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...horses and mules are another matter. Government and farmers alike know they cannot return to the munching, nonmechanical drowse of yesterday's barnyard. The draft and the siphoning off of farm labor by defense industry will call for still more mechanized farming. But at Chicago the shortage of horses and farm machinery was something that farmers still refused to worry about. At this point only the Government was worried...
...People's emotions are disturbed. Having a family tends to keep a man out of the draft. There is also a natural urge to produce offspring before being shot to pieces...
...York City men deferred from the draft for dependency found that deferment did not mean that the Government was through with them. To 14,000 of them will go letters from the Office of Civilian Defense carrying a pointed request: Come in and sign up for service as air-raid wardens, fire wardens...
...boost pulp supplies WPA is mangling 25,000,000 folders of World War I draft records, baling the shreds...
Maintenance of a full quota of students is certainly the major problem. So far the draft has radically affected only the Law School, which unfortunately depends more on tuition than any other branch of the University, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. What will happen to enrollment in case of war, nobody can even guess, although the example of England leaves hope that the College will not be too hard hit. But all during the emergency and after it as well, the problem will be one of lowering expenses so that tax-hit fathers will be able...