STUDENT EXEMPTIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 14, 17 January 1941, Page 11

STUDENT EXEMPTIONS

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—May I through your columns raise a point which I have heard many speak of recently, i.e., the question of service overseas for University students? I see that many University students are being exempt from overseas service. Now I consider this hardly fair to hundreds of other young lads who perhaps have not had the opportunity to attend University, much as they would like to. Many young lads of 21 years and up owing to financial reasons are trying to get somewhere in the world by "swotting" at night individually. These young lads are going overseas and leaving everything dear to them behind, and yet their friends going to University are allowed to continue with Iheir degrees and examinations and eon^'lidEt.e their positions at the other lads' expense. I admit it is hard on boys half-way through degrees to have to leave them, but it is just as bad for a lad who has put in a lot of work and is just beginning to get somewhere in a firm to have to give everything up. If there Is to be conscription why not all in, and then when the boys return they can start off again together.—l am, etc., PF.RPLEXED.