Quotes
War of Nerves—In the Daily Press
August 4
All boards have been instructed ... to proceed immediately with reclassification, and some fathers may receive their 1-A notices by mid-September.
August 4
Lifting of the ban on induction of fathers will be followed shortly by a second major draft action designed to strengthen the protection given war plants against drains of crucial manpower, the Associated Press said tonight.
August 4
Senator Wheeler (Dem.) of Montana said today he would ask Congress to return immediately to Washington to deal with the National Selective Service unless War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt modified a proposal to induct pre-Pearl Harbor fathers after October 1.
August 4
With the induction of fathers scheduled to start in October, the indications are that most of them probably will find themselves in the navy, since by that time the army will be close to its goal of 8,200,000 men, and the navy offers no such system as the army for advancing men from ranks to commissions.
August 5
Selective Service gave assurance to Senator Gurney (Rep. ) of South Dakota today that the drafting of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers will be delayed as long as possible.
August 6
With the emphasis now on a man’s job rather than his family ties, the War Manpower Commission is working out methods of insuring that single men with critical skills will not be drafted by local boards anxious to avoid calling fathers, it was learned today.
August 7
Until national headquarters evaluates the figures sent in by states and allocates calls received from the armed forces, the time when fathers will be called for induction by any state or local board cannot be accurately predicted.
WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION
August 7
Late yesterday National Selective Service announced a nation-wide adjustment of draft calls to insure that the remaining supply of available single and childless married men is exhausted before the first fathers are called.
This leveling-off process will mean that fathers will be called sooner in the states which would not expect to reach them until November or December and later in the states which said they would have to call them as soon as the ban on drafting pre-Pearl Harbor fathers was lifted.
August 10
I can’t make any predictions about fathers or essential workers. Too many imponderables are involved.
MAJ. GEN. LEWIS B. HERSHEY
August 11
A bill to prohibit the drafting of fathers into the armed forces will be offered September 14.
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Selective Service Headquarters was declared tonight to be preparing to make occupation the principal factor in determining the order of call for induction into the armed forces. . . .
August 22
A WMC official emphasized that although the fact that a man was engaged in an essential activity would weigh in his favor when the draft board considered his case, it nevertheless was not binding on a draft board.
August 24
About 446,000 of the 6,559,000 men now deferred as fathers must be inducted this year.
MAJ. GEN. LEWIS B. HERSHEY
August 26
Mr. McNutt said that deferments would be given for three reasons. They are: physical disability; extreme hardship and privation to families of the men so inducted; and the fact that a man is essential to agriculture or is holding down an important war job.
The Art of Comedy
You get the biggest laughs of all by falling on your puss in mud puddles.
CARY GRANT
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Conversation is the mightiest part of portrait making. If I did not get the personality behind the person I am doing, then I would simply be doing a mask. The light that shines through is what makes the “living sculpture.” To grasp this personality the portrait maker must be a master of conversation, draw out the subject that is being modeled.
DR. SUZANNE SILVERCRUYS,Sculptor
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Between you and me stands the British censorship, which has learned its business; but when an American story comes up, there is also a phalanx of American censors who say in so many words that they are doing me a favor in allowing me to send any kind of story at all. I can’t even write around American censors, because they censor everything they personally do not like.
CHESTER MORRISON,American foreign correspondent
Social Insurance
Even if a full American social security plan cost $15,000,000,000 a year, I’m for it.
ARTHUR J. ALTMEYER,Social Security Board Chairman
I think the British people will say they won’t mind if the government does more than it has done in the past. Britain is a democracy and we are not afraid of government.
SIR WILLIAM BEVERIDGE
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Our known supplies of coal are measured by thousands of years, our known supplies of crude oil by little more than a decade.
SECRETARY ICKES
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By looking around here you can tell the Fascists by their well-fed look.
CAPT. RAYMOND W. ROBOWSKI,in Palermo
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Argentina maintains its neutral position amid the world conflict as well as its loyal intimate interAmerican collaboration.
PRESIDENT PEDRO RAMIREZ of Argentina
The Army Cook
He has arrived at that quiet hopelessness that cooks get on finally realizing that their work is never going to be finished, that there is no way of feeding a man once for all.
JOHN STEINBECK in England
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If Hitler is shelved, it would only mean that Germany — perhaps I should say the United States — would no longer have the benefit of his intuitions.
ELMER DAVIS
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When we move into Berlin we’ve got to hang up our hats and say: “We’re here for four generations.” It will take eighty years to persuade Germans that they don’t want to conquer the world. But when we take over Tokyo, we’ve got to let them know we’ve come to stay indefinitely.
CONGRESSMAN J. BUELL SNYDER of Pennsylvania
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Tt is clear that food costs have gotten out of line with the general stabilization policy.
WILLIAM H. DAVIS, WEB Chairman
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Narrow isolationism is phony nationalism.
ELY CULBERTSON
Games to Play
I feel very certain that playing at “killing the Japs and Germans” provides an excellent emotional outlet for accumulated hostilities. The average child is constantly subjected to frustrations.
DR. ROBERT N. Me MURRY, Psychologist
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We in the United States have no reason to be complacent about our own situation. Contrary to widespread belief, we haven’t been the best-fed nation in the world. New Zealand, Australia, and the Scandinavian countries have had better-fed populations. Malnutrition in certain sections of the United States ranks with the worst in the world.
SURGEON GENERAL THOMAS PARRAN
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Your height — and this goes for men and women alike — depends upon your inheritance and nothing else. What you eat, how you exercise, how you behave, has nothing to do with it. A normal child grows up to the height pattern established by his parents and his race. Your height is fixed before you are born.
DR. ALBERT MORRIS, Boston University professor of sociology
Sieg Hell!
We have expanded our power to such an extent as to permit us to begin the defensive.
LT. GEN. KURT DIETMAR, Berlin radio commentator