The Nome nugget., 1942-03-04
Recruitment Of Armed Forces
 Means Readjustment Manpower
 Every Community, Every Industry

LEciy NOiiiiilllEiltY. ENcTy IndtiStry Recruitment of the armed forces required to win the total war in which the United States now is engaged means readjuStment of manpoWer that will affect cry community and every industry, Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Director of Selective Service warned ev cry businessman in address to the Greater Cleveland Safety Council
 quet and meeting in the Stater Hotel, Friday evening" February 18th, General Hershey warned employers that they must prepare for this drastic readustmen of business conduction particularly with regard to avail able Workmen, by close and patriotic cooperation with the Government. He said
 Sheer common sense ought to tell us that to take millions o men out of the everyday walks of life and to place them in the nonproducing status of armies which must be fed clothed and armed is to affect ev cry phase of our existence And that is just what is going to happen-so let's face it."
 Success Depends On Least Possible Disturbance Success of our war effort, he emphasized demands that the transfer of such large segment of our male population to our armed forces be made in orderly fashion and with the least possible disturbance to n- duStry and agriculture On the other hand he assert ed, those who are charged with providing the equip ment for our fighters must be alert to provide the n creasing needs of the Army and Navy
 The accomplishment of such orderly transfer of man. power is the main wartime responsibility of Selective Service, General Hershey asserted
 While the chief for the establishment of the SelectiVe System is to create armies he said it
  sklS, and the needs of industry and agriculture In It's regulations every precauton present to prevent the promlscuous taking of whose place is behind the lines It insures the equal distribution of the bur- dens of sacrifice every part of the country It is sane, falr and common-senSe method of military re- quremen It is service according to degree of oual- ification."
 Rights of Employers
 After describing the functioning of Selectve Ser vice in detail including the rights of employers to act wi raf11c +lo selves of their rights to deferment from military service, General Hershey said
 There is another picture want you to have and if the necessity arises to call you to cooperate; for am sure that you will give as well as take even if we need every able-boded fighting man in the Nation Armies, you must know, like great business under takingS are complex in their makeup. In an easy going country like ours when great emergencies arise these armies must be put together in hurry. In peacetme forces, we train to do housekeep- ing. We need butchers and bakers and cobblers: and highly skilled men just like you Enough of these may be available when war breaks out to eaven the early leves but to the extent that many new divisions unequpped with trained specialists must hold those divisions out of the front line until they equipped or send in an improperly organized force.
 well equipped Army the General pointed out, must have in it men who do thousand things that are done in everyday life
 Il need but to recall the epic of Wake Island to prove this point he asserted "A treacherous attack left number of planes in tangled mass, from which re- sourcetul Marines assembled planes with which they took toll of one enemy light cruiser and two destroy CTS It skill that counted there You may have to spare some of your skill to do such things again"
 U. s. Must Become Arsenal of Democracy
 Reminding his hearers that President Roosevelt has said that the United States must become the arsenal of democracy throughout the world General Hershey said this would require industrial effort far beyond the widest imagination of the planners of year ago. l Great plants are going up everywhere to provide the facilities he said "but millions of and wo- men must drop their peacetime tasks to provide the labor to operate them In this effort the Seecve Ser vice System may play part On it's rolls shortly will the duration