UNIVERSAL CONSCRIPTION FOR ESSENTIAL SERVICE

by Herbert Marx Jr. '43,Ed. The H. W. Wilson Company, 1951, 178pages, 1.75.

The core of this Reference Shelf volumewhich is the question, "Should the government have the power to draft aM adults for essential service in time of war?"—comes in the section, "Conscription for Essential Service."

The principle of universal military training was approved in law in June, 1951. The other facet, manpower conscription for service on the home front, was debated during World War II but discussion stopped with the end of hostilities. Those debates of World War II days offer ideas and arguments which hold good today. Compare "Sacrifice for Sacrifice's Sake," taken from the third annual report of the Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program (presented by then Senator Harry Truman) with "FDR's Proposal for National Service, I and II." In conjunction with these read President Truman's "Policy for Manpower Mobilization" (January, 1951).

The concluding section of the volume concerns the potentials of women in both the armed services and the labor force. The implications are both good and bad as evidenced by (1) the way in which women, trained workers as a result of experience during World War 11, are now entering the expanding rearmament program and (2) by the detrimental effects of World War II on family life where the wife filled the dual role of worker and homemaker.

Several factual articles for comparison of wartime experiences with manpower utilization in Britain round out this volume of proand-con debate material.

The W. B. Saunders Company has published Researches in Binocular Vision, by Dr. Kenneth N. Ogle (A.M. '27, Ph.D. '30), for several years Assistant Professor of Research in Physiological Optics. Material for this book was secured by Dr. Ogle while working in Hanover.