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Show Thursday, December 25. 1947 THE TIMES- - NEWS, NEPHI, UTAH PAGE TWO UMT Puts New Face on I'd AROUND THE. CLOCK Army Tiire on His Hands After Half Century at Trade He Still Has Universal Training Program Called Modern, Democratic By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. (Why should universal military training be necessary at all? How does the Present plan differ from the "draft"? This is the second in a series of articles on this pertinent subject.) WASHINGTON. What is universal military training? The more I learn about it, the more I am convinced that most of the people both UMT's supporters and opponents have very little idea of what it really is. I'm more interested in the people who oppose UMT because I think they are doing themselves and their children a great injustice by allowing their thinking to remain out of focus. I'd be willing to bet that nine-- f tenths 'of the general public who dis young men to be trained. Although cuss the question these young men, legally, would are looking past have military status, they would not the object of dis- - ' be members of the armed forces, c u s s i o n, their would be subject to no duty other ideas focused on ; than training and would become members of the military establishsomething which , no longer exists ment only in a national emergency. They have not TRAINNATIONAL SECURITY examined what is ING COMMISSION, would which actually in front set the policies, standards, subof them, and stance and character of the traintherefore are aring program. The commission would a from guing consist of three paid members apcompletely wrong two pointed by the President Old hypothesis. the members, chairman, including ideas stick. to be civilians, and one to be from In other words, Laukhaze the armed forces. many people do not realize what UMT is NOT. It Is .GENERAL ADVISORY BOARD, NOT anything like the military serv- which would provide the commisice (conscription) which some of us sion with the best technical advice knew from personal contact in the on the moral, religious and educapast, and others knew from hearsay. tional phases of the program. The UMT, as proposed in the national board of 10 to 25 members would be composed largely of civilians, security training act, is totally different in many essential principles serving part time (with pay), but from the "draft" under the selective would include at least three members of the armed forces. It would service system. have no policy-makinauthority. First why Is it necessary? Let SYSSELECTIVE TRAINING me quote the reasons given by TEM, similar to the selective servthe house of representatives ice system of World War II, which armed services committee, as would register, examine, classify, digested in the November issue assign, defer, deliver and maintain of the Army Information Digest records of men registered under in should be read article (which UMT. its entirety for a real grasp of As you note, although military : the subject) training (in the modern sense' which States has tradition- - is more than ever training in many IThe United depended heavily upon the valuable civilian skills) is the basis civilian reserve components. In ev- of the national security corps, it ery major war, the regular forces is devoid of many factors which have constituted less than 10 per have made universal service in the cent of the total strength. These past traditionally objectionable to wars have been fought by citizen the American people. In these days, any military trainsoldiers, directed and organized by small nucleus of professionals ing ' insofar as it involves killing is objectionable to the balanced perIn the past, geographical isola- since we have not tion has provided adequate sonality. But, time .ipr training and equipping Some of the 650 teen- large numbers of Americans , agers from all states fresh from civil life and unskilled in who are trying a before it was necthe art of war UMT experi to In them into battle. send essary ment Fort Knox. at 1 no any future emergency, however, A. such cushion of time can be expected. There must be sufficient trained lorces in being on any future emergency day. The regular forces today consti- tute no more than the traditional nucleus of professional military skills. Furthermore, they are spread i thinly over a large area of the world, in In duties. engaged occupation the circumstances, the size and de- eliminated the predatory forces in of readiness of the reserve com- the world, have nof even isolated gree ponents become matters of the most them, certain measures of vital concern. For if these reserve like UMT are necessary. components are not adequate, the What are the features of milioverall military strength of the United States is a hollow shell. tary training which stick in the craw of the average free AmeriThe reserve components are far can? below their authorized strengths and are without hope of filling their Probably the first (the thing that quotas by voluntary means alone. used to overwhelm me at certain These authorized strengths repre- moments in my early months in the sent the barest minimum estimate army) is the lack of freedom. No of manpower requirements. longer was I a free man whose libThe national guard is at approx- - erty could be curtailed only after a imately 16 per cent of its author- Jury trial and the judgment of my ized strength, the organized units of peers. Suddenly, I was confronted the organized reserve corps at 14 by the Articles of War, the court per cent, and the unassigned reserve martial system, and in some cases pool at 35 per cent (summer of (although I personally never suf1947). The 1.200.000 members of the fered much from it even in warunassigned reserve pool are merely time) the petty tyranny of a supenames on paper, untrained and un- rior in rank. organized. But the trainee under the proUMT would build up the reserve posed national security training act components to their authorized is not subject to the Articles of War strengths, and would achieve a sta- at all during the first phase of his bility and an increased efficiency of training and only conditionally durour ready forces that do not now ing the additional six months of obtain. The alternative would be a service, depending on which opUon he may elect. regular army of about 4. 500.000. -- g - 2 six-mon- th 3 4 5 6 was given the 7 Consideration claim that future warfare would be of the pushbutton variety requiring "only a handful of scientists." This claim is a dangerous illusion. If there is another war, it will be mnr "total" than the last, and will involve a greater number of human beings without any hope of distinguishing the combatant from the rjoncornbalant. The war In all probability will come into the cities and the hon,eS of the people of the United States. In such event, the survival or recovery of the nation might well depend on the presence and of wen in every community. The foregoing, then, were ome of the rraions which guirlrd the armed services committee of the houe to vote out a national security training act. The act would set op four agencies: Watchmakers college. to know. Samelius ought - f g muiin.ui. ceived his first Introduction into the lore from his father, who at one LEADERSHIP CHAMPIONS Pat Wall, 18, (left) of Savannah, Ga., time was the royal watchmaker of and Le Roy Donnay, 20, of Glencoe, Minn., were named national leadSweden. Samelius came to America club congress in Chicago. ership champions at the 1947 national as a lad in 1881. Today he is still In addition to the trophies with which they are shown, each received active in the profession, an honora (200 scholarship. ary member of at least eight state horological associations and the dean of American fine watchmakI i ;j ers. Always ready to talk about his life's work, Samelius explained some of the reasons why making a watch is not the easiest thing in the world. "Our students learn that the best watches must be within a limited tolerance of time, fast or slow, This is, as Sen. Arthur Vanden-- ' before they are released from the berg (Rep., Mich.) told his fellow continue export controls; but adminsenators, "a significant moment to istration spokesmen admitted that factory," he says. "They learn to maintain tolerances of .0001 of an demonstrate the solidarity of this the allocation powers provided for inch to fit into precision watch hemisphere." would authorize the government to movements.parts And with the knowledge of that They master all the inconsumer and impose rationing operations certain fact uppermost in their even to buy up entire grain crops if dividual manufacturing minds members of the U. S. senate it saw the necessary to restore a watch to its action. for such necessity voted 72 to 1 to ratify the timekeeping ability." And through the welter of the ad defense treaty agreed to ministration-RepublicaAn Idea of how small these.. n over melee tolerances are can be gained by 21 American republics at the Rio what to do and how to do it there ' thouconference last summer. from the fact that one-te- n came at least two charges of "soThe hemispheric agreement for cialization" of an inch is the size of sandth S. businessU. from mutual defense of nations in the men leveled at top a human hair after it has been the government's ' Americas embodies three main avowed split the long way 30 times. , program. Samelius' students also work points: with roller jewels that are so case of armed attack from small that 4,666,000 weigh a the hemisphere, all naFODDER tions have the automatic right to pound. Some of the screws used in watch manufacture are so meet the attack with military force. tiny that 20,000 of them just If attack occurs inside the 2 hemisphere, American nations A New barely fill an ordinary sewing Jersey cattleman, Eugene thimble. Despite their size, each may go voluntarily to the aid of the K. Denton, has a theory that might screw has a perfect thread and victim, with consultations to follow. go a long way toward easing the its head Is perfectly slotted. both inside the occur If attacks grain shortage. Some of Samelius" students besehemisphere and outside the His idea is to feed cattle raw po come proficient in the watchmaking curity region immediate consulta- tatoes instead of grain. art in a period of from 11 to 14 tions will be called. . Experimenting with 20 yearlings .months. Virtually unanimous approval of purchased especially for the purAlthough he - has been in the the treaty by the senate was a good Denton fed them on a special watchmaking business for more indication that congress was fully pose, based on ground potatoes, salt than half a century, Samelius still diet, and molasses, for 25 days. The manages to keep posted on latest steers, which averaged 667 pounds developments in the field. He admits when the experiment began, showed that making watches today is conan average gain per steer of 1.4 siderably easier than it was 50 pounds a day or 25 V pounds per years ago. He attributes this in part steer for the test period. to innovations in repair equipment Prof. William LJundahl of Rutgers and parts. university department of animal husbandry called the experiments a amifrMrifnimimiife kaii&Jt. ,tJnWt " ' - m W TBfUP-Hil- wsaww gnnJ1' mwniimii"irr- ffri if 4--H ""THERE'S a great difference in dogs. So if you are going to own a dog, give time and thought to what kind of a dog it should be. If you have lots of room the workfields, woods, lawns ing class dog is for you. Collies and Belgian Sheepdogs are included here. - The German Shepherd dog is another breed outstanding for herding ability and an excellent watch dog to boot. Working dogs are a dignified, powerful, serious lot. they wilJ smother you with affection treated right. Other breeds of dogs, as classified by the American Kennel club their health, diet and training are discussed in our booklet No. 78. Send 25c In coin for "How to Raise aa4 Train Your Dos" to Weekly Newspaper Service, 243 West 17th Street. New York, New York. Print name, address with zone, booklet title and No. 78. i NEWS REVIEW CLASSIFIED Defense Pact Ratified; Inflation Bill Offered inter-Americ- Iln Spuds for Cattle 3 success." Denton " ' made public this simple formula: To every 100 pounds of freshly sliced potatoes add one handful of regular salt and one gallon of molasses water. The molasses water is prepared by adding one aware of the cardinal principle of of molasses to one full pail of successful foreign relations that pint water. commitments abroad are worse than useless unless the nation forms LANDON: strong and lasting alliances to sup- port those commitments. The hem-- i Dig Medicine Alf M. Landon, the Kansas ispheric treaty had in it the makings r of a good foreign- policy. who might have Truman been president of the United States Meanwhile, President had some thoughts on how if Franklin D. Roosevelt hadn't dedefense could be ad- feated him by a landslide in 1936, vanced from theory to the realm has come out publicly in favor of of actuality. He proposed to con- Gen. Dwight Eisenhower for Presigress that the Panama canal be dent in 1948. waterconverted into a Landon was known to have Joined way (see map), and that a unified forces with Roy Roberts of the Kancommand be established in the At- sas City Star to push the Eisenlantic area with Adm. H. P. Blandy hower bandwagon. In Chicago to adin authority over army, navy and dress a Kiwanis Landon air forces from Iceland and Green- said, "The Kansas meeting, to the delegation land to the Caribbean. Republican national convention will be for Eisenhower." That, coming CHALLENGE: from the shrewd former governor of Kansas, was strong political Accepted medicine. Republican leaders had Issued a "I don't think any of the politidirect challenge to the administracians in my state will get out of line tion to offer a bill incorporating on that I think I know what the President Truman's recommendations for combatgeneral's social, economic and poing inflation, and the measure which litical views are. He hasn't said the administration finally proposed anything to me about the presidency was neither more nor less than anydirectly or Indirectly but it's my one had expected. guess he will make his views known Handed to the senate Judiciary when he leaves the army and they committee by Averell Harriman, will be all right." Meanwhile, it was announced that secretary of commerce, the specific bill called for expansive powers to Eisenhower was scheduled to take ration food, gasoline, steel and other over his scheduled position as president of Columbia university next scarce commodities. Theoretically it was a bill to allo June 7 Just about two weeks before cate materials to essential users. the Republican national convention control business inventories and is supposed to convene. , budget-balance- inter-Americ- Honesty Still Pays, Jailed Youth Learns In jail because police caught him breaking into a ST. LOUIS, MO. building, Robert Tolliver, 18, has received a $5 reward for honesty. When a class from Fontbonne college had inspected the jail, one of the students lost the mechanism from her watch, a family heirloom. She informed Warden E. E. Hensley of the loss, leaving $5 for the finder. Toljiver found the mechanism in a box of trash,' turning it over to Warden Hensley. "Had Tolliver hocked the works, he wouldn't have received more than $1," the warden said. "By being honest he gets $5." sea-lev- rarion-and-con-tr- Idaho Cashes in on Phosphate able-bodie- d He has made watches for more than 50 years. Now teaching others the profession at the Elgin school, he re- PROFITABLE DUST BOWL Out In Idaho they have a "dust bowl" that not only is not worrying the good people of that state but stnnds to bring them in a lot of money. They're even planning for Its expansion, for in that dusty, sagebrush-covered expanse of Innd lies 60per cent of the known American sopply of phosphate rock, source of phosphorous, one of the three primary plant foods. Experts ssy that the dusty treasure which Idaho Is shipping here and there in an range holds the key to a new and broader agricultural economy in the entire iMermcuntain and Pacific West. In ages past the Rocky mountain NATIONAL SECtRITI TRAINING CORPS, consisting of all area of southeastern Idaho, north Mi ' ' WNU Features. , States there may ELGIN, ILL. Somewhere in the United Job-like exist an untutored and unknown genius of patience who, after months of painstaking effort, could put together a watch that would run. jf But the odds are just about that it vrould fall far short of the performance demanded of fine watches today, in the opinion of William H. Samelius, director of Elgin eastern Utah and southwestern Wyoming was a tropical playground for countless prehistoric monsters. In passing on to whatever reward was in store for thent. these monsters bequeathed themselves to posterity In the form of rock phosphate, some six billion tons of which are estimated to be underground in that sector. Prior to 1934 use of phosphate In the Vot was negligible. The rich, volcanic soil was in little need of fortification. Also, the limited supplies of the commercially manufactured fertilizer were being used almost exclusively In the eastern and southern states. Then, during World War H, one Idaho landholder, 1. R. Slmplot, be g came worried because he could not obtain sufficient fertilizer for his vast farm lands. So In the spring of 1944 he began construction of his own superphosphate plant in Pocs-tcUo. Originally designed to turn out annually, Simplot's plant has been expanded to tha point whers now It Is producing 200.000 tons a year of "18 per cent" super It Took Seven Years, But He Cot Big Fish NEHALEM, ORE. After spending seven of his 79 summers hopefully rowing up and down the river in quest of a salmon, Charles L, Judd finally hooked his m fish. His patience was rewarded when the catch proved to be a Chinook. A battle lasting for an hour and a half was required, however, before Judd finally landed the fish. Almost too weary to hold the fish up for a picture. Judd said, "My family thought I couldn't catch a salmon, so I had to show them." This Street Removes Porch Steps at Night Fountain street, near the Baltimore docks, takes in its steps at night and often turns them up during the day. It is a street of red brick row houses, many of which have two white wooden steps leading up to the front door. They are Fountain street's version of the white marble steps for which Baltimore is noted. Families often sit out on them in the evening for rest and gossip with the neighbors. Residents disagcae as to how the custom of turning the steps up against the wall during the day and taking them in at night started. BALTIMORE, DEPARTMENT HOGS FASTER by stimulating their appetites with Dr. LeGear'a Hog Pre-Also an ideal tonic for brood scription. sows and pigs. Has helped Increase profits for millions of hog raisers. Satis, guar. itmmimfstmm'-- pin made by William Geoghagen, one of his students. Driven by an electric motor, the nine-dialclock shows the time in Bombay, London, Hawaii, San Francisco, Yokohama, Shanghai, New York, Moscow and Elgin! ed Mechanical Picker Dooms Husking Bee To Romantic Past AUDUBON. IOWA. The familiar thud of corn against the wagon bang boards is being relegated to the romantic past on Iowa farmlands as the machine age muscles in on corn husking bee and corn husking contests. Romanticists notwithstanding, man can't compete with the machine when it comes to picking corn, and as a result those popular pastimes of the past are being discarded. , A two-rocorn picker can harvest 500 to 800 bushels a day while a man, working alone, can pick only 80 to 100 bushels. Mechanical corn pickers are becoming increasingly available to do the harvesting job in the tall corn state. The number of machines has tripled since 1939, when there were 20,029 mechanical corn pickers to harvest nine million acres of corn. Now, it is estimated, there are more than 60,000 pickers, an average of one machine for every 158 acres of corn. Despite the invasion of mechanical pickers, Elmer G. Carlson, king of the nation's corn huskers in 1935 and now owner of a hybrid seed corn company here, doesn't believe the corn husking contest is gone forever. "Corn husking is a farm sport an.d mechanical pickers do not det?a?t e from the glamor of the contests," Carlson contends. He believes husking contests would be as popular as ever. His brother, Varl, whom he dethroned as national champion, agrees that the national contests should be revived. But even (he former national champions have given way to the machine age. Both use mechanical pickers in their own cornfields! HUNTERS! Your Deer and Elk Lt Us Tan Write for Information. Write for Information. Frontier Leather Co., Sherwood, Oreroat WANTED TO BUY WE BUY AND SELL Office Furniture. Files, Typewriters, Adding Machines, Safes, Cash Registers. SALT LAKE DESK EXCHANGE GSS South Stat St,, Salt Lake City. Utakt Buy U. S. Savings Bonds! W GIVI phnRphals. The "18 per cent" means that when the phosphate rock has been pulverised to dust and treated with sulphuric acid, 18 per cent of tha phosphoric acid in the rock Is made available for use by growing Is about I5.0OO, and she already has made plans to remodel the farm home to merchandise provide additional space. Farm families in the vicinity and motorists attracted by the sign tacked to a telephone pole nar the entrance to the Gardemann farm are amazed to Gnd they can buy radios, washing machines, and countless items that are hard to get. Now her stock inventory 1 r 1, A&D recommend itl Buy today your drag store. at MORE than just a tonic it's powerful nourishment! Get Well QUICKER From Couth Your Duo to Cold cm I O Cough Compound rULUpv,QHoneyT,r YOU WERE A WAVE, WAC, MARINE or SPAR IF Find out whaf Mure in rt offers youl -- -- an education leading to R. IS. ' " mora opportunities erery year la hotpitala, pnblie health, etc. your allowance ander tho C. L Bill of Right often coicr your enilro aartina - eourve. k lor aaoro information I lh. hoapilal where yon would likeloemernnnina. ' aarSVC. an's a rebirth of the country store in Benton county. Hobby Harbor has been launched as a typical old time mercantile) business establishment by a farmer's wife In her farm home near here. Mrs. Opal Gardemann, a former school teacher, who wanted to start the venture "in a small way," thought 150(1 worth of merchandise would be enough to stock the store. 1. Vitamins and energy building natural oil. Easy to take. Many doctors Women Can Vole age-ol- d prerogatives will fall by the wayside when Nebraska women register to vole. The state attorney general has ruled that It won't be enough to say "legal age." Registering women will have to say exactly how old they are. Frederick YVagcner, Lancaster county attorney, requested the official opinion after some women declined to give their exact age. G nine" of natural -- LINCOLN, THEM SCOTT'S EMULSION Helps fiuild stamina helps bniltf resistance to colds. if youngsters 3orJ VUkmint A&D get enough natural Seottfa is a high eneri MONT. All of Montana isn't wide open spaces. A lawsuit has been filed to clear title to strip of land two and a half inches Tell Age They NEB. One of wom- Hides. THURLOW GLOVE COMPANY IPS N.E. Union Aye., Portland 14, Or. HUNTERS! Frontier Leather Co., Sherwood. Oreroa. will tan your deer and elk hides. HAMILTON, Farm Wilo launches Country Storo plants. MISCELLANEOUS Space Is Relative wide and 140 feet long. The sliver lies between a theater and a store. t HELP INCREASE MILK PRODUCTION of skimpy milkers by stimulating sluggisa with Dr. LeGear's Cow Prescripappetites tion in their feed. A cow tome guaranteed to give saUsfacUon. old-tim- MD. IOWA.-Mark- ing l DEAN OF WATCHMAKERS . . . William H. Samelius, director of Elgin Watchmakers college, Is shown here inspecting a clock 60,000 tons SHELLSBL'RG, 1 LIVESTOCK FATTEN 6247 WNU W For You To f4 Fel We LI hours every day. ? days erry umrmt stopping, the kidneys filter waate matter Iron the blood. If more people wore aware of bow thw tddnys must eonetantly remove eur-pti-M fluid, escwea mruia and ethsyf weetw mattar that cannot eta la the blood witboat Injury to ballh, there would be baiter uoderaiandtrtff of wA the boe eyetem ie mpm waea to lunrtroe properly. Bum i nr. ecanty or too freooant t1ra eotntime warne that eony ie wrong. Yo may tuff nagging hsT" ache, ditvma. rhnimau peine, getting up at nghtt ewaHfng, try I'mki fiUaT You erlU Why not mVdicine be Bming a recommended the ' etimulate the fune emit. try ever. trow of tbe kidneye and beip then to ftoeh cot potovnoue waste frotw tho eon tam nothing harmful. blood. Thy ' Gat today. Mm with eovudeaeat. At all drug etor. , V1? 3 nflfit |