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Since the pamphlets we distributed at registration reached only a quarter of the undergraduates, and since your long editorial of February 5th presumably reached a larger audience, we would like to reply to it. Wherever we refer to UMT. we are also replying to the editorial regarding UMS except in the third paragraph...
...that "the fact that UMT is not temporary is a strong argument in its favor." Surely the CRIMSON knows that selective serve can be extended indefinitely. Your saying "selective service is always a step behind events" applies to the inflexibility of UMT even more. UMT can do nothing selective service doesn't do already; it merely commits us to a degree of militarization as difficult to repeal once established as, so far, it has been to establish...
College men desiring to appear democratic and self-sacrificing usually support UMT because it applies equality to everybody. But UMT is not combat, and so long as there is war in Korea, some men will be dying while others are enjoying college. The remedy is to end selective service deferments for college students...
...democratic ideal" of "the self-reliant man capable of making his own decisions and stand by them, alone if necessary," you have called "a caveman approach to democracy ... rather silly in the light of modern life..." Do you mean it? UMT would subject men at the immature age of 18 to a training in obedience, lack of independent thinking, typical soldierly evasion of voluntary duties, and excessive respect for hierarchy. It subjects them to martial law, to which the Bill of Rights does not apply; a $10,000 fine and/or five years in prison, for disobeying the president...
...also confused UMS and Universal Military Training. The editorial concerned UMS, which calls for two years of active service. UMT requires only six months of training, which explains General MacArthur's opposition to UMT. Obviously, Universal Military Service would not reduce the size of the army...