The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-09-03

congressman wiring his hands in
anguish.
One of those vote getting or vote
losing issues is rehabilitation and
the related drafting OF more Ameri-
can young men.
In Senator Arthur II. Vanden.
berg's mail came hundreds OF let
ters from Michigan parents. One
will read, THE war is over. Why
should my young son be drafted
now when he is ready TO go on to
college?" The next one from an
equally worried parent OF a son
already in uniform reads, My son
is OF college age and is eager to
get out Of uniform. e. after all. his
claim to consideration is greater
because he has already served"
Then along comes word from
General Macarthur that he wants
available some crack troops Tin.
GLIDING an unusually large number
OF Michigan mem who saw q certain
kind OF combat service in the Euro
pean theater.
The President has told Congress
II would be ''unforgiyable discrimi-
nation" to keep the veterans a
minute longer in service than is
necessary. It's said this would be
poor pay for what they have done in
this war II we tried to squirm out
of the first obligation that is their
due.
The veterans will not 60 beyond
the change recommended by the
President for the continuance OF
the 1925 draft for two years. OF
all people. the veterans know the
responsibilities that still rest upon
our shoulders. Germany still has
to be policed. Japan's surrender
is yet to be collected and the
occuption fraught with enough
peril for Macarthur to ask for
100000 supporting troops.
A whooping response for voiun-
teers is the happiest answer, but
no one can guess II enough young
men will seek this kind OF service.
The average American boy is not
military-minded.
Congress is asked to lift the pres
ent ceiling on volunteers, remove
legal impediments to maximum en-
listments, and consider what more
could be done in the way Of in
ducing enlistments. The President
will be lucky to get 300. 900 peace
time volunteers, Army officials say.
So 1t is on the draft and the vet
Grams the country must rely
through the emergency. Without
the draft. which in its reduced form
would yield 100000 men by next
July, veterans would have to be re-
tanned Internationally long. A
draft holiday is seen as a disservice
to the men who have borne the bur
den Of the most terrible conflict in
history.
Meanwhile Senator Vandenberg
can keep his mind off the problem
with another headache-unempioy-
ment compensation. AS a member
OF the Senate Finance Committee
he is sitting in daily upon the hear
ings which will explore the wis.
dom OF President Truman's remedy
OF a federal guarantee Of $25 a
week for rs weeks for the unem-
ployed.
Again Senator Homer Ferguson
is making a gallant attempt to res
cue the copper mining area or
Michigan from a shutdown. The
80 day extension OF their govern.
ment contract he corralled is
soon to expire. He seeks from War
Mobilizer Snyder a longer post
ponement, possibly so to 90 days, to
allow time to arrange a perman.
ent remedy to save the copper IN
dustry. Some argument has been
made that authority il lacking for
such extensions but Mobolizer
SNYDER has found a clause in the
act that grants such permission
II the property involved is apt TO
be damaged by cancellation. Such