AID TO CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS ESTABLISHED

With Monday's registration bringing all students over 20 one step closer to their draft boards, the committee on civil rights is again available to advise conscientious objectors on the whereases and therefores of the Selective Service Act.

Organized in the fall of 1940 at the suggestion of Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity, the group consists of Zechariah Chafee, Langdell Professor of Law, Morris B. Lambie, professor of Government, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, and Raymond Dennett '36, graduate secretary of Phillips Brooks House. Its sole function is to give information on procedure for objectors.

No matter how strong a man's beliefs against service of any sort may be, the committee emphasized that he must register. Failure to do so will bring a prison term of a year and a day, but will not help materially in keeping non-registering objectors out of the army.

Legitimate objectors get their chance to claim exemptions only when they receive questionnaires. The procedure is to file Form 47, asking to be released from all service, or merely from combatant work.

The cases are then left up to the individual draft boards, which will either put the men in 4-E or order them to report to the army, if the claim is refused. An appeal, within five days, to an advisory board which may reclassify him is the only remaining step for a conscientious objector.