New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 5, 1917, Page 11

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1917, " LONERGAN PLEADS | FOR ALIEN DRAFT " Also Protests Against Population Estimate for State 1 (Special to the Herald.) | Washington, Oct. of State Robert Lansing is still ne- * Rotiating with foreign governments as | to the of their subjects in this country in the draft, insofar as d s Secretary inclusion rush procedure is affected by rights, action on the so-called slacker” bill will be delayed in con- <.gress until the December session. In anticipation, however, of the consid- eration of the bill, Congressman Augustine Lonergan has prepared some very vital statistics, covering | treaty | “alien | ! i | | CASCARETS SELL TWENTY MILLION BOXES PER YEAR st , Best, safest cathartic for and bowels, and pecople know it. liver They're fine! Don’t stay bilious, sick, headachy or constipated. Enjoy life! Keep clean inside with Cascarets. Take one or two at night | and enjoy the nicest gentlest liver and bowel cleansing you ever experienced. | . 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Mr. Lonergan’s remarks, are as fol- low: “Mr. Speaker, when I cite the offi- cial statistics in the office of the provost marshal general of the army as showing that of the 159,955 registered on June 5 in Connecticut under the selective conscription ' law 58,631 were aliens, I think the reason for my remarks on so important a subject as the conscription of aliens is immediately clear. It must also be borne in mind that these 58,631, while cl ified as aliens, do not include aliens enship papers and who, if they in- , are exempted from military duty . with our troops under cxisting treaties between the United States and the re- spective mother country of the dif- ferent men. Wtih 36.6 per cent. of the total men of registered age ex- empt legally and a probable addition of several per cent. exempt by insist- ing on treaty rights, we have at once who have taken out their first | a condition wherein nearly half the total registered men of the state are American citizens are dotng tw their share. Where one Amer] citizen should be marching into mp side by side with one foreign-born ' resident, who perhaps has long en- { joyed the hospitality of this land, two into to going behind Americans are actually camp, leaving the alien sarily following on manufacturing prosperity, to hold the positions from which the citizenry has been called. “The unfairness of this is too mani- fest to need proof. Census Figures. “Connecticut is an industrial state. ‘Which brings me directly to another feature of the draft not to be passed I note that the esti- on over in silence. mated population of the state, which the quota of 18,817 men was established, is placed at 1,719,623. If there are 1,719,623 people in Connec- ticut today, 800,000 of them are locat- ed where no one but the man who es- | timated that population can find them. The governor of the state can not as- certain their whereabouts. The | mayors of the different cities do not know where they are. The state coun- cil of defense never heard of them. They were not around a few months before, when an official state census of men able to bear arms was taken. Hartford, my home town, and the cap- ital of the state is credited with 180, 697 inhabitants, while the whole city knows that if we had more than 150,- 000 we would declare a legal holiday and celebrate. New Britain, the sec- ond largest city in the district which I have the honor to represent, is credited with 76,942, but as much as the proud residents would like to | have it so, modestly they must admit they are scveral thousand below that figure. So it is in all industrial cen- ters. “To be more exact, the population of Connecticut, according to the offi- clal Federal census of 1910, was 1,- 114,756. The Connecticut military | census, taken a few montHs before the Federal registration, showed there were 506,562 cards returned of men over 16 years of age. Of this num- ber, according to the report of the State council of defens 153,067 were between the ages of 21 and 30 vears, less 1 per cent for duplicates, or 067 men of the age required under the later Federal law to register. But the Federal registration returned 160,- 269 men of military age. Taking the State figures, the council estimates | 506,552, less 1 per cent for duplicates, or 501,487 men in the State able to bear arms. Adding 6 per cent to cor- The Allin-one Control makes a Crawford the simplest and easiest - to - operate furnace in the world. ONE handle assumes full control of the fire. Assures perfect relation of lower and upper drafts. 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MILLS & CO. 80 West Main Street rect errors, or 30,089, it shows a total !more than $3,000,000,000 and made 4,- male population of 16 years and up- wards of 531,576. Allowing 202,775 as the male population under 14 years of age and 10,653 of 15 vears of age, the council records a total male pop- ulation of 745,004. On the proportion of 105 females to every hundred males, it arrives at a total female population of ‘709,600, or a total pop- ulation for the State of 1,454,604. It will be seen at once that these figures are generous, and when compared with the estimated government popu- lation of 1,719,623 show a discrepancy of 265,119. The government, how- ever, levies a grand quota for the draft of 18,817 men, but, thanks to the patriotism of thc men of the state, credits for the army and the National Guard bring the net quota to 10,977. Estimates Should Be Corrected. “The whole state has no more im- portant question before it today than the question of correcting the federal estimates of population, so as to bring the results nearer to the facts. The attention of the war department and of the census bureau has already been directed to it. The census bureau states that it estimated the population on the number of men registered, figuring the men between the ages of 21 and 30 at 9.32 per cent. of the total population. That this method is as fair as it is supposed to ‘The secre- tary of commerce, in a letter to the president of the United States senate under date of July 18, 1917, states that as it was impossible in any event to estimate precisely the population of the cities, counties, and states on the basis of registration, the simplest and peediest method * * * was adopted. And the bureau of the census, pre- facing its estimates of population as of July 1, 1917, says: ‘One reason of employment of this method was that the census bureau had only a very short time in which to prepare the es- timates, etc.’ “I do not wish it to be understood that I fail to appreciate the neces- city of speed in the premises in order | | that our military strength might be but, quickly as possible, where speed is paramount second used as obviously, accuracy necessarily plays a part, “‘General Crowder, provost marshal general, in a letter covering war department, closes with the ques- tion as to whether it would not be— the part of wisdom to allow this question to remain undisturbed by legislation until the first draft is completed, in order that it may be determined whether in the in- terests of fairness throughout the nation a new basis for a future draft should be provided by law. “Public opinion in Connecticut, im- pelled alone by patriotism, rather ac- cedes to this suggestion. “At the same time it is well to re- cord here that the United States sen- ate has already voted to accept the | amendment proposed by Senator Brandegee of Connecticut, to the ‘Act to authorize the president to increase temporarily the military establish- ment of the United States, which pro- | vides that— in the future operation of the said selective-draft act of May, 18, 1917, credit shall be given the several states or localities or dis- tricts for the increased number of citizens heretofore drawn, which excess or increase was caused by the fact that aliens were registered in computing the number subject to the draft but were not themselves subject thereto Should Draft Aliens. “While all this the future, something must be done now. Drafting the alien, while it will not correct any overestimates population, will make more equitable the obligation to service. It will re- lieve the drain on American mapn- hood. It will' bring home most quickly to the stranger within our gates that if the blessings of our de- mocracy are invaluable in times of peace the duty one owes that democ- racy is all important in war. Tt will, moreover, be a strong assurance to the foreign born already made citi- zens that their neighbors by neglect- ing citizenship are not by this neglect to be encouraged to become slackers. ““The opinion prevalent in the street on this point is the same that has been given expression over the signa- ture of the governor of the state and of the executives of its leading cities. Members of the bench informally have recognized the justice of it. From the pulpits it has been preached. The press has given it pub- Heity. “Connecticut is always ready to do its share. All it asks is fairness. Yes, it is ready to do more than its share; and here I may briefly enu- merate some of its activities. “I have consulted with the heads of the various departments at Washing- ton with a view to having figures compiled, in so far as Connecticut is concerned, and the results tell the whole story. “Brig. Gen. H. P. McCain, the adjutant general of the army, states that Connecticut's total quota for the regular army is 2,228, and that the official figures of the war department as of August 24 show Connecticut had secured her quota at that time, and that, in fact, 2,419 of the men who presented themselves in Connecticut were accepted for enlistment in the regular army from April 1 to August 24, 1917. The chief of the Militia Bureau, Brig. Gen. William A, Mann, now commander of the Rainbow div- ision, of which some of the Connecti- cut troops are a part, stated that the official recgrds in his office as of July 81 showed there were 150 officers and 5,091 enlisted men in the Connecticut National Guard who were taken into the Federal service. In addition, Connecticut will have soon placed under arms in the new National Army her quota of nearly 11,000 men, secured under the selective draft. “Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels informed me that on August 23, according to official fligures, therc were in the Navy 140,970 enlisted men, of -whom Connecticut has sup- plied a representative quota. What Connecticut Has Done, “Of the total amount subscribed for the first liberty loan, which reached the | situation from the standpoint of the | is looking toward | of | in but 000,000 Government bondholders the country where there were 300,000 before, Connecticut, ures secured from the Treasury De- partment and from the office of Gov. Aiken, of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, show, subscribed $28,98 450, or $5,000,000 more than it ta of $23,200,000. tal, Hartford County subscribed $18,- 609.. and the city of Hartford near- ly $12,000,000. The State also played a prominent part in the campaign of the Red Cross | to secure $100,000,000, the total con- tributions from the State as of Aug- ust 22, last, being $2,667,078.07, which $690,806.94 was contributed by residents of Hartford County. The to- tal secured by the Red Cross from the campaign throughout the country was $120,929,751,123 according to the re- port of the Secretary, dated August 28. In the State of Connecticut, also, there are $9,749 members of the Red Cross, and Hartford County has 20,- 200 of these. “The Navy League of the United States, incorporated to be of every service possible to the men the fleet, has in Connecticut 850 members, of whom 149 reside in Hartford. Mr. A. H. Dadmun, secretary of the league, informs me that in addition there are many thousands in the state in the Woman’s League, an auxiliary of the organization. ““All this shows in a national the place the state has taken in the great war; and, besides, the State Council of Defense, the home guard, and other organizations are all work- of way e i RSPy as fig- | quo- | Of the State’s to- | of | stantial contribution. |are turned ARGENTINE REPUBLIC IS PREPARING TO ENTER THE WAR AGAINST GERMAN EMPIR General view of the Darsena Norte l navy vard in the Argentine. gentine navy in equipment and for its The Ar- | size compares favorably with any im the world. el ing to show the state’s “bit” is a sub- “I hope that, in a measure at least, I have made my point clear. We are living in abnormal times. The energies of the greatest nations of the world | from constructive efforts of peace to the destruction war en- tails. ‘The genius of the American ‘is for peace.’ war Through it all, Nation,’ a prominent writer tells us, It is by our joint ef- forts that the war will be won. machinery of the from handling less than 100,000 men, is suddenly taxed to the extent of con- trolling 1,000,000 men and more. Our navy proudly boasts an enrollment of nearly 150,000. The department, we SPECIAL VALUES IN ALL THE NEW FALL STYLES This store stands back of every garment sold. You pay as you wear, and that gives This means added protectio m. you pay. not right we could not do this—think FALL DRESSES $10 to $27.50 That it over. 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