Evening star., 1942-12-18

Temporary Determents
Authorized for Those in
Certuin Technical Courses
BY JESSE o. IRWIN.
Manpower Chairman Paul v. Nc
Mutt and National Educational AS
ISOLATION ofiicials today urged all
students and instructors to remain
~ colleges and universities until
called for military duty.
This plea came when Mr.. McNutt
announced temporary selective serv-
ice deferment for certain medical
engineering and other technical
students had been authorized.
The manpower commission said
while recruiting for the Navy,
Marine Corps and Coast Guard is
permissible until February /, local
draft boards had been instructed not
to accept enlistments until January
l because the current quotas for
these services have been filled.
1t was explained that applications
could be made to draft boards by
men seeking to enlist, but that no
acceptance would be allowed until
after the new year.
Lists Those Deferred.
Immediately after the announce
ment of joint educational training
program by Secretaries Stimson and
Knox that will soon place an esti-
mated 250,000 potential fighting
men in some $50 colleges and uni
versities with their tuition paid by
the armed forces, Mr.. McNutt said
students who will be deferred until
the end Of the academic term in
clude:
l. All medical students Gncluding
hospital internes and residents) :,
dental students and veterinary stu
dents enrolled in approved institu-
tions and subject to selective service;
and all pre-medical, pre-dental and
pre-veterinary students who have
completed one year of study in ap-
proved institutions.
2. All graduate students enrolled
in approved engineering curricula; ;
and all undergraduate students who
have completed one year of study in
approved engineering curricula.
8. All undergraduate and graduate
students in approved colleges and
universities who are specializing in
chemistry, physics or bacteriology
and are within two years of the
completion of the specialized cur
ricula.
4. All full-time instructors and all
part-time instructors also devoting
the balance of their time to study in
any of the curricula will be deferred
until July !, 1943, or until otherwise
directed by the Manpower Commits
sion.
Draw From Enlisted Ranks.
Under the Army-Navy System,
many young men who would have
been college students in peacetime
will train for special war assign
ments and commissions.
However, Dr. Francis J. Brown Of
the American Council on Education,
stressed that the specialized pro-
gram will be put into effect only
by an official military call, and will
draw most of its war students"
from enlisted ranks. Others to be
transferred from the Reserve Officer
Training Corps will be notified later,
he said. Meanwhile the ROTC and
other college training programs will
continue unaffected.
George F. Zook, president of the
council, expressed the belief the
military march into the school sys-
TEN would be limited to the dura-
ton Of the war.
The new program seems certain.
however, to intensity the wartime
tempo of the once carefree collegiate
atmosphere. In uniform and under
military supervision, the men will
live, eat and work in segregated
units at the school.
Their coming to the campus will
temporarily upset" the routine of
Americas liberal education system.
Secretary Stimson said, but he
stressed that the move was vital to
victory.
Some College Opposition.
Opposition to the plan began to
appear in some colleges and uni
versities. Michigan University was
reported to be outspoken against
the move and its president was in
sisting that colleges be allowed to
give drafted student extension
courses while in military canton
ments.
Actually the Army and Navy pro-
gram as finally adopted differs in
some respects from the plan pro-
posed by the educational commit
tee headed by DR.. Edmund E. Day
president of Cornell University. TIE
committee was appointed by the
council to work with military au-
thorities.
Committee members said today
the adopted program is made
quate" and DR.. Day said he had
written Mr.. Stimson that the with
drawal Of men from colleges by
February would disrupt the spe-
cial training courses now in oper-
alton and seriously weaken the COL
leges.
The inevitable consequence OF
the proposed War Department plans
would be so injurious that, In the
interests of military efficiency. we
urge that a new and more satisfac-
tory timetable be substituted for
that now proposed" DR.. Days letter
stated.
DR.. Harold D. Dodds, president OF
Princeton University, said the pro-
gram would act as a stabilizing in
f1uence." He expressed regret, how
ever, that the Army's plan, unlike
the Nays, aims at training for
Army specialities to the exclusion of
all else"
Reserve Is Important.
In announcing his deferment pro-
gram, Mr.. McNutt said "a contin-
uing reserve OF technically trained
men Is all important in the Ma
tion's manpower needs" 1t esti-
mated that the Army and Navy plan
affects about 10 per cent Of the
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