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Show A ROLL-CALL OF AMERICANS There is something approaching an American Legion of Honor in the list of names of the young men who drew the magic number 158 in the selective service draft. From every corner of the nation come these, the first chosen of America's potential defenders. defend-ers. No village or hamlet is too small to send at least one "Number 158." There is not one of the infinite number of racial groups which make up our diverse citizenry that is not represented. Listen to the roll-call of young men holding Number Num-ber 158 in New York City alone. Here are Yuen Chong Chan, a Chinese laundry-I laundry-I man; George Tsatsaronis, a Greek restaurant cook; i John McDonald, a Negro elevator operator; Vincent i Leibell, son of a Federal Judge, all caught in the same j cast of the draft net with young fellows gearing Ital- ian, German, Irish, Jewish, Polish and Spanish sur- names. Here is a Ferrugia, a Cody, a Weisblum, a i Lichtenstein, an O'Reilly, every one as typical of American youth as Tierno, Ettazone, Wolf, Heyman, s Viale, Mundet, Gonzales, Larsen, Gordon, Spicker-I Spicker-I uther or Gerhowski. j Nothing could more completely exemplify the democratic ideal of absolute equality of all men than the method by which these scions of many races were picked by the workings of pure chance. Nothing could do more to weld the people peo-ple of the nation into a united whole than to throw these varied types together into cantonments canton-ments for a year. |
