The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-06-21
NEWS CULLED
IN THE CAPITAL
ACTIVITIES OF STATE DEPART
MENTS - OTHER HAPPENINGS
ohio's Population Is 5,s5s, 500.


This is the deduction at state regis
tration headquarters after an analysis
of the figures showing the enrolment
for military service Tuesday and COM
putations based on 1910 census figures.
Bearing in mind that the figures can
be only estimated and making allow
ances for the probability that proper
tions true in 1910 are not exactly the
same at the present time, this is the
way the Ohio approximation was OBJ
tanned:
By the 1910 census there were In
Ohio a total of 23O,39O men between
the ages Of 20 and "a, and 219,S13 be-
tween the ages Of rs and 20, a total
of 450,203. This range of ages in.
cludes the class OF 20 and 81, not in
cluded in the conscription registra-
tion, but it also excludes the 30-year
class embraced in the registration.
So on the assumption that this
would about make balance, the quota
OF ages noted in the census is carried
through as parallel to the quota reg.
istered. Hence the ratio between the
census quota and the total population
in 1910 is taken as the ratio between
the registration quota and the 1917
total population.
Ohio in 1910 had a total population
OF 4,767,121. The men between 20 and
29 formed 9.4 per cent of this figure.
The total of registration last Tues
day approached $4,000. If that is 9.4
per cent of the population, then the
total population of Ohio today is
5,95S,5O0, or an increase since 1910 of
1,191,379. Discounting for possible
differences in proportions then and
now, 100000 in round numbers is
called the increase.
With official returns reported from
"a of Ohio's 88 counties and with un-
official estimates of the totals of the
other four, the total of the states reg
istration as computed is 549.453.
Advice to Draft Boards.
The fact that exemption claims
were made by more than 70 per cent
Of the men who registered does not
mean this large percentage will be re-
leased from liability to military serv-
ice.
This is emphasized in a cOmmunica-
tion to boards of elections and county
draft boards prepared by Adjt. Gen.
George H. Wood and Judge Advocate
General Hubert J. Turney.
Many men wish to change the ans
wer made to question No. 12, do you
claim exemption?"
Many who answered "yes" want to
change it to mo" Some who ans.
wered mo" want to change to the
affirmative.
Because of requests for permission
to change the answer and complaints
Of errors, the two officials rule:
THAT whether a person claimed
exemption does not preclude the possi-
bility of call to service, and that ex-
emptiOns are to be determined on the
basis of facts as set down in answer.
ing other questions and as established.
2-That unless new regulations rule
otherwise, the answer to question No.
II will not be the deciding point
3-Because of the clerical labor that
would be involved, persons who be-
lieve there were errors on their cards
or who want to change their answers
are asked for the time being to with
hold extensive correspondence on the
subject.
IF any error exists in card which
the rights of the person
registered in any degree" says the let
ter, this matter may be taken up
before some appropriate board or
with the Office of the judge advocate
general subsequently and corrected.
No person need fear being prejudiced
by a clerical error"
Barbecue to Replace Supper.
A barbecue will replace the friend
ship supper of former years which
brought the boys and girls con,
crosses of the Ohio Sunday School
Association together tho day before
the annual convention, which this
year is scheduled for Marion, June
1929. The barbecue will be held on
the Chautauqua grounds at 1 o'clock
Wednesday, June 27, and will be at
tended by 500 boys and 500 girls.
Picked as Ohio Insurance Head.
w. H. Tomlinson of Dayton has just |
been appointed state insurance com
missioner by Gov, Cox to succeed |
Judge Frank Taggart of Wooster.
whose term expired last Saturday. |
has been employed in the
blue sky department ever since it's in
ception under the first Cox administra-
ton. Recently he has been in charge. |
Chance to Land State Job.
In the five principal cities, Cincin-
natl, Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo and |
Dayton, examinations will be held next |
month for; many positions under the
classified civil service.
Cox Visits Penitentiary.
''If l could assist the government in |
any way at this time I'd be willing to
do it, in a mechanical or any other
way" Ray Townsley of Columbus,
prisoner for seven years,
.old Gov. Coxstn pardon hearing.
The governor, in conformity with
MS custom not Ito pardon man until
ne has seen and talked with him, spent
part of the afternoon at the Ohio peni-
.entiary. Gov. Cox pardoned five men.
.Townsley, painter by trade. was
ient to the penitentiSry for stabbing
he husband of his wife's sister. He
vas granted a pardon.
Ten-Acre Corn Contest.
Greater crop production in Ohio may
Do helped considerably by the intro
luction of the mems 1O-acre corn con-
est by the extension service of Ohio
State University. June 1b is the latest