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The New York State Commission eaid: montal national policy ... Our Ameriran tradition i. Strongly set against a large standing army .. Men aow The kind of olxdience thnt is foslered in military in suilitary service should bave a voire in determiring training is not the kind that iasts. It is a temporary the desirability and wundncss of compulsory military *ubjrction of the will, which often loads to greater din. sarvice.. obedience when military pressure is remaved. The American people are fighting this war with thie The New Jersey State Conumission on Military Train- high hope that it will erentuste in an enduring pract. img in High Schools reported: We all look for mcasures o! intcrnetional coopcration It is a psychological fullacy to wvjpese thnt obediense which will reduco the necessity for laige scale post-wnr Imilitary establislment. If, against the backgronnd to military authority, indted, obedience exacted under any perulinr circumstauces, way sutomatically be translated these great exprctations, a year ol comgnlsory militaty training is urged, many Americans will interpret such Into the general habit of ohedicnce. Thc saine'may be action as a signal for tho return of the cynicism of the soid of euch qualitirg as alertness, indu:try, truthlulness, 1930'a or as an admission that we shall all continue to 1 tic. It is by no means canable f demonstration that live in an armed canp and that the hopes of a more those who have had military trainin?. or have been aub. praceful world are nol to be realized. jeet to military discigline, are ,superior io other citizen. in the possession of these qualities. 7. ISN'T A SYSTEM OF CONSCRIPTIC WHAT ARE PROMINENT EDUCATIONAL REALLY DEMOCRATIC? BODIES SAYING NOW ABOUT ADOPTING These are two major aspecls of democracy-cyua POST-WAR CONSCRIPTION? and liberty. There is often a fraternal benefit Irom "Does Ainerica Want Conscription as a Peacetime associations in the ranks of the military. But does a Policy?" asks the Journal of the National Educatior one scriously contend that the amed services lave giy equal opportunily, rank, or recognition to, for examy Association. Then it quotes, "one of the most important pronouncenents cver made by leaders of the teaching the Negro?. profession," thc statcnent adopted Muich 13, 194t, hy Conscription particularly violates the secend elem the Educational Policies Commission of thc National Edu. of democracy-libcrty. Many of our mmost stalwart c cation Association and the Americau Association of zens are dcscended from men and woinen wlio came School Administrators and the Problems and Plans Com- America to escape the sysiens ol, conscription in th. mittce of the American Council on Education. Thcse. countrics. Conscription tends to limit acadenic frecd. bodies said in part: the right of the press to criticize government policics a In our judginent it is unwise to cominit the nation political and military leaders, and tends to discour. at this time to a year of universal inilitary service for the peaccful means of internalional cooperation. follwing reasons.. .. No basic change is necessaury to provide required military prrsonnel. nt only for the There is a great deal to be said in favor of a st period of the war, but also for thc period imcdliatcly fol. of ohligation to serve the community. It is not cle Jowing thc defeat of aur enenies... A question which however, that that sense of obligation car: be develo. must be appraised in loug-range terms. In thrsc terms it best by conpulsion. There is a great difference betw. is clearly impossible to delate fair!y and inte!l gently the questir ef whrthier compulsury militury acrvice is a na. servive rendered to the conimunity from a sense of di Hional nilirary necessity ... and service rendered io the nation under compul-j The assumption has been that one makes his brst c Until thc post-war national rituation is clarifen, it ntms to u4 extremelv uusise and even danserou3 to com- tribution to the national life of America by doing a. mit the nation to auch a revolutionary chenge in fonda. as he can the work which he has selected lor himsell. 181 1 9 }