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...through the U.S. Employment Service. The USES would not place men in new jobs solely because they want more pay. Actually the order would deprive no man of his right to quit, but if he did quit be must look for work in nonwar industries, thereby losing his deferred draft status. In short: work or fight-and work where...
...Like other churches that require their clergy to have full college and seminary training, Presbyterians are now faced with the possibility of getting no more ministers for the duration because the draft will get them first. The Assembly pointed out that Presbyterians are handicapped "because some other denominations with lower standards of education [e.g., Baptists and Methodists] are able to ordain ministers at an earlier age than our own; and because some other churches [e.g., Roman Catholics] are able to segregate men as seminarians before they reach draft age." Presbyterians were told to back their ministerial candidates in applying...
...present emergency. We will keep you in mind." Letters to the Army and Naval Reserve bring forth the same reply. Incidentally, no commission was requested, and I don't mean the 15% variety. Recruiting offices? They advise a man with a wife and two children to await a draft call...
...psychiatrists are not enough to examine an army of 6,000,000 men, especially since the doctors already have their hands full with 600,000 civilian cases. Some of the doctors suggested last week that their task might be eased if trained social workers were used by local draft boards to investigate local cases...
...York City department-store inventories for April were 77% above last year, while sales showed only a 4% increase. To correct the maldistribution, WPB announced it would soon curtail both inventories and forward buying. Retailers, already jarred by price ceilings, were in a frenzy over a trial balloon "first draft" of the order. A department store that had hoarded too much in one department might be unable to restock in another unless it disgorged its oversupply. Overall cough-up, if that order should go through: 20-35% of current retail stocks...