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THE DAILY TAR HEEL, ' THURSDAY. APRIL 17 Y our Freed! era: Is r lli PAGE' 6 IT I uoag Mien uoaama ough Duty, Prof Claims (Continued from page 1) a -business of coming into direct, life-and-death contact with the enemy. Many young Americans are sedulously trying to avoid wearing any kind of uniform; the greater number of them, and this is really more shocking, are try ing to hide inside of one. ' Part oi the explanation of this attitude lies in the recentness of tho last war. The men and boys who are now about to enter the Armed Forces were passing through a highly impressionable stage of life at that time, and they know and have talked to men who, participated in the con fix; This is the first generation oi Americans which is fully aware that chere is something other to do in the service than carry a rifle. - Most of the men who enlisted or were drafted during WW II had little idea that one's skin is considerable safer in a motor-repair p$ol or a paymaster's office than it is in a front-line rifle platoon. . Their younger brothers and neighbors, on the contrary, have had ' the distinction very clearly ! made for them, largely through the advice and experience of the returned veterans. Then again, the Armed Forces between wars did a bad job of convincing recruits that fighting is really the main business of a military man after all. Enlistment posters gave the impression that the services were chiefly concern ed with producing highly skilled technicians in a large number of fields which differed little from civilian trades and occupations. The, average recruit must have believed he was joining up in UNCBand ;t Sets Concert for Hamlet The University band, will leave Hill hall this afternoon ot 1:30 for Hamlet where they will give a concert. -The band director at Hamlet, a former Carolina bandsman, has requested the band to go to Hamlet with all expenses paid. The program tonight will be the same as the one the band played here last Tuesday. It will include Ganne's "Father of Victory" March, Gosseo's "Mili tary Symphony in F," Rossini's J'Barber of Seville" Overture, Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's De siring,". Javaloyes "El Alban ico" March, Morrissey's "An American Weekend," Lang's ?Sea Medley," .Yoder's rhyth mic novelty "Git on Board," and the "Men of Ohio" march. Air-Conditioned CHINESE & AMERICAN Opeii Daily 11-9:45 ' Sunday 12-9:45 ;. ,t , 116 E. Parrish Gl., Durham - :.::' ... 4 ' THESE WARY MARINES search the Korean underbrush for Communists with the aid of a heavy machineguru With the scrubby pines and shirt-sleeve weather it might be any Southern training . ground, but to these battle-wearied Leathernecks it's another day in the very-hot Korean War. Photo courtesy U.S. Marine Corps. order to prepare for civilian life. And to a ; great extent, . that is exactly what he was doing in many cases. Only after the drive out . of the Pusan beachhead and the Inchon landing did the post ers begin to change, The effect has been that those who feel that military service is imminent for them are likely to rush to join the non-combatant branches of the Armed Forces. Everyone who has had his eyes and ears open for the past several years knows that the average sailor, quartermaster clerk, or Air Force ground crewman stands an excellent chance of never getting near the rattle of small arms fire, if he gets close to any kind of physical danger at all." Conse quently, our finest physical and mental specimens intend to . oc- j cupy their time in the service is-I suing shoes and trousers and mess ; kits, or attending long-term tech-: nical schools in order to learn how to tend some.highly compli cated machine which is too valu able to be exposed to possible destruction or capture by the en emy. What other conclusion can one reach, when the Marine Corps itself, in whose uniform it was once the pride of American youth to serve, has to resort to the draft to fill out its ranks? Another contributing factor is the present draft policy. The num ber of possible reasons for defer ment is so great that the man who is finally "caught" feels himself to be the unlucky exception to the rule. Naturally, in WW II the reverse was true. Only the few escaped service between 1941- 1946, so that ultimate enlistment or inductions was accepted as the common lot. But now, with prospects of withholding the more intelligent college students from service as a special class, with the possibility of total deferment of key indus trial and agricultural workers; and with several other reasons for excluding - men from military duty, only the unwary are likely to . be snared. At least this is a reasonable assumption, and it is! reflected in the attitude of young men and their; families. Many parents plan to enter their 12-year-old sons in colleges with ROTC units immediately upon their graduation from high school. Their hope is that the boys will be able to qualify for the re serve officers programs and so escape service for a least four years. They seem to feel that by the time the mobilization program may have slowed down- and be sides, a large number of the RO TC programs are designed to train ordnance, commuri cations and supply officers. Morever, the number of parents whose sons have suddenly turned up with scientific aspirations has increas ed remarkably. " Tfie total effect of all these things has been to produce a gen eration that does not want to be Marines or combat soldiers under any circumstances. Freedom is something desirable, true, but there will always be someone else to fight for it. And while that someone else is doing the dirty work, our young men want to is sue the equipment, operate the machines, or stay at home and ig nore the whole affair. . ' . As a nation we are just begin ning to realize dangerous impli cations of this attitude. But if the same realization does not come very soon to those individual Americans who are of age for mil itary service, a whole generation may lose completely the neces sary will to fight of which all victory is the product. Alumni Meef To Begin The annual meeting of the General Alumni asociation of the University to be held here today will 'get underway with a board of directors luncheon at the Caro lina Inn at 1 pjn. SPECIAL SPRING RATES Marilyn s INN Oceanfroni ai 23d St. Ideal place for a crowd to spend the weekend. All sports including swim ming and. fishing:. Plan now to .get that summer tan early. Write or call for rates.: Mrs.;,, M. C. Strohkor,b, Owner-Manager. ' : VIRGINIA ; BEACH, VA. OYiOTi : For Support 'Hers Thanks O P any Ham Horton, new president of the student body, yesterday offered his thanks for the sup port of the UP candidates who were elected. He also gave a re-statement of plans for the coming year. Horton said the election of the UP slate proved that "Caro lina students will not be divided along artificial lines" and that "Carolina students desire a student government which re presents them." "You have proven that the enthusiasm of amateurs can more than equal the experience of professionals," Horton said. He added that the final re sponsibility of "returning stu dent government to the students rests with you." There are ap proximately 200 appointments to be made this year, according to the president, and they are "real opportunities for you to participate in Student Govern ment." One of the plans underway now is a doorstop to make sure the student government office is open at all times to "concern itself not with crusading but with efficient administration of student block fees, ammounting this year to $71,550," Horton. declared. 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