Further
more, the increases and decreases
have been very largely in the very
class covered by the registration
that is, men between the ages Of q
and 81.
It was expected therefore, that for
certain states the estimates-which
i'm the absence of definite informa,
ton as to the extent of the abnormal
movement of population, and partic.
ularly of the male population between
the ages of p and 81, just referred
to, were necessarily based on the as,
sumption that the increase in popula.
tion which took place in each state
between 1900 and 1910 has continued
since the latter year and that thC
proportion of males between 81 anC
81 years of age has remained un.
changed-would be wide of the mark
The most pronounced discrepancies
appear for Washington, in which The
registration amounted to 49.8 pei
cent Of the estimate: for Oregon, II
which 1t was 57.9 per cent; for NORTH
Dakota, with 73 per cent; for Wyo
mlng' for which the report, witt
three precincts missing, indicates &
registration of about 65 per cent ot
the estimate; for Nevada. with III
per cent; and for South Dakota, witt
72.1 per cent, In no other state was
the registration less than rs per cent
of the estimate. On the other hand
IA states-Arizona, Connecticut Del
aware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa Nassa.
chusetts, Michigan, Montan5s Me-,
Hampshire, New Jersey. Nortb CaTo.
lima, Ohio, and Wisconsin-e,v-ceesJel
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