Editors Poll Show Mixed Views on Peacetime Training
A Western Newspaper Union survey of country editors finds 57.7 per cent backing Truman’s one year military service proposal for 18 to 20 year olds, while 44.8 per cent of the public opposes compulsory training. Southern editors show strongest support, with regional splits reflected across the East, North and West.
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Union
Truman
North
East
West
Mr. Truman
Weith
WNU
The
Farm Bureau
Grange
Farmers Union
National Youth Administration
Community letter on peacetime training and conscription
Linwood C. Rodgers of Lockwood Missouri writes that locals oppose Truman era legislation and favor compulsory peacetime training with limited exemptions. He argues the postwar need to prepare 18 to 20 year olds while allowing for hardship exemptions, noting the war’s end does not remove the risk of future conflict.
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Edgar R. Simpson
News
St. George
Utah
T. D. Caverly
Valerian
Valier
Mont
Truman
W. L. Rader
Courier of Poison
Lindbergh
England
U. S
Linwood C. Rodgers
Lockwood, Mo
United States
Compulsory Training Debate Draws Broad Views
W E Chapman of Enterprise Indianapolis Miss voices support for compulsory peacetime military training under the President’s plan. Tennessee’s H Fleer argues the lesson should apply now citing idle youth and contrasts with nations that prepare.
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W. E. Chapman
Enterprise of
Democrat of
Ravorry
Tenn
England
France
Eldon publisher urges attractive military career path
Paul Metzgar of the Forum of Eldon Iowa argues the military should be made attractive to draw suitable men for career service and to maintain a trained armed force with a sizable reserve through liberalized benefits while opposing compulsory service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Metzgar
Forum
Eldon
Iowa
Drafted Youth Opposed to Military Training Standards
A reader argues against compulsory training in peacetime, claiming drafted youths learn little in a year, and industry could not rely on men satisfied with a military career under current pay and advancement prospects.
Opposing peacetime military training critics quote editors
M Audrush of The Echo Green Springs Ohio argues that universal peacetime training would spark an arms race and undermine national defense. J H Cramer of the Journal Blaine Washington counters that compulsory service would push toward socialism or Nazism and leave an army of young men unmotivated without combat opportunity.
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M. Audrush
The
Echo of
Green Springs
Ohio
J. H. Cramer
Journal of
Blaine, Wash
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