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With a desperate Kamikaze air, the Senate Military Affairs Committee last week reported a bill extending the draft for a year. The bill, which differed little from the existing draft law, was okayed by the Army. But it horrified Colorado's lumbering Senator Ed Johnson. Cried he: "Only beardless youths will be conscripted. . . ." Every "boy" drafted will be "thrown in the path of diseased prostitutes and lewd women" in the "foulest human cesspools...
...Though beardless adolescents walked among them, they were all gaunt and old beyond their years. In the station's bright light they blinked, like men emerging from a cavern of despair into the sun. They were the lost sons of France, home from the prison camps of Germany, the vanguard of 2,500,000 prisoners of war still shut up in German Stalags and labor camps...
Once in a while the long arm of the law reaches out to hold up a slipping brassiere or a drooping G-string, and occasionally competition has threatened the leadership of the Old Howard, but never did its loyal following of beardless youth and balded age fall away...
Following tribal custom the men do not cut their hair. But men & women are equally beardless; both sexes wear indeterminate gowns. All of them are intensely modest. When Miss Duby and a doctor in her party gave them medical injections, to kill the parasitic flies which often lodge in their skins, they acted as though they were being seduced...
Rising to the emergency, President Morinigo hustled the prophet off to jail, called the prison barber. Now Bauer, beardless, lives in a little house near...