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...kite is to draw upon a bank account in which there is at the moment less money than the draft. Example: Perhaps Col. Lea one day deposited in Liberty Bank a check of $1,000,000 drawn against a Missouri bank. Properly speaking, he would have had no money in Liberty Bank until the check had been cleared. But his good friend Mr. Donnell might have let him draw $500,000 against the deposit at once, thus kiting. If at the same time he in reality had no money in the Missouri bank but had merely deposited there a check...
...effective an organized association of draft-resisters could be is hard to determine. Although a small group would probably find itself helpless once war was declared, it might have considerable influence in restraining a government from beginning hostilities. Certainly a formal association could have far more effect than a number of isolated individuals. When patriotism and national honor become sacred idols, as they do in times of imminent or actual war, many are constrained, for lack of moral support, to abandon the principles which they hold in saner moments. Such moral backing a Federation of resisters would give them...
...General Staff counts on the immediate operation of the Selective Service System (i. e. the Draft) to supply manpower for a sudden war. Prime problem is to publicize that system quickly to secure registration. Col. Rankin's first job will be to prepare a campaign to advertise the Draft before the first gun is fired...
...realize that even a political machine can get gummed up with too much politics." World-Telegram Colyumist Heywood Broun began organizing a mass meeting "in answer to the average citizen's question: 'What can I do?'" The Daily News thought that the municipality's only salvation lay in draft- ing Alfred Emanuel Smith for Mayor...
...home and prepare for another conference in India. This will draft the new Indian constitution which we have only sketched in outline here...