Word: draft
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...efficient and unsectional Republican administration. As this is the true issue and question, I feel that it is imperative that the public, and all the men of your University, should have full knowledge of the action of the War Department in the methods it employed to make effective the draft enforcement...
...given the population in 1917 for each state, basing its figures upon the growth as determined by previous census figures. Instead the War Department arbitrarily and unlawfully used the registration in each state as a basis from which to calculate the population upon which the apportionment of the various draft calls was determined...
...following 11 representative Northern States: Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Montana, Wyoming and North Dakota as examples of the application of this incorrect and vicious estimate of population, we find that the estimated population of these states, based by the War Department upon the draft registration, and used for alloting draft quotas, was 48,306,543. The census returns disclose that these 11 states actually had in 1917 a population of 12,764,423, or, in other words, the War Department had credited to them 5,542,220 more people in 1917 than they actually...
...turning to a representative group of Southern states, namely; Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi in which figures are available, it appears that the War Department estimated these states as having a population of 11,416,415, upon which to base draft quotas. The actual population of these six states in 1910, seven years earlier, was 12,325,472, and the actual population in 1917 was 13,202,333. These figures disclose that the War Department estimate was 1,785,818 less than the actual population shown by the census...
...show more clearly the application these figures have to the draft quotas of the individual states, I will give the figures as they stand in Massachusetts case. The War Department credited Massachusetts with 233,506. more people in 1917 than the state contained. This meant that 9,340 men were taken out of Massachusetts above what her true quota was. On the other hand, though I wish to emphasize that I do not mean any reflection upon the patriotism of the Southern men, South Carolina gave 9959 men less than she should have given under the draft calls, and this...