Show Senator Calls aUs Army d dOn On o Draft Stand Mand V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON April 16 UP Sen Edwin C. C Johnson D. D Colo Cob Tuesday accused the war department of blind and congenital congeni congeni- tal tat stupidity for demanding a one one- year extension of the draft law The result he said has been the house-approved house nine months' months extension extension extension ex ex- ex- ex tension which renders the draft act impotent and Inoperative after May 15 Johnson ranking Democrat on the senate military affairs committee committee com corn made his charges In a letter letter let let- letter ter to Secy of War Var Robert P. P Pat Pat- terson He called war department officials daIs accused them of juggling figures to justify their demands for a year one draft ex extension extension ox- ox tension and insisted that a six weeks weeks' extension would meet all present requirements The house Monday approved and sent to the senate nate a nine-month nine draft extension which forces a holiday holiday holiday hol hol- iday on all inductions from May Mayto to October and raises the draft age from 18 to 20 Senate leaders indicated the house version was totally unacceptable unacceptable unacceptable unac unac- and planned to work on their own draft of the measure Hits Jilts Mathematics Mathematics' L I i I The war department must be beheld beheld held responsible for the confused contused and chaotic bill just enacted Johnson wrote Patterson Its blind and congenital stupidity is i to blame Apparently it has assumed that members of congress are dummies dummies dummies dum dum- mies and that they can be awed land and influenced by a mass of distorted dig dis- mathematics mathematics It never seemed to occur to those that a six weeks' weeks extension could have been supported by them with hon honest st calculations calculations calculations cal cal- and that all the jugglers in ill kingdom come could not and did not make a case for a years year's extension Johnson said that if the war de department department do- do would admit its mistake and make an honest effort to fill its requirements and nothing more congress may still be able to enact a sensible limited e. e extension tension of the draft He urged the department to accept a six weeks' weeks extension |