Girls Fail For Uniforms, But On Men only, Radcliffe Says

Radcliffe girls oppose drafting women, a survey showed yesterday, With only two exceptions, 'Cliffe students vetoed the draft and then paused to think up reasons.

They backed up their answers with everything from "woman's intuition" to "overpopulation." "Military life is not normal for women," one Everett House girl said, "I feel it intuitively."

Many pointed out that a draft with its exemption of married women would increase the rate of hasty marriages and consequent divorces.

If you tried to avoid this problem by exempting only women with children, the girls said, "the birth rate would curve sharply and in a few years the country would be overpopulated.

Others suggested that serviceman's morale would suffer if they had to visualize their wives and girl friends in uniform "instead of keeping the home fires burning."

Non-Military Purpose

Most girls feel they don't have to worry much about the draft, because "Senators and Representatives would not vote for such a bill." It would take a long period of education, the Annex girls noted, "to make us think that a woman's function is military."

All agreed that if the national emergency became more severe than during the last war, drafting would be necessary. Their solution to the present "less pressing problem" is an advertising campaign by the woman's services. "We don't even know" some girls, "what the requirements are for enlisting."

If drafting is necessary, 'Cliffe girls would exempt all college women and take all others between 18 and 35 years who are not engaged in essential industry or have children.