ERC Orders Come to Students From Perkins

Orders to report will come to ERC men through the War Service Information Bureau some time next week, Elliott Perkins '23, head of the Bureau, announced yesterday. The office will receive the letters from the First Service Command and will distribute them to students, mailing them home to men who leave their addresses before they go.

Perkins expects the orders to begin arriving on Monday in large batches. His office will then sort and distribute them to individual reservists. This method will remedy the problem anticipated yesterday, when it seemed that men would have to stay in Cambridge to get orders or else ask House janitors to forward them.

In the Army Now

Since the Army will hold students strictly responsible for complying with its induction date, Perkins warned all men who leave College and want their orders forwarded to be sure to leave their addresses at Little 11, in which case the Bureau will definitely get the government letters to them.

Several problems remain to be cleared up after Monday's release. Just what constitutes an "approved engineering course," for instance, has not been explained by Washington, and students in other fields may be exempted under the wording of the order.

The details of the ERC call as announced Monday were substantially the same as had been announced last December, but few people expected the order to call men to come as soon as it did. As late as last week a western college president with information from Washington picked April 15 as the earliest date.