Greenville, N.C., Feb. 5—“Why should a man who is making a
living in a skilled trade be refused by the army because he can’t pass a
true-false or a multiple-choice examination?”
This is the question being asked by a board of inquiry into
the reasons for the unusually high number of draft rejections in Pitt county.
The results of a study made by the board and released yesterday, claim the army’s
so-called mental test is not a mental test at all—but an achievement based on a
person’s ability to read.
Found among the rejects in Pitt were mechanics, shoe
repairmen, bakers, cooks, and pressers. And Colonel T.H. Upton—State Selective
Service Director—says he wants the board to send a report to Washington
authorities. The Colonel asserts that “something certainly might come out of
it.”
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