| Show Bradley Bradey to Ask Initial Draft Of i 1 oooo Men ST ST. LOUIS Aug 30 UP Gen Omar N. N Bradley army chief of staff told the annual encampment encampment encampment en en- of the Veterans Veteran of Foreign Foreign For For- eign Wars Vars Monday that that he has asked for an Initial draft of men for peacetime military ice The army has made the re request request request re- re quest to the national munitions board which will pass it on to selective service Induction of the would be sometime in November The inductees will be taken into the army since no request was made for men by the navy or the theair theair theair air force An announcement annO in Vash Washington Washing Washing- ng ton by Secretary of Defense Forrestal For- For Forrestal Forrestal restal said that the navy and the theair theair theair air force do not expect to need any draftees luring during the year July 1915 through 1915 through June 1949 All draft calls made by the military military mili mili- tary departments for man power are re being funneled through the munitions board The call for army inductees in inductees inductees in in- will be broken down into state quotas by selective service and trans transmitted national headquarters to state headquarters which In turn will give the various local boards their quotas Bradley said however that the army would not relax its recruiting recruiting recruit recruit- ing campaign for volunteers With the draft and planned expansion of the army he said the United I States will have within a year minimum armed security in balance bal bal bal- ance anee with the temper of our times I He warned that the expanded army will be suffering from the high cost of living as cruelly as any housewife in the country This year Bradley said the army will cost the American taxpayer almost six billion dollars But he said the national defense cannot be fixed by econ economic equa equa- Because it is always far cheaper to prevent a war than to fight one he said our military I needs must be measured in terms I of home security requirements overseas obligations and in the likelihood of conflict e e i 11 t the h e r through incident or another's in intent intent in in- tent Bradley promised to safeguard the civil and human rights of the new draftees but said this does docs not mean we shall abandon discipline in the tho army Bradley said the army has too long ignored the insides of its men but blamed American education education education edu edu- cation for the fail failure re to give young men an alert appreciation of their liberties and a consequent explanation of their obligations We have too long concentrated on how to make good how to get ahead We Ve have taught our young people how to plunder our resources how to get jobs and how to get rich We Ve have neglected neglect neglect- ed to tell them that democracy Isa is isa isa a way two-way street that street that with its benefits comes the necessity for also giving service |
