Evening star., 1942-08-28
District Draft Boards
To Run Out Of Single
Men al Same Time
National Pooling Order
Will Have Little Effect
On Selectees Here

All District Draft Boards will
reach the end Of their lists Of single
men at about the same time, a local
selective service spokesman said to-
day after national headquarters re-
ported it had ordered temporary
pooling arrangement among local
boards to assure that all single men
would 60 before married men were
called.
The national order will have little
effect here, 1t was explained, since
local headquarters has been keeping
a close check on the number OF
single men still available and has
governed its calls accordingly.
The last call for single men from
the District will be made either in
November or December, the local
draft official said.
Exact Check Possible.
The recent order sent out by Dis
trict Selective Service Director Will
liam E. Leahy, setting October Is
as the deadline for finishing the
classification of all draft age men
who have registered, will makeaan
exact check possible on all the re-
naming single men by boards. Il u
Little adjustment of calls, If any,
will be necessary, however, because
the District, its spokesman said,
already Is following policy of
keeping the boards together. In
some States. it was explained, calls
are sent to local boards as much as
two months ahead of the time for
induction and the boards have been
filling the calls with whatever men
they can make available.
In the District, however, 1t has
been the policy to wait until 20
days before induction and then each
board has been asked how many
single men it has left. Calls have
been adjusted on that basis so that
no board is forced to cali married
men while another board still has
large pool of single men.
Capitol Hill View.
Meanwhile, national headquarters
received another Capitol Hill view of
the draft. Within the last few days,
several members of Congress have
been expressing themselves various
ly on the drafting of teen-age
youths and on. a definite determi-
nation of who must work and who
must fight"
Declaring that "chaos and con-
fusion" existed among married men
Of draft age. Senator Maloney OF
Connecticut asked Selective Service
Director Lewis B. Hershey for a
"clarification" Of the status Of mar
ried men subject to the draft.
Senator Maloney proposed that
married men of Is, for example, be
called before married men of 40. and
that within each age group the mar
ried men with only one minor child
be called ahead of the one with two,
and so on.
Married men should not be as
signed to combat forces unless they
volunteered, or unless other sources
of manpower have been exhausted"
he said.
Sees Morale Affected. 4
so much has recently been said
and published by representatives of
the selective service" Senator Ma
loney wrote, mot little of which
has tended to create confusion, that
it appears to me that the formation
of q definite authoritative policy to
be carried out consistently by the
local boards. for the sake Of the
morale of the affected citizens, is
highly desirable"
He asked that local boards calls
for men be made well in advance
to permit necessary readjustment
Of family and business affairs"
you will recognize, am sure" he
continued, that these suggestions
are based upon the obvious facts
that a man Is years old is better
adapted to military service than a
man 40 years old: that man with
one child is normally beset with
fewer worries than a man with
three, and SO, on the average, will
make a better soldier; and that a
family man Is necessarily less flex-
ible than a single man and requires
more time to adjust his affairs, and
particularly reasonable advance
notice of when he may be called to
service.
1T is my firm conviction that the
chaos, confusion and uncertainty
confronting the family men of the
country may so demoralize
our civilian population 50 as to con-
stitute a great threat to eficient
war effort"
Pumphrey Elected