Evening star., 1943-02-14
McNutt, Hershey
Cite Army Need
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1900 Men Being
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BY JESSE IRWIN.

BY JESSE IRWIN.
Twelve thousand men each day
this year will be inducted into
the armed forces and no able
bodied man between the ages OF
10 and 38 can be deferred, un-
less his work is essential and he
is irreplacable, Manpower Chair
man McNutt and Selective Serv-
ice Director Hershey said last
night in a joint radio address.
I'VE are scraping the barrel or
single men," Mr.. McNutt declared
after Maj. Gen. Hershey asserted
The demands of the armed forces
for men this year leave us nc
choice" and the majority of the Sc
lectees must come from those with
dependents"
The War Manpower Commission
officials resorted to the radio to ex-
plain Mr McNutt's recent work or
fight" order, designed primarily tc
get family men now in less essen
tial jobs to relieve single men in
war industries.
The manpower chieftain, using
the previously announced induction
figure of 100000 men a month, said
that in a weeks time, I'VE are put
ting into uniform seven full divi-
sions-in month, 28 divisions"
Size of World War Army.
This year alone" he added, "tne
number OF men inducted will ap-
proach in size the entire American
Army in the first World War" In
depicting the inductions in terms of
divisions he referred to draftees for
the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast
Guard as well as the Army.
After asserting that I'VE are build
ing an armed force of record size in
record time, not because some one
wants to, but because the facts in
dicate clearly that we need it to do
the job Mr.. McNutt said married
and single, fathers and childless
there were at the first of the year a
total of $4,000 900 American men be-
tween the ages Of Is and SO -. and
we now find ourselves with our
physically At pool shrunk to a point
where 1t is not very much greater
than the number to be selected in
1943."
He said many of the % 600 900
already were in the Army. Others
have been rejected for physical
reasons, and it was known the pro-
portion the Selective Service system
can expect to have rejected In the
future. Others deferred, he said.
include 100000 necessary men on
farms, and million more for other
highly important war jobs.
No Other Choice, McNutt Saws.
L have given you these figures
because think from them you can
see why we can no longer delav
the drafting of heads of families. =
Mr.. McNutt explained, adding that.
THE choice is no longer between
single man, married man and
vital worker. 1t Is now largely
a choice between married men and
vital workers. Virtually the only
single men out of uniform are the
over-age, the physical unsuitable,
or the men in such vital war-con-
nected jobs that to draft them
would be to damage the war effort
Gen. Hershey declared the ma
tlonal interest will not permit us
to induct a man who is in a war
job and cannot be replaced even
though he be unskilled and permit
another man to remain who can
be replaced merely because he has
wife and one Or more children.
There can be no question about
which of these must accept his
military liability first"
The draft director said the Sc
lective Service System must al
ways recognize the responsibility OF
procuring men our armed forces
need with the least possible dis
turbance to our agricultural anc
(See DRAFT, Page A-21)