London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1945, London, Middlesex                                1945 tomorrow 111 by Igor Cassini tomorrow staff writer Secretary Forrestal Doest know it out the Navy has a new Arthur mount was sworn into the after be i want to be sure to life of to my in fort the Star Telegram ran this add Young girl or lady wanted for a civic group has started a subscription drive to buy the cottage in which poet biographer Carl Sandburg was born in Beatrice is the Mother of five in addition to running her Home in fall she finds time to serve As Massachusetts assistant attorney operators of the Holly Woods famous will have a string of postwar dance Halls across the they have already purchased Sites in some and architects Are working on in Naomi Clegg lost her purse and door key to a bag wondered How she would get arrived Home to find the door wide the place representative Sam believes that fellow members of the Texas House should have a few tunes on which to Start their daily lawmaking he organized a quartet with representatives William Mont Paul counts and Mainor West Westbrooks Secretary is their Phoebe former Georgia was fined s25 by a Minneapolis municipal court judge when she admitted after a mishap with her she had called the second you Damn Arkee explained the lady that what we always Call them in the t fee a Brooklyn returning to his com Fany at Camp with a full grown set of Rattlesnake sex h planned he got pm off a big m John Kennedy returned to 5 after 51 bombing mis Over Europe without a went and shot off the big of his left f pfc pfc local War workers at have a total of 16 children in the proudly displays san eight Star service 68 year old Melvin grandson of Matthew one of the signers of the declaration of inde wanted to go to work in a War Plant in South he had 10 prove he was a a Dairy products firm at South is manufacturing Vinaya but get its Only a canned meat and vegetable hash a Type ration for russian armed id the Southern medical journal printed Byron Kings article entitled Lantzounis  for congenital dorsal sub taxation or congenital Over Lap Jot fifth a Hollywood is saying that Walt Disney will Lead the Way in educational cartoon films after the Disney staff members now Are Busy working on plans to utilize their experience in making educational films for the armed Chicago Ortho medic appliances swin reported theft of two artificial legs from his if the thief really needed the Hes willing to fit them free of the manpower shortage is so acute in common pleas judge John Mccabe had to Appeal for volunteers to serve on the grand his list of 25 venire men dwindled Down to five women and three men because of War he needed 15 Veteran representative Leyen of claims he has More grandchildren than any of his fellow Lone Star Leyen passed out cigars in Honor of be birth of his 30th soldiers views on compulsory military training the i huddle has received such a flood of letters from old and airing their views on the question of peacetime compulsory military training that this week we Are devoting the entire Page to the rebut a jew of the letters we were Many More which we simply Haven the space to these we representative and we Trust that those of you whose letters Arent included will understand and drop us a line again when you have something youd like to get off your four changes every paper or periodical i pick up has an article on a plan for National service following the end of this All seem to have their Good but none to this writers know ledge has been suggested by men in May i offer my plan give the youth of school age a certain amount of allow him to choose what he thinks is better for himself after being offered advice by experienced coun he May choose one of four paths to satisfy a National requirement that All men have some sort of military first allow him to choose full participation in inter or intercollegiate athletics As a partial substitute for compulsory ser Young men making this Choice should be required to take one year of service of National guard or the equivalent time at a Mac Camp to acquaint themselves with military second three years training in National or the equivalent time at a Mac in conjunction with academic work at for those attending two additional years of military training in preparation for a possible Choice military As in Choice to be Given at vocational and Trade Choice one year of regular army training for those not having the Opportunity or aptitude to choose one of the first these men could be Given a certain amount of vocational and Trade schooling to Aid them in better adjustment to life at the completion of a years such a plan would have to be controlled by local boards similar to the present draft so that All men would come under one of the above those men declining to make a Choice before reaching their 18th birth Day would be obliged to accept the last Choice of the Fred thirst for free life i take violent exception to the state ment made by the association of College presidents to the effect that compulsory military training after the War endangers free education and the american pattern of a year service for a boy of 17 or 18 could be the most hardening and happening year of his he would meet Lis countrymen he would find out a Little bit about his land and he would live a collective life where every one must work he might find a Trade through work in the motor the draft no engineering equipment or the Ness a Large percentage of men will Lave a better idea of what they want to do and Many will want to go to College with a reason for what is hey will thirst for a free life and a free education and a better life As never and i think the College presidents will ind not at their 307th Abb let me handle it beat me i agree with i dont want to see any of my boys go into the or merchant Marine for one year of some of these Gas had better go into the Roth themselves after they Are discharged and find out what it is really its a damned Good Mili tary training 1 came into the Navy at 17 i had finished High school and would have gone to College but i thought i was needed in the i am now 19 and i dont regret the time Ive spent in the but it seems to me that some of these servicemen would want to get the army and Navy Clear out of sight for a few Are they a Bunch of Guys who like to have someone to holler at and curse that is what your son is going to get at 17 or and he will be forced to go into the service for a year just at the most important time of his schooling and Young i Hope they come Home at the end of the year and punch their fathers in the uss list scare pm i read an article in the stars and stripes giving the results of a Little powwow held by the presidents of quite a number of colleges and universities in the in not sure if they were presidents or but they Are supposedly Clever and in certain that the results of the powwow were two Hundred and some Odd to thirty five against compulsory military training for our Young men after this mess is this result was arrived at after an hours talk in favor of conscription by i myself at one time not so Long ago should have voted against it but 1 consider myself a damned fool at that along with great Britain and must have convictions concern ing other countries in common and have such huge and tremendous potential Force to scare the hell out of any other Hitler who May have the lust for world Lawrence whats it gotten me As a father of four 1 have read with interest several articles on compulsory miliary training in 1 had six years of such and what has it gotten other than 10 per cent of my base pay i was inducted in and have been overseas four with three months combat while other men much younger than who took Basic training with were sent to Divi Sions in the held Over for cadre and other i do not consider myself a better Soldier than any of but 1 cant see the Point of compulsory train do not consider this a As it is not intended As i was Only Thomas a dangerous precedent in my there Are Bills now pending before Congress which propose compulsory military train ing for All Young men in this is not a new idea in the but it would for a departure from our strongest democratic it is not simply that a new Law is being presented for enactment but that a dangerous new which Borders on is being for this reason a great amount of thought and discussion should precede the adoption of such a aside from All consideration of the harmful effects this training would inflict upon the country i should like to ask Why there is any necessity to put the Bill into effect now while there is no certainty when the War will end and the proposed program of training can be started there is no apparent reason for haste in the matter and i should propose that Congress wait until the War is won and the conditions of the postwar world become known to when we have worked out a system of National defense and have coordinated it with an International system for collective whatever form that May it will be time enough then to consider the Means by which we must Supply the trained men necessary to carry out our and the millions of men and women now engaged in the War thousands of Miles away from their country might and might even be construed to be deserving a voice in the planning of their country future and of their childrens 1st Force by Force i was quite interested in the Strong opposition voiced by the association of american colleges against Universal i attended College Lor two years pre Vious to the but after spending four years in service seven months in Active combat i have changed any isolationist ideas i May have if we Are Ever going to make such an organization As the league of nations we must first become an Active member ourselves and have the Force at our fingertips to Back up our democratic sh6uld they become trampled the Only Way to have such a Force readily available is a Reserve built up by a years compulsory military training for every Young Man Between High school and College we Fellows in the front lines Are learn ing that the Only answer to Force is and we Pray that a next War if there is will not catch us As unprepared As this one did Back in Gerald soldiers in High school asked the is peacetime conscription necessary the Public almost emphatically nationwide polls have been including soldiers fighting on and the results Are America does want National How a minor opposition has somebody does not think future should at a time when they Are forming the nucleus of their grasping for hoping for be conscripted into the army for military they realize what the pro conscription is fails to or refuses to that is the change in a persons mind that a year in the service will what laxity in plan Ning a future will Cloud a Young mans mind who anticipates an interruption of his what an unbalanced Situa what a decrease will result in the american educational with we will be pre pared to fight the War of but will we be prepared for the War of science the War of or of Progress there Are people who realize these they Are the american Edu they Are the people who will not allow the american brain to they Are the people who unceasingly uphold and increase the High Standard of knowledge in let us not take the easy Way let us not sacrifice the future of America for present Day if we can make officers in Why cant we make soldiers in High school when we assumed the role of we did not Lay aside the role of e d unforgivable foolish nuts expresses this readers reaction to articles on compulsory Mili tary training appearing in the stars and on just what basis does Bowman place his fear that a years military training would Render our Young men unfit to mingle in a free society going on that theory there Are a few million men definitely crippled for such a life right now would the Good doctor rather that we didst taint his free society after we have Given life and blood to save it we certainly cannot accept that emeritus Noller of Grinnell evidently Hast read up recently on ancient and not ancient wars have been occurring with an annoying frequency Down through the Ages and that certainly gives general marshalls argument of their inevitability a until a world organization has been established to prevent aggression and successful Over a period of it would seem unforgivable foolish to let the United states again become untre Wong Paul the cop blew his whistle