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Major General Lewis B. Hershey will have his hands full at 8:30 tonight at the Law School Forum, where he will oppose Erwin Randall, of the American Friends Service Committee, on the topic, "UMT in America's Future." Isadore Muchnick '28 will mederate. The forum will be held in the New Lecture Hall...
Draft deferments are an American disgrace, Major General Louis B. Hershey, Director of Selective Service, said recently. He feels we should be ashamed of ourselves for trying to get so many young men exempted from service...
...report to the Adjutant General's Office, Hershey said that 12,000,000 men are now registered with draft boards, but 11,000,000 of them are deferred for various reasons...
...Hershey later told reporters that he used the 430,000 figure because it was the most recent one he had, and that in any event it was means to represent not only inductions, but enlistments...
Graduation, for instance, assumes new importance, while the specter of General Hershey, once seen lurking behind every diploma, is forgotten. Alternate routes to New York and the relative merits of Ford convertibles occupy the time and thought formerly allotted bloody ridges and cabinet crises. Politics are lost in a profusion of baseball scoresheets, and the frantic maneuverings of vote-seekers eclipsed by candidates for the Hall of Fame...