Total War
In ordering registration of all young men 18 and 19
9 years of age, President Roosevelt takes a wise step in
further mobilizing America’s maximum manpower for
any further emergency. Everyone hopes the war will
be over before most of these young men reach 20. and
tiius beomc eligible for service. But we cannot count
(n that, so It Is only common sense to be prepared—
By registering the groups below the induction age
just as we have registered the men, from 45 to 65,
above the induction age.
This is total war. That means being prepared to use
our total resources in manpower as well as our tota
* resources in raw materials and production In World
War I, the lirst draft called men from 21 to 30. The
second draft increased the age limits so that all men
from 18 to 45 were eligible for military service.
Much as we may deplore the fact, youth bears the
brunt of this war, as it has every other war. Yet in
the present war, the United States is calling upon old
y or men for duty—in all fields—to a degree far beyond
anything before.
This is everybody’s fight. A people’s war if there
ever was one. A struggle by individuals for preserva
tion of individual liberties. Rightly, President Roose
velt wants America to be ready. For Anything.
Men and The Draft
Under a plan to go into effect on June 15 draft reg
istrants accepted for military duty are to receive im
mediate fortnight furloughs with pay, to afford them
time to close out civilian affairs Furloughs will begin
at the induction station. When the fortnight is up, the
men will have their parade and farewell and will go
to reception camp in groups. This plan is an improve
ment over the existing system, under which a man goes
straight from the induction station to the reception
center before he can apply for furlough, which he may
or may not get.
National Headquarters of the Selective Service Sys
tem is wrong, though, if it thinks that this will do
away with all the cruelties and injustices of the cur
rent system for delivering registrants. Injustice, cruel
ty and hardship will go on until the “screen test*’ for
registrants is ended. Why not take time to weed out
the physically unfit men at local board examinations
as was done under the old system? As matters stand,
the rejected man, who should never have reached the
induction siation, must still slink back to the old neigh
borhood marked before his friends and neighbors as
t unfit. If. acting on impulse and the hope that he might
be accepted, he has thrown up his job, sold his home,
his car or his shop, the Government will not help him
get them back. He is a man cut loose from shore with
no oar to help nim. He has no recourse under law No
thing on the books can compel an employer to take
back a man who has thrown up his job in the hope
that, having p r.sed the “screen test,’’ he will also pas's
the Army examination at the induction station. Selec
tive Service officials have had scores of unhappy “re
jects" who have been refused reemployment and the
Selective Service officials were powerless to help them.
The case of the man who has finished his military
duty is different. If he gets an honorable discharge
from the Army his former employer is compelled,
under law, to give him his old job or another of equal
status, provided only that he applies for it within forty
days after he is mustered out.
The new furlough plan is better than no change at
all. But since National Headquarters of the Selective
Service System, by its promulgation of this change,
t tacitly concedes the awkwardness and cruelty of the
existing system, why doesn’t it go whole hog? Why
doesn’t it go back to the old plan under which the
lame, the halt and the blind, the heart cases and the
mental cases never got beyond the initial examination?
SERVICE OF HIS C O U N T R Y_From Admiral Chos
ter W. Nimit* (left), Vice Admiral W. F. Halsey, Jr., accepted tl>e
Distinguished Service medal for the raids he directed on Jap- hi d
Marshall and Gilbert islands. Ceremony was on an aircraft can., r.
Glacier Priest
Or? V ay North
San .Jose. Calif.. .Tur° 12
— An Alaskan exolorpr of
the Glaciers, Fa1 her Ber
nard Hubbard, S J. said
that a siring of bases ex
tending across northern
Canada AJaska and Siber
ia v.-iuId form a most prac
tical route for striking at
the .Japanese at home.
The noted Alaskan ex
plorer is on his way north
again. Father Hubbard has
; explored and mapped a
large part of the Alaskan
[coastline.
The Santa Clara Univer
jsitv geologist pointed out
I that bombers fly'ng alone
It he route would never he
j farther than 20 miles fr m
i land.
N OTIC E
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All taxes real and personal due
the City <>f Nome for vrar P41.
are due, and on July 15th P12.
penalty and interest on those
unpaid taxes will be calculated,
and the delinquent tax roll be
prepared, advertised, and the pro
petty sold according to law.
NOME COMMON COUNCIL
By M. J. Walsh C ity Clerk
CALL FOR BIDS
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Sealed bids will be received at
the ollice of the City Clerk until
5 o'clock p.m. .Monday. June 22,
1042, lor the removal of garbage
collected during cleanup week
viz; June 8th to 1.5th. The loca
tion for disposal of same will be
designated by the chairman o'
the Health Committee.
NOME COMMON COUNCIL
By M. .1. Walsh, City Clerk
Rich Lawyer
Hires Treops
For Drilling
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Sin Diego, Cal. — There
is no more entlmsastc sol
dor lhan Benjamin Landi-.
wealthy Chicago lawyer,
who is stationed at Camp
Callan, near San Diego.
Landis, who is 35 years
I old, joined the Army sev
jeral months ago, and is
training to be an officer.
For three weeks, during
spare time, Landis has em
ployed fellow soldiers to
drill under his direction
He pays the soldiers $1 an
hour. The job of being drib
1 ed by the rich lawyer is
(coveted by many of the so'
diers.
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The better to prepare himself to make good at an officer's training school lor
,vhi<:’i he has passed qualifying examinations. Corp. Benjamin Landis (left). .‘la,
orraer Chicago lawyer, has employed fe’low soldiers at Camp Ca’lan near San
Diego. Calif., at a dollar-an hour rate to drill under his command in their spare
ime. Here he puts them through the manual ol arms.
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STl NGERS—Like the poisonous antennae of a huge insect, tracer bullets form lines from a Curtiss Hawk P-40E, or Kittyhawk,
fighter plane of the U. S. army air force. The plane, one cf the newer fiEhter types, is on a Buffalo. N. Y.. firing range.
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