Our Archaic Draft

...In the din of this perpetual politicalizing envisioned by loftman's "Grate Society", where will one be able to read an occasional book, attend a lecture, or write an essay without being assailed by pamphleteers or "piped in propaganda...

...there is no doubt that it would be desirable to end the draft entirely...

...As to loftman's assertion that he is protecting the intellectuals, they might find cozier security in the Kremlin...

...he desires nonconformity and creativity but refuses to tolerate the divergences of viewpoint and the frequent eccentricity which are the price of nonconformity...

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...If Durkott's formulation of "student freedom" means freedom from guy loftman and his marching hundred, Impact may serve a positive good...

...It seems incredible that one should have to defend such elementary political principles as obedience to the law, but it seems that this is what we are reduced to...

...If we rely upon mere masses of unseasoned infantry, inevitably we are at a disadvantage when opposed to our principal rivals in this world, Soviet Russia and Communist China, which always can put more conscripts into the field than we can...

...We shift the cost of military service from the well-to-do taxpayer, who benefits by lower taxes, to the impecunious young draftee...

...BLACK POWER AND THE NEW LEFT (Continued from Page 5) movement but refuses to pay the price for movement...

...Hearing before a Sub-committee of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, 89th Congress, First Session, on HR 2438 (S 846), page 80...

...But from whence will the civilized minority find succor...

...Far from weakening the American military establishment, such (Continued on Page 10) WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THE DRAFT Governor Ronald Reagan: "I have questioned the whole business of the draft...

...Presumably freedom of choice here as elsewhere would be worth paying for...

...The involuntary vassals would hardly receive better treatment from an administration of students than from the present one, though probably the student administration would spray its dictums in haughtier contempt...

...A combination of volunteer Regular Army and of National Guard reserves — together, of course, with our missile armament and other tremendous weapons — not only would be sufficient for our present military needs, but far more reliable than conscript masses...

...Certainly the military innovations of the Second World War made vast concentrations of half-trained and inexperienced infantrymen of little consequence — even though all belligerents continued to employ them until the end of that struggle...

...Janis Stares 10...

...We would not, as now, have a force which consists of partly trained men who leave about as soon as their training is complete...

...I suggest, in fine, that our whole concept of the mass army ought to be altered...

...Their oligarchic and totalitarian philosophy would render students not their social, cultural, and intellectual kin to a state of serfdom...

...One df the principal difficulties of the draft is that the troops thus raised are not effectively ready for irregular combat until they have spent months in the field...

...He also is the author of numerous books, among them The Conservative Mind and The American Cause...

...William F. Buckley, Jr.: "The not so very long-term objective should be to eliminate the draft in favor of a professional army of volunteers, who would greatly increase the efficiency of the armed services, and relieve the civil population of an experience which, insofar as it is unrelated to true necessity, is debasing, and an unnecessary — and therefore inexcusable — encroachment on individual freedom...

...I am fearful of long-time compulsory military service becoming what it was in years past in Europe, where the uniform becomes a matter of servitude, and not of patriotism...

...I can only point to Impact as the lesser of evils...

...Although — these handicaps considered — American military forces have done remarkably well since the Second World War, still our present military is clumsy and wondrously costly in every respect...

...The New Left and the Black Power movement really are declaring war on Western civilization...

...We are going to have to reform our society within the confines of the existing social order or suffer the consequences...

...Russell Kirk is research professor of politics at C.W...

...What a great power requires nowadays is an elite military force, professional in character, not unlike the regular Army of the United States before the Second World War — though somewhat larger, intensively trained, and equipped with perfected weapons...

...He wishes creativity but is uncomfortable with the messiness of failed experiments and failed lives which creativity produces...

...The Gourman Report: Confidential Ratings of American Colleges, published by The Continuing Education Institute, Inc., finds the Big Ten academically one of the finest conferences in the nation, and Indiana a top university in that conference...

...Certainly a voluntary system of recruitment is more compatible with past American traditions and with our concept 3 AN ALTERNATIVE (Continued from Page 2) prp chairman robin redbreast, heralded from Pigeon Hill to the by-pass for his seedy canards and sleazy appearance, solemnly and sorrowfully announced that in approving the fieldhouse the Board of Trustees had rejected an opportunity to raise Indiana from a secondrate institution...

...in which case he will probably join the other vassals in the field...

...As an important added benefit a shift from compulsion to fully paid service would give us a better trained force — something that modern weapons make most desirable...

...Frankly, I prefer the present administration of retired basketball coaches whose bungling is at least unbiased, to a troop of totalitarian ideologues who are as foreign to me as Asiatic cholera...

...Professor John K. Galbraith: "The draft survives principally as a device by which we use compulsion to get young men to serve at less than the market rate of pay...

...Montgomery J. Shroyer, Extension of the Draft and Related Authorities...

...Party chairman redbreast will find Gourman's study in I.U.'s second-rate library, where we suggest he spend his second-rate time, reading second-rate books, thereby avoiding such first-rate stupidities...

...indeed, we could not possibly carry on so inefficient and prolonged operations in several parts of the world simultaneously, by present military methods and with present military personnel...

...But then let us not get our hopes up...

...Indiana achieved this rating in spite of having neither engineering nor agricultural departments and Gourman did not consider I.U.'s medical school, endorsed by the AMA as one of America's ten best...

...Post College, a syndicated newspaper columnist, and a senior editor of National Review...

...Military effectiveness — in terms of highly trained professionals instantly ready — would be greatly improved if professional motivation could be substituted for compulsion...

...I have wondered why we couldn't, with the brain power and know-how we have in this country, evolve a program of inducement to enlistment, incentives to enlist, to see if we could not switch to the voluntary system...

...Allowing volunteers to select their own branch of service and their own regiment also would bring advantages...

...This is a highly regressive arrangement which we would not tolerate in any other area...

...Volunteer forces — raised (as once) by states and districts rather than by the present draft-scheme — would possess an esprit de corps and a general capability superior to that of the present conscript army...

...We really should not need half a million men in Vietnam, for instance, to contend against troops much inferior in numbers and equipment...

...Press conference statement, 1966, after being elected Governor of California...

...Will this bird-witted absurdity appeal to any literate existing beyond the confines of a pig sty...

...The roving slums making up the New Left are no more democratic than Adolph Hitler, nor any more intellectual than Soupy Sales...

...In making every office from Union Board to Union Janitor elective these fascists would so inflate the power of student government it could treat those students either unable or unwilling to participate in politics as mere vassals...

...This swirl of nonsense and lies should convince students that boorishness and skulduggery are the politician's chief components and that when someone packages a politician attractively he becomes downright dangerous...

...These might be supplemented by some sort of American foreign legion, not difficult to raise in these times if sufficient inducements were provided...

...If masses of conventional infantry should be needed in a campaign these should be obtained from allies who do not and cannot possess the more expensive of modern weapons, and who do not require a centrally-based striking force readily dispatched to any part of the world...

...The vast conscript army of the United States today is inordinately expensive to supply and support, not well prepared for a vigorous offensive, and necessarily composed in considerable part of men with little taste for soldiering...

...Hanson W. Baldwin, military affairs editor of The New York Times...

...blind his eyes, and attempt the cultivation of his mind...

...The series of diplomatic and military blunders which led to half a million American troops being mired in a defensive action in Vietnam need not be repeated...

...On The Right" syndicated newspaper column, appearing in the Washington Daily News, April 24, 1964, page 27...

...The politician will pre-empt the student, and the student will either quit his studies to assure his stake in student government or plug his ears...

...We might consider, too, the strengthening of our American reserve by training young men for one or two summers, say — less costly and less disruptive than the present draft system...

...The subsidizing of masses of infantry among our allies, if necessary, would provide us with adequate reserves, garrison troops, and stationary forces on frontiers...

...George Nathan OUR ARCHAIC DRAFT (Continued from Page 3) reforms would give us superiority over the "armed hordes" of Russia and China...

...A more compact army of volunteers, enlisted for comparatively long terms, would supply us with sufficient divisions equivalent in fighting power to the present Marines...