Arizona sun., 1948-07-23

Raukbape military neceS-
sity' to disturb
the even tenor of their activities
sandlot, movie. poolroom. work,
study or play.
On the contrary, there hfs been
an almost steady antimilitary prop
aganda from all sorts of sources,
all the way from the paid agents of
the Kremlin to the innocent ideal
lists or the doting mothers who think
that if fighting must be indulged in,
it certainly should be done by some
other mothers boy. The polls show
these propagandists are in the mi
nority, but they are loud minority.
Personally, if l were advising
a teen-ager / never would rec
Ommend close order drill or
tossing together a batch Of fir
ing data which would produce
almost as many shorts as overs,
as the one most terrifically
scrumptiOus method of Willing
away a couple Of years.
On the other hand, have had
more adulterated pleasure in doing
quite a number of things in which
were not included learning the mul-
tiplication table, cutting the lawn,
making trial balance, working
paper route, translating the chap
ter which begins Caesar trans
Rhenum pons fecit," or even carv-
ing the Thanksgiving turkey the
first time her" relatives came for
dinner.
AS I say, / can imagine several
things many people would rather do
than these mentioned, including
military service, but having done
them, most people are better for it.
/ admit that for one of a delicate
nervous disposition, unable to ad-
just his personality to groups, carv-
ing a turkey for the first time be-
fore in-laws might be the worst
thing imaginable. 1t might be the
one particular thing that the par
ticular trauma affecting that par
ticular individual couldn't stand.
Extreme psychosis might result
even psychotic condition that
would lead to homicide or some 9TH
er emotional outburst that strong
er psyche could have repressed or
sublimated into kicking the dog or
dropping molaSses on his wife's Cir
die
grant all this freely. There
are men so unable to meet the
simple challenge of the crowd,
for instance, even those only
mildly afflicted with agoraphO-
bia, that they never could stand
simple formation like pay
call. 1 have known the type in
civilian life so sensitive to the
presence of others that although
he had been drinking peacefully
for hours and accepting the hos
pitality of say two or three &C
quaintances, when an addition
al member appeared (just when
1t was our subjects turn to buy
rOund) he would jump through
plate glass window, four stO-
ries to the street below.
Someway, he lacked the group in
stinct. I admit that type probably
wouldn't get on in the army-long.
However, I claim these are excep-
tionS.
The majority of the problems
which the youth of our land is GO
ing to have to face soon are not too
tough. And they are good exercise
like parading in full kit.
Meanwhile $4,000 men, without
giving more than a thought to the
hardships ahead of them (197, 900
of these, according to the experts,
are re-enlistments and Therefore
should know what they are getting
into) will already have joined up,
thus reducing the number of those
who bashfully await their Uncle's
nod this year.
Thus out of the 924, 900 new men
needed, less than 25O, 600 will be
drafted. And many of those who
are called will not be chosen be-
cause of the number of exemptions
granted.
Veterans with combat rec
ords, with 80 days service be-
tween Pearl HarbOr and w.
dav mr. with 1Q v1onufhS1 Sorx,;oa g.
since September, 1910, will be
exempt, as will anyone who has
earned a combat infantryman's
badge, Purple Heart, Air Med
al, or any combat medal.
Exemptions will be granted to
any veteran joining an organized
reserve unit, or if the nearest one
which he otherwise might join is an