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...most, the McNutt agency could only coordinate the recruiting of man power. Before anyone can actually be drafted, for other than a military job, new laws will be required. But in Manhattan last week Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey, head of Selective Service, told a luncheon of businessmen that the time was not far distant when citizens must face the possibility of being either in the armed services or in an essential war industry. Objective of General Hershey's proposed draft system : mobilization of some 60,000,000 people. By the end of this month practically every able-bodied...
Probably not even General Hershey realized the full implications of what he said. Congress is accustomed to appropriating billions of dollars, or conscripting a few millions of selected men for battle, but to conscript the entire able-bodied population for national service would make even Congress' heart skip a beat...
...Vanillin, the flavor constituent of vanilla. Last year one-half of U.S. vanillin was synthesized from U.S. lignin, consumed by General Foods, Hershey, National Biscuit, countless numbers of ice-cream makers, the Army & Navy...
Although a democracy's successful functioning depends on the people being properly informed, no U.S. newsman need expect to escape the draft as a "necessary man." Declared Draft Director Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey: "It would be harder to defend an exemption for a newspaperman than, for instance, a physician. Whether you agree with it or not, almost everyone thinks he can write better stuff than appears under your bylines. Physicians use 75? words to describe minor ailments and the public doesn't feel the same about physicians as newspapermen. So, I guess newspapermen will have...
More important to prospective draftees is the belief of Selective Service Chief Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey that the Army can reach this goal without drafting men with bona fide dependents. There are still 1,000,000 undrafted men in the Class 1-A pool of the first registration; from the second, on Feb. 16, General Hershey. expects to net easily another...