Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1948 — Page 13

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FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1938

Army Preview for 1948 Droftees—

Mom Will Like What Army Has in + Siore

or 1948 Peacetime GI

Joes Under UMT

Cargo Checkers Join London Dock Strike LONDON, June 18 (UP)—

Cargo checkers today joined the London dock strike, which has tied up 93 vessels.

Strike leaders told the strik-|bt

For Dad's Day

OLIN SEY a at early morning meetings | For His Golfing and Wile BEAUTY how fo make a,displaced persons, and the proc- e strike would continue. Union| gi SL/R ror a New Look for Draftees Only One of i to cshow. yw 0 Tals a s. an he str e ol 1 eon lie. lon 2 Leisure Time

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Many Revolutionary Changes

By POULAS LARSEN, NEA Yang Correspondent

WASHINGTON, June 18—Mom is going to like the Army that's

getting her Son in the drat. For example, she doesn’t have to worry about his learning bad words he never heard before, from some tough sergeant. The Army, doesn't let its sergeants swear at recruits anymore. That's just one of the revolutionay ideas the Army has in its program. There are

That way is more efficient than me De me -of As jcuss words, they've discovered. |harracks where draftees will be Another lesson the Armyiquartered. Pleasanter quarters ‘learned at Knox is that just be- helpéd make the Fort Knox exlcausé’a man knows how to do a periment succeed. Unfortunately, thing, it doesn’t necessarily meanithey.say, the Army won't have much money for this phase of the

14,000 strikers to return to work,

afternoon. Some 35000 tons of meat,

were in the holds of refrigerator; ships. Thirfeen vessels were loaded with perishables. The strike has set back Brit-

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U. 8S. parents is and Congress that [universal

“them training could make|p might call some of ./better men out of boys.

uff. x Hbe 28 lot Super Although uhiversal ‘was by the 80th ot in World aL going tot did not die in vain: Much of brothel that it ain’t'the “basic” {what was learned by the Knox weate d out, either, for World Umtee” tests has today been indl II Sosparated into the Army’s basic e Army is determined to ‘train % re yi Te the men who will bei A New Approach the GI Joes of 10948 by act of} The ban against swearing is Congress, the most scientific mili- part of the whole new approach tary training in history. to making good soldiers. Most of the new ideas caine/to be that a man was shown how from the Army's experimental to do a thing like making his bed Universal Military Training unitsijust once. After that his sergeant at Ft. Knox. Kv. Thora just bawled him out every time] groups were set up to try to show ie made it wrong. The new way "x =

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purpose make better soldiers. Second, it wants to make Army life so attractive that enough men will want to re-enlist and future drafts to maintain strength will not be necessary. And finally, the Army feels it owes a great responsibility to U. 8. parents to make the best of the men’s time while they are in service,

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possible will get individual interviews with a chaplain. The new man will be encouraged to go to church and given a man-to-man briefing on the fact that a clean and honest soldier gets {along best in the service. Let- : [ters from the chaplains will be sent to the parents of the younger boys, keeping them posted on the boys’ progress. Camp commanders will be encouraged to try to get .-nearby communities to help in the planning of the traineees’ recreation. {At Knox, in co-operation with { Louisville, Ky., civic groups and icitizens, excellent recreation was arranged for the young “Umtees.” If kept them out of the saloons and made them feel as if they wepe in their own home town. This device will be used widely at camps getting draftees. “Scare System” Out A more intelligent presentation of sex problems is another goal of the new training. Instead of trying to scare the men with horror pictures of what happens to a man with a veneral disease, emphasis will be placed on selfcontrol, the rewards of clean livjing and the responsibility of a (Soldier to his family, the church and to his country. : re least once a week there will i be supervised discussions of curi ‘rent events on tie theory that {the best soldier is the most ini |telligent soldier. Some courses in the Army's basic training have been dropped ito make room for the “Unitee innovations.” These include courses on mines apd booby traps, com- : bat teamwork, motor vehicle operation, the usé of common hand tools and others. .

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