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...Draw. Montana's Senator Burton K. Wheeler had fought for a sharp-toothed bill which would save every pre-Pearl Harbor father from the draft until the last childless man in the U.S. had been inducted. As finally amended and signed by the President, the bill was well-intentioned and toothless: fathers will be kept at the bottom of draft lists so long as this does not affect "the orderly flow of men into the armed forces...
...belted N.M.U. harder or more consistently than Columnist Pegler. He has pictured N.M.U. as a Communist cell attempting to convert all of U.S. labor; has accused Joe Curran of draft dodging. (Curran, married but childless, was deferred as an essential worker, i.e., labor leader.) But what most infuriated N.M.U.ers-who boil over at the mere mention of Pegler's sleeping-car first name-was the columnist's revival of the old scuttlebutt, repeatedly and officially denied, that U.S. merchant sailors mutinied at Guadalcanal...
Confucianism places filial piety high among the cardinal virtues. Failure to produce a male descendant is the gravest of filial omissions. For 2,300 years men have avoided impiety by taking a concubine when a wife remains-childless or bears only daughters. If a man puts off the choosing of a "Little Star," friends may urge him delicately. Until the 1930s it was even thought a charming virtue in a wife to press a "Little Star" upon a husband who, at 40, had no sons...
...supply of single men is practically exhausted, of childless men is fast running out. (Selective Service recognizes children born only before Sept. 14, 1942 as reason for deferment...
Again on display in the basement are going-on-13-year-old Gargantua and his eleven-year-old spouse M'Toto. They are still childless-because they are too young to mate, says the publicity. But the National Geographic Magazine long ago described M'Toto as a male...