The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-11-01

him, expressing their views on
policy of Universal Military Train
ing, which President Truman, in
recent address before the joint
Houses of Congress, urged the coun-
try and the Congress to adopt.
Here is the text of Senator Ty-
ding's address:
Last Tuesday President Truman
addressing the joint Houses of Con-
gress, urged the country and the
Congress, to adopt a policy of uni
versal military training as necessary
for our national Defense Much of
what he said was based upon the
report of the Chief of Staff, General
George c. Marshall, who likewise
recommended universal military
training as necessary for our future
security.
The President, in his message,
said he favored Cd a comparatively
small regular army, Navy and Ma
rine Corps; (2) greatly strengthen
ed National Guard and Organized
Reserve for the Army, Navy and
Marine Corps; and 90 a general
reserve composed of all the male
citizens of the United States who
have already received training. In
order to accomplish this, he said it
would be necessary to have a plan
for one years universal military
training, for all males between Is
and 20 The President pointed out
that he was not favoring conscrip-
ton in the sense that that word is
generally used. He said: "Conscrip-
ton is compulsory service in the
Army or Navy in time of peace or
war" He went on to say that the
trainee under the universal military
service he had in mind would not
be enrolled in any of the armed
services. They would be civilians in
training only.
The President, in his address,
asked the Congress and the Nation
some very pointed questions. One
of his questions was: Assume that
on Dec. 1884, the United States
had had supply of atomic bombs
in New Mexico or Tennessee. What
could we have done with them?"
At that time we had a very small
and but partly trained Army, much
of which was using trucks for tanks
and sawed-off logs for cannon and
machine guns, in its training. We
had not yet developed our great air
force.
A little later on the President
asked: Assuming that the United
States and Japan both had had a
supply of the bombs on Dec. 7, 1941,
which country would have surviv-
ed?"
Then the president asked still an
other thought-provoking question:
Suppose that both England and
Germany had had the atomic bomb
on September, 1871, during the blitz
over England? Which country would
have been destroyed" Then, as if
to answer his own question, the
President observed: 1.-THE answer is
clear that the atomic bomb is of
little value without an Army, Air
and Naval force, for that kind of
force is necessary to protect our
shores, to overcome any attack and
to enable us to move forward and
direct the bomb against the enemy's
own territory"
In order to support the position
he took and recommended to Con-
gress, President Truman took a por-
ton of the recent report by Cen
eral George c. Marshall, from which
he quoted the following: "The num-
Der of men that were involved in
the delivery of the atomic bomb on
Hiroshima was tremendous. First we
had to have the base in the Mari
anas Islands, from which the plane
took off. This first required pre-
liminary operations across the vast
Pacific, thousands of ships, millions
of tons of supplies - the heroic eff
forts of hundreds of thousands of
men. Further, we needed the B-29s
and their fighter escort which gave
us control of the air over Japan.
This waSthe result of thousands of
hours of training and preparation in
the United States, and the energies
of hundreds of thousands of men"
Still quoting, he continued: ''The
effect of technology on a military
structure is identical to it's effect on
national economy. Just as the auto
mobile replaced the horse and made
work for millions of Americans, the
atomic explosives will require the
services of millions of men if we
are compelled to employ them in
fighting our battles. This war has