Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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James T. Farrell, final speaker on the program, said that writing today is a respectable trade, and that American novelists have no need to apologize. Once a hotbed of commercialism and infantilism in public taste, America is still a "hack-writers' paradise" in some respects, but the serious authors have had financial success, indicating that a sizable part of the reading public is reasonably intelligent...
...runs the reasoning of these plotting the country's policy, and there is little basis for disagreeing with them. Somehow the nation must provide the manpower and the skills over a long period both for a large army and for its civilian needs. This is why the present draft program soon must be replaced by a long-range plan, one which will balance off the needs of civil professions and the military...
...under discussion are three proposals for such a long-run program. The first, Universal Military Training, is embodied in an Administration bill before Congress. Put forward long before the international situation deteriorated to its present condition, this measure is much too cumbersome to be effective: its provisions for a special Training Corps, partly under civilian control, do not get men for the necessarily large standing army now needed. The President will probably kill this proposal, in favor of one of the other two possibilities, Universal Military Service or some sort of deferment plan...
...matter which program the Congress chooses, there will be harmful effects. It is a question of which plan's defects will hurt the fewer people and do so for the shorter time. The situation ten years away must be considered...
...army makes its positions for technically trained men more attractive, volunteers might provide all the skill the standing army needs. Of course, it might be necessary for the army to set up its own training program for doctors and other experts, sending them through college itself...