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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.
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Published daily during the college year
except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays and
final examination periods by the Associated
Students, University of Oregon.
Entered as second-class matter at the
postoffice, Eugene, Oregon.
Students at a university or
college often tend to forget world
affairs under pressure of imme
diate school problems. The
weight of studies reduces time
for reading newspapers or maga
zines such as Time and News
week. It is so easy to climb with
in the college community shell,
forgetting that we are actually
a part of the world community.
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.
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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.
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