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Congress adopted a tough attitude toward the colleges: although it agreed to defer teen-agers still in high school until the end of the term, college men may be called immediately. But gloom is not evenly distributed on the nation's campuses. Technical schools, which are training more students than ever before, and colleges like Harvard, Yale, North Carolina, Iowa, Dartmouth, already crammed with thousands of Army & Navy men, are not particularly worried. Even some small liberal arts colleges, having heard the worst, found their case not entirely hopeless...
Next day Mr. McNutt "froze" manpower in the dairy, livestock and poultry industries, and sent a directive to Selective Service to send a directive to local draft boards to defer all such farm workers. (Week before the Tolan committee noted the testimony of General Hershey: "Of course, the local boards need not pay any attention to 99% of the things which we send out. It is a good thing they do not have...
...draft came. The five conscientious objectors were all classified IA. (A sixth man took his chances, was put in 4-F.) Hedgerow besought the draft board to defer its IAs because of their importance: Morgan Smedley, "in charge of the ushering, parking and patrolling staff"; David Metcalf, "an institution builder"; George Ebeling, "importantly placed on the direction committee." They got nowhere. Hedgerow wrote to Major General Hershey. It appealed to Paul V. McNutt of the War Manpower Commission. It implored Eleanor Roosevelt to do something. They still got nowhere...
...Last week Donald Nelson found the situation so critical that he named a West Coast lumber tsar, asked lumber workers to give up their vacations; operators to cut the best and most accessible lumber this year; State Governors to allow logs to be hauled on Sunday; draft boards to defer skilled lumber workers; all concerned to reduce labor turnover...
Further assistance to the staff, which has been doubled because of the unexpected last-minute rush, can be given by members of the Summer School who are not bona fide Harvard men, said Leonard. "If they will only defer their registration until tomorrow it will help us considerably." Apparently a Dean's office ruling, makes it impossible to extend registration of undergraduates to Tuesday...