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Indirectly the President made a little effort to smooth Congress' fur. He announced that he saw no need to draft 18-and 19-year-olds until next year. That announcement took the heat off Congress for dodging that responsibility until after election. It was like a gesture saying "we are all politicians together...
...Department is gravely concerned. . . . The Army will not offer commissions to men who . . . can make greater contributions to the war effort by remaining in their present vital war work."* He added that no more men in 2-A, 2-B and 3-B would be accepted for enlistment without draft board permission...
...stampede from war factories to recruiting offices did not abate, even though a bill to draft 18-and 19-year-olds was introduced in the Senate (see p. 18). War workers and young husbands who have awaked to the fact that the U.S. is really building a 10,000,000-man war machine, knew that drafting 18-and 19-year-olds would delay their call only a few months. They thought they had better get in early to get the best places...
...Drafting in Fisher County (Tex.) was going along all right until State headquarters arbitrarily deferred a selectee because he was a "farm and ranch" hand. The draft board figured that this classification fitted 90% of its registrants, got mad, said that if headquarters felt that way about it, the Fisher County Draft Board "should in duty to the citizenry take immediate steps to obtain the release of a number of men who have been sent to the Army...
...Army and abandon their deferment programs? Men in the Marines have already received their six-months notice. What is to be the fate of the ROTC? In many quarters, sections of the Stimson dictum were taken to mean that the college units will be given up. When the lowered draft age becomes a reality, will the age limits of the ERC, and any other such groups operating under similar regulations, drop to meet it? And if they do should the colleges go into the English system of one year for everyone? What is the specific policy of the draft boards...