El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-23

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" for the new permanent army sine
the beginning Of the recruiting cam
paign last spring up TO the close o
the July fluctuations. the FL Pas
district recruiting office has fur
Hished 225.
This record Of the west Texas an,
New Mexico district. considering tn
sparsity Of the population embrace,
within its limits. when. compared witt
the total number Of inhabitants from
which recruits may be drawn in othe
districts. shows that the southwes
furnishes a larger number OF soldier
in proportion to its population thar
any other section OF the United
States. That this situation is not dul
primarily to Refreshments from the
military units stationed in this dis
trict is evidenced by the fact that bul
20 percent OF the accre ton to the per
manent army from local sources is
from Refreshments
At present there are S. recruiting
stations in the United States These
stations have been classified as tC
the population within the district Of
the stations and range from class A
which includes New York and Chi
CaEo. TO class F. in which the Fl Pasc
station IS included
Area LarEesti Population Small.
In area the FL Paso district is prob
al bly, the largest. comprising as il does
the west half Of Texas and the state
OF New Mexico. but In population il
IS very close TO the last. However,
in computing the percentage Of en-
Istments per 10000 population. FL
Paso IS at the head by a safe margin.
and this margin has been maintained
for sometime
This result has been obtained by
campaigning every city. town. vii
laEe and ranch in this territory, not
withsta1ding that at the time OF the
opening up OF this office. the field
comprising the FL Paso district did
not appear to promise biz returns
The following are the first ten sta
tons, with the percentage Of enlist
ments per 10000 population:
FL Paso. 81: 07-lahn-7a CITY. q. q:
Knoxville, Tenn, 3S.6; Greensboro. n.
C., 2S.3- Aberdeen. S. D, 2T-e: Hunting
ton, ". Va. 27-s: Joplin. Mo. 81;
Evansville, Ind. 2s.s: Little Rock.
Ark: $50 salt Lake City. Utah. ISL
These figures are taken from the
publicity bulletin and include up to
July %. The bulletin covering the
last week IN July will show a much
greater percentage on account Of the
many recruits received during the
time from July % to 81.
Record Of Recruits.
The following is record Of number
Of recruits received by this station
for the last three months: Nay. 49,
June, 1915 July. 263-
The camp recruiting at Fort Bliss
also shows itself as being at the
head OF the list OF all the camps in
the states This recruiting is under
the direction OF Captain Thorhurn.
Engineers Z. s A.. and the results
obtained by him are indeed fatter-
Below Is a list showing the stand
ing Of the first ten camp recruiting
stations with percentage OF enlist
ment for the week ending July 10.
Fort Bliss2 49,: Lee. IS: DIX. 81:
Lewis. -. q. A. Russell CFortl. 20:
Taylor. Is: Sherman. Il: Travis. Is:
Upton. IL Dodge. 10.
The main station OF the Fl Paso
recruiting district was opened about
March ] OF this year, with Col A A
King as recruiting officer and Lieut.
Col. r T. Anderson rs assistant re-
cruiting officer. Later Maj II. q
Coykendau and Lieut. Hal Daniels
we're assiRned TO duty as assistant re-
cruiting officers
Twelve Auxiliary Stntions.
Twelve auxiliary recruiting stations
have been opened within the district
in addition to the main station Fol-
lowing IS a list 81 such stations with
the names Of the men ASSIGNED to
each:
Tucumcari. sergt Alhertson. Corr.
lowry. Albuquerque. n n. Sergt
Dykstra- Pvt Kervte. Ration. n n,
Sergt- Sprigstead. Pvt. Gaddis: Silver
City. n. ~. Corr Gail. Corp. Pens
kers. Gallun,s y II. SerEt Flynn
Corp. Cnnnors. East Les VEGAS. \. NJ
Sergt- Todd. Corn. CaI1ahan: Roswell
n ". Corp. Spfcciatti. Pvt HIGH
smith. Clovis. n NJ. Corp. Moore. Pvt.
Mote. CInudcrnft. n H.. Sergt. Ash
craft. Sergt- Corr. Corps. Friend and
Causen. Amarillo. Texas. Sergt
Hoimstrand. Corp. Davenport; Sweet