The Wrangell sentinel., 1942-04-17
Estimate One Out Of IS
 In Third Registration
 May Get Into Uniform
By Jack Stinnett Associated Press

a
 NASHINGION-Apparently the Presidents announcement that men of 45 to 65 will De registered April zI has given rise to a lot of unans- wered questions and some mIsuh- derstanding, with some oIeslers thinking that registration will mean immediate draft into the Army or war industries.
 have talked to national selec- eve Service officials and 10 Gun- gressmen. The Fourth Registsauon Is a nose-cOunung registration and nothing more h could De done, Dut NOT as effectively, by the Census Bureau The Census Bureau au- mItteaIy misses a certain percentage of the population. II the SeIectlye service Doarus miss a lew, the FBI uoesn mot tor long anyway.
 Besides, the Fourth Registration will make ayallabIe detailed facts and inIormatiOn that could not be obtained any other way. Congress- tue military forces, and the War trOducuOn Board will then know exactly where We stand in man power, what that man-power is nt- ted for. 1t will be the basis of plan nlug for the future ii the ' 1T urags on for years.
 Although the law provides for reg istration Of men from 10 to Do, there isn't now any law for drafting these men into the armed forces or into the industrial and agricultural pursuits that provide the War mach me with it's sinews. And there isn any pressure either public or offie- ial on Congress to pass such a law at this time.
 This catalogue of skills will, how ever, show exactly just how vast an Army this country could support if it's total man power were mobilized. The final answer to the ultimate and complete war effort could not, Of course, be given until women and men under 20 also are registered and catalogued.
 One question that is constantly asked by those registrants in the third draft, 36 to A. years old, is: What are the chances that 1 will be called into military service?" It doesn't do any good to take that question to SelectiYe Service. They will give you the fishy eye and the stock answer to all questions they don't want to bubble about: That is a matter for the Army and the To- cal boards. "
 l did find one government offic- ial though who pulled some inter- esting figures out of the hat. You can take them for what any Off-ths record, unofficial estimate is worth.
 There are, he explained, about 7,350,000 men in the 36-44 regis 1rations If we want an army of 100000 men and we do, about 100000 will come from this age group, and they will be called with n the next 12 to IS months. That means that one out of approximate ly every IS men in that group will be in uniform by the end of 1943, unless war ends before then.
 If we go on to build the projected Army of 8,000,000, the number re quired from this age group will more than double (because of pre- vious demands on the youngest age groups). A guess is that this group would then provide at least d mil lion men-and the chances of course would then rise to one out of approximately every seven.
 B. L., HAMILTON, Ohio don't believe the police forces city state or national, are neglecting ci- william crime in, as you say, carry ing on a witch hunt for saboteurs fifth columnists and spies" The Federal Bureau of Investigation in formed me that it is less than 8 month since they circularized thou sands of police agencies that "crimt among youth continued to be the most serious police problem oi 1941". From reporting agencies came the startling facts that last year, 63 per cent of persons charg ed with burglary; 56 per cent oI those charged with robbery; 75.E per cent of those charged with autC theft (S.1O0 persons), were all un der 21 years of age. There were 864 persons under voting age las year charged with murder All O the figures are new records. Th' spies, saboteurs, etc., captured las year set new records too, but it's { tiny handful compared to the grow ing problem of criminal youth"