Word: hershey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than a quarter of a century, Lewis B. Hershey has directed the largest and most unpopular employment bureau in the world. During World War II, he drafted more than 10.1 million men; when the war ended, "no one else wanted the job, so I stayed on." Hershey's philosophy is simple: "We count 'em, cart 'em and send 'em." He has spent most of his career supplying manpower to the military, but he thinks himself as much a politician as a soldier. And he has enormous faith in the wisdom of his "constituents" -- the 4,000 local draft boards...
...present system, Hershey admits, may lack uniformity; it may be on occasion inconsistent, arbitrary and even inequitable. But further centralization and stronger national directives, he claims, would only compound the problems by making the entire process less democratic...
Those who favor stricter national guidelines, Hershey says, are in fact only advocating more lenient deferment standards for students. Hershey believes that "real students" should be deferred. "But there are a lot of young men just hanging around who'd be better off in the service. These people are allegedly getting an education and are allgedly going to be more valuable when they get out. But I don't grant either. The question so far as I'm concerned is: do you let them piddle around, or do you take them...
...distinguish the piddlers from the real students, Hershey believes that it may be necessary to return to the system of national examinations and class ranking used during the Korean war. But he would rather see the colleges "clean their own stables." Although he is a trustee of his alma mater, Tri-State College, Hershey's philosophy of education was influenced more strongly by his early life on an Indiana farm and his long career in the army, than his days in the classroom...
...Hershey praises the Peace Corps and similiar civilian organizations, but he believes that any proposals which made them substitutes for military service would be opposed by Congress. The law which established the Peace Corps specifically states that service in the Corps should not be regarded by local boards as grounds for exemption. "Until recently," says the General, "we've been able to give these Peace Corps people deferments only because we've been careful to tell Congress exactly what we've been doing and convince them we're not putting anything over on them. The rising quotas are making...