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...Since the priorities system has greatly curtailed their activities and earnings, a large number [of traveling salesmen and sales managers] have tried to get commissions rather than wait for the draft because of dependents and obligations. Most of these men have made lots of money in civilian life and $21 a month would drastically reduce their standard of life and they would not be able to return to it easily when the war is over. . . . Salesmen as a rule have a good education, are easily able to handle the public and their customers, are especially well versed in current affairs...
Special recruiting boards will be sent this week into all States east of the Mississippi. Doctors of draft age who are certified by Procurement & Assignment as nonessential to civilian practice will be sent into active service within 14 days. After May 9, the recruiting boards will move west...
...been kept busy performing operations that patients wanted done before their doctors were called up. In addition to such forehanded patients who will soon not be able to be treated by the physicians they prefer, there are others-in booming defense areas and towns stripped of doctors by the draft-who even now find it difficult to get any kind of medical attention...
...acquaintance with older, more experienced men interested in the same academic field, the tutorial system putters along on the energy of about one-ninth of the Faculty. And most of the tutors are young instructors who in normal times must worry about their Ph.D.'s, and to whom the draft boards now beckon. The only way to keep the tutorial system off the war-time casualty list is to expand it to include more teachers, especially those in the upper brackets...
...serve in the Armed Forces. We cannot then refuse them the right not to participate in a compulsory registration designed primarily to provide men for those Armed Forces. The British as a matter of fact recognize this right, and they have apparently found it possible to distinguish between draft dodgers and genuine pacifists. We might do well to learn from our ally...