Show I GENERAL I JOHNSON J f J I I ertA 1 r Jon oe Washington D D. D C. C IY ARMY DRAFT Should the President be given the authority to draft and use the National National Na Na- Guard Yes and something more He should be given the authority to recreate the selective service system and draft selected men for either the regular army or orthe orthe orthe the National Guard This doesn't mean that either power pow pow- I er will be used to any important I extent I It isn't to suggest the raising of ofa I Ia a large conscripted army before we have the equipment for them to use i if if at all I It isn't a counsel of panic or hys hys- teria It is a means to avoid both I and above all to prevent hardship I and unfairness in hi raising the troops we need need even even if the number be beless beless beless less than The reasons for these suggestions are simple Recruiting by volunteering volunteering volunteering volun volun- I is lagging dangerously This is partly due to growing in industrial industrial industrial in- in activity and partly because there are so many men on relief But t there ere is a stronger reason than any of these This country was sole sold i I t Hate That Will Start Next War WarBy By By Thomas Thomaa in 1917 the idea of raising armies I Iby by selective draft the draft the idea that thai each man should serve in that place where it shall best serve the common good to call him Men believing this is our national policy do not feel the old urge to volunteer before they are told the country's wishes I the National National National Na Na- NaI Another reason is that if I Guard is called caned out in time I of peace about men are going going going go go- ing to lose their wages in industry to take the very low pay of a soldier and many of them have depend depend- Until there is a stark military military military mili mili- tary necessity this should be avoided wherever possible The regular army and the National National National Na Na- Guard at the beginning should bo ba largely made up of bodied able men without dependents to whom the loss of a civilian job involves no minor tragedy Setting up the selective service boards roughly one in every group of inhabitants is very sim sim- We Ve completed the organization in 10 days in 1917 The next step is the registration of about men between the ages of 21 and 30 inclusive This is done by means of a fairly simple questionnaire which gives all the facts the board needs for selections Then the order in which registered registered registered regis regis- men are to be called for examination examination examination ex ex- ex- ex is fixed by lot The standards for the selection of the first should be very liberal- liberal such as to impose the very minimum minimum minimum mini mini- mum of hardship on the man or his dependents Having skimmed off ofT that number of men of this type that class would wait to be called either called either to the regular regular regular regu regu- lar army as fast as it requires men or to fill up the National Guard or replace the guardsmen whose call should be deferred because of hardship hardship hardship hard hard- ship or other good reason This is the sw swiftest test fairest most efficient way to raise armies and it itis itis is by far the cheapest way so that the cost per soldier is only a fraction of the cost of volunteering In the interest of both prudence and calmness calmness calmness calm calm- ness I think we should proceed along these lines at once FORD AND AIRPLANES Could Henry Ford produce 1000 planes a day at River Rouge He could if all aU designs were alike adapted to present production methods methods methods meth meth- and there were not constant design design design de de- de- de sign changes The success of Henry Ford in producing automobiles automobiles automobiles automo automo- biles a day was his invention of uniformity of design and interchangeability interchangeability inter- inter changeability of parts Under existing existing exist exist- ing ng conditions of flux and city ci- ci 1 ty Mr Ford could no more produce 1000 planes a day than he could produce There is another terrible bot bottleneck bottle bottle- tIe tIe- neck neck impossible impossible military standards of perfection which take no stock of of- our facilities for production That stopped us often in the World war Henry Ford in creating the first Tin Lizzie that put America on wheels had the genius to see exactly exactly exactly exact exact- ly this fault He built a car that would do all that was required of it itin itin itin in 90 per cent of cases but which sacrificed no more to theoretical perfection than was necessary to do dothe dothe dothe the work required and meet the requirement requirement requirement re re- re- re of price and production Charlie Nash did the same thing |