Revised Draft Still Promises To Induct All

Selective Service revisions currently before President Eisenhower would not allow many men to escape the draft permanently, but would delay the induction of fathers and of men over 26, a Selective Service spokesman in Washington explained yesterday.

Thus a student who attended graduate school for a few years and then had children would probably still be drafted before he reached the age of 35. If his local draft board had an unusually large pool of volunteers and younger draftees, however, the man could conceivably avoid induction altogether.

No Actual Deferment

Clarifying the proposal that was announced Thursday, the spokesman--an officer of Selective Service's Legislative Liaison and Public Information Bureau--emphasized that the revision would not involve an actual deferment of fathers, such as existed until the summer of 1953. Under the new plan draft boards would taken younger men and husbands without children before they took fathers and men over 26, but they would still take men in the latter categories eventually, the spokesman explained.

"Not many men have been able to escape the draft so far, and the number will not increase much under the proposed system," he added.

The spokesman also pointed out that the new draft rules will not go into effect until the President approves them.