Show newly newl inducted soldiers find army Is efficient businesslike military routine gives boost to morale recruits are anxious to serve where best fitted by news analyst lf and commentator service 1313 11 II street N NW W AV washington D C I 1 sat the other day in the office ot of general Her hershey shei selective service administrator as he I 1 leaned back one ankle drawn up on his khaki k knee nee and listened to him talk about scarcities scar cities not the kind of ties we hear about when the old argument of scarcity versus abundance ot of farm crops comes up although it might have been such a talk for general hershey is very much of a farmer it was a talk about the scarcity of men of the ideal age for the army ideal from the standpoint of adaptability to military life physical I 1 energy lack of dependents and other responsibility lack of training that Is needed for agriculture or industry the general did some lightning c calculations that I 1 follow but it started with the total number of cf men of ideal fighting age then came subtractions for the ones with dependents the ones needed on the farm and in the factory and the 25 per cent more which it might be eap exp expected c acted would have physical disabilities according to plans announced now the united states needs for the army navy and marine c corps including two mil million lion tor for the air force nine million men about three million are now in the service when general hershey finished with the figuring I 1 found that there are about 18 million men available for military service from which six million must be recruited tf if the army plans are carried out and out of that 18 million there has to be saved back the ones we cant get elsewhere for agriculture and industry and no one Is sure how many that will be in any case it means that about one out of every three men of military age will eventually be called grave responsibilities that is why such a heavy responsibility lity rests on the shoulders of the draft boards and behind the draft boards on all e employers of labor that is also why congress has made the effort to get a sharp clarification regarding deferments deter ments because of dependents or because of employment needs meanwhile every v cry man from 18 to 44 is left in a state of indecision for of course all these men cannot be called at the same time A lot of them would be glad to hear the call and get it over last sunday I 1 had lunch with a young man who had been moving in a sea of uncertainty for months it was impossible for him or his wife to make the nee necessary plans to arrange their existence in case he went into the army then out of a clear sky he was called he had been in the army tor for one week when I 1 saw him and I 1 never saw such a change it was largely due to relief he had come home on a furlough granted him to take care of business matters he was full of praise for army efficiency and had high hopes that he would be able to do just what he had found it impossible to do before namely find and out the niche into which he would fit where he would not only be doing the best job he could do tor for the country but a job which was best fitted to his experience and training and therefore his peace ot of mind he w was as a man who was energetic and active and if he had been chained to a paperwork paper work job he would have been a misfit he had worried lest because he was a college man and had to wear glasses he would get some kind of clerical work rather than a more active assignment As a rule you will find I 1 believe that the average man of military age feels this way he is willing to do whatever job his country wants him to do he wants to do the job he can do best lie he want to break up his education his bis family arrangements his business career if he is not going to be called yet he wants to plan ahead it if he is sure any of these things are going to be necessary when he is called and the decision is made and he finds himself in the army and finds that army life and army routine are a lot more businesslike than ht he thought his morale goes up like the mercury in august that is the tee reason why a lot of soldiers are saying the matter with civilian morale instead ol of it be ing the other way around as many pe people ople thought it would be at first with the launching of more and more allied offensive action with more and more american units en ga ged the atrit attitude ude of the pr pre e draftee is expected to change the need of his help will be brought home 1942 will see about new men joining the army air force and navy every effort will be made to defer those with dependents and to take the older men last that is the reason for the ardys insistence on drafting the 18 and 19 year group the chief argument against calling the younger men is that it breaks up their schooling but schooling can be taken up again taking family ta m men disturbs the social and economic life of the nation taking skilled workers and men who are a already fitted into the economic pattern of 0 the nation disturbs the war effort although few but the most optimistic ti say so it may not be necessary to call any more men after 1942 i if the war is still going full tilt then another will be needed in 1943 but there is no use counting our ugly ducklings duc klings before they are hatch hatched e d an old comrade from cuidan cuidad trujillo this is the story of the main base for the military forces invading the western hemisphere the first and highly successful invasion of the american continent it was from here that foreign invaders launched their pitiless attacks which placed the peoples of the western world under a european flag despoiled their wealth broke their spirit de strayed their culture and reduced them to vassalage I 1 am speaking of what is now known as cuidan cuidad trujillo the fortress built by the first invader still stands in that city today this city is probably as far from the war and the rumors of war as any spot on earth it is the capital city of the island of santo domingo where columbus landed and whence hence w pizzaro cortez ponce de leon balboa and every spanish invader set forth to crush and conquer the new world but first a digression bobring to bring you back by way of paris pans to washington where story starts there used to be a saying about paris that if you sat long enough at a table on the sidewalk in front of 0 f the cafe de la paix at that fascinating cina ting corner of the avenue do de I 1 opera and the boulevards Boule varde des It aliens allens you would be certain to see somebody you knew go by no matter where you came from today pennsylvania avenue in washington has become the worlds world s boulevard only we have no sidewalk cafes we have only very crowded restaurants perhaps the re real al world rendezvous Is the wide waiting room of the executive offices of the white house today as I 1 sat waiting tor for the correspondents to line up and show their passes and be admitted to the oval office tor for the regular semiweekly press and radio conference who should appear but my old comrade oliver newman major of in fantry in the last war onetime one time commissioner mayor of the district of columbia iowa farm arm boy an and d prince of good fellows you ought to see owe around a horse or a mule what he know about these critters whether they are pulling a load of hay yanking a 75 out of the mud or stretching noses toward the finish line fine adds up to nearly minus but that is only a part of the accomplishments which have been many and varied in the field of politics society finance and shall we say climatically journalism anyhow maor major newman came up and extended his hand I 1 have met him surprisingly in other less congruous places than the white house this time he had just returned from his distant post in santo domingo where he is advisor to the government for a vacation in the capital which is half his home cuidan cuidad trujillo santo domingo is the capital city of the dominican D in republic island which is situated southeast of florida between cuba and puerto rico BRIEFS B R I 1 E F S by baukhage the rockefeller foundation is providing yellow fever vaccine free to the government tor for the use of the armed forces housewives and debutantes with ahe the best of intentions are not making good on civilian defense jobs ube the working girl is the best worker the others the necessary self sed discipline the has authorized motion picture producers to spend per picture for new material for the construction ot of movie sets farm people have more things to think about and talk over and fes less leisure tor for thinking and talk talking ng than at any other it time me I 1 can remember secretary of agriculture claude R WIc kird |