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Show tmi'jd,! RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH. UTAH Praft Touchy For fear Issue eb i Jo Nations Politicoes o Strong Reaction Against Military Service Even as Occupation Needs Point Up mQu da a new form anti-militaris- administration doesnt dare any move to permit a drastic reduction in the armed forces now. Military experts think it will be the middle of October before any such move can be contemplated. By that time they think the danger of any serious outbreak in Japan will be over, or there will be evidence that The make one is coming. Await To Jap Reaction i"V tlW x -- News Analyst and Commentator. Eye Street NW, Washington, D. C. One of the administrations hottest political potatoes is a matter that nobody likes to talk about even the opposition. It is military service. Not service next piversal military but next or any old kind month year tomorrof military service today and ow, right up to election day, 1948. The problem has many facets but the veteit has one, awesome nub are several, danger ran vote. There signals which the Democratic administration is watching with some trepidation: the criticism over continuation of the draft which the President has given his complete and unqualified support; recurring complaints of discontented soldiers and their families appearing in radio, congressional, national committee and other Washington fan mail, which add up to a resounding dedismand for more and quicker charges, and finally, a growing fear that the feeling which used to be called isolationism is cropping up in "4 Only a Slight Difference of Fifty Three Years By BAUKHAGE rvu Service, 1616 - f Requirement for Large Army. when Uncle Sam will pay him $25 a week for not working at all? (He referred to the unemployment compensation called for in pending legis- That s the position the administration is in when the cry to end the draft arises. Vets Attitude Bears Watching The complaints from the veterans is another matter. They are not so much concerned over who gets into the army as who gets out. A lot of them are marking time right now, later a lot will be sent overseas in the boresome jobs of policemen. Why shouldnt I get out now and get a start in business? Why shouldnt my husband come back and support me in the manner to which I have been unaccustomed since he joined up? Why shouldnt my boy get back to school where he belongs? Why shouldnt my sweetheart be allowed to come home and marry me like he said he would? And some day sonny and daddy and lover will, come back. And theyll join a veterans organization and they will vote at the polls; ah, theres the rub! Now we come to the third point which is really the most insidious, the one which has to be handled the most delicately. We may have learned in this country that an ocean is no longer a barrier against the enemy. But we know there is another barrier which separates our Once in a great while Mother Nature permits herself a whimsical chuckle and turns in a performance that makes us gasp. The old lady gave such a performance on the day that George Thomas Morton was born in Sioux City, Iowa. He is called- either Ike or General, for little George looks as if he were a pea out of the same pod that gave us General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower. There is an interval of 53 years between the births of the two Ikes. George Thomas will soon be two years old. - Fired First and Last Shots at Jap Invaders j Occupation full impact nf the occupation maritime states from the heartland of Japan will not be felt until of the nation bordering the MissisAmerican soldiers are deep in the sippi flood plain. That part of the The of the country. Before that, reaction of the Japanese people the- influence of- - the military leaders as to the influence opposed of the emperor, cannot be gauged. Suffice it to say that the surrender terms as well as the surrender itself came as a shock to the Japanheart the - ese people. Americans, fail to realize Many isolacountry forgot its tionism and threw its whole heart into the war. But the war is over on paper anjjhow. It is time to put the hand back to the plough again. There is need of. stout arms and strong backs in the fields, and though Japs and the Germans may require watching, why not let so-call-ed George do it? That is a natural feeling and clever politicans would have little trouble in turning it to account, by raising the cry of militarism, of imperialism and all the other isms which men whose bams are their castles and whose meadows are their empires, dislike. Such a sentimilitary. Scattered over the rest of the could be turned against one ment country is a powerful Japanese as well as another administration army, as yet fully armed, in defense that the midso but it Positions, strengthened when the dle west is happens somewhat ReJaps completely naturally reorganized their home defense against invasion publican in its leanings normally and the Democrats are now in the after the capture of Okinawa. Dis- saddle. regarding the thousands of JapaOne very keen political observer nese sailors now on shore, the air who has watched the way of the force, the supply troops and others, voter for many years said to me the is known that on Hokkaido there were a PresiWere two full divisions. (A Jap divis- other day: If there Truman election tomorrow dential ion is between 15,000 and 20,000 conwhen And it. win would you inen.) On Honshu there were 44 are there .visions and 7 brigades (a brigade sider the matter coldly The statement. the for reasons is good roughly half a division). On Kyushave had one healthy hu 14 divisions and 7 Republicans brigades. another knocked out after issue .Jt is estimated that we would have from under them. Truman has giv500,000 men in the islands by the en business its head, he has sat on huddle of September. That is the OPA, he has released one conAgainst a Japanese army (not count-hi- g he has most sothe sailors, airmen and others) trol after another, to deferred congress, he is hf well over a million. That is why licitously to break up the war on the way there can be no sharp reduction in agencies and get the business of American troops until we know government back into the old line Wiat, if anything, i,s cooking under departments. the cherry trees. Such is the picture as of today-- all And then when that question is clear except for one little cloud Answered we have the question of in the sky, not much bigger than a it has been estimated servicemans hand, but there is pupation, to police Germany, Japan thunder and lightning in that cloud nd Korea and parts of and if the circumstances were such uuna it will take perhaps 1,200,0000 men. that its bolts of wrath were directed Where will it would not they come from? at the administration to win a re Stassen, even say take, 300,000 come from for th at walk. in a race the Presidential matter? Already a sharp against military service has unexagun and if it follows the curve By next February barring her the last war recruitment on a pected developments all soldiers in of asis of voluntary enlistment is Europe except those in the army reminimum the and opeless. At its low point the army occupation flnrer War I numbered 130,- - quired to dispose of the armys surmen- I well recall the will have been restory of plus property United ne of States, Maj. to the my officer friends whose regi-en- t, turned stationed in the middle west, Gen. C. P. Gross, chief of transporopped so low that men themselves tation, said in an announcement by oted to spend their post exchange the war department. a recruiting campaign. Return of American forces in the W'fh will be completed next June, kand Pacific he and a company, Da j3 the estimates. faded countryside for a week. according to present schedare men 1,750,000 three recruits and two More than of tugot Pacific the from Se Wefe return for uled rejecte as Physically Unfit 2,000,-00- 0 theaters, while approximately Eufrom As one officer returned to be, remain remarked bitterly to a How are you going to get a rope. Some 156,000 other troops to Join the army for $21 a also are to be returned from other j with (the basic peacetime pay) overseas theaters. a relatively small American army landed in Japan in an area in which there were no Japanese except those permitted to be there by the authorities who arranged the surrender. There was no contact with the general population or the that The leathernecks of the U. S. 4th marine regiment, shown as they were briefed before their landing at Yokosuka, Jap naval base at the entrance to Tokyo bay, by their command' ig officer, Lt. Col. Fred D. Beans of Annapolis, Md. The 4th marines served in China from 1927, then defended Corregidor. As raiders they saw action in Solomon campaigns, Emirau, Guam, Okinawa and finally landed on Japan proper with General MacArthurs surrender commission. They have the honor of firing some of the first and last shots. Miss America of 1945 Old Glory Over Tokyo Embassy 77: w ic S-- Tz , ' re-ersi- "f; wfe .jL !ki. iV , L, I J J' W I y '' ' - s .Ini) lj fr -- f, JE... rnwirnrf of the U. S. as they Allied commander, 3rd fleet, and General Douglas MacArthur, in American Tokyo. over the embassy unfurled is salute Old Glory as it In of the showing embassy, the from gates was taken view The general bombs. caused of by Tokyo, the background the wreckage of the city Insert shows Admiral William Halsey, famed commander ci - ifi ", Twenty-one-year-ol- Bess d Myer-so- n Y., who won the Atlantic City title of Miss America, 1945. She turned down movie conof Bronx,-N- . tract offers which went with title. |