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...Draft Rules. In the patriotic hurly-burly of draft registration and drawings, manv a draftee still had a lot to learn last week about what had happened...
Something that had happened to all the 17,000,000, whether or not they were marked for armed service, was new in U. S. life: continuous, detailed responsibility to local draft boards. The members of these boards in fact had become among the most potent of U. S. citizens...
...address, even a prolonged visit to another locality. A registrant who wants to leave the U. S. must get his local board's permission beforehand. Reason: such changes would probably affect a registrant's liability or availability for service. Penalty for willful failure to "tell your local draft board" is the same as for any other violation of the Selective Training and Service Act: imprisonment up to five years, fines up to $10,000, or both. In practice, reprimands will serve for first, minor infractions (unless boardmen and courts are unco-testy...
...repeated phrase "21 to 35" had led many a registrant to believe that he would be beyond his local board's supervision, as well as out of the draft, once he passed 36. The fact: all men who were between 21 and 35 on Registration Day, and not otherwise exempt, will be legally liable to call until September 1945. This rule holds true even if a man turned 36 on Oct. 17. Practically, of course, as registrants near 40, their chances of being wanted for the Army will steadily lessen. But youngsters who turn 21 between...
...said "Only the people themselves can draft a President" and a majority of the people had indeed drafted him-in spite of the third-term tradition. That in itself was an expression of faith greater than any American had ever received...