TABLE 1.-Estimated number of men 18-37 years of age on Aug. 1, 1945, who had been physically examined for induction or enlistment and number accepted and rejected i

1 Based on RS 110A, a monthly report on the classification of registrants. 2 Includes registrant enlistees and inductees and nonregistrant enlistees 18-37 years of age on Aug. 1, 1945, who had been discharged by that date.

Includes registrants under 26 years of age in occupationally deferred classes after physical examination, those in class I-G (examined and accepted by the armed forces of cobelligerent nations), class IV-E, and the estimated proportion in class I-A found acceptable but not reclassified as of Aug. 1, 1945.

4 Includes registrants in class IV-F and those in classes II-A, II-B, and II-C with F and L designations; also the estimated rejected in class I-A.

TABLE 2.-Percent distribution of principal causes for rejection at local board and induction station, for selected periods

From an analysis of reports of physical examination from 21 selected States (Medical Statistics Bulletin No. 2).

2 Based on a sample of DSS Forms 221 received at National Headquarters April 1942-March 1943 (Medical Statistics Bulletin No. 3).

Based on a 20-percent sample of DSS Forms 221, Reports of Physical Examination and Induction for registrants inducted or rejected during 1944 (Medical Statistics Bulletin No. 4).

Registrants rejected for failure to meet the minimum intelligence standards.

Includes morons, imbeciles, idiots, and mental deficiency not specifled as to type or degree.

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Mr. WHITTEN. Mr. Natcher?

Mr. NATCHER. Mr. Griffin, are you a resident of the State of Mississippi?

Mr. GRIFFIN. Yes, sir.

Mr. NATCHER. The nicest thing that ever happened to me since I was elected a Member of the House in 1953 was the day that I was assigned to serve on this committee with my friend, Jamie Whitten. You people in Mississippi have a right to be proud of our chairman. I just wanted to make that statement in the record, Mr. Chairman. Mr. WHITTEN. Thank you, Mr. Natcher.

Mr. GRIFFIN. I can assure you, Mr. Natcher, that we are as proud to have him as a Representative as we are glad to have him on the committee.

Mr. WHITTEN. That is mighty nice. The chairman appreciates those statements.

Now, Mr. Allen, did you have some further statement? We have had you before the committee for a number of years and always enjoy your appearance.

STATEMENT OF MR. HARVEY K. ALLEN

Mr. ALLEN. This year, Mr. Chairman, I have no prepared statement, but I would like to take just a moment or two to make some further remarks.

The reason, of course, that I do not have a prepared statement is because the members of this subcommittee are well informed, and, I believe, convinced of the values of the school-lunch program, both to the children of the Nation as well as to the agricultural economy. Secondly, because those who have spoken here this afternoon have covered the matter thoroughly.

But I would like to make this point: over the years that we have talked about this problem, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, we have been in most of those years in a period of healthy and expanding

economy.

This is not true now, and the effect of that is twofold: first, on the children themselves; and, secondly, on the agricultural economy. And however you look at it, the answer comes out the same. We are confronted with hungry children in numbers exceeding any that we have previously cited. To believe that the needs of those children will not be met is completely unthinkable. At the same time the millions of families unemployed or with incomes reduced, suffering an impairment of their purchasing power, are inevitably having an effect on their ability to buy food.

The Congress, I am certain, is going to face up to this problem and meet it in one way or another-in many ways, perhaps. Mr. WHITTEN. Could I interrupt you, Mr. Allen, right at that point?

Mr. ALLEN. Surely.

Mr. WHITTEN. In our hearings here, I was greatly disturbed at one statement made by an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture when the gentlemen from Minnesota was pointing out the need during the present year to have purchased a limited amount of eggs to strengthen the egg market in certain of the interior areas of the United States.