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Compulsory national eervice, even including other than mililary service, might have the effect of aagrandiz. i the sive aad agg: s local services. Conscripted men could hardly be assigned to a private or voluntary welfare instiution, Might not the result he to increase still more the degree to which people teas on the state and permit the state to manage their lives? Are we scady for such a departure from traditions which have made ours a great countfy? 8 DON’ WE NEED CONSCRIPTION IF AN & DON'T WE NECD CONSCRIPTION IF INDIVIDUAL IS TO HAVE A FAIR CHANCE TO SURVIVE IN BATTLE? It is often argued that adequate training saves lives in battle, that to send men into baitle, untrained, is mut- der, that conscription would assure each soldicr the neces- sary training to prevent that particular form of murder. This argument is sound to the extent that men in battle have a better chance for survival if they know how to do what must be done with the least exposure of them- selves. But warfare is not less fatal when fought be- tween highiy trained armics. One purpose of military training is tu teach men how to kill the enemy. The truc saving of lives is effected by preventing war, not by teaching men how to kill each other. Furthermore, there is little evidence that conscription actually maintains efficient standards, even in killing. Daring years of peace the training tends to become per- functory and every war finds pew methods which have to he learned hy experience. There is a good deal to be said for the idea that alerines: and independence of mind aie better life preservers in war than a well-trained mili- tayy procedure that is a little ont of date. 9. WOULD NOT CONSCRIPTION PREVENT SUDDEN ATTA LIKE PEARL HARBOR? inn, the Netherlands, Greere, Russia, Yugoslavia all had conseription and all France, Poland, Norway, Bel fiat It SASethay se were attacked without warning. With the Blitzhrie; methods, the. only way to ae that sort of attack i opal citement to sudden attack rather than a safeguard agains it, because sudden surprise attack offers the only hop of success in such a case, as in 10. IS NOT CONSCRIPTION NECESSARY TC MAN THE BASES AND MAINTAIN 'THi FLEETS TO KEEP US SAFE AFTER TH: WAR? A program which makes our safety depend on base all over the world and on ects and forces stronger thar those of other countries is a policy leading to war. 1 we seck sci rity that way, other nations may be expecte We and our aticmpts to gain security and theirs will be sur to clash if we follow that linc. Not security, but war is the result cf such a policy. 3 NOT CONSCRIPTION “QEEDED TC ECT US FROM THE JEALOUSY ©; IMPOVERISHED NEIGHBORS AFTE THE WAR? ‘The poverty of our neighbors will injure us mor than their aguression could. Wealth requires the abilit to produce and exchange gous; no de to enable us to do that sati except through the aid of u hest way te protect ourselves from impover e has been foun ovily within eur countr: ches bors is to chare pencrously in the world program rerontruction, so that they may be restored to prasperit and may he p. by their trade, to maintain our yrosperity mn}