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Show Economic Highlights Happenings That Affect Dinner Pails And Pay Checks The recent report of the Presl-1 dent's Advisory Commission on Universal Training is one of the grimmest and most thought-pro-1 voking documents ever made i public in this country. There is certainly nothing new in compulsory com-pulsory military training the armed services were urging it long before World War II began. But the reasoning behind this report which was the result of six months of study, by the Commission gives it an unusual un-usual degree of force. So docs the Commission's membership. It did not include a single military mili-tary man or professional jingo. Its chairman was the distinguished distinguish-ed physicist, Karl Compton, president pres-ident of the Massachusetts Institute Insti-tute of Technology. Other members mem-bers included Daniel Poling, editor ed-itor of . the Christian Herald; Charles E. Wilson, president of General Electric; Dr. Harold Dodds, president of Princeton; and ex-ambassador to Russia Joseph E. Davics, It is stated that, at the beginning, begin-ning, there was a wide diversity of opinion among the various members. But, at the end, all of them came "reluctantly" to the same conclusion. That conclusion consists of an eight-point security secur-ity program of which compulsory compul-sory training for all males at the age of 18, or after finishing high school, is the keystone. That would affect fr$m 750.000 to 950,000 young men each year, and the annual cost of this part of the program alone is estimated estimat-ed at $1,750,000,000. The suggested training plan is an interesting one, and in some respects it is novel. Tht Commission Com-mission 'believes that it should be placed under the control of a l three-man commission, reporting c'irectly to the President, of whom two would "oc civilians and only one a military man. i Training would be in two parts. I Part one would be of six months duration, and would consist of military training in an Army camp or aboard a Navy ship. Part two would offer a number of options, including enlistment i in the Army or Navy for a two-year two-year period, enrollment in the National Guard or the Reserves with 48 evenings a year of drill plus two-week periods in summer sum-mer camps for three years, or enrollment in college R.O.T.C. courses. In addition to this, the Commission Com-mission feels that national security secur-ity demands seven more ingredients: ingred-ients: a united and informed nation; na-tion; a coordinated intelligence service; stimulated scientific research re-search and development; indus-i trial readiness for war; an air force ready to strike on little no-1 tice; better equipment and training train-ing for all the services; and un-1 ification of the armed forces. It , said that it viewed "with horror" hor-ror" the total cost of this program, pro-gram, and could not estimate it. But, it added, the alternative was an "invitation to extermination." extermina-tion." The Commission believes as do all military authorities that the next , war, if it comes, will arrive with unbelievable speed. It observed that the obliteration ob-literation of twelve American cities in a single day, along with essential communication, trans-; portation, and power resources was not at all impossible. Our ! monopoly of atomic weapons, it said, will end about 1951, and! by 1955 an all-out atomic attack could be mounted against us. The program it advocates would I take six years and perhaps long er to achieve significant results. So, if the Commission's findings are correct, we must start in the near future to prepare for the possibility of global war of unprecedented un-precedented savagery and des-tructivencss. des-tructivencss. The report does not confine itself it-self to atomic war. It takes ino consideration chemical and bacteriological bac-teriological warfare along with the possibility of another war with traditional weapons. It found that "our military forces are a hollow shell," that the army and air forces are virtually virtual-ly dismantled, and that at the present time the ground forces navj not more than 2 1-3 divisions divis-ions available for combat duty. The Comi.-lssio-i forecast that its universal training program would produce u long list of benefits. ben-efits. First and foremost, of course, it would provide a trained train-ed force which could be rapidly absorbed into the services in time of emergency, and thus tremendously shorten the time necessary to effective mobilization. mobiliza-tion. In addition, the report goes on, it would improve thoT" I of the regular establishment? peacetime; it WouldH , large trained group in caplide I munity capable of deal? fc problems of civilian delSE mass disaster in the 11 e bombing and other aUo.nt ! would help, to channel H men into scientific andvA al training important to I . defense, and it would eiv 1 ler military strength at lei?1 - than would be provided ' large standing force aJ7 j quote the report dirWuvV program would reduce ask possible "the disruption -' mal family life which ln5 -, attends .the calling?,? .from their homes in toenail?01-, toenail?01-, interest." In another dS0iu: ' 'it met an obvious obSSSPft 'compulsory draining "by , that "we are convinced that n1 entirely possible to providV, American youth a who&fo; 'moral, and religious eSnS' in training camps." n 3 ;to the widely-publicized pv mental unit at Fort Knox ?nPe?i, stantiation of this in SlV |