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a et oy Ste het eM ee Nie eee Compulsory national eervice, even including other than military service, might have the effect of Aagrandiz: ing ihe siaic and ageravating t the difculties of yuluntary local services. Conscripted snen could hardly be assigned to « private or voluntary welfare institution. Might not the resull be to increase still more the degree to which people fcan on the state and permit the state to manage their lives? Are we seady for such a departure from traditions which have made ours a great count?y? 2 nase WE Wren CONSCRIPTION ir a hl ae UIT AVAURRF WAUPIVIUEEE ANI Ae eT INDIVIDUAL IS TO HAVE A FAIR CHANCE TO SURVIVE IN BATTLE? It is often argued that adequate training saves lives in battle, uhat to send men into battle, untrained, is mur. der, that conscription would assure each sokdicr (he neces: gary training to prevent that particular form of murder. This argument is sound to the extent that men in battle have a betler chance for survival rf they know how to do what must be done with the least exposure of them. selves. Dut warfare is not less fatal when fought be- tween highiy trained armica. One purpose of military training is te teach men how to kill the enemy. The true saving of lives is effected by preventing war, not by teaching men how to kill each other. Furthermore, there fs live evidence that conscription actually maintains efficient standards, even in killing, During years of peace the training tends to become per- functory and every war finds new methods which have to be learned hy experience. There is a good deal to be anid for the idea that alertness and independener of mind aic better life preservers in war than a well-trained mili- tary procedure that is a litte ont of date. 9. WOULD NOT CONSCRIPTION PREVENT SUDDEN ATTACKS LIKE PEARE HARBOR? Poland, Norway, Beluitun, the Netherlands, France, Greeee, Russia, Yorostavia all had conseription and all fw 4 ‘: Dadlgeshag [8 Al etek hen et be! bea a ed ag were atiacked without warning, With the Bittzhrre; methods, the only way to prevent that sort of attack i to prevent war, Stiong military preparations are an in citement to sudden attack rather than a safeguard agains it, because sudden surprise attack offers the only hop of success in such a case. 10. IS NOT CONSCRIPTION NECESSARY T¢ MAN THE BASES AND MAINTAIN THi FLEETS TO KEEP US SAFE AFTER Tilt WAR? A program which makes our safety depend on base all over the world and on Neets and forces stronger that those of other countries is a policy leading to war. |] we seck security that way, other mations may be experter to do likewise. We shall have no grounds for objection and our aliempts to gain security and theirs will be sur to clash if we follow that line. Not security, but war is the result cf such a policy. ll. BUT IS NOT CONSCRIPTION “EEDED TC ProarTr Fervue rl SP LPT AL THE WAR? The poverty of our neighbors will injure us mor than their ageression could. Wealth requires the abilit: to produce and exchange gourds: no device has been foun ‘to enable us to do that satisfactorily within our countr except through the aid of trade with our neitbore, ‘Uh hest way te protect ourselves from impoverished neigh bors is to share generously in the world program reconstruction, so that they may be restored to prasperit and may help, by their trade, to maintain our Jrosperity Pll} “ ~ wae Et ty Nr Gara Ae Qe Mas ede pee Sa ete ee