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1'hus the dark whas the American college fraternity preserved in ~ ours of 1918! D.epart 0 SUch .. cns1s, so far as present regulations of the War fraterni~ent. are concerned, is expected to be faced by the es m the current emergency.
\Vh ihe Effect on Fraternities of World Wor II frater~i\.eff~ct the second World War will have upon college Officers Jes IS not fully apparent at this time. Some college . . Others f and fraternity leaders are viewing the future with hope and opt1m1s~. Which rnoresee the entire man power of the United States mobilize~ _for a ~onf~1ct Of cha tay drag out for five or ten years, with consequent ternflc deCJmatwn , P er personnel. \our clairvo ar Committee confesses that it has neither a crystal ball nor powers of in inc/a~ce. Yet it is obvious that the drafting of man power will continue househe~~mg manner, that higher taxes will affect the educational budgets of m~ny 0 Schoo] s and that the lure of wages in war industries will draw men from h1gh anct college ih 1'he Prudent . . . . . d 1. '' the nu . course IS to antiCipate a very senous ec me Cording] mencal strength of the chapters and to plan ac'W Y. What that decline will be, no man knows.
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should be the course of the man still in relation to joining the colors?
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You~rco~he1 _answer to this all-important question IJ?sitions mJtt~e _has turned to two citizens whose give cou of d1stmction eminently qualify them to nsel. llrigact路 Of Se!ect/er-Gen~ral Lewis B. Hershey, Director the folio v~ Serv1ce in the United States, has issued . ''l thi~~ng special statement for this report: g1llning t ~hat the recent trend of events is be0 Impress one fact on our minds with