New-York tribune., 1918-06-06
36,574 Register in Draft;
City Far Below Estimate
Officials Believe Ensments Will Account for Missing
Ihousands-Seditious Leaflets Urge East
Side Men Not to Enroll

Although attended by various covert
attempts to invite opposition and re-
sistancc, the registration for war SER
vice of young men who have attained
the age of twenty-onc years since June
5. 1917. was accomplished by the 1879
local draft boards of New Yorl. City
yesterday without trouble of any sort
The number enrolled in the city was
36,574. It had been estimated that the
registration total would be IS, 900. This
estimate was based upon the supposi-
ton that the registration would be
about 10 per cent of the total city regis
tration of year ago-580, ,310---with a
certain deduction to allow for volun-
tary enlistmcnts.
Martin A. Conboy, Director of the
Draft, was inclined to think that the
number of young men approaching or
passing the age of twentv-one who had
enlisted since June s, 1917, had been
underestimated as he watched the
registra tion figures come in
Indicates Heavy Enlistment
"Thc registration is not as large as
expected" he said. "This shows that
apparently many moro men have en-
listed since the last registration day
than we thought. II our assumption
that this registration would enroll
registration of June 5, 1917. is correct,
the figures tonight would indicate that
tour out of every ten men reaching the
age of twentyone in the interval had
enlisted
"lf that assumption is correct, then
between $4,000 and $4,000 of such
young men have enlisted in some
branch of the United States service in
the last year. great many have en-
lict in ho |,
navy"
Men Urged Not to Register
One of the most fragrant attempts to
create opposition to yesterdays regis
tration occurred in East Broadway,
fronting Seward Park, the neighbor-
hood in which many Socialist and other
radical organizations have their head
quarters. Thousands of printed leaf
lets, rubber stamped anarchists" )"
urging young men not to register
Tor the army, were scattered Tuesday
night from upper floor windows of the
ten story building of the "Jewish Daily
Forward"
Simon Wchl and Abraham Levine,
students Of the Seward Park High
School. reported that the seditious
leaflets came from windows on the
ninth floor. DR.. Max Girsdansky, chair
man of Local Board SO, at 1896 East
Broadway, reported to Mr.. 'Conboy that
an employe of the "Forward' had
stated that the leaflets were thrown
from a window in the editorial depart
ment of the paper, and DR.. John Horn
adav, vicc-chairman of the committee
on disloyalty of the American Defence
Society, reporting the matter to the
Department Of Justice, asserted that
the Forward" was a disloyal news
paper, and urged a rigid examination
of all members of it's editorial and me-
chanical stats.
Editor Denies Responsibility
Abraham Cahan, editor of "The For
ward" declared last night however,
that, so far as he could ascertain, the
seditious leaflets, some Of which are
said to have been also stamped Gamer
lean Bolsheviki," were scattered from
a window on a section of the ninth
floor occupied by the Socialist Natural
ization Bureau, of which Morris Hill
quit, late candidate for Mayor, is. or
was until recently, one of the chief
officers.
In prominent type the leaflets ad-