Clark States Reserve Need Not Delay Duty

No organized reserve unit can guarantee indefinite postponement of military service, contrary to the Tuesday night assurances of an Army reserve officer, Alexander Clark, Assistant Director of the Office of Student Placement, said yesterday.

Clark criticized Major Douglas D. Pirnie '43, Commandant of the 356th Field Artillery Battalion, 94th Infantry Division, Organized Reserve Corps, for suggesting in a recruiting speech in Emerson D that his unit would not be called up in the near future and that students joining the unit would postpone their military service.

Students should wait until the passage of a new draft act before committing themselves to the armed services, Clark added.