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Episcopalian Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week issued an executive order authorizing Selective Service Director Clarence Addison Dykstra (Dutch Reformed) to initiate a program of non-military work of "national importance" for conscientious objectors. But the most practical of all pacifist sects had beat him to the plowshare. Four days previously the American Friends Service Committee had already opened its second work camp for C. O.s in Patapsco State Forest near Baltimore. Soon the Quakers, the Mennonites and the Church of the Brethren will have ten camps set up for the 6,700 C. O.s so far turned...
...write weekly essays-hard-earned wisdom couched in his own lingo. He had his pieces punctuated by a race-track handicapper with a high-school education, mailed them to his clientele. In ivy-clad Eastern dormitories, Madden's essays had a wider circulation than those of Lamb, Addison or Steele. Today Joe Madden sends his weekly bulletins to 3,000 customers, a select fraternity he fondly calls "the mob." He has published three books: What'll You Have, Boys?; The Back Room; Set 'Em Up! He does an $85,000-a-year business, "is wined and dined...
Draft Administrator Clarence Addison Dykstra in Washington meantime moved slowly, patiently to fit conscription into U. S. life. He cautioned big employers not to get panicky (on the average, said he, less than 5% of any one concern's eligible employes would be called). From national to State headquarters, then to local draft boards throughout the U. S., went computations of the first quotas to be called by November's end. Nearly everywhere, enough registrants had volunteered to supply the first 30,000 trainees. No man was accepted just because he had volunteered; rascals who hoped to flee...
...wastebasket had been replaced by the huge glass jar from which draft numbers were drawn in 1917. Photographers' lights beat upon 8,994* blue capsules in the jar, shedding a blue radiance on the stage. Selective Service Director Clarence Addison Dykstra and Brigadier General Hershey walked in. Slowly behind them came President Roosevelt, on the arm of his secretary "Pa" Watson. The blue-suited President looked tired, grey, exhausted by his campaign. Said he to the nation (paraphrasing a favorite phrase of Wendell Willkie) and to the 17,000,000 registrants who were about to have their numbers drawn...
...column last week. On registration day, as 17,000,000 might-be soldiers lined up for the draft, red-nosed, irascible General Hugh Samuel Johnson (who managed the last U. S. draft in World War I) sent out a column in which he said that Conscription Chief Dr. Clarence Addison Dykstra had turned up "on the rolls of the Dies Committee, all tangled up with the heads of Communist organizations," accused General Oliver P. Echols of overstepping his authority in rejecting Captain Elliott Roosevelt's resignation (TIME...