Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-06
TAKE NEXT CENSUS
BY DRAFT METHOD
Crowder Suggests Plan and Be-
lieves It Will Save
Much Time.
HAD ARRAN GED FOR SLACKERS
Hot Time in Store for Those
Who Would Neither Work
Nor Fight.
HAD ARRAN GED FOR SLACKERs
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second and probably the final annual
report on the sclective service system.
prepared by Major-General Enoch II.
Crowder. provost-marshal-g general. and
made public to-day, contained only one
specific rccommendation--th the draft
machinery be used 10 take the deccn-
nial census-the 60o-pagc document
gave the first inkling o. drastic ex-
tensions of the work-or-hght regula-
tions which had been planned just be-
fore hostilitics en6ed.
The report showed that specific plans
were before Secretary Baker last No
vember. under which minimum work
would have been fixed in order that
industrial slackers" might be placed
and that plans were shaping, for the
essential industry. denying them alb
solutely the right of military service.
a scheme for supervising labor dis
HISTORY ALONE CAN TELL
AS to the accomplishments of the
selective system. credit for which was
siven to the patriotic devotion of
thousands upon thousands" of Ameri-
can, men and women who aided. Cen
eral Crowdcr said:
We are too close upon the events
accurately to assess them. How great
played in the drama of the world war.
ITO enroll for service over $4,000. :
900; 70 mobilize selected army OF
1,f,S, more than 100000. 100000 OF them
e spaes yssbs S1 bnefs fsr dn{H miarg 3S
duty 2,ooo.o additional nghting men;
, 70 classify is this vast group OF man
Industrial Importance so as to pre-
serve the domestic and Industrial life
OF me nation; 70 speed up. wartime
of maximum efficient production. and
TO pave the way for speedy return to
normal peace-time pursuits. while re-
the nation-thcse are results which
would be instantly rejected as i'm
possible did not the actual facts stand
as irrefutabie testimonials of their ac-
complishment."
RECOMMENDS MACHINERY
FOR TAKING NEXT CENSUS
hereafter be taken through the seiec. e
ryexve i've sersiSe ~ ii maash,tnery. a General
ehinery for the census wholly prac-
tical. and added that since $4,000. o0O
e 6eS IN taur In axs single DAY and
complete survey and classifica ton OF
their domestic and industrial status.
the census data should be obtainable
IN days instead OF months. as Is now
the case.
The draft regulations toward which
the war ended. he said. included the
mandatory Industrial deferment. be-
cause we had almost reached the time
when II would have been necessary 10
make il, as impossible for the man de-
!erred for industrial reasons to secure
military service. as i; had been for
Conservation OF labor already en-
gagged in essential industries would
naye haze thus been provided. the report
pared for an industrial draft, the
equaiiy necessary augmentation OF
labor had 10 be solved in some other
AS l,ot
the work -or-fight principle and OF the
Industrial furlough would have been
ONE ELEMENT WAS AIMED
AT NATIONAL SLACKERS
aimeG eGns,r,, siemsn, Of the plan
who worked a day or two at war war
days; The minimum WORKING week Of i
would have hecn evolved and the fur
iouShs OF men who failed to give that
week weeks Yer, wETk without proving good
Or November u, 1915 the report
showed the United States had in its
military and naval service 4.79l.l7a
lation; On the same day England Mad
already called to the colors 5,s54.35e.
The n final ~ oIfieiai hsF fent total for al, regis
3.seS,446 had been actually examined.
snery ane piToaS'iea1y io Mare thirty men out OF
disqnaliiied Oklahoma and Arkansas
returned the highest ratio OF men un-
fsI,nd dsr me ard pdhysical requirements; Rhode
56,S30 WOULD NOT FIGHT
BECAUSE OF RELIGIOUS CREED
Men granted exemption because of
religious creeds totaled $3.50, as com
Pared nPadd with the census estimate OF S.
Results of the '.work-or-6eht" order
Dor, pore out the predictions made by it's
orlGinators 1T is believed" the re-
port said. TO be a conservative esti-
resulted in the movement OF mt least
iaI;22o men to productive occupation"
>, u, Under the head Of aliens" $.S77.oSs
eseebelligerents, co 57.4s per cent: u neutrnis, ais
enan,v na per gc cent; 6e and enemy and allied
only 10 per cent of the married reg
istrants were called for military duty.
Seventy-four Of every 90 men CLASSIFIED
pendency and about 16 per cent on
other grounds. Cases of men marrying
after the draft law was passed. com
ing within the notice of draft officials,
per cent were reclassified into class /.
The effect OF the draft upon the in
dustriai machinery Of the nation was
carefully studied by General Crowder's
Its entirety would have taken only go
pei. cent Of the workers Of all ages.
Deferment for essential occupation
ranged from per cent in tho indus
trial classes to in the agricultural!
BOOZE RESPOSSJHE. FOR ONLY
f.33 PER CENT OF UNFIT
Examination into the causes Of phy
sical disqualification brought many
surprises. Alcohol and drug addicts
accounted for only 1888 per cent Of
the total nervous and mental disorders
for i3:b per cent; tuberculosis, S.5, and
mental deficiency, "a per cent
Nearly 100000 persons were com
prised in the draft operating personnel
but the actual supervision In Washing
ton was handled by forty-Gve com
missioned officers. Actual cost of in
duc'ion per man was given AS $3.50.
,sainst $24.4s under the voluntary en-
listment and $221.71 per man under the
syster, used In the War Between the
Investigation OF complaints that pro-
fessional baseball players were at
tempting TO gein places on the cmer-
gency heet classification list TO evade
military service showed that such In
divtdual attempts were made, tho re-
port said and steps were Mt once taken