Evening star., 1942-07-03
Nozi and Soviet Armies, CWiIions Seen Organized
For Modern Warfare, Whereas u S., British Are Not

there is more personal attention
paid to the individual recruit;
and there is a greater mental
and spiritual participation in the
war on the part of these armies.
Germany and Russia wage revo-
lutionary wars, for revolutionary
objectives, with revolutionary
methods. We don't.
The old form of army was of
units of combatants, each sepa-
rated-navy, air force, army
each jealous of it's own sphere:
and within the forces everything
separated; infantry, tanks, anti
aircraft, etc. The modern Ger
man and Russian armies are
working societies, organized like
a great industrial factory, where
every process fits in with another
process.
But not only this: The whole
people are part Of the fighting
society. Everything that every
one does is a contribution to the
war effort. In reality there is no
life outside the war effort in
these countries.
No Single -Mindedness.
This has not even begun to be
achieved in this country. There
is no complete single-mindedness.
We have sporadic drives" for
this or that, which fall apart
when the drive is accomplished
instead Of systematic, continual
and integrated effort.
Take a simple thing: We still
have not a systematic. hoUse-to-
house, continual salvage cam
paign in this country.
1t is a terrible blunder to as
sumo that systematic appeals are
a system. Every factory man
ager will tell you that he doesn't
produce by appeals, but by Or
ganization. If we want scrap iron
and rubber, let us not appeal
let us organize and go and get 1t.
We haven't even defined what
scrap rubber is. Is it the White
House doormat? Is it useless
rubber or inessential rubber? If
we are after inessential rubber,
then hundreds of thousands of
tons of stair treads, rubber car
pets, doormats and many other
things should be requisitioned.
But you can't depend on people
carrying them to filling station.
There are vast amounts Of
scrap iron on the farms of this
country. There are deserted
farms strewn with scrap iron.
But IN the former case the ter
ribly overworked farmers have
not the time or the gas to trans
port their own scrap, and in the
latter there is no one to do it.
Youth Draft Urged.
All this requires regional,
county, town, village and block
by-block organization in the
cities. Organizations have to be
created, not for some single pur-
pose, like the collection of scrap
or the sale of bonds or protection
against air raids, but for con-
tinuing communal endeavor in
all fields.
The CCC camps have been dis
solved. They have no adequate
function in the present situation.
But why not now draft the entire
summer vacations of all boys
over. 16 and under selective sery-
ice age who are not otherwise
engaged in the productive pro-
CcSS 1ol Nolh OH ldlIHS, WIleIe
they are desperately needed,
using the CCC facilities for this
new war purpose?
X
From the setbacks in Libya
and Egypt to the reactivation of
our Army, to the civilian organi-
zation of available resources, to
educa ton on the issues of the
war in every Army camp and
every school is single line: The
mobilization of the whole people
for the war of the peoples.
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