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...response to questions from the floor, General Hershey thought that a compulsory law to draft labor would be unnecessary, saying that rather the nation's working forces would be guided "as some farmers train their cows: by spreading salt on the desired path, at the same time throwing stones into the forbidden areas...
...longer is a worker in an "essential" industry eligible for exemption from the draft if there is any possibility that he may be replaced by older men, those who are partially crippled, women, or even children who could be sufficiently trained, he said...
Without advising college students on whether or not they should keep studying by means of "the plums of pseudo-deferment held up by the Army and Navy," the genial chief of the draft said that it was the responsibility of his organization to "steer a course between those whose removal would jeopardize a genuine war effort, and those who are trying to evade their duties as citizens...
...Draft Labor" Unnecessary...
Asked about continuation of the Selective Service Act after the war, he declared that, not only was the system desirable in peacetime, but it might be used also to educate the illiterate and to build up the physically unfit which draft boards now turn down daily...