Southern Oregon miner., December 25, 1947, Image 6

Southern* Oregon News Review, Thursday, December 25, 1947
UMT Puts New Face on Old Army
l n ¡versal Training o Program
c*
Called Modern, Démocratie
I ESSIE walked slowly through (he
By BAVKIIAGE
N ew s <4« m /> î < en d C om m en tator.
(W h y should universe! m ilitary sreming he necessery et ell? H ow Joes the
Present plen differ from the "draft"? This is the second in e series of articles on
this pertinent subject.)
WASHINGTON.—What is universal military training?
The more I learn about it, the more I am convinced that
most of the people—both UMT’s supporters and opponents—
have very little idea of what it really is.
LEADERSHIP CHAMPIONS . . . Pal Wall, 18. (left) of Savannah, Ga.,
and Le Roy Donnay, 20. of Glencoe, Minn., were named national lead­
ership champions a i the 1047 national 4-H club congress in Chicago.
In addition to the trophies with which they are shown, each received
a $200 scholarship.
I'm more interested in the people who oppose UMT because I think
they are doing themselves and their children a great injustice by allow­
ing their thinking to remain out of focus.
I ’d be w illing to bet that nine-
tenths of the general public who dis­ young men to be trained. Although
cuss the question
these young men. legally, would
are looking past
have m ilita ry status, they would not
the object of dis-
be members of the armed forces,
c u s s i o n. their
would be subject to no duty other
ideas focused on
than training and would become
something which
members of the m ilita ry establish­
no longer exists.
ment only in a national emergency.
They have not
NATIONAL SECURITY TRAIN­
examined what is
This is. as Sen. Arthur Vanden­
ING COMMISSION, which would
actually in front
set the policies, standards, sub­ berg (Rep., Mich.) told his fellow
of t h e m , and
stance and character of the train­ senators, “ a significant moment to
therefore are ar­
ing program. The commission would demonstrate the solidarity of this
guing from
a
consist of three paid members ap­ hemisphere.”
completely wrong
And with the knowledge of that
pointed by the President — two
hypothesis.
Old
certain fact uppermost in their
members,
including
the
chairman,
ideas stick.
to be civilians, and one to be from minds members of the U. S. senate
In other words,
voted 72 to 1 to ratify the inter-
Laukhage
the armed forces.
many people do
American defense treaty agreed to
GENERAL ADVISORY BOARD, by 21 American republics at the Rio
not realize what UMT is NOT. It is
NOT anything like the m ilitary serv­ which would provide the commis­ conference last summer.
ice (conscription) which some of us sion with the best technical advice
The hemispheric agreement for
knew from personal contact in the on the moral, religious and educa­ mutual defense of nations in the
past, and others knew from hearsay. tional phases of the program. The Americas embodies three main
UMT, as proposed in the national board of 10 to 25 members would points :
security training act, is totally d if­ be composed largely of civilians,
ln case of armed attack from
ferent in many essential principles serving part time (with pay), but
• outside the hemisphere, all na­
from the "d ra ft” under the selective j would include at least three mem­
bers of the armed forces. It would tions have the automatic right to
service system.
meet the attack with m ilita ry force.
have no policy-making authority
If attack occurs inside the
First why is it necessary? Let
SELECTIVE TRAINING SYS­
me quote the reasons given by
TEM, sim ilar to the selective serv­ —. hemisphere, American nations
the house of representatives
ice system of World War II, which may go voluntarily to the aid of the
armed services committee, as
would register, examine, classify, victim , with consultations to follow.
digested in the November issue
If attacks occur both inside the
assign, defer, deliver and maintain
of the Army Information Digest
• hemisphere and outside the se­
records of men registered under
(which article should be read in
curity region immediate consulta­
UMT.
its entirety for a real grasp of
tions w ill be called.
As
you
note,
although
m
ilita
ry
the subject):
V irtually unanimous approval of
training (in the modern sense which
The United States has tradition- is more than ever training in many the treaty by the senate was a good
• ally depended heavily upon the valuable civilian skills) is the basis indication that congress was fully
civilian reserve components. In ev­ of the national security corps, it J
ery major war, the regular forces is devoid of many factors which j
have constituted less than 10 per have made universal service in the j
cent of the total strength. These past traditionally objectionable to I
wars have been fought by citizen the American people.
soldiers, directed and organized by
In these days, any m ilita ry train- !
a small nucleus of professionals.
ing insofar as it involves killing 1
is objectionable to the balanced per­
In the past, geographical isola-
sonality. But, since we have not i
. tion has provided adequate
time for training and equipping
large numbers of Americans —
fresh from civil life and unskilled in
the art of war — before it was nec­
essary to send them into battle. In
any future emergency, however, no
such cushion of time» can be expect­
aware of the cardinal principle of
ed. There must be sufficient trained
successful
foreign relations that
forces in being on any future emer­
commitments abroad are worse
gency day.
than useless unless the nation form -
strong and lasting alliances to sup­
The regular forces today consti-
port those commitments. The hem­
. tute no more than the tradition­
ispheric treaty had in it the makings
al nucleus of professional m ilitary
of a good foreign policy.
skills. Furthermore, they are spread
Meanwhile.
President Truman
thinly over a large area of the world,
had some thoughts on how inter-
engaged in occupation duties. In
the circumstances, the size and de­ eliminated the predatory forces in American defense could be ad­
gree of readiness of the reserve com­ the world, have not even isolated vanced from theory to the realm
ponents become matters of the most them, certain measures of self-pro­ of actuality. He proposed to con­
vital concern. For if these reserve tection like UMT are necessary. gress that the Panama canal be
converted into a sea-level water­
components are not 'adequate, the
What are the features of m ili­
way (see map), and that a unified
overall m ilita ry strength of the
tary training which stick in the
command be established in the A t­
United States is a hollow shell.
craw of the average free Ameri­
lantic area with Adm. H. P. Blandy
The reserve components are far
can?
in authority over army, navy and
• below their authorized strengths
air forces from Iceland and Green­
and are without hope of filling their
Probably the first (the thing that land to the Caribbean.
quotas by voluntary means alone. used to overwhelm me at certain
These authorized strengths repre­ moments in my early months in the CHALLENGE:
sent the barest minimum estimate army) is the lack of freedom. No
of manpower requirements.
longer was I a free man whose lib ­ Accepted
Republican leaders had issued a
erty
could be curtailed only after a
The national guard is at approx-
direct challenge to the adm inistra­
• im ately 16 per cent of its author­ ju ry tria l and the judgment of my tion to offer a bill incorporating
ized strength, the organized units of peers. Suddenly, I was confronted President Truman’s ration-and-con-
the organized reserve corps at 14 by the Articles of War, the court
trol recommendations for combat­
per cent, and the unassigned reserve m artial system, and in some cases ing inflation, and the measure which
pool at 35 per cent (summer of (although I personally never suf­
the administration finally proposed
1947). The 1,200,000 members of the fered much from it even in war­ was neither more nor less than any­
unassigned reserve pool are merely time) the petty tyranny of a supe­
one had expected.
names on paper, untrained and un­ rio r in rank.
Handed to the senate judiciary
organized.
But the trainee under the pro­ committee by Averell Harriman,
UMT wovfld build up the reserve posed national security training act secretary of commerce, the specific
• components to their authorized is not subject to the Articles of War bill called for expansive powers to
strengths, and would achieve a sta­ at all during the first phase of his ration food, gasoline, steel and other
b ility and an increased efficiency of training and only conditionally dur­ scarce commodities.
Theoretically it was a bill to allo­
our ready forces that do not now ing the additional six months of
obtain. The alternative would be a service, depending on which option cate m aterials to essential users,
he may elect.
control business inventories and
regular army of about 4,500,000.
NEWS REVIEW
Defense Pact Ratified;
Inflation Bill Offered
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Consideration was given the
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. claim that future warfare would
be of the pushbutton variety requir­
PROFITABLE D U ST BOWL
ing "only a handful of scientists.”
This claim is a dangerous illusion.
I f there is another war, it w ill be
more "to ta l” than the last, and w ill
involve a greater number of human
beings without any hope of distin­
Out in Idaho they have a “ dust
guishing the combatant from the bowl” that not only is not worrying
noncombatant. The war in all prob­ the good people of that state but
ability w ill come into the cities and stands to bring them in a lot of
the homes of the people of the money.
United States. In such event, the
They're even planning for its ex­
survival or recovery of the nation pansion, for in that dusty, sage­
m ight well depend on the presence brush-covered expanse of land lies
of well-disciplined and able-bodied 60 per cent of the known American
men in every community.
supply of phosphate rock, source of
phosphorous, one of the three p ri­
The foregoing, then, were
m ary plant foods.
some of the reasons which
Experts say that the dusty treas­
guided the armed services com­
ure
which Idaho is shipping here
mittee of the house to vote out a
and there in an ever-widening range
national security training act.
holds the key to a new and broader
The act would set up four agen­
agricultural economy in the entire
cies:
intermountain and Pacific West.
In ages past the Rocky mountain
NATIONAL SECURITY TRAIN-
ING CORPS, consisting of all area of southeastern Idaho, north­
continue export controls; but admin­
istration spokesmen admitted that
the allocation powers provided for
would authorize the government to
impose consumer rationing and
even to buy up entire grain crops if
it saw the necessity for such action.
And through the welter of the nd-
ministration-Republican melee over
what to do and how to do it there
came at least two charges of "so­
cialization” from top U. S. business­
men leveled at the government's
avowed program.
park. Overhead the sky was
clear, making the stars stand out.
Tiny pinpoints of light, they left no
trace of the storm which had blan­
keted the ground with a thick white
cover. She turned and looked be­
hind her. The solitary tracks she
had made looked lonesome by them­
selves. There should be two sets,
Ear H arm ony
she thought with a sigh. Last New
"W het's the metier, ¡odkins?" Je-
Year’s Eve there were two sets.
Mine and Jerry’ s. The thought of mended the hootshop meneger. "Cen t
. t
Jerry made her feel worse. She tried ; you help the customer?"
"No, sir."' replied the essislenl. "lie's
to push it out of her mind. Sec here, trying Io find lu o shoes the! st/ueek in
Jessie, she admonished herself, the seme key!"
you’re out here to get some exer­
cise and enjoy yourself. Stop being
Doing nothing Is the most tir e ­
a fool. It's over, finished. You ami some thing in the w orld, because
Jerry ure all washed up. Forget it. you ca n 't stop and rest.
But her inner mind wouldn’ t let her.
Aim ed R ight
Ruth, her roommate, had the ra­
“ J im m y !”
his
m other
ex­
dio going full blast as she opened
the door. Guy dance music poured claim ed. "H o w dare you kick your
out, filling the room with memories. little brother in the stom ach?”
“ I t ’s his own fa u lt, Ma. He
"That you, Jess?” She called from
turned uround.”
the bedroom.
"Yeah,” Jessie took off her pert
little hat and threw it at the closet
door, then regaining her self-con­
trol she laid it neatly on the shelf
"Wish you'd chunge your mind
and go with us.”
" I have a headache." She tried to
get interested in a story. It was no
use. even the stories were full of
happy couples As happy as Jerry
and I used to be. There I go again, j
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Your Children
have COUGHS
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hulldltig natural oil. F.aay
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recommend It I Buy Unlay
at your drug atnra.
FODDER
Spuds fo r Cuttle
A New Jersey cattleman. Eugene
K. Denton, has a theory that might !
go a long way toward easing the
grain shortage.
MORE than |ust a tonic —
His idea is to feed cattle raw po­
it's powerful nourishment!
tatoes instead of grain.
Experimenting with 20 yearlings
purchased especially for the pur- j
pose. Denton fed them on a special
Ó70* ¿ fó fto y TONIC
diet, based on ground potatoes, salt
and molasses, for 25 days. The
steers, which averaged 667*4 pounds
when the experiment began, showed
an average gain per steer of 1.4
Ruth, her roommate, had the
for so-called
pounds a day or 25*4 pounds per
radio going full blast.
steer for the test period.
Prof. W illiam Ljundahl of Rutgers she reminded herself, why can’t I
Bn* kacbee. leg paint. broken sleep, tuonful ¡»a»-
university department of animal
•age» utuaily go ao much quicker if \ <»u awttcfe
just forget him? That stupid quar­
to Foley (the new kidnev bladder) Fill» ’I hey
husbandry called the experiments a
rel. She tried to remember what it
atimula'o*iu«gi«hk>dne\ «.then ALLAY BLAD­
success.
D E R I It 1(1 I A I ION. 'I hvt a tho « iuae of m«*t
had been about und couldn't. It
aint, aabea, urge« oare t A o u y to enhrtlu <fu* fe
Denton made public this simple seemed very important nt the time.
f toofAt
u/nrys Ho tor qui iter, lot C' r lotting relief,
bikdder ns well as stim ulate kidney action
formula: To every 100 pounds of Anyway it had done the trick. I
Do thia: u*e I »»ley (the new kidney bladder)
freshly sliced potatoes add one was almost over it too, she thought,
i ’lll»: they a lto have d i« t ••d atire-lik e action
on bladder A t Your druggist I nleea you find
handful of regular salt and one gal­ until the holidays got here.
them far more " a itt/a c to ry , D O lB i- J . Y O U if
lon of molasses water. The molasses
M O N E Y BACK
"Now if someone would Just play
water is prepared by adding one
Rhapsody in Blue,” Ruth’s voice
pint of molasses to one full pail of
was half mocking.
water.
"D o I look that bad?” Jessie
FASTER • SM00TNFR/
turned around.
LANDON:
"You look worse. Honest, honey, I
Bip Medicine
think you’ re crazy to sit uround on
Bisdn
A lf M. Landon, the Kansas New Year’s Eve and stew about one
budget-balancer who might have man. The world is fu ll of them.” .
V Z z ________________
been president of the United States
[»IN O » OR DO USlt IPGS
"N o t like Jerry.”
if Franklin D. Roosevelt hadn’t de­
"J
e
rry
’
s
a
great
guy
all
right
but
j
feated him by a landslide in 1936,
has come out publicly in favor of why grieve about him the rest of
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower for Presi­ your life? You’re only young once,
you know.”
dent in 1948.
" I ’d just spoil things for the rest
Landon was known to have joined
of you. You know what happened
forces with Roy Roberts of the Kan­ the last time I tried it. Everything
sas City Star to push the Eisen­
we would do would remind me of
hower bandwagon. In Chicago to ad­
him .”
dress a Kiwanis meeting, Landon
"Okay, honey,” Ruth shrugged |
said, "The Kansas delegation to the
her shoulders, "have it your way.”
Republican national convention w ill
She went back into the bedroom
be for Eisenhower.” That, coming
and started dressing. Ten minutes
from the shrewd form er governor
later she came out and whirled
of Kansas, was strong political
around the room. "How do I look?”
medicine.
Jessie looked up from her mag­
“ I don’t think any of the politi­ azine. "You look swell. He’ll prob­
cians in my state w ill get out of line ably want to eat you tonight.”
on that. I think I know what the
"Thanks, honey.” Ruth started
general’ s social, economic and po­ for the door as they heard a knock.
litica l views are. He hasn’t said It was her date.
anything to me about the presidency
Jessie sank back down in the
directly or indirectly but i t ’s my chair as they left. I won’t cry, she
guess he w ill make his views known told herself. No m atter what, I
when he leaves the army and they won’ t cry, but I can’t stand that
w ill be all right.”
music any longer. She crossed the
Meanwhile, it was announced that room and snapped off the radio. The
Eisenhower was scheduled to take sudden silence was even worse. She
over his scheduled position as presi­ turned it back on and spun the dial.
dent of Columbia university next Music on every station. Worst of all
June 7—just about two weeks before it was music from all year. Music
the Republican national convention Jerry and she had danced to, she
is supposed to convene.
thought bitterly. The wrong music
for now.
She looked up, startled by a
knock on the door.
"H ey,” a man’ s voice called out.
“ Open up.”
It was Jerry. “ Hi, darling,” he
smiled, " i f I ’ m not welcome you
can throw me out. But I just had
to try. . . . I couldn’t stay away
came worried because he could not on New Year’s Eve.”
obtain sufficient fertilizer for his
Now, she thought happily as she
vast farm lands. So in the spring of rushed into his arms, now the mu­
1944 he began construction of his sic is right. Just right.
own superphosphate plant in Poca­
You bet you can say i t . . . You’re
tello.
an American . . . and the Amer­
O riginally designed to turn out
ican Bill of Rights guarantees
60,000 tons annually, Simplot's plant
the right of trial by jury. B u t. . .
has been expanded to the point
Freedom doesn’t work unless you
where now it is producing 200,000
The origin of the celebration of
work at it . . . Vote, serve on
tons a year of "18 per cent” super­ January 1 has been traced to the
juries,
be active in community
pagans, and at one period in the
phosphate.
affairs, know what’s going on
The "18 per cent” means that middle ages the debate over when
■nd do something about it.
when the phosphate rock has been the new year arrived became so
pulverized to dust and treated with furious that it was observed on four
sulphuric acid, 18 per cent of the different days, March 25, Decem­
phosphoric acid in the rock is ber 25, Easter, and by a small group
made available for use by growing on January 1. When Augustus re­
vised the calendar January 1 was
plants.
adopted.
SCOTT’S EMULSION
SPEEDED-UP COMFORT
KIDNEY SUFFERERS
F**}:
5
blades 4
10*
>*5
Idaho Cashes in on Phosphate
eastern Utah and southwestern Wyo­
ming was a tropical playground for
countless prehistoric monsters. In
passing on to whatever reward was
in store for them, these monsters
bequeathed themselves to posterity
in the form of rock phosphate, some
six billion tons of which are esti­
mated to be underground in that
Idaho-Utah-Wyoming sector.
Prior to 1934 use of phosphate in
the West was negligible. The rich,
volcanic soil was in little need of
fortification. Also, the lim ited sup­
plies of the commercially manufac­
tured fertilizer were being used al­
most exclusively in the eastern and
southern states.
Then, during World Wa. II, one
Idaho landholder, J. R. Sfmplot, be-
Sho w aited at the corner, Joy-
I «usly — then pensively
then e x­
pectantly — then ciiH iially — then
anxiously—and an hour passed.
" M u n ,” she said, ” is u brute,
faithless and untrue, im a p a h le of
keeping a prom ise.”
Tw o hundred yards down the
street he said the same things
about women.
She was at the
wrong corner.
Pagans’ New Year
ew iyfody & •jö&f