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...publicity given to Ingersoll as a draft dodger has detracted attention from Marshall Field as a slacker. Field is of age to volunteer. . . . The term to fit him and all hysterical effeminates is coward...
Conclusion: despite World War II and the draft, men still outnumber women at the movies-by a nose...
...nation's student body is one group which has not been assimilated into the war effort. The college student is not concerned simply with "higher education" and draft-dodging. He has proved his capacity for an education and has received part of a course of training upon which the nation can capitalize. yet today he faces the war not knowing how best to do his bit. He possesses the locomotion but not the direction...
...anxious to serve, have both been ignored. It will require little planning to turn the technical student's training towards the war. Instead, it is the liberal arts concentrator who remains most confused, sensing that something is wrong in simply pursuing a course in the arts until he reaches draft age or graduates. Only a small minority knows where it can be of most service...
Again last week the issue was placed squarely before the War Manpower Board and Selective Service. Calling for drastic changes in draft policy a conference of West Coast college presidents warned that "unless careful plans are made and put in operation, the reservoir of competent students will be exhausted by draining them off prematurely into the armed forces. The reservoir of specialists has been so dangerously drained that we are now scraping the bottom of the barrel." Only clear directives from Washington can keep the barrel filled...