Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1942, Page 25

? B—6 Registration fo Fit Each Into Victory Role, Says Hetshey Selective Service Chief Also Outlines in Forum Policy on Deferments ‘The selective service system’s task 1n seeing that all Americans are as- signed to their proper placés in the war effort was described last night by Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1843. i i é?;i bt ity s director of the service, in an address delivered on the National Radio Forum, sponsored by The Washing- ton Star. . * The speech was broadcast over th national network of the National Broadcasting Co. and was heard locally over Station WMAL. = The :xt of Gen. Hershey’s address fol- ws: Our Nation is at war. To the winning of this war we have pledged our fortunes, our lives and our sacred honor. The day of half measures has passed. What- ever is required we shall give. ‘Whatever must be done we shali do. Our land is rich in material re- sources. Our Nation has a vast supply of man power. We possess industrial fagilities envied by the rest of the world. We have thou- sands of men with a genius for management. We have millions of men with & capacity for skill. In our country there are miles and miles of land unsurpassed for its fertility. In America there are millions of homes—homes of American families, Ameriean men, women and children. All of these Americans are in this war. All of these Americans ,are today asking a single question: ‘What can I do to bring victory to America? Many Tasks te Do. ‘There are many tasks which must be done. The Army must be in- creased, trained and equipped. The Navy must grow in ships, in planes and in men. The Marine Corps must be made invincible on land, on sea and in the air. Minerals must be mined, food must be grown, mu- nitions of war must be produced. All of these activities require men. All of these men are engaged in work vital to victory. Modern war is waged on s thousand fronts. ‘The post of honor must ever go to him who by land, by ses or by air | meets the enemy. | But for every one whose high privilege it is to serve in combat against the foe many others must serve to produce the guns, the ships | and the planes—the machines with which modern war is waged. If there are to be engines to pull | our planes above the foe, if there are to be ships to command the seas, then there must be men and women with skill, with energy and with fertitude who will work day in, day out, week in, week out, yes, year in and year out, to produce them. These men and women are the soldiers behind the front. It is the | Kkeenness of their eyes, the dexterity | of their hands and their determina- tion to win which will eventually put more airplanes in the air, more ships on the seas and more tanks on land than any enemy can hope suc- cessfully to withstand. 1t is this will to win in the hearts of men, of women and, yes, of ehil- dren, on hundréds of thousands of farms which will produce the food to feed up and our Allies. Must Work fer Vietery. It will be the spiritual strength of our people which will maintain those essential things in our na- tional life, those things which een- tribute materially to national | health, to national safety and to| hational interest. It will require work to win this war. There will be a multitude of tasks to be done, These tasks will be done if we intelligently use the man power which is ours. To do this requires understanding and enlightened co-operation on the part of each of our citizens. | The selective service system has | an important role to play in the use of our man power in the win- ming of this war. It is the primary task of this system to determine the place in which a given individual can best serve his Nation. In the making of this decision, the local board must strive tb see the entire picture of the Natior's ef- forts; to appreciate the need for men in the land and the naval forces; to realize that modern wars require the efforts of millions of skilled men and women; to visual- ize the demands of our farmers and their peculiar problems of laber, and to understand that while pro- duction must not be hindered, that, on the other hand, no civilian oc- cupation can become a refuge for those who seek to evade their obli- gations in the armed forces. A balance must be struck be- BRIG. GEN. LEWIS B. HERSHEY. with the normal life of our Nation is measured by the need for men for the several functions whieh con- | tribute directly to the successful tion of the war. The Selective Training and Serv- jce Act is in the second year of its operation. Originally it was & dual- purpose measure. It provided means for the procurement of an Army and at the same time it proyided & method of bullding up a force of trained Reserves. The number that could be trained each year was limited. The period of service in the Reserves was rela- tively long. Under these circum- stances it would be expected that high physical standards would be required. Why train future Reserves if they are not the best fitted? If few could be trained, why should time be spent on those beginning to establish homes? The considerations of last year in- dicated an unmarried, healthy young man as the type especially desired and which was available in quantities sufficlent to meet the m during the first year of opera- Pieture Suddenly Changed. 8ince December 7 the picture has changed. The long-time training objectives of the selective service law must, for the time being, give way to the major demand for large numbers of men for an Army—an Army to use in the year or two, not 10 years in the future. ‘The sise of this Army cannot be determined as of today. There is but one certain measure of its size— s measure we all aceept. It must be ~—Star Staff Photo. large enough to win this war. It must be & force with & variety of | & skills, experiefices and capacities. ‘These can best obtained from s wide range of ages. The greater demand for men compels all of us to readjust our manner of llving. Long hours of labor, less physical comforts and less transportation are some of the changes that will be inevitable in our way of life in total war. In s time when all must be con- tent with less, the facts that were reasons for deferment from mil- itary service before Pearl Harbor shall not turn to extremes. ‘The fundamental prineiples of se- iste lecting and of deferring men "1.1.’- plied heretofore are sound. . changes are in the application of the principles and not in the prin- ciples themselves. Seme Deferments to Continue. Married men with dependents have been deferred because it is to the interest of the Government to main- tain, if possible, the family as & basie unit. Married with dependents will continue to be deferred until the need for men becomes mueh greater closely the actual dependency of & wife, especially when there is ne other dependent, and there seems to be s question as to whether tween the deferment of & husband | and father in order to maintain| that most basic social unit, the home, and at the same time to avoid abetting the registrant who| presumes to establish a home 80 that he may evade his obligations | to defend all homes, including his own. { There is no ready-made answer to these problems for they never| eccur in exactly the same manner. | Needs to Determine Course. A basic principle of selective serv-| ice is to procure men for the land and naval forces without unneces- sarily disturbing vital industry and other sgencies and facilities which contribute materially to the sta- bility of our national life. 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