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Last week a civilian was chosen to direct the U. S. draft: big (6 ft. 3 in., nearly 200 lb.), incisive Clarence Addison Dykstra, president of the University of Wisconsin. Denied top place in the new Selective Service Administration was the Army's able Lieut. Colonel Lewis Blaine Hershey, who prepared the draft machinery and stood by to teach Director Dykstra its ins & outs...
This addition of one more Big Name to President Roosevelt's imposing defense corps did not surprise Army men. They knew furthermore that, if the President had elected to put an officer in charge, he would have had to make the difficult choice between Lieut. Colonel Hershey and Judge Advocate General Allen W. Gullion, who topped Lewis Hershey in rank if not in knowledge of the draft. Military men also understood that a civilian director was in keeping with U. S. tradition and with a basic conscription principle: to keep the Army as far as possible from civilian draftees...
President Roosevelt had not helped matters by his delay in choosing a director. When the Senate took up Dr. Dykstra's appointment for confirmation this week, Registration Day for 16,500,000 eligible men (21 to 35 inclusive) was only two days off. Lewis Hershey, who set up the registration system, had meantime been handicapped in adopting final policies for fear they might not suit the new director...
...their local precinct centre, fill out a simple registration form), will do it with no fuss & fumble. But some fussing & fumbling there is bound to be. To cut confusion to a minimum, last week the Army's Temporary Draft Administrator, Lieut. Colonel Lewis B. Hershey, and his associates tried to answer all puzzlers in advance. Some answers...
...dare to the rest of the University" is the photographic exhibit of the Graduate School of Design in Hunt Hall according to S.F. Hershey, Instructor of Architecture. Expressing the hope that other students at Harvard will try to show that they can do better in photography than the members of the School of Design...