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...call on draft officials to draw physicians for the armed services largely from cities . . . and not from rural communities which are already seriously underserviced. We urge all rural women to recognize the impending shortage . . . and to fortify themselves ... by taking current training on home nursing and first...
...Food production is as essential to winning the war as the production of munitions. . . . Draft boards should determine the contribution toward victory of each boy. Voluntary enlistment should stop...
Many a man passed over in the first draft (21-to-35-year-olds) is still liable for service. Ex-soldiers, sailors and marines, in the deferred 4-A category, have been notified to stand by. So have the 28-to-35-year-olds drafted in the first registration, then released because...
...along the line the draft is getting stiffen 2-As (deferred because they hold vital jobs) will be given six months' grace while their employers look for substitutes, then once again will have to prove their indispensability as civilians. Among 3-As, deferred for dependents, draft boards will make a careful recheck. Many a husband with a self-supporting wife was deferred because the Army figured that a peacetime soldier would not be much good if he had a wife to worry about. Now the Army won't bother about his emotions...
Although the new draft will scoop up a huge number of draftees, the Army is signing up volunteers as fast as they come. The rush of enlistments that started with Pearl Harbor is still going strong this week...