Show Military Training Plan To Wait Congress June 2 House and senate leaders saw no chance today that congress would act year on the a year universal military training program recommended by a special presidential They said the most that could be done before adjournment late in July would be to hold committee hearings on the proposal and then shelve it to await the second session of the congress next Warning that our military forces are now a the presidential commission declared that the nation must adopt universal training as an element in an integrated program of national in an age where atomic warfare can bring the The headed by Karl T. Compton of the Massachusetts Institute of its report to Truman on six months of study and interviews with Dwight D. Eisenhower and other military Its report was released by the the White House Sunday The report recommended six months of compulsory basic training on land or sea for every male youth between 18 and 20 who has graduated from or quit high This would be followed by six months more in which a trainee could take one of several These include service in the National organized regular ROTC or service Estimating the cost of a the commission said it did not wish to sugar-coat the fact that the over-all expense to taxpayers would be Truman is expected to send congress soon a recommendation for legislation to carry out the commission's The based its decision oh three basic The nation stripped itself of the strength necessary for world leadership iby too demobilization after World War The training program would enhance American and and that of the United The program offers the only method of getting adequate manpower for defense without over-burdening the country's economy by huge standing navy and air The atom bomb has wiped out of Universal devastating war makes it vital to have trained mem in ever city and town in the nation ready for The commission that universal military training m no cheap easy ticket to It must be coordinated with a healthy and informed a coordinated intelligence scientific research and industrial a striking air force and unification of the armed do not give it priority over any of these the commission do we put it behind the It has neither purpose nor except as part of a balanced Selections for training would be made through an organization similar to service and would train about to youths a It said the commission in charge of the training program two civilians and one military man should be supported by an advisory board whose members would include representations of education and religious |