Registrants with Dependents Will Be
Drafted Unless In Essential Industry
Juneau, May 4—Many Selective Service registrants
who have been deferred from military service sole
ly because they have dependents will eventually be
inducted unless they become engaged in activities
essential to the Nation’s war effort, John L. McCor
mick, Territorial Director of Selective Service, declar
ed today.
“We are rapidly approaching the stage where every
one must be working or fighting to win the war,” Dir
ector McCormick asserted. War requirements — the
demand for manpower by essential industries as well
as the armed forces — will compel many local boards
within the next several months to find selectees for
their quotas among registrants who have dependents.
"Right now local boards are reconsidering all regis
trants with dependency deferments for two major rea
sons. The first is to eliminate from this class all men
who cannot prove that their dependents need their
earned income for support in a reasonable manner and
all who cannot prove that they did not acquire de
pendents to avoid military service. The second pur
pose is to distinguish between men who have depend
ents but are not engaged in activities aiding the Na
tion’s wrar effort and those who are contributing for
victory by their wmrk as civilians.
“By making this distinction between those engaged
in essential activities and those whose civilian occupa
tions are not contributing to the war effort, it is desir
ed to induce a voluntary movement of the latter into
essential activities and thus to release for military
service men without dependents who must be deferred
as ‘necessary men’ until they can be replaced at their
w-ork.’’
Persons engaged in nonessential activities, however,
should not cease their present employment until their
services are needed in some essential activity, the Dir
ector warned. He said:
“This voluntary movement from nonessential to es
sential activities should be a gradual, orderly, and ec
onomically sound transfer of manpower. The Federal
Government will make known, from time to time, the
opportunities for training and employment in activ
ities essential to the war effort so that this shift of
employment may be made without unnecessary dis
turbance to the welfare of the community, the family,
and the individual. Each individual registrant, how
ever, knows or should inquire into his own capabil
ities and the opportunities for employment in war in
dustry, and should seek such employment without wait
ing for specific instructions from the Government.”
When men with dependents are considered for mili
tary service, the Director emphasj/ed, local boards will
have regard for occupation together with the degree of
dependency. Registrants who have the greatest degree
of dependency, such as a dependent wife and children
will be the last group sought for military service, he
said, provided that they have become necessary men in
war production or supporting activities.”
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COLOMBIA — AGE-OLD TREASURE CHEST
If the coffee bean has been given place of honor in
the matter-of-fact ledgers of commerce where is kept
the account of the Republic of Colombia, the emerald
is gem serene in the romance of a country whose legend
reaches for substance far back of history’s record of
the New World.
When Columbus, on his fourth
and last voyage, sailed along the
Colombian coast, but without
making any attempt at settle
ment of the country, on a high
plateau in the Andean Cordillera,
not far from where the capital
city of Bogota now stands, there
was prospering the kingdom of
highly civilized aborigines not
the Chibchas. It was a nation of
unlike the Incas of Peru. The
Chibchas knew' about the emer
ald, and may have worshipped it.
After Columbus came Alonzo
de Ojeda, in 1502. Several times
he tried to conquer the Chibchas
and failed. In 1536 three expedi
tions, one led by Belalcazar, first
lieutenant of Pizarro himself,
and another by the tactful Jim
enez de Quesada, converged on
the lofty kingdom. Quesada’s dip
lomacy prevailed where force
had failed. By agreement with
the Chibchas his headquarters,
now Bogota, was laid out near
the old Indian capital, and explor
ations were started in all direc
tions.
The opening of mines was be
gun in 1540. Today, clustered
around the emerald in this An
dean treasure chest, are platin
um, gold, silver and copper. Most
of the world’s emeralds now
come from Colombia. And it is
a fact not widely realized that
the stone is the most precious of
gems. Carat for carat a flawless
emerald may easily bring three
times the price of a flawless dia
mond.
Only Russia, at times, has been
able to take first place from Col
umbia in output of platinum. The
extent and wealth of Colombian
gold deposits is still largely con
jecture. It is thought that her en
tire Pacific Coast has been form
ed by gold-bearing alluvial.
Great stretches have never been
explored except by native hunt
ers. As the Pan American high
way and tributary roads push on
these and other areas can be
opened for mining.
Colombian territory covers
439,828 square miles. Within the
nation’s borders the Andean
mountain system splits into three
parts, joining again in the ex
treme south. So the rivers run
north and south in the valleys
between the mountains. The cli
mate varies a widely as do the
altitudes. Tropical along the
coasts, it is temperate in the high
er regions inland. Bogota, with
an elevation of 8,54(5 feet, is mol
and healthful the year around.
There is a corresponding varia
tion in products. Prominent in
export trade are coffee, cocoa,
sugar cane, tobacco, bananas,
I hardwoods from the vast forests,
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Standard O'! of Cal’fn"n;a
Announces New Program
In Line with War Effort
Announcement was made
• today by Standard Oil Com
pany of California of a war
time program now under
way by which the Com
j pany plans soon to have
only two kinds of workers:
1, the employee who pro
duces goods essential to the
war effort and, 2, the em
ployee who produces pro
ducts or services needed to
back up the first worker.
An employee whose job
now falls into the category
of peacetime work which
can be deferred for the du
ration may be given new
training and assigned to a
place* in one of the two es
sential groups.
An important part of thr
plan is Standard's inten
tion to draw from its own
personnel in replacing em
ployees called into military
service, instead of going
out into the market to hire
men and women who cou’d
be used in other industries.
In making the announce
ment., President H. D. Col
lier pointed out that this
was not primarily an econ
omy move. “As viewed by
the Directors,’ he said,
“this program is one of de
termining the qualifica
tions and talents of all em
ployees with the end-pur
pose of mobilizing the en
tire Company into an in
dustrial army.”
and vegetable ivory. Those, with
its precious stones, its platinum,
gold, silver and other minerals,
Columbia offers in exchange for
much of that which it still needs
in the way of food-huffs, textiles,
iron and steel products, railway
supplies, school and office sup
plies, machinery, automobiles,
agricultural and mining imple
ments.
And not to be ignored in any
reckoning is the fact that this
republic is the only country in
South America with a seacoa-t
on both the Atlantic and P.acifi •
oceans with good ports on both,
open to the trade of the world.
A veritable treasure chest
though Colombia is, the gem su
preme, in the mind of the true
Colombian, is the fact that liber
ation from the yoke of Spain
came at the hands of the Great
I Liberator himself — Simon Boli
' var who led the army of patriots
to victory in the decLs:v 1 -battle
i of Boyaca, August 7, 1817. but it
was Santander, “the Man of
Law” who estalished the consti
tutional regime of New Granada,
the republic of Colombia as we
, know it today. “The sword has
made you independent," sa d
Bolivar, .after the battle. "The
law will make you free.”
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waterfront at Colombo, Ceylon, capital of the strategically-located island which lies in the Indian Ocean at tin* bottom of V-shaped India.