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...able-bodied man 20 years old should be made to serve in the army, navy or air force for one year?" I submit that this is a vastly different thing from asking the public whether it favors peacetime conscription, even of men from 21 to 31, as the Burke-Wadsworth bill is now worded. . . . TIME'S use of these polls as authority for the status of public sentiment on this question leaves the magazine open to questioning by those of us who sincerely believe that peacetime conscription in America is not only unnecessary (in view of the fact that...
...necessary appropriations. Unfortunately large appropriations do not immediately buy security. This country will be in deadly peril until our defenses, some two years hence, will include an adequate air force and a highly trained field force armed with modern weapons. Incidentally, the provisions of the original Burke-Wadsworth Bill are approximately those suggested in my fifth point, and it is to be hoped that Congress will enact this measure in its original form...
...young men a chance to volunteer on a one-year basis at $30 a month instead of the present $21 and three-year enlistment? Why not bring out that the Gallup Poll, which you use as an argument for conscription, did not get the poll on the present Burke-Wadsworth Bill. . . . Give us facts! And all of them...
...training in any reasonable time. In the hearings that Reader Partington cites, the Secretary of War and Chief of Staff repeatedly testified that neither proposed pay increases nor other inducements, but only conscription would produce the number of men needed. Although the Gallup Polls did not mention the Burke-Wadsworth Bill, the poll majority favoring conscription for one year's service increased significantly after the bill was introduced in Congress...
...jail in Los Angeles last week moped lean-jawed 19-year-old Private Conway J. Bristow, sentenced by a court martial to six days for being absent without leave from drills of his National Guard outfit. Two years under the draft age set by the Burke-Wadsworth Conscription Bill, Private Bristow was ready to get back in uniform, wait the Government's call of the Guard to active emergency service. Said AWOLer Bristow of the most common of fense committed by soldiers: "I hope the sentence won't reflect on my patriotism. If I had not been patriotic...