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...SUFFICIENT ONE. THE GOVERNMENT WHICH DETERMINED THAT PENALTY DOES NOT INDICT HIM AS A SLACKER OR AS AN EVADER OF THE DRAFT. WERE HE EITHER HE WOULD HAVE BEEN PLACED BEHIND BARS TO BE KEPT AT THE EXPENSE OF THE STATE. AT THE INTERNMENT CAMP TO WHICH LEW AYRES HAS BEEN SENT HE PAYS IN MONEY AND LABOR FOR HIS BOARD AND KEEP. WE DO NOT ADVOCATE THE THING THAT LEW AYRES HAS DONE. IN FACT WE BELIEVE IT TO BE THE SAD RESULT OF A SADDER MISCONCEPTION BUT WE TAKE OCCASION TO POINT OUT THAT HE SPOKE AND ACTED...
...into habits of worrying and bickering. The worker says that the rich (who are going rapidly bankrupt) are nevertheless too rich. The rich men are mostly extremely gallant and polite, but the less gallant of them say that the worker working 50 or more hours a week is a slacker if occasionally he takes...
...studio for the duration. Although willing to do special camp shows, fretful Jack Benny, after several attempts, had concluded that he couldn't entertain soldiers and the home folks from the same script. His advertising agency agreed, but its announcement of the disassociation raised a few eyebrows. No slacker, Jack Benny this week is right back on the Army...
...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 adult U.S. male will be registered. Said the General: "There will be no place for a slacker, even for one who is in a place where he does less than he could do somewhere else." There was a possibility that women would have to be registered next, and, he added, "perhaps ultimately children may have to help...
Ickes' warnings of "gasless Sundays" recalled World War I days, when Sunday driving became treasonous, children stoned cars, and pedestrians yelled "slacker" at any driver who ventured out. Since then the Sunday ride has become a major U.S. recreation. Washington, in 1941, shrank from spoiling it, preferred a straight rationing system which would fix the amount of gasoline a consumer could buy each week, permit him to use it whenever he pleased...