Show 1 4 41 4 14 The Boys I Column i SONS O OK OF SUMMER TWO SMALL boys adrift on Summer Brown Brawn cheeks and brown f fet feet et bare re Bright p pieces of the sky y for eyes Bright ight honey for their hair They do not walk they do not run But nut walk and run together They are not merely muscle and bone But gut wind and the blue weather What they are talking Is III not words But small boys' boys tangible thoughts curves Cunes along the swallows swallows' wings Butterflies' Butterflies golden spots They are the wild roses' roses kin No to mere mans man's fair ones They are sons of a thousand Summers The suns sun's perennial sons sane Robert P. P Tristram Coffin Cortin v v v NATIONAL NATIOS SECURITY SEEN SEES SUPERIOR TO DRAFT NATIONAL SECURITY Training formerly formerly form form- erly called Universal Military Training offers this nation maximum security at minimum cos cost and should be adopted t at once declares l t Karl T. T Compton In the he August Readers Reader's Digest Mr Compton Is chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corp and a member of the National Security Training Commission His HIa article ar article article ar- ar is condensed from the New York Times Magazine Under our present draft system we are dedicating billions of dollars and collectively collectively collectively millions million of years of the productive life me of our youth to a policy that makes necessary the maintenance of three to four million men on active duty on a continuing basis Compton states This system Imposes such a crushing burden will on the American economy that we have base the choice of national bankruptcy or an early retreat into Insecurity insecurity- which is precisely what the Kremlin is hoping for The program requires that all youths be given six months of Intensive training on land sea or air and that thereafter they serve In a a citizens' citizens re reserve reserve reserve re- re serve subject to regular drill and summer summer summer sum sum- mer maneuvers As a reservist the young man will further his training the expertness he would need under combat conditions while continuing to tomake tomake tomake make his full contribution to the civilian civilian civi civi- lian Uan community Until we get a trustworthy trustworthy trust trust- worthy reserve we are faced with the prospect of a permanent draft that will keep half halt or more of our young men away from families farms factories and colleges for two years or longer A bill has been Introduced In Congress Congress Congress Con Con- gress to put Into effect Its passage would not mean that we could do without without without with with- out a standing Army Navy and Air Force Compton says but It could effect a a. substantial cut In all three forces The author contends that would reduce the time required for total mobilization mobilization mob mob- represent the best hope for a meaningful civil defense and eliminate ate the Injustice to veterans by providing provid provId- ing for a democratic sharing of the liability for national defense Discounting the objection that six months Is too short for adequate traInIng train- train Ing lug Compton says ranking officers of all services are unanimous In their conviction conviction con- con that six months of intensive training followed by entrance Into a vitalized reserve will represent a genuIne genuine genuine ine contribution to preparedness Unless we start putting men Into the reserve through we may not be beable beable beable able to discontinue the draft for 20 to 30 years Compton warns The two programs programs programs pro pro- grams could operate side by side Selective Selective Selective tive Service director Hershey recently reported that thousands of young men not needed for the draft could be trained train train- ed under without any adverse effect on the manpower p pool l o o o oHIE TilE HIE FREEDOM 1 10 SHOP AROUND 1 THE CHAMBER of Commerce of the United States has published a a. new booklet called Free Markets and Free FreeMen Men The point It makes is le that the freedom to shop around to buy and sell at places and prices that suit us us Is Ia as much a part of or peoples people's liberty as freedom of or press or or religion After Alter a i discussion of government con government controlled 0 n t troll roll e d markets Including our experience under OPA and OPS It says Centuries of history history history his his- tory have shown that when economic economic economic econ econ- freedom and the free market are chipped away the other components of human freedom are Impaired Jeopardized and finally destroyed and liquid liquid- In other words when government has the power to tell us what we can buy what we can sell and what we can pay governments government's domination of or charge our lives IB is Just about complete It is Inevitable that when dictatorships of any kind take over the government of a country one of their first acts Is I. to liquidate economic freedom and the free tree market Moreover the free market does more good for tor more people than any other kind of market ever devised We see It I In operation every day In the hundreds of ot thousands of retail retell stores that blanket the country Some are big some are small ernaU Some are chain owned chain owned some are locally owned But Dut they have two things thing la to common they common they are all looking for tor consumer favor and they are all trying to offer more Inducements than their competitors o o O OA A LOT of youngsters have nave been raised in the p pest past t twenty years with the Idea that government support Is II a normal thing for farmers farmer to expect at all aU times That kind of thinking can lead to Socialism Weve We've got to get back to depending on ourselves In normal times time Ezra Ezra Taft Tan Benson Denson O O O WHENEVER NATURE leaves a hole cole In lA Ina lAS a S per persons person's nl mind she generally plasters It over with a thick coat of ot self aeH Longfellow O 00 O O DURINO DURING WORLD war Wear n. n Dixie Tighe was sent overseas as II a correspondent by bythe bythe bythe the New York Post Poet When she ahe arrived at atthe atthe atthe the Army base she went to get a necee- necee ary lary vaccination The sergeant told her hertt herto tt tv roll up her sleeve No not there the she laid said Then roll down your stocking No not there either she replied With needle poised the sergeant hello hest toted Walt Wait a minute he ne said bald This Is la a cue cede for tor a QUoted Quoted from the Raleigh N N. 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