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...half-scared, but elated at the epochal portent of the struggle-elated in the sense that a fighter, once in the ring, feels exhilarated....Theater audiences sing The Star-Spangled Banner lustily, applause drowning out the last strains....Recruits swarming the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard offices-Missouri draft boards announced they can supply immediately 8,000 more draftees in Class...
...House Military Affairs Committee sat down to listen to Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey, administrator of the draft. The man charged with the vital task of mobilizing the nation's man power has done a quiet, capable job with the first draft. Young (48), Indiana-born, he once taught school to earn tuition for college. Though his ancestors were Mennonites (who are deeply opposed to war), he joined the National Guard, was sent to the Mexican border in 1916, served in France, returned and passed his examinations for the Regular Army. One of his two sons is at West...
...Department and draft officials wanted a bill which made men between 19 and 45 liable for active service. They figured that there were 30,000,000 in the group, about one-fourth of whom were fit for service. But the Military Affairs Committee gagged, finally passed an amendment which set the minimum age at 21. If the bill passes Congress in that form, original calculations will have to be revised, draft officials will have to look more sharply at married men and men with dependents. Some Congressmen vowed they would fight to have the 19-year minimum restored. But whatever...
Certainly the Army officials know that there is a dearth of doctors in America. This was brought home forcibly when they could find few doctors with practices so small that they were willing to consider positions in the pre-draft army. And with the advent of the draftees, the Army has had to strip hospitals of their internes and take men out of medical schools in their second years. Even if its supply of doctors were adequate for present plans, the necessity of obtaining replacements should not be overlooked. The rapid turnover of doctors in front line trenches and hospitals...
WASHINGTON--The House tonight approved legislation creating a potential draft army of 6,000,000 men between the ages of 21 and 44, inclusive, and requiring all males from 18 to 65 to register for either military or non-combatant service...