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...football's greatest worry is that draft boards may get unsporting ideas. A dozen players are 4Fs; one is an ex-sailor who survived two sinkings and 14 days in an open boat. Unique among pro footballers is Danny Fortmann of Colgate, a crack guard for the Bears. He is the League's sole Phi Beta Kappa...
Arriving at College after the completion of Harvard's metamorphosis into an armed forces training center, new Freshmen will find little left of the old ways and traditions of happy, peacetime undergraduate life. Courses and activities are changed almost beyond recognition with the inroads of draft and essential service...
Somewhere between the apparently lofty principles of the Lowells and the palpably selfish sentiments of the Mokarskys come the reasons and excuses of thousands of draft dodgers. Most of them, according to the FBI, are guilty mainly of carelessness and ignorance. Even with far more men drafted, this war's total number of draft delinquents is lower than last war's. Delinquencies reported by local boards to the FBI total 306,144 to date. From June 5, 1917 to Sept. 11, 1918, 474,861 cases were reported...
Against the millions of men called up, there have been so far only 6,036 convictions for draft evasions in World War II. By quiet prowling, without the public emotionalism of "slacker raids," the FBI has quietly nudged some 200,000 other delinquents into uniform...
Newest arm of enforcement is publicity. Some draft boards have long been posting the names of delinquents. Last week Selective Service announced that, in addition to popping all delinquents aged 18 to 38 directly into 1-A, all local boards would be asked to publish delinquent names monthly, thus try to shame backsliders into righting their score...