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Many questions had to be resolved by Selective Service and Manpowerman McNutt before the harried local draft boards could get a common directive...
...Unless Congress lowers the Selective Service age limit to sweep in 18-to-19-year-olds, the draft will soon begin claiming men with dependent wives and children...
...Local boards will draft old and young men in proportionate numbers...
President Roosevelt started it by announcing what he considered shocking news: that 433,000 Class 1-A draft registrants had flunked the Army's literacy test (TIME, June 8). Nodding gravely, Columbia University's Professor Emeritus William C. Bagley, editor of School and Society, pronounced the figures "deplorable and discouraging." But the New York Times's silver-lined Columnist Simeon Strunsky observed that it was not as bad as all that: the Army had simply stiffened the literacy test, on the theory that "what is good enough for peacetime intelligence is not good enough for the Army...
...slippered, balding millions were not complaining; they just wanted to know. Few had any notion where they would wind up in total war. Washington had given the nod to local draft boards for induction on June 1 of some of the oldsters who registered Feb. 16. But that meant little or nothing. An estimated 84% of them have dependents...