Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-01-13
NUTMEG STATE SENT
OUT 1900 FIGHTERS

OUT N,CO0 FIGHTERS
Official ffgures complied hy Major
John Buckley. L. S. A., who super
| Yised the operation of the selective
service act IL Connecticut. show that,
since the Inauguration os the CUES
| tionnaire system. December /. 1877.
| 30 533 Connecticut men were actual
| iy indicted and sent to INC training
camps. This report necessarily docs
, not deal with men indicted into the
United States army prior TO Deem
! her Il, 1917. but army authorities
| something less than 10000 perhons
| $500 Including these, the estimated
numbe- of Connecticut Inen indicted
is g. oS3.
But Major Bucllley's report also
shows that in the same period, 49,
| 042 men took advantage of the OPP
nortunitv extended voluntarily to en-
list in the military or naval service
| of the Unitcl States. TIC i~:aiority of
whom otherwise would have been in
! Quoted. Thus excluding those who
| became of military age between June
). 1917 and June ). 1919. and avoided
registration by voluntarily enlisting
before the after date. end those who
similarly volunteered between the
date of enactment of the amend
| eptemher u, 1918, the date when
such men were required /" register
the total If men sent away hv Con-
/ rectiCut = der the drif. law is an
Droximatelv 52076. Governor Marcus
II. FOlcombs estimate of Connect
cuts complete contribution ot men r.
the military service is in ihe neigh
5orhood of 1000 which would ind
cate voluntary enlistment of about
$4,000 Nutmeg men who were either
not within the draft aer. Or who vol
unteered prior 70 the operation of the
selective service act.
The class of Juno, 1911 furnished
% 567 of the men induoted and sent
to camp since the queStiOrnaire svs-
lem began. Of whom $50 We're color
Cd; the class of June, 1919 intending
those registered August > 1918 fur
Oished 3016 and tho class 0f SeDtom-
Der. 1918, contributed 194S There
We're 129 colored men in the class OF
June, 1918. and 81 in the class Of
Sertembcr 1918.
The total Of the class of June. 1917
including all classiicatiors was 155,-
lis; the total of the class of June
1918, including those registered Aug
"a. 1918 was Il SIC, AMI the class O
September, 1918. 93 OPS. cf which lat
! / >
Class Ia, single men without de
pendent relatives, in tho class of 1871
totaled S1.025; in the June 1918
class, 1881. and il September
1918 class, &c, $50. Eishz thousand
nine hundred and ninetv-srven of tn,
1917 class were classified as total,
and permanently physically or men
tally unfit for military service: ! .O8
Of the class of June 1918 and $50
of the class Of I'ptemher. t91S.
Only A wore exempt in the elias
of 1917 on the grounds OF being highl
efficient firenen or policemen in tn
service of municipalities: none in tn
class of June. 1918 and S. in the elias
of September, 1918.
Men of The 1917 class given de
ferred classification on account of be
ing necessary skilled farm iaborers i
necessary agricultural erterrrises to
| tailed 6Sj; in the class Of June 1915
III, and in the class Of September
1918. IFS. Adding $50 agriculture
managers the number gi@en deferre
classification on agricultural ground
reaches 1914.
Five thousand, one hundred an
nineteen were given deferred cIassif
cation in the class of 1917. because {
= their being considered necessar,
d |
= industrial enterprises: sos in the elias
=, of June 1918. aQd BAH in iEe class {
: Sentemhcr. 1918, the grand total thu
= deferred being 9,421 This does NJ
? include $500 classed as necessar
- highly specialized technical or ms
= chaniCal exnerts or 235 managers an
- so forth. The grand total CT these
1905.
. About 10 per cent CT the Jun
~ 1917, class were found 10 have dc
4 pendent, aged or infrm parents: 4
y in the class of June, ais. and ! =.
- in the class Of September. 1918
n Government employees gwen dc
20 ferred classification in the class
y 1917 numbered 365; in The class ,
. Juno, 1918, 10 and in the class
" September. 1918, 2O4, making a tot
. Of SIS
Forty three of the class If 1917 az
l. cepted deferred Classification on Il
grounds of being legislative. execl
, live or judicial officers Of the Unite
States or the state Of Connection
= four of the class Of Jun2. 1918. al
IN "A of the class of September 1918.
"a Divinity students to the number
~ 325 in the Glass of Juna, 1917. accep
- ed deferred classification. as d
~ "A in the class of June, 1915. and /
!! in the class of September 1918.
~ Alien enemies in the Class Of ~
10 number 900. There were "a in t
gu class Of June, 1918 AND 41GS~ in t
class of Scntcmber. 1918. About
- per cent of The total Of 2Gt $50 m
sc / classified wee considered ~ reside
ne aliens (not enemiesl Their total bel
=" % $50 fer lhe class OF ,'une. -
u 2.0l7 for the class of JuEn. 1918 "A
- 1854 for the class o. Septembt