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...brought out not only the Army's spectacular new function as an instrument of defense, but also Mexico's spectacular weaknesses. Mexico has only 42,000 first-line combat troops. There are some 60,000 additional Agraristas, country volunteers, armed with rifles by the Government. Yearly conscript classes may soon be added to the regular reserve...
When the first raw conscript soldiers drifted in last fall at Fort Jackson, S.C., Major General Henry D. Russell, in command of the post, was appalled at the number of them who could neither read nor write. Before long he had on his hands some 600 total illiterates. General Russell got in touch with WPA. Result: at Fort Jackson last week elementary classes, taught by WPA teachers, were going full blast, and an Army education program had spread from coast to coast...
...remedy for these defects. He was Brigadier General Lewis Elaine Hershey, acting draft administrator, whose civilian chief, Dr. Clarence Dykstra, resigned last week to join the President's new National Defense Mediation Board (see p. 14). General Hershey proposed to narrow draft registration limits (now 21-35), conscript only men between 18 and 23. He would also let the trainees in the new age brackets choose the year when they would serve. Many Congressmen would like to correct the law now. But General Hershey would put off making any changes until the U. S. is ready to settle down...
About one particular conscript, in whom I have a kind of vested interest, do wear your rubbers, darling...
...Conscript labor...