The Case for Compulsory National Service

Margaret Mead is a well-known anthropologist who has done research in Samoa, the Admiralty Islands, New Guinea and Bali. She has held professorships at Columbia, the University of Cincinnati and the Menninger Foundation, and has written extensively on anthropological subjects. Dr. Mead recently edited American Women, a report of the President's Commission on the Status of Women (New York: Scribner, 1966).