To fill the immediate need for soldiers, the United States enacted the Selective Service Act in May.

The former made it possible for the U.S. government to draft thousands of men into the war effort, and the latter made it a crime to interfere with those efforts. Before long, enemies of the truth used this legislation to ‘frame trouble in the name of the law’ for Jehovah’s peace-loving worshippers.​—Ps. 94:20.