Word: dykstra
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...public's" representatives were: Chairman Clarence Addison Dykstra, president of University of Wisconsin, director of the draft (a job he will resign), onetime city manager of Cincinnati, son of a Dutch minister; Frank Porter Graham, president of University of North Carolina, Southern-born, a fiery and apostolic liberal; and William Hammatt Davis, New York City patent attorney, former chairman of the New York State Board of Mediation. Wild-haired, level-headed Mr. Davis rehearsed for his new job by sitting in judgment on the New York City bus strike, which was ended last week...
Last week the father of the present law concocted a 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...
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...
Youth Committee Against War was formed two years ago by Socialist secessionists from A. S. U. It convened in Madison, Wis., got a cool welcome. Barred from the University of Wisconsin (of which conscription's Director Clarence Dykstra is president) and the First Congregational Church, the convention eventually met in a hotel, heard an isolationist speech by Senator Burton K. Wheeler, demanded repeal of conscription...
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...