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Show Newly Inducted Soldiers Find Army Is Efficient Businesslike Military Routine Gives Boost To Morale; Recruits Are Anxious to Serve Where Best Fitted. km By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. civilian morale?" instead of it be ing the other way around as many people thought it would be at first. With the launching of more and more Allied offensive action, with more and more American units engaged, en-gaged, the attitude of the pre-draftee pre-draftee is expected to change. The need of his help will be brought home. 1942 will see about 2,250,000 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 army's 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 fam-ily men disturbs the social and economic eco-nomic life of the nation. Taking skilled workers and men who are already fitted into the economic pattern pat-tern of the nation, disturbs the war effort. Although few but the most optimistic op-timistic say so, it may not be necessary nec-essary to call any more men after 1942 if the war is still going full tilt then another 2,250,000 will be needed in 1943 but there is no use counting our ugly ducklings before they are hatched. ... An Old Comrade From 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, destroyed de-stroyed their culture and reduced them to vassalage. I am speaking of what is now WNU Service, 1343 H Street, N-W, Washington, D. C. I sat the other day in the office of General Hershey, Selective Service administrator, as he leaned back, one ankle drawn up on his khaki knee and listened to him talk about scarcities. Not the kind of scarcities scarci-ties we hear about when the old argument of scarcity-versus abundance abun-dance of farm crops comes up, although it might have been such a talk for General Hershey is very rnuch 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 energy, lack of dependents and other responsibility, responsibil-ity, lack of training that is needed for agriculture or industry. The general did some lightning calculations that I couldn't follow but it started with the total number of 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 expected would have physical disabilities. dis-abilities. According to plans announced now the United States needs for the army, navy and marine corps (including (in-cluding two million for the air force) nine million men. About three million are now in the service. When General Hershey finished with the figuring I found that there are about 18 million men available for military service from which six million must be recruited if the army plans are carried out. And out of that 18 million there has to be saved back the ones we can't 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 mili-tary age will eventually be called. known as Cuidad Trujillo. The fortress built by the first invader in-vader 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 capi-tal city of the island of Santo Domingo Do-mingo where Columbus landed and whence Pizzaro, Cortez, Ponce de Leon, Balboa, and every Spanish invader set forth to crush and conquer con-quer the New world. But first a digression to bring you back by way of Paris to Washington Washing-ton where today's 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 the Cafe de la Paix (at that fascinating fas-cinating corner of the Avenue de I'Opera and the Boulevarde des Italiens) you would be certain to see somebody you knew go by, no matter mat-ter where you came from. Today Pennsylvania avenue in Washington has become the world's boulevard only we have no sidewalk side-walk cafes. We have only very crowded restaurants. Perhaps the real world rendezvous is the wide waiting room of the executive offices of-fices of the White House. Today, as I sat waiting for the correspondents to line up and show their passes and be admitted to the oval office for the regular semi-weekly semi-weekly press and radio conference, who should appear but my old comrade com-rade Oliver Newman, major of infantry in-fantry in the last war, one-time commissioner (mayor) of the District Dis-trict of Columbia, Iowa farm boy and prince of good fellows. You ought to see Ollie around a horse or a mule. What he doesn't know about these critters, whether they are pulling a load of hay, yanking yank-ing a 75 out of the mud, or stretching stretch-ing noses toward the finish line, adds up to nearly minus. But that is only a part of the accomplishments ac-complishments which have been many and varied in the field of poUtics, society, finance, and, shall we say, climatically, journalism. Anyhow, Major Newman came up and extended his hand. I have met him surprisingly in other less congruous con-gruous places than the White House. This time he had just returned re-turned 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. (Cuidad Trujillo Santo Domingo is the capital city of the Dominican Domin-ican Republic island which is situated situ-ated southeast of Florida, between Cuba and Puerto Rico.) Grave Responsibilities That is why such a heavy responsibility respon-sibility rests on the shoulders of the draft boards, and behind the draft boards on all employers of labor. That is also why congress has made the effort to get a sharp clarification regarding deferments because of dependents or because of employment needs. Meanwhile every 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 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 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 for one week when I saw him and I never saw such a change. It was largely due to relief. re-lief. He had come home on a furlough fur-lough 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 im-possible to do before; namely, find out the niche into which he would fit, where he would not only be doing the best job he could do for the country but a job which was best fitted to his experience and training and therefore his peace of mind. He was a man who was energetic and active and if he had been chained to a 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 rath-er than a more active assignment As a rule you will find, I 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 He doesn't want to break up his education, his family fam-ily arrangements, his business career ca-reer if he is not going to be called, yet he wants to plan ahead 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 he thought, his morale goes up like the mercury in August That is the reason why a lot of soldiers are saying, "What's the matter with |