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...Fleet's views directly oppose those of Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey who stated at the end of January that he was opposed to proposals for lengthening the draft requirement from 24 to 36 months...
Earlier this week, Lewis B. Hershey, Director of Selective Service, threw a scare into students planning to go to graduate school in the near future. He said, in effect, that there would be more emphasis on drafting men as soon as they finished college...
...Hershey also said the nation must decide whether fatherhood can be considered a substitute for military service. One and a half million men, the largest single block of deferred, have been excused from service because of dependents. The time has come, Hershey stated, when fathers, otherwise eligible, should be drafted...
...Hershey, too, has noted his disapproval, saying "Until we have taken every man who has not yet served, it would not be a good thing to extend the period of service for those who are called...
...since no change in deferment policies can be made without an Executive Order from the President, Hershey can only gaze unhappy at the statistics, and calls from the military. And for college students, and hope he can meet the high (53,000 for march) draft call from the military. And for college students, the Defence Department's annual report indicated that the military expects no drastic developments in students and fathers could be drafted but other than that it devoted out the obvious: student are not exempt from the draft; they will have to serve sometime...