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Having admitted the evils of the draft, we are still saddled with the need of manning the military structure. Like so many other critics of the draft, Mr. Gitlin proposes that the draft be abolished and the military professionalised...
...safely agree with Mr. Gitlin that conscription is harming much of America's youth. We need only look around us to see how the selective draft produces a general confusion and misdirection in the lives of those eligible to be called up. As soon as he graduates from high school, the teenager is faced with the quandry of when, how, and even whether he ought to enlist. He can "get it over with" before college, but that means starting school after his friends. Besides, he will have to attend boring Army Reserve meetings every week for years...
...draft leads to another evil which Mr. Gitlin does not mention. High school and college graduates who have not serverd their time, but who are still eligible, are discriminated against by employers. Many who enlist do not do so from any desire to serve their country or to reap the benefits of a military training, but rather to eliminate the prime obstacle to decent employment...
Plainly, salaries will have to be raised more than Mr. Gitlin suggests before either enough enlisted men or officers can be induced to make the military their career. And the problem is bound to grow worse as all services become more technically specialized. Only highly trained and competent men can operate today's military machine, and the military is finding it more difficult to recruit such men and to keep those it has. An Army major with 15 years experience who oversees a research laboratory receives about the same pay as a fresh out of grad school research scientist employed...
Harvard men arrested include Johnson, Todd A. Gitlin '63 national president of Students for a Democratic Society, Richard J. Rothstein '63, John H. Ehrenreich '63, and Thomas A. Timberg...