Show news atell I 1 ll 11 r ME 1 I 1 by P AM L released lic leased by western estern newspaper union ADVOCATES SCHOOL AND GUARD TRAINING PLAN washington the papers amply reported what about mr Tr congressmen said youth draft plan but more important was what was not said normally the democratic rush leaders to president say any message from their the was a great speech often greatest ever this time house leader mccormack mccorm ack told inquiring newsmen he wanted time to read the leader message thoroughly and senate barkley could not be found although he was around A similarly significant void was evident all down the line of both b democratic and republican aranoth ranks where the men know the youth draft is is not popular actually only those congressmen who had already committed themselves on both sides ot of the question que chose to comment any rush for action likewise was missing acting chairman johnson of the senate military committee a democrat who is against the truman idea said the matter could not be considered until about january 15 when the chairman returns the truman proposition thus did not change votes or arouse supporting sentiment his basic between the lines iines idea plainly was that russia has not joined wholeheartedly heartedly eart edly in the peace is the only competitive world military power to us has announced plans for a youth draft of her own and we should do likewise scientific scientific TRAINED MEN INSTEAD OF BIG ARMED FORCE this unspoken part of the presen tation was the most impressive the written argument of the president cannot hold analytical water he says for instance he wants a small army and navy a big national guard and a youth draft for reserves es his defense then would rest entirely on how big and good he made the national guard because he admits the drafted youth would only have basic training not the specialized training essential for modern war he claimed the rockets and atom bombs have robbed us of time to ta prepare in the future but he said the army and navy could not use the youthful reserves until time was taken out to get an act of congress passed by that time the nation might be destroyed he claimed our geographical ocean defense had been destroyed directed missiles would come winging over the icy frontier of the arctic to our midwest but his plan would risk our defenses to a small army and navy and a national guard which hardly sounds like adequate defense and completely abandons attack possibilities which are often the best defense frankly it seems to me mr truman was sold an obsolete youth draft system by the old time crowd in the war department and he dressed it up with his national guard enlargement idea and presented it as an answer for a job it will not lot do from his own evidence we will have to be ready to act faster than his plan would allow action then again he said universal military training is not conscription p assuming apparently that c conscription on applies only to direct service in the army and navy conscription means enlisted by compulsion for anything whether civilian service youth camps or the democratic party it is the russian way the communist way the old prussian way and the objection unquestionably sway can congress that will wil I 1 ag against ainest it is that there are many democratic ways of doing the same job better what we need for defense is a scientific army for this first there should age department of the be a single armed forces with a coequal co equal air force to fight the very things which mr truman envisaged fossilized ideas like youth drafts with the fossils be shoved out should spirit and a new enlightened I 1 es throughout our defense generated gen this armed force should system but large larg e of small or riot nt be enough draft the armed the he youth bt by forces would 01 only ily give basic train than inn ing to a little more from them ta taking you yoW a year their liv es the devel their homes of their talen ts and delaying oam nt contributions as economic their workers in the nat nation ion by a year |