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A Native at Large
Daniels, Jonathan | October 11, 1941 issue

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The article focuses on the educational attainment aspect, as given by the Census Bureau. It has been decided that under selective service, mere literacy is not enough. A man fit for that defense must have the equivalent of a fourth-grade education. And applying that standard, it turned down in two months more than 90,000 men-most of whom must have entered school since the war to make the world safe for democracy was won. But this item in the draft regulations does not apply with any evenness across states.

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ACADEMIC achievement; EDUCATION, Primary; LITERACY; DRAFT; DEMOGRAPHIC surveys; DEMOCRACY
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