Arizona republican., 1919-02-06
Crowder's Report Shows Startling Rev. citations s-Recommends Draft Ma chinery Be Used in Census Taking Would Accomplish in Days, Work of Months Rhode Island Matches This State in Army Manhood Stupen- dous Job Described.

CroWder, provost marshal general, ana made public today. contained only one specific recommendation that the draft machinery be used to take the decennial census-the six hundred page document gave the first inkling of drastic extensions of the work or fight regulations which had been planned just before hostilities ended
 The report showed that specific plans were before Secretary Baker last November, under which a mini mum working week for the essential industries would have been fixed. in order that industrial slackerS'' migh, be reached, and that plans were shap- ing for the mandatory reformation of registrants in essential industry, deny ing them absolutely the right of min- tary service. A scheme for supervising labor distribution through an industriai turlough system also was being evolved
 As to the accomplishments of the se- lective system. credit for which was given to the patriotic devotion of thousands upon thousands" of Amer lcan men and women who aided, Gen eral Crowder said:
 We are too close upon the events accurately to assess them. How great a part American selective service played in the drama of the world war. history alone can tell
 Stupendous Job Reported
 "To enroll for service over 24.O0O.- eco; to mobilize z selected army of more than 2,SO0O00, million of that within the space Of 90 days; to have within the space of 90 days ito have 2.0OO,000 fighting men: to classify thls vast group of man power in the order. of its military and industrial import ance, so as to preserve the domest1. and industrial life of the nation: to speed up war time activities; to main tain that in status of maximum eftl- clent production. and to pave the way for a speedy return to normal peace time pursuits, while recruiting the full fighting strength of the nation-thesc are results which would be instantly rejected as impossible. did not the ac- tual facts stand as irrefutable testi- monials of their accomplishments"
 In suggesting that the census might hereafter be taken through the selec. i've service machinery, General Crow der said the feasibility of many theor- les divergent from the pre-war concep- ton of things, has been demonstrated
 
 principles should be projected. after the war. was "a matter of vital national importance
 He said, however that he believed the machinery for the census was wholly practical, and added that since 1j,OOO,000 were registered in a single cay, and 24,000, 00G, ,000 in four days. in cluding a complete survey and classifl cation of their domestic and industrial status the census data should be ou- talnable in days instead of months. as now is the case.
 Worst Was Yet to Come
 The draft regulations toward Whicr 1 General CroWder was moving when the War ended, he said. included the man datory industrial deferment. because We had almost reached the time wher We should have to make it as impos- sible for the men deferred for industria 1 reasons to secure military service. as il had been for the registrants in Gas, One to avoid it 9
 The shifting of labor in the essentia industries would have been stopped b, calling men into the military servic and furloushing them only for the tim they engaged in a particular industry.
 Another element of the plan wa aimed at industrial slackersr me who worked a day or two at wa wages, only to Hay off for succeedini days. The minimum working week O elght hours a day, the report showed would have been evolved and the fur loughs of men who failed to give tha weeks work. without proving goo, cause, would have been cancelled. i on November II, 1918, the repor 1 shows, the United States had in ii military and naval service 4.791.17 men, or 19 per cent of the male popu latlon. On the same day, England ha i already called to the coIors 5.S54.35. or nearly 50 per cent.
 l The final official total for all regis trations was 24,234,O21. Of thes l 3,2OS,4 446 had been actually examined and practically 30 men out of ever l00 were found to be physically dis 1 qualified. Oklahoma and Arkansas re turned the highest ratio of men unde 1 the physical requirements. Rhode Is land and Arizona the lowest.
 Work or Fight" Rule Good.
 Men granted exemption because q religious creeds totalIed 56.S3O 2 compared with the census estimate c 55.O00.
 Results of the work or fight" orde bore out the predictions made by if originators.
 It is believed" the report said. "t be conservative estimate that in work or fight rules have resulted i the movement of at least 137.255 me to productive occupations"
 Under the head of aliens" 3.S77 oSS men were registered, or 1922 De cent Of the total. These were divide into CO., belligerents. 5749 per cent neutrals, 16.42 per cent, and enemy an allied enemy 26.09 per cent.
 Only ten per cent of the married res lstrants were called for military dut1 seventy four of every hundred me classified were granted deferment he cause Of dependence, and about 1e pf cent on other grounds. Cases of me marrying after the draft law WA passed, coming within the notice , draft officials, totalled 344,S72. and , those men S5.5 per cent were reclass
 fled into Class One
 The effect of the draft upon the ir
 dustrial machinery of the nation w. carefully studied by General Crowder
 office. It was found that Class O,
 Tn Its entirety would have taken on
 6;2O per cent of the workers of q ages. Deferment for essential occl patton ranged from two per cent in II industrial classes to seven in the a.
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