Abstract
THE Executive Order issued by President Truman March 31 authorizing deferment of students has been criticized severely in editorials in many of country's leading newspapers. Columnists, too, have attacked regulations most vehemently. For example, Robert C. Ruark, in his widely syndicated column, closes his comments with statement, This block deferment of students and smart guys is an insult to every cross at Anzio, and to every civilian who presently wears uniform of his country. As Ruark presents it to his readers, we will draft Al Smiths and exempt Alger Hisses. Obviously such intemperate words will arouse public indignation against student deferment and indicates an unwillingness to discuss question objectively. The Boston Traveler in an editorial entitled Buying Substitutes likens new regulations to the cowardly, disgraceful Civil War system of buying substitutes for battlefield. Even Hanson W. Baldwin, military writer for New York Times and ...
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