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Show Selective Service Act Evaders Evidence of attempts to evade the Selective Service Law is relatively rela-tively small. The few cases presented pre-sented make it necessary to point out the types of evasion in order to advise the public that no individual is above the law, Evasion of the law by registrants regis-trants with deliberate and premeditated pre-meditated purpose of defeating the Selective Senvce Act must be condemned. Four types of evaders have appeared. The first two are mentioned merely to place local boards upon their guard against those who will come under the third and fourth types. The first type is that group who purposely acquire physical defects in order to evade military mili-tary service Evidence hag been furnished these headquarters of men who took drugs to increase the heart action or had sound teeth teeth removed in order to disqualify them. No one can profit by misconduct, and those men are now in the service as a result of re-exanination or waivers. waiv-ers. The second type is that group who purposely acquired dependents depend-ents in an effort to evade service. ser-vice. Such a union is not based on a firm foundation; it is beneath be-neath the dignity and holiness of . matrimony Where the local board is convinced beyond a reas-(Continued reas-(Continued on page 4) SELECTIVE SERVICE EVADERS (Continued from page li onable doubt that the purpose of the marriage was to evade service, ser-vice, they have the power to leave the registrant in 1-A and leave the dependents dependent upon whomsoever they were dependent de-pendent prior to the marriage. The third type is that group who purposely attempt to qualify quali-fy for a job in a factory manufacturing manu-facturing war material, with the sole thought of evading military service. It is a reasonable inference infer-ence that a registrant who has no particular training or qualifications qualifi-cations to enter a trade school after he has been tentatively placed in 1-A has entered said school in an attempt to evade There is no provision in the regulations regu-lations f.-r giving occupational deferment to a student in a trade school. Solicitation of registrants who are in 1-A to enter a trade school, with the promise on the part of the school or anyone connected con-nected with the school to request deferment for the registrant as soon as his tuition is arranged for, is not . proper. The promise I to a registrant to request deferment defer-ment should never be part of the curriculum offered. When a registrant regis-trant remains in a schcol but a a few days and then obtains a position through the efforts of the school, the school takes on the characteristics of an employment employ-ment agency, rather than a school. The registrant who will pay $200 for less than a month's instruction instruc-tion is usually attempting to buy something more than instruction. Requests for deferment should never be for sale. The fourth type is the group of employers who ask deferment for an employee who can be replaced re-placed and the sole reason for asking the deferment is that the employer finds it will inconvenience inconveni-ence him to replace the registrant regis-trant Preparing America inconveniences incon-veniences ,and taxes all of us. and the inconveniences and taxes should be willingly accepted by all of us in the interests of our self preservation. These four types of evasions are very small in number and should be eradiated entirely. The local boards are in the best position po-sition to classify the registrant and determine those who have a just claim for ocupational deferment. defer-ment. They should refuse to grant it to those who. seek the classification not because they are entitled to it but because they wish to evade service. |