The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1952-03-06

len II comes 10 d NOIS.
sons today why he would vote
WIS:
permanent system of Universal
anent uncertainty upon the plans
e. Reciprocal Trade Agreements,
price control, and many other
pieces of legislation are enacted
for a definite period after which
they cease unless Congress re-
news the law. l think democracy
will be made safer in years to
come if we do not permanently
adopt a military state.
2. l have made a careful study
of the nations that have main
tanned Universal Military Con-
scription. These nations are the
poorest in Europe because of the
permanent drain on the re-
sources of the country and the
temptation of the military caste
to provoke war.
3. The nation, during this
emergency, can build its armed
forces to the extent necessary
without adopting a system that
would Immediately become
obsolete in an about war. The
Graft was accepted as the only
fair way to build our armed
forces in both World War l and
II. If all-out World War III
comes, everyone admits it would
be necessary to discard Univer-
sal Military Training and to re-
sort entirely to the draft for
military needs. l would vote for
any bill essential to the security
of the United States, but this is
not such a bill.
4. Canada, Great Britain,
France, Italy and our other sup
posed allies in the United Nations
do not have Universal Military
Training. If we adopt UNIT,
the end result will find the
United States furnishing 800 of
the fighting forces everywhere
just as we are in Korea. Even if
! saw fit to adopt Universal
Military Training in the United
States, l would not do so until
other United Nations members
do the same.
S. Any youth in America who
feels that he wants training can
enlist in any branch of the Arm
ed Services today. If the object
OF the military is training, or
reserves, we can shorten the en-
liStment period.
g.. Neither time nor money
would be saved by Universal
Military Training and, further
more, it would not in itself tend
TO save the lives of our fighting
forces due to the fact that every
one called back to duty would
have to be retrained. National
| Guard Units called up in World
| War II and for the Korean War
! were familiar with their Wea-
pons, but it took as much as a
year of training to integrate
them into fighting units before
they could be used in actual
combat. Unit training is the i'm
portant thing whether it be a
division or a battalion and to
really save lives this training
must be in the unit with which
the young man expects to fight.
If we train ten million men
under UNIT. for a period of six
months and only use two million
of them in the permanent fight
ing forces, we have wasted 80&
of our manpoWer and 800 of our
training money.
7. If we make all of u male
population eligible for military
training, the financial burden
will be so great that the Veter-
| ans of World War | and II and
the Korean War r bound to
suffer. We are finding it in
creasingly difficult to get proper
laws and adequate funds for the
sixteen million veterans we al
| ready have in this country.
Every trainee under UNIT. will
be eligible for benefits of the
Federal Employees Compensa-
ton Act. We can not possibly
train every youth in America
permanently and sur proper
| care for existing veterans and
their dependents. 1t IS much
sounder policy to train only
those we expect to use.
8. If this bill is passed, we
would still have the draft; we
| would have two sets of traineeS.
This duplication will only make
confusion, create dissatisfaction
| and retard our defense program.
9. Six months training is not
the type of UNIT. endorsed
through the years by the Veter-
ans Organizations. l have care
fully studied the resolutions OF
the National Conventions of the
| American Legion and other vet
Grams organizations from 1921
| until now and l do not think this
bill conforms to those resolu-
tions. The veterans wanted the
profits taken out of war and at
the same time they wanted all
men and industry available to
any future war effort. They
wanted the burden of war equal
ly distributed. Some of the pres
ent leaders have endorsed this
bill, but it was only drafted a
| few weeks ago and has never