Show U Dean Decries Military Growth By CHARLOTTE GARFF Chronicle Campus Editor The rise in power of the was decried Wednesday by Dean Jack H. Adamson in a paper delivered at the second Great Issues Concerning Freedom HE STATED that the increased involvement of the military in civil politics plus the gradual loss of civilian control over the military pose an ever growing threat to our freedoms and personal The professor of English and Dean of the College of Letters and Science following a resume of the United States military that forefathers would have turned over in their had they known of the indoctrination citizens were receiving through military establishments have no business in domestic Dean Adamson never have and never Dean Adamson cited the development of the garrison state as he reiterated the dangers of the political police and their paid He referred back to Titus Oates of England and the chaos that resulted from just one paid AS THE DEAN reviewed the U.S. military he stated that not until 1916 and the National Defense was conscription a function of the President still maintaining the dreams of the yeoman days of England when the defense troops were strictly stated that the United States depend on a citizenry trained to Wilson retracted that statement when the Defense Act was calling it a Dean Adamson said the armed forces were then selection of the nation volunteering in not a THE HISTORICAL pattern followed from the time of colonization in which no army was maintained in peace time because of the colonists' fear of a standing was broken following the Korean according to Dean when the Military Training and Service Act put peace time conscription into As a 80 of the total federal budget is now spent for Dean Adamson cited examples of contracts given to corporations by the Armed hundred corporations are without 86 of the military said Dean He quoted Senator Flanders of Vermont who said the situation was the American way of life into a garrison THE PROFESSOR recommended the direction Americans should go in order to avoid the development of the garrison the prophetic said Dean brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of Americans need to be shown the power of love and the beauty of he Americans should puritan making flee MILITARY 2 Military Continued Prom ne- i man responsible for his conn causing a t 10 humans RICHARD B. professor and head of the 5 of military science rt butted Dean Adamson's paper n two he contended the it a tripartite entity composed nf the active the retired rain tary and the the Reserve and the to The citizen-sol acting as civilian ao take an active part in noX as is their right as citizens' he but the active 2 still under the control of the highest civilian he defended the mili tary seminars by showing that they are not now exempt from civilian scrutiny and control OBERT C. of developed another facet of the threat of the garrison in agreement with Adamson's paper he not a military He then challenged the United States citizenry to adopt thoroughly and completely the Christian We must harbor no thoughts of war or he for this is our only hope for |