Evening star., 1941-04-17
Registrars Are Urged
To Advise Employers
OF Selective Status
Gen. Hershey Declares
Cooperation vii! Help
Protect Civi!iun Jobs

Selective Service registrants today
were urged to cooperate fully with
their employers in order to 'facil-
itate and insure civilian job protec-
ton" during and after the required
military training service period.
Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey,
deputy director of Selective Service,
called for complete cooperation be-
tween employees and employers and
advised registrants to keep your
employers informed of your Selec-
tive Service status at all times"
You owe that protection to them
so that they can make intelligent
arrangements to protect your job
for you," Gen. Hershey said. They
should be promptly advised as to
how you have been classified, when
you expect to be called for training,
and then as to what are your plans
after you have experienced military
training"
Exemption for Aliens Asked.
He pointed out that the Selective
Training and Service Act of 1910
gives civilian job protection to every
man mducted into the military serv-
ice under its authority.
Secretary of State Hull yesterday
recommended changes in the Selec-
tive Service Act which would exempt
aliens who have filed for citizenship
from being required to register for
the draft and to serve as selectees.
His suggestion and proposed amend
ment were sent to House Speaker
Rayburn and later were referred to
the House Military Affairs Com
mittee.
The Secretary of State disclosed
that number of foreign diplomatic
missions had entered complaints
that their nationals were being
drafted for training. In his sug-
gested amendment. Mr.. Hull pro-
posed that the aliens thus exempted
be barred from ever attaining the
status of citizens in the United
States.
Treatment for Registrants.
National selective service head
quarters yesterday announced a
Nationwide program to provide for
the pre-classification correction of
remediable physical defects which
would disqualify selectees for active
military training.
The program calls for medical
treatment of registrants prior to
their examination by local board or
Army physicians, and Is described
as REHABILITATION" of selective serv-
ice registrants who have remediable
physical defects. The treatment for
such ailments is entirely elective
on the part Of registrants. Ma
chinery for the plan is being set up
with the aid of officials of the Amer
ican Medical Association. The
Medical Advisory Council, recently
created to work with selective service
on problems connected with the
physical examination of registrants,
will play prominent part in the
program, it was said.
Reflections Are Cited.
Of1icials pointed out that local
board physicians are rejecting 80 per
cent of registrants examined as unit
for military service, and that en-
additional Is per cert are turned
down at Army induction centers. 1t
is hoped the new plan would ma
terially reduce these percentages and
by improvement of the health Of
young men of military age would
tend also to better general public
health.
Success of the program, officials
pointed out, depends on the educa-
tion Of registrants as to the wisdom
of knowing their own physical con-
dition, and on the complete CO.
operation of the registrant and his
family doctor or dentist.