The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-24
(F'rom The SentineL")

totaleS llTSL entered IHe WOTlu w ar 1 the Jews of America perceived the wisdom Of establishing an authentic, contemporary record of Jewish ser vice. in the common cause-a record that would serve the vital needs of the present no less than the obvious -h1storical-needs of the future.
 To this end the American Jewish Com1nittee, at it's annual meeting in November. 1917-the first since our entrance into the war-assigned to its bureau of statistics, as 8 major function, the task of collecting and rcollating all data bearing upon the war service of American Jews.
 Within the year this work has pro- .ceeded vigorously and systenatcany in the face of many serious obstacles. In the first place no official records are available; for the Fedora Gov Fernment, although it recognizes the lpropriety, even the desirability, of .un-officiaI ventures like ours, itself refrains, for wise and obvious req sons, from noting the racial or re .ligious affiliations of it's gallant fight sers, In the second place, Jewish quotas, coming as they do from
 
 Icontain thousands of men who have Fnaturally drifted away from Jewish affiliations, other thousands who ,have, in the process of Amertcaniz ation, changed their names, and some who, for reasons of their own, even seek to conceal their racial or religious identity. The problem of counbing out the service records of all our Jewish soldiers and sailors be- came, therefore, a work of arduous research, to be prosecuted through whatever instrumentaides and ill I whatever directions, the limitations of the undertaking would permit.
 Under these circumstances the pro- ,rgress achieved in this first year has well exceeded all expectations. The time has not yet come to cast up the account, for the information is still pouring in-every mail brings pack ages of cards from the agents of the Jewish Welfare Board in the camps; scores of individual registration cards sent in by the soldiers and sailors from camps, ships and trenches, or tHby their relatives and friends at fhome; honor rolls. from synagogues and temples throughout the country; service rolls of fraterna1, national and labor organizations etc, etc. 'neverth eless. it may be possible to summarize, without danger of seri oUs mislnterpretatiOn, certain out standing facts that have already been developed in the course of the in Quiry.
 Of 8O,OOO records about 69. 900 are in gthe Army; about $500 in the Navy; and about 1,700 in the Marine Corps Of the 69,OOO in the Army about 35, 900 are classified in the h. fantry, $500 in the Artillery, $500 in the Medical Corps, 3,964 in the Signal and Aviation Corps, 1895 in the Engineer Corps, l, 213 in the Cavalry, 1 ,019 in the Ordnance, B., 521 in the Quartermaster's Corps, and about S,814 in other branches (including men in training).
 AS to rank, there are 5,O21 Jew ish commissioned officers in the Army, of whom 30 are Colonels or 1ieutenant Colonels POP Majors, 7S2 Captains and 4,0O7 Leutenants. In the Navy the are 205 commissioned officers, including one Rear Admiral, and in the Marine Corps 25 com missioned officers, including one Brigadier- General.
 As to states and cities of origin: the largest centers of Jewish popula ton have, of course, supplied the greatest number of Jews in the serv- ice, New York, state and city, have supplied nearly one-half-the total for the state being about 35,000, of which about 3O,OO0 belong to New York City. Pennsylvania follows with about 10000, of whom HOO are from Philadelphia. Illinois Is cred ited with $500, of which 2,700 are from Chicago; and Massachusetts with 3,400, of which S30 are from Boston Other states and cities will be found to be prO-rated according ly.
 Mere numbers, however, signify al- most nothinE-iu the present in stance. The actual significance of the figures quoted above may be Erasped only in their relation to cer- tain questions that are, of necessity, uppermost in the mind of any one who is at all interested in this sub dect It may be well, therefore, to present our data directly in the form of questions and answers-it being UT derstood however, that as these figures are not final any deductions drawn rom llleIll liusN thtSo ASiGfN l fnaIity.
 i. What Is the total number, and perrentase. of the Jews fin the army and navy of the United States?
 The best available evidence indl- cates that there are from 10000 to t2oo. 900 Jews in the service. This es- f1XyC n d nj calculations which tend strongly to | confirm one another. One Is study | of the Casualty Lists. The total lnurnrer of casualties in the American l 9xpedttdouary Forces published to November l, 1918, was 64,157. The |, total number of Jewish casualties 1 noted to that date was 2,5o2-or about s.9 per cent. of the total If the Jewish casualties are not excess ! sfve-and there is no reason to as sumo that they are Cat least not for the earlier period of the war, tho later fighting in the Argonne Forest | in which the T7th. Camp Upton, G1- vision, was engaged. wtll probably i raise the proportons)-th would indicate that tho Jews constitute | ehotlt four DOT cent. Of tho Army and Marine Corps. As these two arms of the service numbered at tho close Of the war, about s.7oo,ooo men. this r,o,,id make tho total of Jewish sol- l