Teenage Draft: Correspondence between J. P. Swindler (Ketchin Mercantile Company) to Senator Burnet R. Maybank, September 2, 1942
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Title:
Teenage Draft: Correspondence between J. P. Swindler (Ketchin Mercantile Company) to Senator Burnet R. Maybank, September 2, 1942
Date:
1942
Creator (Personal):
Swindler, J. P.
Description:
A letter from a South Carolina businessman asking Senator Maybank to reconsider changing the draft age to eighteen and nineteen. He starts with congratulating Maybank on the recent election. He offers his services, as a forty-year-old man, in place of his son. He has already tried to reach out to the Shell Loading plant in Charlotte and the U.S. Employment service but received no response. A response from Maybank is included, thanking him for the letter and suggestions.
