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Enlisted Reserve men, whenever they may be called, in general go at once into 13 weeks' basic training as privates. Here their better-than-average education should enable them to win promotion to an officers' candidate school rairly quickly. Thus the principal difference between the E.R.C. and the draft is that a man may be drafted two weeks before midyears, losing credit for the whole term, while in the Reserve he can be called only at the end of a semester...
...months he plagued his draft board, wrote the President that he didn't care what he did in the Army if he could only be part...
...draft board finally gave in, let him see Lieut. Colonel Robert Fulton, a top State draft official who got him into the Army-as a cobbler. (G.I. shoes are usually tapped twice before being discarded...
Added pain for the chains is their own labor problem. Many store managers and clerks are skipping out to double their earnings in war industries. The draft has caught others. Women now being hired can do some of the work, but capable store managers and skilled butchers need training. One way out for the chains: more self-service by customers...
...diseased men are treated with sulfathiozol, which usually removes danger of contagion within three days, clears it up within five days. Obstinate infections get further treatment, may be released if hopeless. Syphilitics are not being drafted: their cure is more difficult. One reason for inducting gonorrheal cases: in World War I many men tried to escape the draft by deliberately contracting gonorrhea...