Spare the Rod . . .

ARMY & NAVY

The Army's creampuff, progressive-school system of discipline, forced upon it by the more articulate of its citizen-soldiers of World War II, began to backfire in places where the world could hear.

In Germany the Army sadly announced that the venereal disease rate among occupation G.I.s had gone up to 261 cases per 1,000 men per year. A few old-fashioned soldiers wished aloud that something could be done by way of punishment to make the soldiers behave.

In Japan, Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger, a tough soldier when re--quired, appealed to his men to end drunkenness, malicious beating of Japanese, housebreaking, rape and organized thievery*. Such goings on, said "Uncle Bob," were "endangering the mission of the occupation."

*E.g., Private Leo Christensen was under sentence of death for killing a Japanese boy with a motorcycle, assaulting a married woman in her home, attacking another Japanese.

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