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MiY THE TEEN-AGE"DRAFT
ll you are confused about the draft, and wish that
somebody would make up his mind what is going to
be done, then you can sympathize with Washington.
The nation’s capital is all in a dither as to where we
should go from here.
In World War I. we pulled some 4,000.000 men
into the Arm\ and took another 260,000 into the Navy. |
Bence tiie end of this year. Draft Director Hcr
shey s:v s, we shall have in excess of 4,500.000 soldiers.
The Na. y and its land-fighting unit, the Marine Corps,
are building up toAvard a goal of two and a half mil
lions. Next year the Army wants enough men to build
its aggregate strength up to around ten milions.
Th t mean that by the end of 1042, if all goes well
wc i g.* a, have some 12,500,000 men in uniform. Ob
viou: y ,... such organization can be built without up
setting the civilian economy pretu thoroughly.
Up to now Selective Service has found most of its
men. in what might be culled the “dispensable” classi
fication — young, healthy, without dependents who
would suffer unduly from absence of a bread-winner.
Bui we have about reached the bottom of that bin.
The burning question right now is which of two
classifications should be drafted first: the 18-19-year
olds, the brighteved youngsters who have not yet had op
portunit;-. to sprout their wings, enjoy the delights of
young manhood, or even to complete their educations;'
or manned men upon whom wives and children de
pend f r the very bread they eat.
General Hershev says that from a million to a
million id a. half men must he taken next year from
one group or the other.
Under the law as it now stands, he cannot touch
the youngsters.
The public, judging from the results of a recent
poll : n no doubt what should be done under such |
circumstances. R voted six to one in favor of calling ’
the 18 •18-ycar-old men into service.
T'.’s co ncldcs with the Army’s preference. The.
gene: iis v, add much prefer having strong, alert, adapt
able, r-, Alienyoungsters, who leave no disrupted
homes ab. :i which to worry.
Industry, too. would like to see the law changed.
The youn: er men have not yet made places for them
selves m war production. Such skills as they have are
new. uncertain and easily replaceable.
Senator Taft of Ohio, S nator Gurney of South Da
kota and Representative Wadsworth of New York have 1
taken the lead in seeking, to have Congress amend the
law so that the 18-19-vear-olds class can be called
right away. But President Roosevelt has not given
the word, one way or another.
R s said freely here that the reason for the delay
is pc’, a!, thr.i both President and Congress fear that
the v >’v s would take political revenge in November I
if the law is amended.
Or. cho other hand, some realists believe that the
P it < A ip liter will be even worse if nothing is dene
o' ft reaches into homes and plucks out a mil
lion ' it. t v fathers of dependent children.
.] -,'iuae.on is further confused by a couple of
olhe. )>. Aems. One is the question whether we ever *
will t. up the ren million men that are discussed of
ficially. Ilia other is the qu- stion whether recruiting
shoulc be stopped entirely, and men drafted for the
Navy and the Marine Corps as they now are for the
Army.
The Navy is bitterly opposed. Its argument rests
upon tradition. Sailors and Marines have always been
volunteers, say the admirals, and the Navy wants no
sewc Now that the Navy and Marines are taking
reavy ub.slantiai bites out of our manpower, instead
of the relatively small ones to which they were limit
ed in 1918, there is a growing sentiment that if con
scription is justifiable for the Army, it should be ap
plied similarly to all the armed forces.
A Great Highway
In building the highway to Alaska the Army is about
to complete a monumental job in an amazing short
time. So very soon we shall have a back door open to
Alaska. And we are pushing the Pan-Americans High
way to Panama. These roads promise to be of immense
utility. 6 hink what they will be when peace returns.
An auto can travel on one continuous and unbroken
highway from the Panama Canal to the Far North.
There wi! be nothing else like it in the world.
Yet the Army is not thisking of what will happen af
ter the war. It is concerned solely with immediate ne
cessity- . In case Japanese submarine made Alaska wa
ters dangerous we have a safe route for men and sup
plies. The same thing appies lo the Canal. Incidentally,
of tour this highway will upon up great regions of
virgin territory, forests in Canada and fine agricultural
land in Central America. It is costing a great deal of
money, ^ei in the end it will prove a good investment.
Frenrli Revolution
Americans have been thinking of France in terms of
Vichy French and Fighting French. Our attention has
been divided between the France that works with Ger
many and the France that joins its old allies in open
war against the commo nenemy. As active forces, both
these groups are small. Not more than five percent of
the population follows Laval and his accomplices in
the- policy of collaboration and en even smaller fraction
has been able to esoape to swell the growing ranks of
General de Gaulle. But behind these little groups
loom more than 40.000,000 Frenchmen, a peope in exile
at home, a proud nation, molded above all others by
the great traditions and free currents of Western civil
ization, delivered into the power of the storm-trooper
mind that first crushed all that was humane and liberal
in Germany and then set out to club the rest of Europe
into submission to its brutal and barbaric mastery.
We have no need to be told how the French mind re
acts to this humiliation. If there was ever a question |
that in their defeat and disillusion the French might!
accept the Nazi order, it is answered by every witness 1
who comes out of France. Even more convincingly it
is answered by the Germans themselves. They admit
ted that they had executed 70 hostages at Bordeaux
alone, and though these reprisal murders of the inno
cent mount week by week throughout the occupied
zone, attacks on the occupying forces increase in num
bers and violence. Disturbances have reached the dim
ensions of a concerted movement of revolt.
Irrespective of Vichy or the free Frenchmen in exile,
a profound revulsion and convulsion are in process
within France itself. We hear of “a wave of revolu
tion,” of the Moscow radio calling on the French not
to wait for the armies of deliverance but to “take up |
arms now against the invaders and light the fuse o'
revolt.” The appeal for action now is-Russia’s attempt
to create a second front of her own by summoning into
the open the underground movement of rebellion, and
there can be no doubt that the intensification of sabot
age, obstruction and violence is in response to this j
summons.
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The forces of revolt are sim
mering in the French caldron.
Whether the agony of defeat and
Nazi occupation make for unity
or more disunity, the latent rev
olution must be near the boiling
point.—New York Times
German (lows Will
Donate Their Tails
WASHINGTON, Nov. — The
Office of War Information re
in its that Germans cows will
have their tails clipped to help
make up the textile shortage in
the German Reich.
According to a correspondent
of the Swiss newspaper “Demo
crat.” the tails of all cattle in
Grmany are to be shorn and the
hair -so obtained will he collect
ed by school children and brot
into the German schools, then it
w ill be turned over to the Army.
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pendent, the German Army or
der says:
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end of the cow’s tail for whisk
ing off flies.”
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