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Show Students Express Opinions in Poll Fifty-two per cent of the high school students in the United States are opposed to compulsory military service after the war, according ac-cording to a survey just completed by the Institution of Student Opinion, Opin-ion, a national organization sponsored spon-sored by Scholastic Magazines. Boys gave their approval to postwar compulsory military service serv-ice by a close vote of 47 per cent for, 45 per cent against, and 8 per cent expressing no opinion. Girls rejected the proposal by an opposition oppo-sition of 59 per cent. Thirty-one per cent favored it, and 10 per cent had no opinion. The combined com-bined boys' and girls' vote was as follows: 52 per cent against; 3ft per cent for; 9 per cent no opinion. Of the 79,549 boys and girls who voted no or no opinion on the question of compulsory service, 82 per cent approved voluntary service, serv-ice, 13 per cent disapproved, and 5 per cent registered no opinion. Reasons for Arguments Listed Students voted by individual, ballot in their respective schools and, after the poll had been taken-were taken-were questioned by student reporters re-porters as to the reasons for their opinions. Typical comments of those who voted against compulsory compul-sory service were : "I don't like the word compulsory. compul-sory. This is supposed to be a free country. Let's keep it that way." "What the world needs is more education and less drilling." Those in favor of compulsory service reasoned: "It is not only good training but, if another emergency arises, we will be ready." "High school boys need the discipline dis-cipline of military training. It builds strength and ccharacter." Arguments for voluntary service were: "That's democracy! And that's what we're fighting for, isn't it?" "You put more into anything you do for your own free will." The second question measured student opinion on a proposed military mil-itary and citizenship training program pro-gram for both boys and girls. The students of Soujth, along with other students all 1 over the United States, participated in this poll and was tabulated 1 with the other results. South high boys were also in favor of a year's compulsory com-pulsory military training while the girls were opposed. |