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2 Educators Differ About Women Draft

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Wilbur K. Jordan, president of Radcliffe, and a former president of Wellesley, Mildred McAfee Horton, disagreed at a meeting of the Radcliffe Club of New York Saturday on the harnessing of womenpower to the national emergency.

Mrs. Horton, director of the Navy's WAVE's during the war, suggested drafting women into the armed services to fill posts which do not specifically require men. Jordan held that women should not be drafted "at this stage" because they were already making their maximum contribution to the economy.

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