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Last week Candidate Geary was bee-busy, buzzing around the State in his Mercury, stinging away at McNary's record. To Oregon citizens, who now feel close to the battlefront, he recalled McNary's pre-Pearl Harbor stand: against repealing the Neutrality Act, against extending the draft...
...Government is sure it will win the plebiscite, for to 9,000.000 Anglo-Canadians Minister Ilsley's words sounded like simple common sense. The real question is how the 3,000,000 French Canadians will vote. In 1918 there were draft riots in the Province of Quebec; there have been draft riots there again this year; and the plebiscite will add little to national unity if the French vote isolationist and Quebec turns thumbs down on conscription...
Manpower, the nation's greatest asset, was being wasted-by lack of coordination, in government and out, by the draft, by unregulated enlistments of men who were more useful in their jobs than in the services, by industrial competition for skilled and able managers. The order would stop all that-as fast as McNutt could...
Unlike Physics and Chemistry, Biology is not directly connected with the war effort and biologists will not be deferred for the draft. Only one new course, Biology 121 (Sanitary Biology), has been added since Pearl Harbor, but in many other cases there has been a shift in emphasis to keep pace with the times...
...baseball season opened this week much as usual. Some headliners were missing-notably Detroit's Hank Greenberg, Cleveland's Bob Feller, Washington's Cecil Travis, Philadelphia's Sam Chapman-and many another great ballplayer will follow them to war before the season ends. But draft or no draft, U.S. baseball fans were down with their perennial spring fever: trying to dope out how 16 big-league teams will finish in far-off October...