New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 26, 1917, Page 5

" NO‘SLACKERS’ HERE,| - GENSUS AGENTS FIND Mot @ Man Has Refused to Fill Out Blank The work well on jts way final completion, New Britain's military census-taking machine is today work- ing ltke a well-oiled piece of intricate ‘mechanism. Each department, ably handled by aldes, is doing Work rapidly and accurately and Volunteers are working with a that promises well for this city’s rep- utation. The public too, is co-operat- ing in every way possible and ai- Yhough over 17,000 blanks have al- ready.been distributed and a goodly percentage fllled out, there has not Leen a,single instance wiere a man to its the cap- | | | | Boxes of 12 Bottles of 24 and 100 has refused to answer the questions. ' ) Fuoctory Oensus Rushing, Chairman A. F. Corbin * ana his aides have practically compieted tho ;-work pre}iménary to the military cen- || Sus canvass, and enumerators are ac- tively engaged in filling the blanks in the different factories and places of Business. Seventeen thousand blanks have been distributed, and in some of the factorfes it is hoped to complete the entire enrollment today, when the work of checking against lists will he- &in. Twenty-five of the pupils in the Vocational High school are assisting in the work of filling the cards for the alphabetical and street lists, and o number of these have already been jroturned to headquarters for assort- ing and ANng. k; More Aldes Namcd. ‘When the larger units are covered, the street canvass will follow, and all preparations for this latter portion of <he work will have been completed by the time the lists are ready for the Rouse to house enumerators. The fol- lowing have been appointed as heads of divisions to care for the larger unitsy Dr. W. BE. Norton, dentists: H. Dayton Humphrey, real estate and in- surance; Louis Fodt, saloons and liquor dealers; Gardner C. Weld, . banks and brokers; F. H. Johnston, lwmber and coal dealers; [Ion. George Klett, attorneys; John E. Cosgriff, rallroad men; Chief W. J. Rawllngfl,i ; police department; Chief Dame, fire |gayy in the allied armies . department; S. H. Holmes, schools; W. W. Leland, Chamber of Commerce mercantile division; James.R. Hal- doran, hotels; Dr. Henry C. Bray, phy- icians. Voluntecrs -for service are’ contin- Wing to present themselves for duty. “Miss Mildred Hellberg will be on duty Yor detail work each:morning during the canvass. Miss Antonette R. Henn "of 22 Warlock’ street has offered the wse of a typewriter for a week. Miss \Jithel Aldrich is’doing efficient work ‘In listing names. Other volunteers for pervice arc F. R. Gilpatric, Mrs. C. C. {Beach, Harry C. Billings,” Florence fThorngren, Mrs. A. M. Beardsley, §Ralph R, Merigold and Dr. J. H. otts. No Refusals Here. ", No one who has-been asked to sign bLlank has refuged. On the con- frary there seems to be a desire to ‘give the information desired and to ‘mssist in any way possible. Over two 4 hund.ed men hawe called at the head- § puarters of the bureau and filled in X Yhe blanks. It s anticipated that the ¥ entire census will be completed in yecord time. The Character of the Census. Chairman Corbin is quite emphatic ' In his expression of a desire to have ghe people understand that the taking pf the census is by no means an en- ollment for work or an enlistment, {wr does it take any part in a prep- mration for conscription. It makes ne man any more liable for military ¥ty than he would be if the census were not taken, nor does it carry as % result any obligation he would not ibe under-in any situation. Tt simply )ists all men, classifies them as to abil- }ny to serve the state and nation and thus gives the people in authority ¥ome definite knowledge of what they Yhay expect if action becomes neces- varyn At the meeting of the general com- mittee in Grammar school hall, Com- hilssioner J. W. Alsop stated that it had been decided that a mistake had been made in applying the word mil- Jtary to the census, since it caused Il il li B / If so, buy the orie Every package and every tablet of genuine Aspirin bears Cross” — your prowection against | i | counterfeits and harmful zeal | Y | i ) *The Bayer Cross—Your | el Guarantee of Purity’’ The trade-mark “Aspirin” (Reg. U. S. is a guarantee salicylicacid in Bayer manufacture. NEW BRITAIN DAILY ‘HERALD. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, ‘Do You Use Asp o @ ? genuine. “The Bayer substitutes. Pat. Office) the monoaceticacidester :gggeuebleu is of the reliable L misapprehension and ‘made many explanations necessary. It really should be considered an ‘“‘in- ventory of men’ as Mr. Corbin termed it, without especial reference to arms- bearing. Tt was stated at the first meeling that if it became necessary for the creation of an army of a million men, ,Connecticut’s quota would be but ten thousand out of her 450,000 to 475,000, which it is ex- pected that Ithe canvass will show. This is less than would naturally i volunteer for service, in a time of real ineed, and having the census data in | hand would enable the state officials | to select for the different service the | men best fitted for it, to give prefer- ence for field duty to men with no per- sons depending upon them, and to meet the requirements with the least hardship to individuals. . We have | still a vivid recollection of privations | endured by the familles of married men who have recently returned from the border and who had never con- templated service afar from home at the time of the original enlistment. much i The preventive of such trouble should be one of the results of such a can- vass as this, when the passing upon the applications for enlistment is un- der way. It has been found neces- to ‘send home many men who can be of great- er value than in fleld service, show- ing an improper distribution of du- ties, and the present census should minimize confusion or loss of this kind. The census also registers men who are not physically fitted for field duty, | and frees them from any embarrass- ment or reproach as “slackers,” if the time ever comes when it becomes the duty of men to rally to the colors, It lets the state know that they should be exempt from bearing arms, and should not be called upon for such duty. It also enables such men who are patriotic in spirit and desire to serve their country to be listed for the classes. of home duty they can rerform. Photographs from abroad show women doing men’s work, and old men taking the place of younger ones. If the worst conditions come upon us, a close and proper distribu- tion of duties should enable Connecti- cut to do her part without great pri- vation to any individual, <, Formal Instructions Issued. “Each, person whose name is filed may rest. assured that the informa- tion contained In the census will be used in case of war solely for the purpose of placing the burden of war fairly upon all, taking into account the situation of each .individual, his physical condition, whether he is mar- ried or single, and whether he has dependents. Each person may assume that he will be expected to do no more than others will be asked to do whose *classification is substantially the same as his. Answering the ques- tions of the blank is not an enlist- ment.” Nobody wants war. Despite the belligerent tone of the news, we have an abiding faith in our ability to keep out of the terrible conflict now raging 'across the ocean, but if through some miscarriage’ of ' justice, war comes upon us, it behooves us to pre- pare to care for qurselves in such measures that no one can do us an in- jury. And the first step in prepara- tion 1s to' look ourselves over and de- | cide what -we are, what we can do and what we have to do it with. This is what the.present census is» accom- plishing, and 'this is all that it alms to accomplish. R e ARMY OFFICERS ARRESTED. Placed in Guard House After Circu- latiow of Petition. > Deming, N. M., Feb. 26.——After the seizure of a round robin . petition signed by 28 of the 58 officers of the Second - Arkansas Infantry.and . ad- dressed ‘to Governor' Brough of Ar- kansas, two officers were conflned to- day to their quarters by Col. 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