Show SEI SELECTIVE DRAFT DRAI T IS HELD Gooi ia Judge Renders Decision ioD in inT T bt Brought by Negro Federal District Judge Speer held the tho th sel selective Uve draft law constitutional in n a decision here today In the case rase ofa oCa of oC ofa a negro represented by Thomas E. E Watson Wat Watson n contended the law contravenes the involuntary servitude servitude ser ser- provision of the constitution ser ser-j Judge Speers Speer's decision in the first case brought to test toot the selective I draft law was made public by the department of Justice Any question as ae to the acts act's constitutionality officials officials of of- believe is definitely and completely completely com- com disposed of by a supreme court ourt decision cited cite by the Georgia Judge fudge The court said Among the powers consigned to tole I the le national government is the tho power pow pow- er r to raise and support armies Its control ro I over the subject is plenary and nd exclusive It can determine without question from any state au au- how ow the army shall be raised wether er r by voluntary enlistment or forced raft draft th the age at which the soldier shall hall be received and the period for which he shall be taken the corn com I he shall be allowed and ad the service to which he shall be bo a as- as signed Judge Speer Spoor held that soldiers were i inot not slaves and that therefore the contention con eo that the law was In contravention contravention contra contra- I of the thirteenth constitutional constitutional I amendment against Involuntary i tary tart servitude was empty i 1 j |