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Pressure for some improvement in the distribution of medical care-not necessarily the Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill-came from the military doctors present: 1) Colonel Leonard George Rowntree pointed out that 30% of all Service registrants examined turned out to be 4-Fs; 2) Major General George Lull added that U.S. physical fitness has actually deteriorated since World War I, largely as a result of poor distribution of medical care; 3) Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire requested that the A.M.A. draft a "sound plan for medical care." To cope with this problem, a five-man committee (included: General Lull...
Messrs. Stimson, Knox and Land again urged a national service act. But last week the House Military Affairs Committee flatly declined to report a bill which would force 4-Fs into war work or Army labor battalions, asserting that the Army already has all the authority it needs to draft 4-Fs for noncombat service...
...M.I.T. whose laboratories include the U.S. headquarters for electronic research, 478 irreplaceable men under 26 (not including 4-Fs) faced imminent in duction. A dozen had already gone. Said M.I.T. President Karl T. Compton: "Selective Service is rapidly becoming no longer selective...
...other half of the pattern which began to emerge from the manpower muddle was a belated equivalent of War I's "work or fight" order. First proposed last October by Connecticut's Representative Clare Boothe Luce, the replacement of drafted war workers by noncontributing 4-Fs was now suddenly endorsed by General Hershey, Secretary of War Stimson, Under Secretary Robert Patterson and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ralph Bard. The Army & Navy would still like a National Service Act, which is politically impossible to get. They fall back on Congresswoman Luce's bill. Some dopesters thought...
...assortment of players and prospects had fairly stable elements: children, old men (as ballplayers go), 4-Fs, a few discharged war veterans, a few Latin Americans, But there was also the bogey of a draft of 4-Fs into essential industries. By midsummer the national pastime might be almost exclusively a sport for the young and the old. Dodger President Branch Rickey offered a plan: let all the clubs limit their reserve lists of players to an agreed figure and pool the surplus, to be drawn on whenever any club needed a replacement...