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...this left Congress and draft officials unconvinced. But last month Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey, Deputy Director of Selective Service, urged local draft boards to be careful about drafting needed scientists and technicians. Each case, said he, must be considered on its own merits, i.e.: the student's progress in his studies, his chances of getting...
Last week General Hershey went to New Haven, faced 72 professors and students from 20 New England colleges who had been convened by Yale and the International Student Service to ponder the Draft and Defense. Bluntly informing them that the Army needed college men as leaders and meant to draft them, General Hershey declared: "I do not think there is anything sacred about a ... college education. . . . The thing that frightens me is the 'business as usual' cry. . . . Going to school because you have nothing else to do is last year...
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Last week the father of the present law concocted a remedy for these defects. He was Brigadier General Lewis Elaine Hershey, acting draft administrator, whose civilian chief, Dr. Clarence Dykstra, resigned last week to join the President's new National Defense Mediation Board (see p. 14). General Hershey proposed to narrow draft registration limits (now 21-35), conscript only men between 18 and 23. He would also let the trainees in the new age brackets choose the year when they would serve. Many Congressmen would like to correct the law now. But General Hershey would put off making...