Evening star., 1942-01-04
Road 10 Singapore
Must Be Kept Open,
mcNutt Declares
MuniIo's Fall lndicts
Thinkers of America,
He Tells Educators
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 3-The Ma
tons colleges. called upon for
minimum of $4,000 men annually
for Naval Reserve officer training,
were told today they would have to
play a major role in keeping the
road to Singapore. vital to Ameri-
can victory, open "at all costs
Federal Security Administrator
Paul v. McNutt told grey-haired
college presidents and deans at the
national conference of presidents
of colleges and universities.
You are in the Army now'-that
or Nazi strait jacket later. Every
resource of the Nation must be
geared to victory
Stating that If the Philippines
were saved it would be by the Skill
and ingenuity of Douglas Mac
Arthur and by the Grace of Cod
not by any wisdom and foresight
Of American policy in the years fol-
lowing the last great war" Mr..
McNutt continued:
"The fall of Manila stands as an
Indictment of the international
thinking OF educated Americans.
We built for peace promised
them freedom-as though We were
omniscience itself.
Outlook Not Realistic.
But at no time did We look at
the total situation realistically
enough to create the conditions upon
which real independence and free
dom-real security and opportunity
must depend We built for peace
In an ivory tower"
Mr.. McNutt. former governor
general of the Philippines. warned
educators to abandon 'puerile pac-
iism"-to realize that Singapore
Is a road to American victory" that
must be kept open at all costs"
The need for intelligent defer
ment of necessary men" is greater
now than before the war, declared
Brig. Gen Lewis B. Hershey. ma
tional director Of selective service.
The armed forces must be sup
piled with the men they need. he
said. but many of us do not see the
necessity of a man doing anything
other than detonating a machine
of war. l am interested, as last
year. in deferring the men that we
must train and need. 1 am inter-
ested in trying to discover what we
need in the long range and not
only what We need for the imme-
diate future"
Interference Inevitable.
Joseph w. Barker. special as
sistant to the Assistant Secretary
of the Navy. stated that in recruit
ing personnel for two-ocean Navy
"some interference with normal
college programs is inevitable
He declared the following totals
were needed as Junior officers each
year: 10000 for VS. flight training
who have completed sophomore
studies: 1000 seniors and 1000 jun
iors for line and engineering duties;
5000 seniors. 1000 juniors and 500
sophomores for general duty.
Students enlisted probably would |
be allowed to complete all or part !
of their college education before
being called to active duty.
Speaking for Robert B. Patterson,
Undersecretarv of War, Col. Ben
iamin w. Venable told the 1000
educators from all over the Nation .
that War Department policy would
be to gain future officers from CAN |
didate schools for enlisted men.
He said these would be geared to |
turn out 10000 to 10000 officers
each year.
R.O T.C. to Continue.
"The War Department intends to
continue r. o. T. c. training as 1t
is now functioning," he declared. but
added it would not be expanded nor
would student training similar to
that of the World War days be Of
fered.
John B. Kelly. United States di-
rector of physical fitness, asked the
educators to place college physical
education programs on five-day
week basis for four years for all
students
Mr. Kelly also urged that all ath-
letic programs be broadened and in
tensified; that schools undertake
program to correct remediable de-
fects in all students. and that courses
In first aid. military and social hy-
eiene and life saving be given.