Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-07
FIRST COMPLETE
REPORTS COMING
IN FROM STATES
Figures Yet Too Scant fol.
Accurate Estimate
of Total.
CENSUS BUREAU ESTIMATES
ARE NOT QUITE EQUALEDs
Registration Still in Progress ii
Some Cities, on Orders
From Washington.
RELATIVELY FEW sLACKERs
Work Of Preparing for Next Great
Step Proceeds Without
Interruption.
fBy Associated Pres,.1

BY Associated Press.I -.s. -
WASHINGTON. June s.-The mtxhtv
roll OF honor OF American m,,bood
mas begun to reach Washington to-
night from the States that had com,
pleted their count of the men ~ r,ii,.
.arS age registered yesterday, Al
latc hour only few complete .renort.
"au ocen received but preliminary I'm.
oHlclai returns were sufficient to show,
mat millions of men await the cau
to arms. -
The official figures were too se,,%
Tor an accurate estimate OF tn. total
OF the men who have registered. TIA
nrst reports showed that tho Censua
bureau estimates of eligiblcs had nnf
oeen equaled. but officials pointed on
tnat the numbers by which one or two
ci'ieS alone had exceeded tho esti-
mates would wipe out the entire d..
hciency OF the several smaller State.i
sending In the first official returns ~
In some of these cities ire1i,trat,onn
stlii was in PROGRESS to-day. the Az
torneS-General having approved tRa
action OF Provost Marshal Generai
Crowder. In authorizing an extension
Oh ''me where cards were lacking or
"here the registration machinery
proved inadequate to it's task =
THOUSANDS NOW IN SERVICE
NOT REQUIRED TO REGISTER
Cntii the records of the great man
utactnrins cities are completed. re-
suits OF the registration cannot be
sauged accurately. General Cro,vdpr.
SAID tonight that it was not To ~
expected that the registration figures
would check with the census esti.
mates. If for no other reason because
some hundreds of thousands Of men
IN me army and navy and National
Iuaro were not required to register
messages from Governors all over
the country showed that there are r.I-
atirely few slackers to be dealt with.
Already the machinery of the govern.
ment is moving to bring these few ~
reckoning. 32
TWO States Delaware and Vermont
and the District OF Columbia. had re.
ported complete returns on yest.r.
days war registration when the Prov.
ost- t-Marshal-Generars office closed to.
night at II o'clock. Tabulations viii
be resumed tomorrow morning. and
it is hoped that a large majority OF
the States will report before the day
is over. IS
DELAWARE IS SEVERAL
THOUSAND BEHIND ESTIMATE
The Governor of Delaware repotta
the States total registration at el.s64.
divided as follows:
White 1888: coiored, S.251: alien.
2.SS3; alien enemies. %; indicated nos.
sibie exemptions. 1851 States esti.
mated eiigibles. 2s.S55. Ss
The Governor of Vermont reports ths
states total registration at 27,65S, dI.
vided as follows:
White, 24,o:@: negro. II; alien, a.4s7;
alien enemies. -: indicated possible
exemptions, 13.234. States estimated
eigibles. 36.S26.
The District of Columbia reported its
total registration at 3.,3aT, divided al
follows: SNFi
White, 20G43; colored, 9,sS2; Filip. {.
pinos. o3; alien, 1910; alien enemies.
80; indicated possible exemptions. rs.
IS9. Districts estimated eligibles, 3S.s
92S
Some of the States in which the can. /
Vass had not been completed, forward
ed estimates of their total registrattos
Those included an estimate OF $50 :.
for Pennsylvania, whose eligibles
Census Bureau figures had .plac
S76,3sI. Michigan State ofhclals( "a
an estimate Of $4,000, against Al ,,sN
ouS cSllutsile Oh 0sSslof, RnOQe lSiaNds
5e.soe. against 60,7s0; New Jersey, 304..s
2aS. against 3o9.563. and Wisconsin,
21S.I0o. against a29.ss7. n 6
LOOKS TO PEOPLE THEMSELVES
TO GET AFTER SLACKERs
The chief factor in bringing them to
book will not be legal progress, Con.
eral Crowder and the forces of the
Department OF Justice place fun re-.
lance in the people themselves IN
bringing forward. these shirkers No
plan that would serve that end with
be overlooked. No man skulkinx In
temporary safety because he fs@S
stranger in his community. or because
his age Is not known. VIII escape + III
the processes OF law can bring him ID
an accounting. But 1t is upon 5tha insss
dignation OF men and women whose
sons or other kin have faced the issue
with courage, and cheerfuily recorded
their names. that tho government !
chiefly depends to bring siackers eints
tho open. ri x ss$
AS the registration hsures dsips issSE