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...General Johnson but Major General Enoch H. Crowder was director of the draft in World War I. But civilians handled registration, ruled on craft matters. Today even the director is a civilian, and, as TIME said, the Army keeps "as far as possible from civilian draftees until they are actually inducted into service...
...Carnegie Foundation on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, 20 Progressive Educators gathered last week to draft a momentous report. It was to tell the results of the Progressive Education Association's famed "Eight-Year Study." The study had cost $500,000 of Carnegie and Rockefeller money. On it, Progressive Educators had staked their reputations and possibly the future of Progressive Education. Last week they had a verdict...
Last week the draft passed its hand-&-bunting stage, became serious business for the young men of the U. S. Some took it with a smile. First man called up in Cook County, Ill., Truck Driver Richard Rizzo (5 ft. 2½, 110 lb.) posed with his draft board, a picture of an admired good fellow. But for some, the draft was tragic business. Eight divinity students in Manhattan ignored the last pleas of their families, teachers and lawyers, accepted Federal prison sentences of one year and a day for refusing to register. An Oakland, Calif. house painter, Raymond...
...Draft Administrator Clarence Addison Dykstra in Washington meantime moved slowly, patiently to fit conscription into U. S. life. He cautioned big employers not to get panicky (on the average, said he, less than 5% of any one concern's eligible employes would be called). From national to State headquarters, then to local draft boards throughout the U. S., went computations of the first quotas to be called by November's end. Nearly everywhere, enough registrants had volunteered to supply the first 30,000 trainees. No man was accepted just because he had volunteered; rascals who hoped to flee...
...calling its second quota of 60,000 trainees until early next year. Originally, the plan was to have 800,000 draftees and one-year volunteers in uniform by next June. By last week, it looked as if the Army would have to add perhaps three months to its lagging draft schedule...