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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1944)
On&aon StuAenti jbebate: 'Militasui CortAcnifitiojt Alien, the Wan,?' Mr. Pro Contends — By BILL SINNOTT The greatest danger facing the United States is not World War II. It is our national attitude after the war. We can become isolationistic again, placing the dollar over the security of the people. We can join a revived League of Nations. We can place our signature on another Kellogg pact, dreaming of some Utopian state of freedom from war. We can have another Wash ington conference; sinking the best ships of our fleet. All this would breed a situation that would bring on World War III before the year 2000. If we don’t prepare for war after this one, another master race a generation from now will profit by the mistakes of the Axis and beat us. The Axis by now knows the error in judgment of Hitler and his high command and won t re peat them the next time. Docu ments have fallen into our hands charting German plans for the next war. “ There are three main reasons for compulsory military training in this country after the armistice: For National Security 1. Our national security demands it. By national security, I mean peace. No nation is secure if it is threatened by war. Twice within one generation now our country has been caught unprepared in the midst of a world situation that was coming to a climax. Yet, in each instance, the general public was not ready to support the few far sighted individuals who saw the inevitable eruption. I don’t put the blame for the present rehearsal of World War III on the dictators. When Man churia and Ethiopia were raped by supposedly civilized nations, every intelligent citizen of the United States and Britain should have seen the meaning.* The ‘‘Peace in our time” man had a good many followers. There are plenty of iso lationists in America today. The fact is, and the only one that is important to the nation 40 to GO years hence, we need to be reasonably prepared to hold our own. That means compulsory mili tary training. Soft Democracies Again When the next time arrives, and the dictators decide the democ racies are soft and ripe for the kill, the totalitarians will have the material for the job. 2. We need compulsory military training to give our young men something they miss in our public school system. Our schools are practically valueless in building boys into strong young men. The rejection percentage of young men between 18 and 25 is proof enough. A year of training, under army methods, for boys around 18 or 19 will do more than 12 years of pub lic school P. E. 3. We need military training to teach our youth the meaning of discipline. Face the Facts We must face the facts. I hope the proposed setup agreed upon by the Dumbarton Oaks conference will keep the world steady. If you believe the Britain of Mr. Winston Churchill will give up her empire; that Russia will forbear to use her new-found power; you are living in the fool's paradise of 1918-1939. We don’t need to have World War III. We didn’t need to have World War II. There is only one way to prevent war—civilized na tions must be so strong that bar baric powers won’t dare to wage war against them. If we don’t have military train ing after this war, it is possible that three decades from now Am erican boys will be dying in tfye far corners of the world, and the United States will be getting the dose that Germany and Britain got by air in this war. Our commander-in-chief has come out for compulsory military training after the war. The year of training would be a mixture of military drill and the type of work carried out by the defunct CCC. It would toughen our youth and give them an idea of the immen sity and resources of our country. NEWEST ARRIVALS . . . 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But we should remember that the problems facing statesmen of today will be our problems to morrow. Not only will we have to help solve them, but we will have to live in the world fash ioned by the solution of present national and international con troversies. With this thought in mind The Emerald has begun a project de signed to present both sides of some problem now faced either by our national government or by the coming peace conferences and world organization. The columns will be written by stu dents, and each will express a student’s opinion on the issue. At a later date a poll will be taken of the entire campus to find out the community’s atti tude. The Emerald will appreciate any suggestions of questions you students wished discussed, for the column is designed primarily as a forum for you. Anyone wish ing to write on one side or an other of some pertinent question should not hesitate to submit his name. The best articles are al ways written by a person who feels strongly concerning the subject at hand.—M.A.C. Gov. Wiif Speak (Continued from page one) living organizations will go to gether to the station. Students liv ing in town are also expected to participate in the rally. Duane Autzen, chairman of the transportation committee, urges all students who have cars avail able to fill them in order to allow as many rides as possible for the people in the parade. Members of the rally squad, led by Joan Holstad, will distribute torches and posters to the crowd at the depot, but, said Lois Mc Conkey, in charge of living organ ization turnout, “everyone will have to make his own noise!” They say “blind as a bat.” Ac tually bats have eyes and can see. DANCING EVERY SAT. NIGHT with Art Holman and his Orchestra EUGENE HOTEL "Swing in the Saddle" JANE FRAZER SLIM SUMMERVILLE "Falcon in Mexico" TOM CONWAY Mr. Con Contends — By BILL BUELL Almost everyone in the country is now saying that after this war is over we should maintain a strong international organiza tion to prevent future wars. Many of these same individuals | are also saying that every young man in the United States should receive a year’s compulsory military training. Universal military training is useless if peace is to be main tained. Either these people are convinced that peace, no matter how desirable, is impossible, or they actually want more wars. The theory that keeping the nation armed to the teeth is neces sary to keep potential aggressors under control is nonsense. An effective international police force and economic sanctions should adequately perform that function. ^ Many of the big industrialists and financiers in the United States would welcome another war. War is profitable. By selling to both sides many business groups have proved that as long as the profits keep rolling in they do not care how much human suffering a war may cause. American corporations continued selling metals to Japan long after it became apparent that the war with that country was inevitable. DuPont and Standard Oil exchanged trade secrets with Germany’s I. G. Farbenindustrie even after the beginning of the present conflict. Capitalists -vs. Russia Many of our capitalists, afraid that something will happen to their precious “free-enterprise” system, would like to see the United States, England, and Ger many unite to attack Russia and wipe communism from the face of the earth. They are already at tempting to create suspicion and hatred of the U.S.S.R. as evi denced by Bill Bullitt’s recent anti Russian article in Henry Luce's Wall street - controlled “Life” magazine. Troops supposedly drafted to fight Germany and Japan have been taught strike-breaking tech niques including the use of tear gas. Men drafted to train for fu ture foreign wars could easily be used to fight labor on the home front. Training Detrimental The apologists for compulsory training say that a year in the army would be good for all young men. We believe that the psycho logical effects of military training on the individual are, on the whole, detrimental rather than beneficial. Education should teach men to be builders and creators, leaders and thinkers. The army would train men to be destroyers, mere un thinking cogs in a great killing machine. If, wXen the outcome of the present war is fully known and continued peace appears improb able, the United States should not attempt to give all young dozens a year’s training but should rt8m tain a small army of highly-trained technicians enlisted for a period of several years. One Year Illogical Modern war is so complicated and technical that men cannot be trained for many essential branch es of the service in one year’s time. Miltiary technology changes so rapidly that a “trained reserv ist” who has been out of service for a year or two may prove of little more value than a man with no training at all. Mass conscrip tion should not be resorted to^ntil an actual conflict is seen to be inevitably approaching. Probably most advocates of com pulsory training are either those who do not realize the military inefficiency of such a measure; politicians who dangle before the people a promise of preparedness; or those who actually want war and plan to make the United States war-minded by constant emphasis upon military matters. F\N\5H fctfjAfcHtS Vla.teB, ?<*> L^^melov daVOuuQ-^* ^ *«! tiny vm^9 **><»>«& * L.-l*^'iX ••■-rt^sr^2 ttansfotms . 0fv)anfl* j*. -- r^% >/ and beav>iv. 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