The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-08

@C@NN@SS of the armed forces of the United States and providing for it's train ing"
 So labelled, you cans miss 1t. Turn now to Section 3, SubSsctions (b) and Co. It is legal language, but not too tough, so tag along and you'll get the point:
 "(b) Each man inducted shall serve for a training period of twelve consecutive months, unless sooner discharged, except that whenever the Congress has declared that the national interest is imper- fled, such twelve-month period may be extended by the President to such tice as may be necessary in the interests of national defense.
 "(c) Each such man, after the completion of his period of train ing and service under subsection (b), shall be transferred to a re- reserve component and shall be sub- naval forces of the United States; and until he attains the age of for ty-five, or until the expiration of period of ten years after such transfer, or until he is discharged from such reserve component, whichever comes first, he shall be deemed to be a member of such reserve componnt and shall be sub ject to such. additional training and service as may now or hereafter be prescribed by law: Provided, that any man who completes at least twelve months training and service in the land forces under subsection (b), and who thereafter serves sa-- isfactorily in the Regular Army CT in the active National Guard for a period of at least two years, shall, in time of peace, be relieved of any liability to serve in any reserve component of the land or Naval forces of the United States and from further liability for the train ing and service under subsection (b), but nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prevent any such man, while in reserve com ponent of such forces, from being ordered or called to active duty in such forces" DOES IT MEAN
 WHAT IT SAYS?
 The two paragraphs are present. ed here in their entirely because if those sections mean what they say, all this congressional and public wrangling has been unnecessary.
 It doesn't do any good to argue with lawyers, but competent gov ernment lawyers who don't wish to be quoted because they don't want to get tangled up in all this mess, support the construction that any eighth grade class in syrtax would put on those paragraphs, viz and to wit:
 When drafted man has com pleted his first year of service, he goes into the reserve. As long as he's in the reserve, he can be or dered or called to active duty in such forces and kept there. In other words, as soldiers completed their twelve-month training period, they could immediately be tapped on the shoulder with 8 remark such as, Sorry, buddy, but since you're in the reserves in active service for a the reserves in activ servic for spell longer, just turn around and go back to your barracks. We can do this because here's where it says so in the law"
 All this would have to be put in the language of formal order, but the soldiers would get the point without difficulty either way.
 ONLY ONE OUT
 The only possible restriction to this interpretation comes in the sub section (b) part, where 1t says that Congress must declare that the 1a- tional interest is. imperiled. Well, a simple congressional resolution would have taken care of that, and ! then it would have been up to the President to take the rap by order ing the boys from the reserve status back into their active duty status for up to 10 years.
 As a matter of fact, Congress is. declaring the national interest im- periled as part of its amendments
 70 the Selective Training and Ser vice act providing for tlfe now addi- tional one and a half years service. Why the simpler procedure was not followed is something you'll have to ask the 800 members of fCongress. It was case of bad handling right from the start. The original act carried all the author ity needed to keep the men in ser vice. The trouble was that the act wasn't sold" to the country in its full import. It was sold as a years service. Therefore it had to be re- sold as new bill of goods. l That's why all fhA cnrafl1einra