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...Administration agreed to ease draft deferments: Draft boards now may defer a farmer who tends eight cows or does a comparable amount of other farm work...
...question rose to plague the U.S. last week. The speed with which the draft will soon strip the nation of its young men was now apparent (see above). The manpower pinch was already sorely felt by factory and farms; food rationing was destined to grow stricter by the month...
...Farm State Senators, whose constituents have been hardest hit by the draft, were quick to rally to Bankhead's side. Their chief arguments...
...remedies for labor shortages Elder Statesman Hoover called for the import of Mexicans, stopping the draft of farm workers, furloughs for farm-bred soldiers during harvests. Prices must be high enough to encourage production; vaguely, he added, retail ceilings should be abandoned in favor of fixed prices "as near the farm as possible...
...graves and hiss, "But you can't run a competition like that!", there's nothing to do but tell them it's got to be. Death of a legend or not, the CRIMSON is running a competition and it's not designed to bring on nervous breakdowns, probation, or draft exemption. An interested man can make the CRIMSON after a short, brisk competition designed to teach him and take him quickly...