The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-10-15
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ing it" are going to be doing the old one. two, three, four in the Army or the jail yard from now on. The old racket of ducking to a defense job and then getting Host" so the local draft cant find them is out Selective Service nicely terms it the delinquency problem" Boys in uniform call 'em slackers or draft-dodgers, and they have been cluttering up the Alaska defense work picture no end
 World War I veteran John Me Cormick, Alaska Selective Service Director, who was in town yester- day while on a visit to the Selec- tive Service boards in the South east, explains it something like this Down in the States it is, of course, thoroughly known that AL aska is in war zone, so when John Dodger or Alec Stacker goes to his local draft board and says he's been offered a job on vital defense work" in Alaska and wants to get a deferment, his lo- cal draft board is sympathetic; figures the boys are going right up there into Alaska's front line. war zone to do some necessary work and grant the deferment with a few God Bless YOu's for valiant service" in defense work. John, or Alec, grab a steamer for Alaska and report Co the cOnTac- tor. They usually get in two or three weeks on the job and then quit and begin to wander; neglect ing, of course, to report to their local boards somewhere in the States. Time their six months de- ferment in up, the local board starts trying to trace them and John and Alec, being smart as we'll as unpatriotic, meanwhile get onI with some other defense job and ask some other contractor to get them a deferment; contractor, all ways needing men, naturally wants everyone he can get so heI makes the request in the name of vital defense" and John and Alecl get themselves another six months deferment from military service Quick as it is granted, they quit the job and drift, doing every-I thing except getting into uniform.
 It has been Selective Services No. 1 headache, and one of the reasons you have been hearing sol much in Congress against drafting fathers. M any CongressmenI thought the dodgers, when finally rounded up, would make a good sized army. SelectiVe Service has been inclined to agree to a certain extent At any rate, two actions have now been aken which areI likely to end Johns and Alec'sI defense job" rackt. First, is the complete inventory of registrants now being taken by every draft board in the country um Der in the service, those not call ed and their classification and and whereabouts Second, nd more effective in outside of con- tinental United States areas, is thej double registration.
 Inaugurated in Hawaii where Selective SerBice delinquency was pronounced because it, too, like Alaska, is in a war zone, double registration works like this. Men registered in the States and who come north on defense jobs must immediately upon arrival report toI 70 Fsd in There they are given another card in addition to their original draft board card The second card they must have to work on a defense job and it is necessary to pass through travel control. In other words, the boys stay on the neces- sary job or they go back home un- der Uncle Sam's supervision for stretch in the Army; violators will do their time in jail, thanks to the FBI.
 It is estimated that thousands of men have been working the draft lodging racket in the various de- fense areas, but now Selective Ser vice, backed this time by the Man PoWer Commission, have declared the party over, holding, in accord with most Americans, that if fath- CTS have to go, and they are al- ready calling them, John Dodger and Alec Stacker have to go too. You won't be seeing the boats crowded with so many transient workers from now on.
 Selective Service also is bearing down in the critical occupations. The old essential industry clause is virtually out. Now it is critical industry" and that means skilled men in industries which are vital ly necessary to keeping the armed forces going such as building air planes. making guns, etc. So-call- ed supporting industries are going to have to find their men in the