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Last week a civilian was chosen to direct the U. S. draft: big (6 ft. 3 in., nearly 200 lb.), incisive Clarence Addison Dykstra, president of the University of Wisconsin. Denied top place in the new Selective Service Administration was the Army's able Lieut. Colonel Lewis Blaine Hershey, who prepared the draft machinery and stood by to teach Director Dykstra its ins & outs...
...Clarence Dykstra was generally considered a good choice. A political scientist who actually gives some meaning to that vague term, he earned his greatest distinction as an administrator. As city manager he cleaned up Cincinnati, got national fame with his cool, able handling of a crisis when the Ohio River flooded part of the city in 1937. He took over the troubled University of Wisconsin after the late Dr. Glenn Frank was ousted, did a good job there as well. That change cost him a $10,000 salary cut (from $25,000 to $15,000). His new job will entail...
President Roosevelt had not helped matters by his delay in choosing a director. When the Senate took up Dr. Dykstra's appointment for confirmation this week, Registration Day for 16,500,000 eligible men (21 to 35 inclusive) was only two days off. Lewis Hershey, who set up the registration system, had meantime been handicapped in adopting final policies for fear they might not suit the new director...
...question this week was how much actual drafting Clarence Dykstra would have to direct in 1940. The conscription act forbids the Army to enroll draftees until adequate housing is ready for them. Housing was still a problem last week: so was equipment. The Army talked of taking in only 100,000 draftees and volunteer registrants this year, of putting off the rest of the 400,000 in the first draft until early 1941. As the Army had expected, the rate of volunteering has increased since the conscription act was passed. Registered men can volunteer for one year's service...
University of Wisconsin's President Clarence Dykstra: "We are appropriating billions for armaments to defend the American system and millions to train skilled workers and technicians. This will not create a national unity, nor will hysterical witch hunts. . . . One mobilization which we cannot neglect in our haste to prepare is the girding of our spiritual, moral and intellectual reserves...