To The Last Man

The long-awaited news came: thousands of U.S. men now in draft-deferred classifications may find themselves in the Army before the next cold weather. In Washington last week Colonel Carlton S. Dargusch, Deputy Selective Service Director, said: "The manpower situation will be acute by fall. There are certain things in prospect, and we think the people are entitled to know about it now." Things in prospect:

> Possible induction of men with financially dependent parents, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, grandparents.

> Legislation, already well into the Congressional mill, to provide for wives and children now contributing to so many 3-A classifications. The Government would pay $20 a month, plus $10 for each child, to wives of soldiers, sailors and marines on active duty; $15 for one dependent parent; $25 for two.

> A recent amendment to Selective Service regulations provided that no deferment would be granted men married after Dec. 8 unless the marriage resulted from "circumstances beyond their control." A subsequent amendment holds that expectant fathers, or men whose only children have been born since Dec. 7, may not count these children as dependents, particularly if such dependency was acquired with deferment in mind.

> A man will not be deferred if his wife or another dependent gave up a job to encourage his deferment.

> Class 3-A (covering 18,000,000 to 20,000,000 men of the 26,500,000 registered under the first three drafts) will still be the classification of registrants "upon whose earnings one or more persons depend for support in a reasonable manner," but only those engaged in nonessential production. A newly formed Class 3-B covers men with dependents who are considered essential to war production or to the war effort generally.

> A new physical classification, 1-AR, applies to men with correctible defects, i.e., dental and nutritional defects, nasal obstructions, hernia, etc. Visual and dental requirements have been relaxed somewhat, but height and weight specifications remain the same.

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