Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-11-17 | Page 1 | Universal Service Plan Draws FDR Praise

Universal Service Plan Draws Praise WASHINGTON Nov Nv 1 17 UP p Pres s. s Roosevelt said Friday Friday Fri Fri- Friday day that he hoped congress would act ad this winter whiter oil oft legislation n nto to provide for one year of peacetime service to the country by young men The president has Indorsed such sucha a proposal before beCore Under questioning ques ques- at t Fridays Friday's news conference conference conference confer confer- ence he said there was not much time in the present session of congress to do much work on it but he did have hopes of something something some some- thing t being heing accomplished In the congress which meets in January Saying that he had been for universal universal universal uni uni- versal training right along Mr Roosevelt declined to be pinned down n on whether ho thought this training should be military His basic Idea he said was that every young man between IS 18 and possibly possibly possibly pos pos- sibly 23 should give at least one year of service to his government Whether the plan should apply to young women too the president president president dent said was another matter and would depend on tho the legislation Itself Asked flatly whether he thought the training should be military the president instead of answering di directly directly di- di posed several questions athis of at his own asking whether instruction instruction tion in cooking or carpentry could be considered as military training He said that training after the war would accomplish a lot just justIn In teaching many boys how to keep clean how to brush their teeth Told that some factions wanted to c carry rry out the training program in the national guard in periods of two or three months a year ear or orIn orIn orin in weekly drill periods the president president president dent said flatly It will not work Meanwhile Catholic church and peace organization officials wenton went wenton on record against peacetime conscription con con- Tho The annual assembly of Cath Cath- olio olie archbishops adopted a resolution resolution tion opposing early enactment oi of permanent conscription They maintained that consideration o of the e problem should wait walt until after me we war so a a. clearer picture of ot I Uie tile international situation could be obtained and the views of men at the front expressed Five peace organizations the Fellowship of ot Reconciliation National Na Na- Council for tor the Prevention of War Var War Resisters League Women's Committee to Oppose Conscription and the Women's In International In In- International League for Peace and Freedom opposed permanent conscription conscriptIon conscription con con- on religious practical and constitutional grounds