The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13
Announce Each States Share
in Total OF $4,000.
N. Y. Tops List With 69,241;
Oregon Least, III.
1925 KANSAS VOLUNTEERS
States Given Allowance for
Volunteers Since April 1.
Governors To AppOrtiOn Quota
Turnout State Precincts.

Washington, July 13.-Foilowing
announcement by Secretary o. War
Baker, that the first craft of Ameri-
can citizen soldiery would be about
6s7, 900 men, the net quotas by states
were compiled today as follows
Alabama. 1862; Arizona, 3.472;
Arkansas. 10.267; California. $4,000;
Colorado, 4,743; Connecticut, 1887;
Delaware. 10,202: District of Column
bia, 299; Florida, 6,325; Georgia, 49,
337; Idaho, 2,2S7i; Illinois, 81, 65S; In
diana, 1850; Iowa, 1919; Kansas,
6,429; Kentucky, 1926; Louisiana,
13.5S2; Maine. 11,S21; Maryland, T.
SO6 Massachusetts, 30. $50; Michigan.
3O,391; Minnesota, 1854; Mississippi
1O.SO1; Missouri 1860; Montana,
1872; Nebraska, S.IS5; Nevada, TO-
SOL; New Hampshire, 1904; New Jer-
sey, poses; New Mexico. 2,292; New
York, 69,241; North Carolina, 1914:
North Dakota, $500; Ohio. 5S,773;
Oklahoma, Is. 564: Oregon, III; Penn
sylvania, 60,S59; Rhode Island, 1901,
South Carolina, 1O,0S1; South Da-
3O,545; Utah. 1870; Vermont. 1,O49;
Virginia, 1875; Washington, 1926;
West Virginia, 9,1O1; Wisconsin, 49,
SIG; Wyoming, SO; Alaska, 696;
Hawaii. none; Porto Rico, 1888.
In assigning the quota that each
state must yield, the war department
used the federal census population es-
Inmates.
New York leads all others with g.
241. Oregon is asked to yield the
least-717.
Many of the western states quotas
are unusually low because the regis
tration was only fifty to eighty per
cent of the first estimates of the cen
sus bureau. Other states in the mid
die west-Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois
ran over the estimates by ten to TWEEN
~ per cent.
Governors to AppOrtion Quota.
The quotas were sent To the gov
errors of each state and the commits
sioners of the District of Columbia
who were directed to apportion the
quotas thru the local boards.
Secretary of War Bakers letter, dat
ed July II, was as follows:
BY virtue of the authority vest
ed in him by act of congress en-
titled An Act to Authorize the Pres
ident to Increase Temporarily the
Military Establishment of the Unit
ed States approved May Is, 1917.
the president of the United States
has ordered the aggregate number
of 6S7 900 men to be raised by draft
for the military service Of the Unit
ed States, IN order to bring to full
strength the organizations of the
regular army and the organization
embodying the members # the ma
tary service of the United States and
to create the national army and has
caused said aggregate number to be
appOrtiOned 20 the several states and
territories and the District of Col
umbia as set forth in the schedule
hereto appended.
THE governor of each state and
territory and the commissioners of
the District of ColumbiaN acting for
and by the direction of the presi-
mr. in a q
of congress and rules and regula-
tons prescribed pursuant thereto,
shall apportion the quotas APP
portioned to such states, territories
or districts and shall communicate
to each local board established in
such state, territory or district no
tice of the net quota to be furnish
ed by such board and such net quo
tas shall thereupOn be furnished by
the respective local boards as re
auired by said act of congress and
rules and regulations prescribed
pursuant thereto
Allowance for Volunteers.
In the announcement by the war de-
partment allowance was made for men
in each state in the national guard
and militia since April l. The credits
. We're substracted from the gross quota
In this way states that have answered
the presidents call for volunteers will
cr' states.
The credits allowed states for ma
tional guardsmen and for enlistments
since April l in either the guard or
the regular army are as follows:
Alabama, 1851: Arizona. 99S; Ar
kansas, 7.155; California, 11.7S6; Col
Crado, 5,027; Connecticut, 1907; Della
ware. 1868; District of Columbia p
$50; FLORIDA, 1856; Georgia $685.
Idaho. 2.53S; Illinois, 27,304; Indiana,
12,5O9; Iowa. 1862; Kansas. 1926,
Kentucky, 1878; Louisiana. 4,S67;
Maine, 5,243; Maryland. 7.01S; Massa-
chusetts, 22.44S; Michigan. 1869:
Minnesota. S,122; Mississippi 500;
Missouri, 16.740; Montana, 1888; Ne
braska, 5,691; Nevada, 1872. New
hampshire S,2O7: New Jersey. 1886:
New Mexico. 1857; New ork, 52.971;
Nor Carolina, 7.471; North Dakota.
2,11S; Ohio. 27,5S6; Oklahoma, 4.343;
Oregon. 6.S57; Pennsylvania, 37.24S;
Rhode Island. 1.465; South Carolina
5,404; South Dakota. 4,125; Tennessee.
1892; Texas. 17.4SS; Utah. 2.566::
Vermont. PISS; Virginia. 1922: Wash
inton. $3.50; West Virginia. 5.721 Wis
consin, 1924; Wyoming. ISIS; Alas
ka, 10; Hawaii. 1897; Porto Rico. 624
100000 Now Under Arms.
The total allowances are given as
follows:
Total strength OF the national guard
on April 1, 1917. 164,292.
Enlisted in the national guard be-
tween April l, and June 80. 1873 ,292.
Enlisted in the regular army be-
tween April 1, and June 80. 117974
Total credits allowed for 465sS5
This means that according TO the
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