Show push for draft as anny aimy recruitment misses mark by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator service 1616 eye street NW washington D 0 washington uncle sam Is completing the biggest helg felpi wanted campaign in history and hes hea afraid it been a per cent success when the u it and the shouting houting dies the captains and the kings depart the men who served their country take up the plough shares or the pen as a simpie simple c citizen I 1 t I 1 z e n again a g a 1 n and somebody has to took around for in more re to makeup make up the tho peacetime army and navy what uncle has been doing life on the bounding main has always had sufficient appeal especially to wanders landers In to keep the navy up to par without much effort but americans ordinarily lust just doret dont go for soldiering and that fact has the war department worried it decide how big or arlivie liVIe the army must be it gets its orders from higher up such and such Is americas policy tho the war department has to get enough pairs of sound legs le gs and arms and enough cool heads to carry it out conscription has always been unpopular p we dont even like to use the word but we have to get the men hence the fight to extend the draft and hence the greatest recruiting campaign this or my any other country has ever launched the a aum expended on this campaign Is big even compared to the amount spent to remind america of the pause that refreshes it was run like any other advertising campaign with a selection of the media best suited tor for its purposes newspapers dai dally y and weekly magazines especially those devoted to popular kopul ar ec science lence billboards and radio posters and window displays were generously used it did bring in recruits but that isn t enough and enlistments have declined steadily from their peak in november that men either signed up or re upped as we used to say but watch the numbers shrin kl december january february march li estimated april seek to better als lot besides this vigorous c campaign a real sincere and sustained effort Is being made to improve the life in barrack and drill field hearings to hear the GI gripes with specific plans to right wrongs where they were found and can be corrected a thorough examination of army justice by civilian lawyers selected by the american bar association a 20 per cent pay increase all these are part of a plan furthered by secretary of War Patterson whose one desire Is to leave the army better when he be retires than the way he found it but there are a lot of hurdles one Is the need of a higher type of soldier in these days of mechanized warfare the second Is the increasing standard of civilian wages with which the army has to compete the automotive and the durable goods industries are the chief competitors and their pay bayis Is good however there are intangibles which enter into the question too A man hasto have more than a delire for clothes a root roof and three square meals aday a day aldno responsibilities ties to e enlist he has to have a certain love lor for adventure a willingness t to 0 accept the hardships of barrack life in far countries the army really in its heart want the draft it Is a case of taking what they can jet get 1 I know of no officer who would not prefer a volunteer army that Is another intangible but with the commitments which the united states has today and until a united nations organization can be formed which con can take over the military function of the separate countries the need Is men there Is something strange about the opposition to extension of the draft as revealed in the hearings in my personal contacts I 1 have not felt that opposition by tar far the majority of people I 1 have talked with on my recent trip through seven states have agreed that extension of selective service was necessary some said a necessary evil but still necessary one of the most carefully conducted polls undertaken by the national opinion research center of denver university has this to say A substantial majority of the public in this country are convinced convince d chatin spite of the military implications ol of the atom bomb the united states needs peacetime military training this conviction Is evidenced by nationwide nation wide survey results result lust just released by the national opinion research center university of denver to test the stability of public opinion on the issue asked separate but comparable cross sec t eions me of the population two differently worded questions abne one stating on an argument against conscription in view of the military implications of the tha atom bomb the other stating an argument for conscription in view of atomic implications no matter how the question Is worded a strong majority favor compulsory military training in this coun country try even the conscription anti antl word ing elicits a 68 per cent majority in favor of military training despite theston the atom bomb while the pro con question elicits no more than a 71 per cent majority in favot favor of the idea some of the opposition to the legislation came from people who were dups of what many officials believe to be subversive organizations some has been fostered by congressmen looking for votes at this writing however it seems that common sense and patriotism are going to come to uncle sams rescue cut german beer supply I 1 have just been in touch with the state department and am able to say unofficially but by no means uncertainly that the germans are not going to get a soft peace I 1 do not refer to the plan tor for slicing german industry to a very thin piece or the renewed shorts at de Nazif leation in the american zone what I 1 am able to report is a step recently taken which the germans will undoubtedly consider cruel and unusual punishment they are not going to be allowed as they hoped they would be to brew beer the united states government has ruled nothing doing b because cause of the food situation and other reasons for the precise data on the situation 1 I 1 am indebted to my former colleague the western New newspaper r unions correspondent now in germany pauline frederick here it t is the situation on brewing of beer in the three other zones of 0 germany Is ai asi follows based on the he reports given us by the agricultural depre ben senta natives tives of these zones in berlin british zone brewing of beer pro prohibited habited by military order french zone brewing permitted until the recent critical food shortage stopped it R russian zone brewing permitted but no information is available on the amount of grain being used in the russian zone for this purpose the proposed brewing program in the american zone requires tons of barley which will produce about 25 per cent of the 1831 1931 consumption based on a 12 month period in our zone the 1931 1932 production was the lowest on record no coal is permitted for brewing purposes until local food processing needs have been supplied thirty nine thousand tons of barley represents the bread grain ration requirements of our zone tor for approximately 10 days the relative caloric value of tons of barley in the form of beer is 50 32 billion calories or to put it another way one liter is equal to grams of bread in caloric value in the brewing process as compared with the utilization ot of barl barley y cent for bread approximately 20 per cent of the food value of barley Is lost the whole question of brewing beer in our zone is a big political one and promises have been made by the minister presidents and directors of agriculture that this beer would be forthcoming in the spring months when farmers and workers can have it in the heavy working season the german authorities have agreed that if the beer is made it will not be issued as a supplement to the present ration but will be issued as a substitute for bread based on its caloric value well politics or no politics the germans arent going to get their beer let the foam fly 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