New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1917, Page 2

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 17, Cily ltems Boodness of Aunt Delia’s Bread.— vt. P’rank J. Collins of 6 Erwin Place, d class fireman on the 1. S. S. ith Carolina, has been classed as a erted and the police have been ad- to arrest him if he returns to Collins enlisted in Spring- 9 and deserted on July 1. Marriage licenses have been issued George F. I'reund, Jr., of New rk and Miss Madeline C. Hughes of Stewart street, and Holmer Larson Rockwell avenue and Miss Rose omas of the same street. dembers of Ladies’ Auxiliary, S. V., will be entertained Thursday ernoon from 2 to 5 o'clock at the me of Mrs. Sykes, 10 Broad street, finville. Irs. Metro of 139 Beaver street re- ted to the police last night that son Michael, 15 years old, has not n home since a week from yester- . The boy is said to be in poor Ith. wceording to a complaint received the police yesterday, a white iz dog owned by Arthur A. Fogg N6. 45 Pratt street Meriden, was en from his automobile in this yesterday. aiter Smith, who rooms at No. 28 wch street, has reported to the ce that his room was entered letime yesterday and a suit case, lue suit, shoes, socks, a ring, watch |'a.stick pin stolen. _ | ASHLEY 3ABCOCK CO. STORE CLOSED WEDNESDAY AT NOON DURING JULY and AUGUST Wednesday ~ Morning Specials , $3.50, $4 Silk Shirts $2.35 Wednesday Morning 1.00, $1.25, $1.50 Shirts 85¢c Wednesday Morning ~ 15¢ White Sole Hose 2 Pairs for 25 c Wednesday Morning 55¢ and 75¢ Silk Hose 42c ‘Wednesday Morning ABCOCK CO. Enlistment Credits Given Ci Unless the resolution of Senator Frank B. Brandegee of Connecticut, calling for a probe of the figures on which the draft is to be based, is pro- ductive of immediate results Connecti- cut will have to furnish 10.977 men in the conscript army and of this number the city of New Britain will have to furnish a net quota of 513 men. That residents of New Britain are not alone in their protests that the populations credited to Northern cities is excessive, especially since New Britain is given a papulation of 76,942, is shown by the scathing rebl{(e on the floor of the United States sehate yesterday when Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massa- chusetts stated that the population figures for the North were “padded” in order *“to make their army draft heavier, while those of the Southern states have been reduced.” New Britain to Give 513, L. W. Ripley of Glastonbury, at the request of Governor Holcomb, has compiled a list of the draft quotas of this state and in it appears New Britain, “with an estimated population of 76,942, although everybody seems to doubt that there are over 60,000 people here. New Britain is given a grass draft quota of 840 conscripts. By rak'rg frem this number enlist- ment credits of 327 the net draft quota is set at 513 men for this place. According to the figures compiled, Hartford, New Britain, Bridgeport, Waterbury, Stamford and New Haven combined will have to furnish 5,963 men, or more than one-half of the en- tire quota of the state. Accarding to the figures in the hands of Governor Holcomb Hartford, with an estimated population of 480,967, will have to furnish a net quota of 870 men inas- much as the draft quota of 1974 has been reduced by 1,104 credited enlist- ments. Br'dgeport must furnish, out af its estimated population of 278,906 a net quota of 2,126, having been credited on its gross quota of 3,047, with 921 enlistments, New Haven's estimated population of 201,481 must furnish a net draft quota of 1,003, its gross quota of 2,201 having been cut down by 1,198 enlistments. Stamford, rated at 47,747 is called upon for 177 men and on the gross quota of 521 is credited with 344 enlistments. In Waterbury, where the estimated popu- lation is 169,120, a total of 1,274 draft men must be furnished. The original gross quota of 1,848 has been cut down by 574 enlistments. , Protests Over Aliens, Officials are open in their expres- sions of dissatisfaction with the treat- ment given New Britain. This city is cailed upon, according to the gover- ror’s figures, for 513 men out of a tota. registered draft eligible list of about 7,500. Of this 7,500 fully one- half are said to be aliens and therefore automatically exempt. Therefore, aut of the remaining 3,700 or so, including hundreds of married men as well as scores of men who are either physical- ly unfit or otherwise disqualified, must’ be taken the 513. One of the greatest objections heard is concerning the alien exemption, All aliens are exempt and not called upan to fight, vet their large numbers are included in the population figures from which must be drawn the men who do fight. In other words, although the aliens are not to be drafted, their numbers help to swell the census ranks and other men, who are eligible, must be called upon to take the places of the exempt aliens. Dissntisfaction in Washington. Dispatches from Washington state that following a general discussion on the draft yesterday, Senator Brande- gee of this state presented statements that estimates haa been increased for the figl of the northern and eastern states and lowered for the soutrern states. Senator Lodge said: “From the astonishing population figures it is apparent that the northern states and cities census estimate have bean padded ~der to make their army dratt heavier, while those of the southern states have been lowered. It seems hard to have the census padded when the northern and eastern states are being most heavily taxed, in order that they must also give more of their men for soldiers than the southern states Mayor and Governor Vexed. Mayor Quigley has previously ex- pressed his dissatisfaction with the census estimate given Connecticut, and especially his native city of New Britain. Governor Holcomb has also expressed extreme dissatisfaction and AR ON ANTS MAGIC-HOODOO PAPER is a guar- anteed remedy for ants. Every housekeep- i, cafe, bar, restaurant, hotel etc., needs t.—Has no odor, does not stick.—Easily PRICE 15 CENTS ICKINSON DRUG CO. 513 MORE LOCAL MEN ARE REQUIRED FOR DRAFT QUOTA ty Total 327—Dissatisfaction With Figures Is Expressed—Hartford Has Many Credits. xpresses himself as heartily in accord with Senator Brandegee's resolution for an investigation. Governor Hol- comb has qualified the figures of 10,- 877 for Connecticuts draft army as “unjust” and has expressed himself as being “disgusted with the attitude of the National Board toward Connecti- cut.”” The governor thinks that this state’s census has heen overestimated by at least 300,000 and he alsa claims that at least per cent of its total population is compcsed of aliens, some of whom will not be required to serve in the army. The Connecticut Council of Defense also feels that there is gross injustice being done to the Nutmeg state. Gavernor Holcomb, in a further statement, said he, thought the approximate army draft of this state should be 7,000 men. As it is, the governor said: ‘“The state is be- ing called upon to furnish between 3,500 and 4,000 more men for the first draft army than it should, The state has a real population of approximate- Iy 1,350,000 men and the draft officials at Washington have given the state a population of 1,719,623, over 300,000 more people than there are in the swate.” . PADDED FIGURES STIR UP SENATE Hearty Backing for Brandegee Resolution—North Most Hurt Washington, July 17.—Padding of census flgures in various Northern States so as to work in quality in the operation of the selective draft system was charged by Senators Lodge of Massachusetts, Brandegee of Connect- icut, and Pomerene of Chio, in a Sen- ate debate yesterday over a resolutjon calling on the Census Bureau to ex- plain how it had arrived at its meth- od of calculation. The three Senators alleged that severe injustice would be done many communities if the system was not revised so as to make a more equitable draft throughout the coun- try. Two of the Senators are Repub- licans, the other a Democrat and a firm supporter of the Administration. Both Senators Lodge and Brande- gee criticised the system as giving exemption to huge numbers of aliens in various communlities, while forcing native-born naturalized Americans to enlist in greater proportion, virtually to fight for.the aliens who will stay at home. Senator Lodge insisted that either aliens ought to be obliged to fight in thelr own countries or the draft system should be changed so that the quota of enlisted men in these largely alien communities would not be so great. Senator Brandegee said that the Administration appeared to have cre- ated a draft system that relieved the South of “anywhere near the propor- tion of conscripts that the North must provide.” Senator Lodge contended that the Census Bureau ought to ex- plain at once the padding of figures. Information Asked. The resolution calling for informa- tion on the selective draft, as put in by Senator Brandegee, was adopted. It reads as follows: Resolved, That the Secretary of commerce is hereby directed to furnish to the Senate information which will disclose the methods and plans or system used in esti- mating the population of cities and States for the purpose of mil- itary draft or conscription by the Bureau of the Census, and also to transmit to the Senate said esti- mates of population. 37 “I am sure,” gee, “that every Union desires to quota of troops war in proper proportion to its population. I desire, however, to call attention mnot only to the injury done to the States and to the cities by over-estimating their population, but it so happens, as shown by a table put into the record by the jun- ior Senator from New York, Mr. Cal- der, that, inasmuch as all the allens in this country are exempt from the draft, and inasmuch as the propor- tion of aliens in many of the South- ern States varies from one-half of 1 per cent. to 20 per cent. of the popu- lation, the result of exempting all of the aliens from the draft is not only to excuse them from service, but to place, pro rata, according to the total population of a State, upon American citizens the burden of defending the lives and properties of the aliens who are enjoying the benefits of the insti- tutions of this country.” Senator Brandegee cited New Brit- ain, Conn., as a striking example of {the way in which the exemption | aliens was working a distinct hard- ship upon the native-born and natur- alized American population. He said: “Somebody wrote me the other day that they had taken a poll of several of the large factories in the town of New EBritain which developed that there were 3,600 aliehs and 3,500 American citizens engaged in those two. or three factories. The result is that the 3,500 aliens are going to re- main there, while a large proportion of the 3,500 Americans are going to be drafted and sent abroad to defend the 3,500 aliens who are exempt. “No matter how patriotic men may be or how willing to submit their des- tiny to the turn of the wheel and to the gamble of the draft, they do not want to play with loaded dice, and said Senator Brande- State in the furnish its full for this great of | they do not want to take twice the chance of being drawn to go to death and disease that a man has to take if he lives in some other State. To that extent it seems to me a tremendous wrong was committed, or, to put it mildly, most mildly, a great mistake was made in our draft law.” " Unavoidable”, Says Department. “When the bill was before the Mil- itary Committee,” interjected Senator Reed, “I called attention to what was substantially the very thing the Sen- ator is now speaking of. The point perhaps was slightly different, but it was the same principle. The War Department officials explained that they had no practical way of avoiding this difficulty. I thought then and I think now it would have been easy enough. But I learned then and I have been learning ever since that it is & kind of heresy for anybody to differ with department heads who come here with one of their “ready to wear’ bills.” I, too, have consulted ."nli(dr\ au!ho:mes,' Senator Brand- egee went on. “I submitted a letter from the Governor of my State to one of the high military authorities. He thinks that as only 687,000 are to be drafted in the first call, the in- equality complained of will not be very serious when spread over the entire country. But be that as it may, there is no reason why men who have llved in this country and are living here, sending their children to our schools, paying taxes here, and accumulating property here, should not fight for the preservation of this country in this great emergency. “If there are any provisions in our treaties with foreign countries that their subjects residing here shall be exempt from draft, T have no doubt that as to the aliens residing in this country, who are subjects of the countries with which we are in alli- ance in this war, every single country in such a treaty; and, of course, the individual alien in this country could take no advantage of it.” “There have been the same in- equalities in Ohio as those referred to by the Senator from Connecticut as existing in his own state” sald Sena- tor Pomerene. “The population of Ohio, according the the federal cen- sus of 1910, was 4,770,000. The pop- ulation used as a basis for calcula- tion and credited to Ohio today is more than 6,000,000, My own city, Canton, has 75,000 population, ac- cording to the best judgment of our citizens, based on calculations by the publishers of the city directory. I am quite sure that Canton’s popula- tion does not exceed 80,000 but ac- cording to the census bureau figures it is 177,000. Overestimates in Ohio. with the “Akron, according to the best judg- ment of its citizens, has a population of 125,000, certainly not over 150,- 000. Its population has been grow- ing by leaps and bounds but not to meet the census bureau's credit of 380,000 population. Cleveland has about 800,000, but the census bureau estimates it 1,125,000. Of course, } 1017, this is going to work a grave justice ‘“This matter of the resident alien, which creates such an injustice in the distribution of the draft is a matter of the greatest importance,” said Senator Lodge. ‘Aliens ought not to be counted for the draft unless they are going to be drafted. If they won’t serve in the armies of their own countries they ought to be ex- posed to the draft here. It is a mat- ter for the speedy attention of the executive branch of our government and for immediate legislation. This should come without any delay at all. “It is perfectly apparent from the astonishing figures that have been given by the senator from Connecticut and the senator from Ohio that northern cities and northern states are having the census estimates padded in order to make their pro- portion of the draft heavier whereas, as recent public statements show, those of the southern states are be- ing reduced by the same beneficient authority. ‘“We are accustomed to bearing the taxation burden and seeing the re- ceipts from taxation spent somewhere else, but I think it is a little hard to have our census figures padded so that we shall give more than our pro- portion of soldiers when the other section gives less.” The censug. bureau estimates for the draft’ wereibased upon registra- tion figures instead of upon ‘actual probable populations. Officials of the ‘brovost marshal general's office have explained that this was done to dis- tribute the draft fairly among the men registered and avoid placing disproportionate burdens upon com- munities whose men of draft age had flocked to industrial centers. in- Holcomb “Disgusted.” Hartford, July 17.—Governor Hol- comb commenting on the action of the United States senate in adopting the resolution by Senator Brandegee calling for information regarding the census bureau population estimates for the army draft said that he was in accord with the stateménts of Senators Brandegee and Lodge. He said he regarded the figures for Con- necticut as unjust and he was "dis- gusted with the attitude of the na- tional board toward Connecticut.” The population estimate, he said, meant that the state was being called upon to furnish between 3,500 and 4,000 more men for the first draft army than it should. About 7,000 men, he believed, was a fairer total. CHILD FALLS THREE STORIE! Rosie Prinka, 5 years old, of No. 249 Lasalle street, fell from a third story window at her home Sunday night and was seriously injured. The fact that the child was not killed is regarded as a miracle. She was taken to St. Francis’ hospital in Hartford, where it was found that her right arm and jaw are broken in addition to probable internal injuries. However, it is expected that the child will re- cover. Bathing Suits Strictly All Wool $2.75 Upwards One and two-piece Suits in plain colors and fine mixtures. Many nov- elty striped effects are also very at- tractive. Horstalls IT PAYS TO BUY OUR KIND 03-99 ASYLUM ST. ==-muu-- 140' TRUMBULL ST) HARTFORD | PERSONALS Fred Eppler, Jr, of Winthrop street is at Grove Beach. Henry Rice of Springfleld, was a visitor in this city yes- Dr. Mass., terday. Bernard Moffit, stationed at Fort Slocum, N. Y., spent the past few days at his home in this city. John Riche of Company No. 25, U. S. 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