Selective Service: Better than the George Did It

What's wrong with using military facilities to educate youth? Nothing at all, Selective Service Director Lewis Hershey—especially when juvenile are involved. "The one thing they need," he told the National Club last week, "is somebody to call them early in the morning and keep them so busy during the day that you don't have to tell them to go to bed at night." As for school dropouts, Hershey suggested that the Army could develop instant literacy if laggards were not given leave "until they can read the names of the streets downtown."

Easily the liveliest septuagenarian in Government, Hershey also...

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