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Show Selective Service Regulates Lives of Young Americans are in short supply. Mr. Lloyd said, "There is no question that the Selective Service does, in fact, 'channel' the plans of American youth but there is, I believe, some question as to whether this is the proper means of doing it. "We probably still need the draft, because our military forces require both the draftees and the enlistees who volunteer volun-teer because of the draft. But we might want to examine whether the best interests of the nation and the young men are being served by not requiring re-quiring service from about one of every two available men." Drafting young men for mill- tary service has become almost a sideline for the Selective Service System. That was the opinion expressed ex-pressed in Washington this week by Rep. Sherman P. Lloyd, Utah Republican. "The system is now a major ma-jor factor in deciding the destiny des-tiny of the post-war generation, genera-tion, using the draft as the leverage for its tremendous power," Rep. Lloyd said. He pointed out that by regulations reg-ulations on deferment, mental, physical, moral and family qualifications, it exercises power pow-er over the average age' of marriage, the types of occupation occu-pation chosen, the extent and kind of schooling and perhaps even parenthood. Deferment or release for marriage and fatherhood, for employment in essential industries indus-tries and for education are shaping the lives of far more people than are being drafted, according to Mr. Lloyd. "I think that Congress, which .established Selective Service as a means of retaining our military mil-itary strength, should now examine ex-amine this system as a molder of American lives," he said. In Utah, he said, the system had 141,592 persons registered on June 30, 1963. But in the 1963 fiscal year only 3ri9 Utah youths were actually drafted. "I am not saying that we should draft more Utah youths," the congressman said, "but it is apparent that in deciding de-ciding what positions in life justify deferment and which oo not the system has a strong hand." Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service director, regards re-gards the non-military impact of the program as one of ' channeling" the talents of the nation's youth into skills which |