OCR Text |
Show 'fnf n tnn security problem, says prof. Militarization top secun y k ssr BY PETER GILLINS Senior Editor "The cold war has dangerously over-militarized our society," said Dr. James Clayton, associate professor pro-fessor of history at the University. "Militarization is the number one national security problem in our country. I fear our country more than I fear Russia because of that national attitude," he said. Dr. Clayton made these state- nation with, the except Alaska and Hawaii fi, t: ranked 39th among !' standard of hving Wvl Se comparison, has dustry and is ranked 27th Dr Clayton said he couH s, f several solutions to the : quences of the cold war A 1 them: Nationalizing the J industry; transfermg rnili, search to the national T foundation, and cuttin ,' l , national defense .budge, dow , $45 billion per year. r "We have finally realized tL- ' we cant have guns and bfc Dr. Clayton concluded. I a have a "shape up or ship out" attitude. "Those who raise questions are accused of giving aid and comfort to the enemy," he said. "When defense spending goes up" he said "spending in education edu-cation and welfare go down. That is not to say that money will be put from one into the other. Legislators are sticky in push.ng up education and welfare spending, spend-ing, but rapid to cut it down in the' name of defense." He offered Utah's economic situation as an example of the myth of prosperity during war, pointing out that Utah is the most defense-oriented state in the m m every poor family with J5.000 for thTnext 10 years, pay for h.gher education for 25 years and pay for law enforcement for 50 years. xLe would have been enough money left over to buy everything of value in Canada." Dr Clayton cited several consequences con-sequences of over-militarization. McCarthyismisone.hesaid "Another is the tendency for America to be interventionist, he said "We have intervened in a foreign country once every 18 months since 1947." He also said that the country has the "notion that the world will turn out badly if the U.S. doesn't intervene," and that we ments in a speech on The Consequences Con-sequences of the Cold war Tuesday Tues-day morning in the Union Ballroom Ball-room as a part of Challenge Week. As evidence of over-mihtan-zation.Dr. Clayton, cited military expenditure figures and said In our country we determine what is important by our budget." He said the total cost of the cold war emcompassing a time period from 1947 to 1971 amounts to $1,480 billion. "If you tabulate the cost of the cold war according to the methods of the anti-war groups of the 1930's, " he said, "we could have used the money to pay the cost of the nations public school svstem for 10 years, subsidize |