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Show ABOUT 3 PER CENT TAKEN BY DRAFT WERE GAIN-FULLY GAIN-FULLY EMPLOYED ,' In n. bulletin on. the employment of vomen in the storage and warehousing depots of the United States army Is the following: "The census of 1010 reported that of every 100 men and boys ten years of nge and over, only 19 were not gainfully gain-fully employed. This group of 19 included in-cluded old men not able to work, children chil-dren too young to work, the sick and hnr.dtcnpped, and! men In schools and colleges. . "Assuming thnt 500.000 of the number num-ber called by the'selectlve-servlce law have had some form of gainful employment, employ-ment, we may estimate that one out of every 00 men In the Industries and professions of the country has been called Into military service, while another an-other In every 00 has voluntarily Joined Join-ed the forces of the army or navy. Thus, about 3 per cent of the gainfully employed men have been tuken out of their occupations." |