Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-03
COUNTY WILL Be
GIVEN full CREDIT
|Apportionment Under selective Ser
vice Will Include the Vol.
unteer Soldiers.

Des Moines, June 3.-Absolute
fairness, with full credit to the patri-
otto counties which have furnished
men for the guard and the regular
army, will mark the working of the
selective call in Iowa.
Those counties whose citizens have
volunteered literally will not have to
furnish as many drafted men as those
counties whose citizens have not
promptly rallied to the colors. When
the selection is completed each coun-
ty in the state will have an equal
number of men in the army, based
upon the population, and not the
number who registered on June 5.
Following the work of the registra-
ton boards who gathered the names
of 216,299 men between the ages of
21 and 80, inclusive, the President,
upon recommendation of Gov. w. l..
Harding, has appointed local board
in each county except Clinton, which
has two. A similar board has been
named in Waterloo, Council Bluffs,
Dubuque, Cedar Rapids, four in Des
Moines, two in Davenport, and two
in Sioux City. There is a total of
1912 local boards.
These boards are organizing.
Wherever the sheriff is on the board
he is the executive officer, but where
the sheriff is not member, the board
elects its own executive.
Adjutant General Logan, by di-
rection of Governor Harding, has
compiled a list of the counties and
seven cities named above, showing
the number of national guardsmen
| in the service on June so, the last,
day that credits can be given. The
number is $3.50, of which number
1,645 enlisted in June, bringing the
national guard, with the exception
of the First infantry, to war strength.
The adjutant general of the army
will soon furnish the governor with
the number of men in the regular
army from every county in the state
and from seven cities. No one yet
knows what this number will be, but
for the purpose Of explaining the
system of credits it may be assumed
that it will be 6,561, making total
of men in the army and guard of
$4,000.
No credit is given for men enlisted
in the navy and marine corps for the
excellent reason that it was not pro-
vided for in the bill which passed the
congress.
The provost marshal general, with
the number of credits for each state
before him, and a knowledge of the
total number of soldiers to be raised,
will then announce the gross quota
for the nation, and assign to each
Estate gross quota.
To explain the method, it may be
assumed that the gross quota for
Iowa will be 10000, Taking the pop
ulation as 100000 we soon find
that the working fraction to be used
lis .O15, for this fraction of 1000
will raise the required 10000.
A table is then made showing the
population of each county, and each
of the seven cities. This population
multiplied by .015 will show the
gross quota from each county and
city. The total number of guards
men and regular army men is then
subtracted and the net quota, the
number to be selected, is secured. No
credit is given for officers in either
the army or guard, only enlisted men
being considered.
Take the city of Des Moines, for
instance, and apply the system. The
population is about 100000 men.
Multiply by OILS and we have 1900
as the number of men to be raised.
Des Moines has furnished 562 men
for the guard up to June 80, the
day credits stop. If it has furnished
43S men for the army the total is
1000, and the draft will call for
500 men.
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