Show selective service items of interest where will I 1 go atlease at least twenty times every day of the week and sometimes at home nt at night our telephone rings and it Is some ent t or man who wants to 10 know if he can be sent to fort lewis left la camp ord or fort knox it if lie la is drafted or it if he volunteers Frd frankly ukly we wish wo we had the answer but no one in selective service whether illey be located at national or state headquarters aaa can tell where any of our inductees will be sent after they reach fort douglas utah the reception center the army is doing everything with within its ita power to place the men where they win will be most satisfied and where they will fit into the army picture but to satisfy each and every eury inductee or even een enlisted men would he be almost an imps hence sonic gome ot of those who thought ought they had been promised service sen ice at fort lewla lewis are now at ai camp ord find and some who were scheduled for camp ord are at fort lewis the best ad advice v lee we can give to ati N lalu tile the selective service system at this time la is to p promise nothing because neither you nor this headquarters could keep oie promise the army requisitions its men from the corps area and the group on oil hand ready at the time the requisition arrives gets the CAU call and makes the trip co oa wherever the army decides to solid send them to flo do otherwise would be favoritism and the army does not play favorites an aix old army colonel once told us that when he wanted to be assigned to a certain tibi fort in the middle west est he be requested the transfer and being but a mere lieutenant at the time he asked for the particular pin fort he get the several years later WIIL athen 11 ile he learned the ropes lie be asked to be assigned aligned to a camp in the northeastern Northeast arn section of the country ut and drew the fort lohere lie originally requested to be sent A vacancy occurred at just thet the right time moral dont promise the boys any particular assignment in hundreds of camps dotting ili the country from maine to call corula the war department Is rapidly molding americas la largest ages A peace peacetime tInie army into un an effective fighting force that army Is jcarl ly more mare than four months old but officers already are proud of its achievements they say that training Is well ahead of the world war period when men were placed to in franco france la in is 18 months the new army is a different organization from that of 1017 18 troops are now being trained to be specialists trailing has been somewhat hampered by bad weather delays in construe 1 uon tion and the fhe fact that the ardys task has doubled since last june while a training period of IS 18 months to two years probably would ft wild be 1 off leery are encouraged by results already obtained md and are confident that fall fait ly competent soldiers soldie cabbe can be developed in the austed algote 4 time dink more will be known after the first army holds field maneuvers this summer mer with rabi men when hen training perlous are over the arm hopes unit that Selee tees fees ond and guards men will be improved physically and mentally it la is confident that the health orthe of the men will be im prayed as a result of the training the army la is paying closer attention to soldier er morale than to in the past war now the war department ent assumes ull full responsibility for its ita so soldiers imers chileon while on post poat each camp has or will have bave recreation buildings playgrounds and amuse men mont t centers with organized ath fetics attention also is being paid to the welfare of the men during oft ff hours lie he may visit nearby towns Adja adjacent bint communities and being asked to provide i means of f healthful healthful recreation and to rid their tow na of vice conditions i because bause many older trainees were drawn from families and private jobs joba consideration la Is now being given to proposals to change laws so BO that only younger men are inducted until a strong fighting forte force la Is built the war department argues against changing the age limit IJo however WeVer if congress decides upon A a system of 0 universal military training the outlook la is that younger men will vill be cal called ledl |