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...July 1 the blanket deferment which has given all college men of the class of 1941 a chance to complete their college education ends. From now on Joe College goes into the Army when his number comes up just as any other young American does--unless his local draft board on the basis of information from his college decides that he is of more service to the country on the campus than in a camp...
...There are no unused facilities for training soldiers at the moment. If the present draftees and the national guard are retained for another year, which seems probable, few more men can be called until new camps are built. The army has recently hinted at doubling the size of the draft army and contracts for the new camps are being awarded now. Possibly two out of three July I-A men will be in uniform but they will probably not be called till January. At that time most cases will be able to get deferment till midyear exams are finished...
Today's issue is the last issue of the News until only God knows when. For further details see your local draft board, F.D Roosevelt and A. Hitler--Yala Dally News...
...plan to give students a college education in spite of the draft was announced last week by a group of U.S. colleges, which all spring had been worried stiff about next year's enrollment (TIME, April 14): beginning next autumn they will let students get degrees in three years instead of four so that they may be graduated before the draft...
Last week's anniversary celebration was a national symposium at Kansas City on "The Good Life in an Industrial Era." Sponsor and chairman was able, energetic, pro-labor Bishop Edwin Vincent O'Hara, who as a young priest in Oregon helped draft the U.S.'s first minimum-wage law and became the defendant in Stettler v. O'Hara when the law was tested and upheld in the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1931 he was the only American bishop present when Pius XI delivered Quadragesimo Anno, and spoke for the U.S. as delegates from each Christian nation...