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Just one week ago Secretaries Knox and Stimson sent a telegram to the president of every important corporation in the United States. They pointed out the large number of defense workers who had enlisted in the Army in fear in the draft, and expressed fears that if this exodus continued, it would make a fall-off in production inevitable. On the other hand, close connections between manufactures and Selective Service officials are resulting in the deferment of industrial workers who have no right to be deferred...
Publisher Alvin Wiehle of the Washington Herald-Telegram writes with brutal candor. When a recent District of Columbia practice blackout flopped, Publisher Wiehle combed the District's hair with a sneering editorial headline: "A blackout? Nuts! A whiteout!" During the recent scrap drive he pressed his editorial trigger again: "The people must conserve, conserve, conserve, but the Government is free to waste what it pleases. Attached to the wall of the public rest station at Dupont Circle are two iron trellises ... at least 40 lb. of good scrap. Why isn't something done?" He also runs pointed society...
Last week the Herald-Telegram reached its second birthday, but there was no special anniversary edition. Said shy, rueful Publisher Wiehle: "I forgot...
...behalf of the 374 students who signed the petition against the May amendment to the 18 and 19-Year Old Draft Bill. I congratulate the Student Council for its telegram to Congressman May expressing opposition to this amendment. The response I met while circulating the petition indicates that in this step they truly represent the opinion of the student body. It is gratifying to a new Freshman to find Harvard has a student government capable of such prompt action. With the College so squarely behind the war effort, it seems that expressions of this kind should continue. Chandler Davis...
...addition to petitions which have been independently circulated through the Houses in recent weeks, a telegram was received yesterday from prominent student officers, and heads of student organizations at Williams College. "John Richardson and Thomas Matters...