Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-13

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and sinew, st.
and good for
nothing ; Q
on earth en- NH FiChEniN"
cept making waE. When the
war is over. these war-impreg-
mated young men surely will
have hard time adapting
themselves TO peace. Some peo-
pie suspect land / agree) that
they will be unable TO do il.
MiSfitS for the rest Of their lives.
That's why q project now be-
,ng undertaken by the United
States Army Is important.
The Army Air Corps Is send
ing officers into the colleges and
universities OF America telling
the students to stay In college.
Two Of these officers will be
in Ann Arbor today. One is 1t.
Col. Joseph Fl. Carr. an aviator
in the last war and now attached
to Mitchell Field. The other is
1t. r. L. Cox, who has been
flying on Atlantic patrol from
Yucatan to Greenland, hunting
submarines and what else the
Atlantic patrols have to do.
Their job, now that they are
visiting the colleges, Is to sign
up students rs Aviation Cadets.
But here h the difference be-
tween their work and recruiting
as it used to be:
The students are instructed TO
tay In college. They are told TO
omplete their studies for peace
ime Jobs. They do NOT switch
o studies fitting them for war.
In its essence, that Is why we
re not Naxis.
To a Nazi this would look like
MADNESS.
II isn't. Here's the way the
Dlan works out. Assume that we
ave a student learning business
administration. After the war.
he will be needed. He'll continue
10 study business, economics,
elementary law.
The average college course
allows some elective courses.
Our student will be urged (but
not ordered) to devote SOME of
his time to courses that will be
useful in war-mathematics, for
example.
When ne graduates, he will 20
into the Air Corps. Perhaps he'll
be q pilot, but IT'S Just perhaps.
There are % different jobs ON
the ground for every one in the
air.
When the war n over, these
men won't be misfit warriors.
They'll be ready to 20 back to
peacetime lives.
incidentally, do you suppose
Hitler ever has pondered on
what he wants to do with the
world II he conquers It: He
probably hasn't.)
This new method of recruiting
on-the-campus. by the way, is
aimed quite frankly at destroy
ing the morbid "Tm-geing-te-
get-killed-so-what-the-hell' at
titude.
Too many young men. said
Colonel Carr, are feeling like
that. They Realistically take il
for granted that they must die.
So they enlist, or are drafted,
and behave accordingly.
Their civilized dreams OF do
ing something fine in the world
are forgotten. Colonel Carr re-
fers 10 this present program as
preserving these boys dreams ="
II means, in the long run, a
steady supply of mature. college
educated man power for our Air
Corps. IL In, by all views, an at
titude Of mind that sees farther
than the end OF Its own nose.
Az Michigan State College,
$500 students heard Colonel
Carr speak. Nearly 1900 asked
for application blanks. Al Mar
uuette. ass out Of $50. At the
University OF Michigan, only 700
students showed up, but $50
asked for blanks.
In view of Ann Arbors wor-
ries over what's 10 become OF
colleges while the war is on. it's
hard 10 understand why more
students didn't show up. but
Colonel Carr speaks again to-
night at the Rackham Building.
Maybe Ann Arbor will realize
that this seems TO be the answer
- its worries.
Students at any other accred-
tied college can take part. too
il they like, by writing 10 the
Aviation Cadet Examining
Board, 1850 Federal Building
Detroit. or 10 the board az the
National Guard Arnory, Grand
Rapids.