AMERICA AND WAR
Lower Draft Age Bill May Soon Be Law
WASHINGTON, October 16.
The military affairs committee of the House of Representatives approved legislation to lower the draft age to IS years. ■ , The military committee of the Senate also approved the Bill, which is expected to pass the House tomorrow, and will probably pass the Senate in the middle of next week. A joint conference of the Senate and House of Representatives agreed to retain the 5 per cent, victory tax on all incomes over 624 dollars a year. United States expenditure will total 80,044 million dollars for the year ending June, 1943, President Roosevelt reported to Congress. The report said that 74,000 million was for war, and 4,194 million for non-war. Interest totalled 1850 million dollars. Government non-war expenditures had been cut more than a third from the 1939 peak. The figure of 74,000 million dollars for war in 1943 is 20,000 million higher than the Government expected to spend when President Roosevelt sent his message to Congress last January. Changed Outlook Needed. “The pipe and slippers attitude of peacetime must give way to the cold steel and hot fury of total war, said Mr. Paul McNutt, chairman of the Mar Manpower Commission, at an American Hospital Association war conference. He added: ‘-‘The day will soon be forthcoming when every American will be doing war work, lie can do best where his country needs him most.” . Turning to medical problems, he said that a survey of 400 critical industrial and military mobilization areas showed that the shortage of doctors and hospital facilities had reached alarming proportions. , . , . , , , “Union by-laws which might endanger national security and impair the war effort can and will be set aside, said Judge Holt when 'be permanently restrained the painters’ union from punishing members for hurrying defence jobs. The dispute, according to ii message from Miami (Florida) hinged on the use of spray machines instead of brushes.
BILL PASSED BY HOUSE
(Received October 18. 10.4 a p.m.) WASHINGTON, October 1 <. The House of Representatives passed the IS to 19-year-old youths’ draft Bill.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 20, 19 October 1942, Page 6
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347AMERICA AND WAR Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 20, 19 October 1942, Page 6
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