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Show LEHI FKEE PRESS. LEHL UTAH I a WHO'S NEWS WEEK mm in I War Effort Strengthened By High School Graduates Armed Services, Industry and Farms Lure 1942 Students; Vocational Training row Becoming Increasingly Important. By WILLARD E. GIVENS THIS Executive Secretary, National Education . Atsociation. Victory Luxury "John's elder brother wbe fin- ished high school In 1M1 burned on up the tires of his old Jallopy the highways at sixty miles an hour, either pleasure or business bent. John will ride a bus or walk to "go places and do In things." Susan who graduates 1942 will find that permanents, fluffy evening dresses, silk and nylon hose were luxuries that her older sister of 1949 did not bethe queath to her. Youth, likesome rest of us, must sacrifice of the refinements of existence, and before the struggle is over, mav forego some of the T HAS been estimated that over one million boys and girls will leave high school this spring with their diplomas. Newspapers WNU Features. It is this same group of boys and girls, the youth of the YORK. Possibly, there win nation, who were figuratively being spoken to when a commenceNEW a touch of Sweden's "middle ment speaker said to a group of graduates before him: workers, electricians, ship carpenway" in Paul V. McNutfs new manskilled other and ters. ioiners than have seen more read." "You have you history power commission which is recruitthe first half of 1942, the pages of history have been trades. skill and During ing Man-PowBoard brawn for turning fast, recording the names of There is opportunity of some kind today for youth everywar the men deeds their in and to Rote greatest produc school graduates, boys and girls, Appointee All can join in the where. all of drama ages. will at once enter to in some Height. onPlach adventure" "great And now today, not only the high help manufacture the guns and I By LEMUEL F. PARTON Ainn-tot-- - er appointment on the board is Wendell Lund, Michigan-bor- n son of Swedish immigrants, representing the Labor Production division of the WPB, succeeding Sidney Hillman in this capacity. Mr. Lund emerges as a new and powerful figure in the lineup. Impressive in physical bulk and with a record of achievement to match a record quite remarkable for his years. Citizens of Swedish birth or ancestry have been cheering for their Wendell Lund for quite a few years and picking him as the most likely to succeed in the domain of useful public service. He is the son of Dr. C. A. Lund, Lutheran minister of Escanaba, Mich., president of the of Lutheran synod Augustana churches. Wendell Lund won the Michl- -' fan state high school oratorical contest and was graduated it head of his class, at the age of IS. Getting through Augustana college, he worked as a laborer in a flooring mill and foreman In a railroad tie yard. On Saturday nights, he worked In a store and earned $5 a week editing college publications. Again he was graduated at the top of his class. He took bis master's degree at Columbia university and snatched a doctor's degree' from Princeton In a brief two war-lab- cr ' years. with In 1934 he was the department of the interior in conservation work and in reshaping the . depressed economy of the Monongahela valley. In 1935, he organized and directed a section of the division of subsistence homesteads, engaged in a wide range of similar governmental projects and worked a night shift in which he took a law degree from Georgetown university, in 1937. In January, 1941, Governor Van Wagoner of Michigan made him secretary of the state administrative board at a time when corruption had been prevalent in the $22,000,000 state purchasing budget. He cleaned that up nicely and was appointed executive secretary of the Michigan tmemployment compensation commission. This job was a stepping stone to his new post in which getting the right man in the right job is as important as getting the right shell in the right gun. " e '"PHAT air power will bring some drastic changes both in every day living and in fighting, or primarily survival techniques, is the ex! Our Only Safety Is mVj In Better Planet, ander P. de "a 1 Severtky Believes Seversky's new book, "Victory Through Air Power." It is a beck which would stir even a wooden Indian out of any undue complacency about the shape, of things to come. His argument that we will live in the future only by bigger and better airplanes may be refuted only by experts, considering the major's professional standing as an aviation engineer, builder and inventor. Flying for Csarist Russia, he got only a wooden leg out of the s First World war and thinks we will be lucky to come off as well in this one, unless we wake up. Arriving here, in 1918, he acquired a $5,000,000 airplane fae- tory and a beautiful wife, the former Evelyn OUphant of Kew York. the Germans, his ship was dropped to the Baltic One Dog-fightin- of g 'his own bombs exploded. A FRIEND who recently tra- versed North Africa and the Near East told this writer he found everywhere diligent and curious British Intelligence officers but none of the USA. He thought we ought to be picking up more gossip in those parts. Reports accumulate as to the Increasing efficiency of the British secret service. They tag Ma. Sen. Hastings Lionel Ismay as the man providentially at hand to guide md stimulate these efforts. He Is credited with much swift legerdemain in getting at enemy secrets; NATIONAL AFFAIRS PATTERNS SEWING jj CipcLE Reviewed by THERE few 'ashions onito ne mnr.ii tut .iUie whirx as the dress which looks kv! a suit, an appealing version which is presented in Pattern k 1560-In this style you get smooth fitting top which whittle CARTER FIELD An Collapse of German Morale Seen Possible In December . . , IF -- m .-n B. the waist, trimly outlines the for! inine curves of the bosom and AEF Had Reached . . . Ulster Sooner WNU Features, coi Bell Syndicate WASHINGTON. In view of the clamor of Soviet sympathizers sec-in Britain for the opening up of a ond front against Germany to take the pressure off Russia it is interesting to examine all the "facts" we have in regard to what may happen when the mud on the Russian front becomes passable. This is true for girls First we must remember the surcapacity. tanks and planes upon which the Both the as weU as for boys. Many girls prise of last summer. g battle fighting men on are taking their places in the and United States intelliBritish fronts depend. The graduates may war industries. The great exgence staffs were certain that the enter these industries at once, or of offices in Washington Reds could not last much more than pansion one in of many they may enroll and other centers of administrafour weeks. High army officers lost different types of training for more tion of the war effort issue calls on it with Russian enthusiasts. bets skilled service in the factories pro for typists, stenographers, clerks One wager, made on army, "inducing the material of war. and secretaries. Many girls are was that the Nazis would formation," These training opportunities range in nursing courses and win peace by Russia enrolling defeat from the elementary vocational which lead to direct or indirect 1. This writer won such September schools where the simpler skills of service, for some of which ofa wager, but must confess that he the assembly line are acquired, to ficer's commissions are availfigured the Russians would be drivtechnical and the engineering in the armed forces. able, en back to the Ural mountains by schools of our great universities The kinds of military work for that time! which are turning out recruits for numerare from to choose When it must be remembered that girls highly responsible positions both in of furannouncements and ous,no time have the Soviet sue-at the armed forces and in industrial are ther expected cesses in driving the Nazis back opportunities ranks. to time. from time been anything like as great as most The high schools themselves in Ofttimes the impulse to seek serv- of our people have assumed. many city school systems, and in The best evidence of this is that some of the village schools serving ice far afield is ill advised. There states Whole Germans prepared a line of dehome front. the is the also farm areas, are equipped to offer a would high grade vocational training. must be prepared to resist invasion fense, after they realized they h for Some graduates who have taken from land, sea or air. Civilian de- not make the non vocational courses in high fense is vital. First aid, air raid which they had hoped, and at only two points along the whole line, school will immediately begin such duty, auxiliary fire and police servcourses, if available, in the schools ice must be manned and adminis- from the Arctic to the Black sea, have they been actually forced back from which they have been gradu- tered. comto that line. or will In kind of of seek hundreds that ated, they agricultural in neighboring communimunities high school graduates will Soviet Generals Now Know training ties. ; immediately lay aside their diploAssumine that the Nazis have no The federal government in June, mas for cultivator handles and hoes. new surprise weapon or important to There is much truth in the slogan 1940, appropriated $15,000,000 Soviet generals are fathe method, equip and staff the rapidly ex- - that "Food will win the war." The miliar with what they have to face, know how to fight a sound retreat ing action when attacked by superi or force at any one place, and how to make every Nazi gain expensive in man power. How long this war will last is very likely to depend on the success of the coming German offensive. If their losses should be as heavy as they have been this past winter, and as they were during their successful advance last summer and fall, and, if they should not make a really spectacular success, the Ger- mans might surprise the world by staging a morale collapse by December this year. As a matter of fact this is the confident expectation of some very people. It should be added that this is not wishful thinking, on their part. It affects some manufacturers who are wondering how they can protect themselves from serious losses IF the war should end, suddenly, before the Many high school graduates, such as these at the Hannah Penn, junior general expectation. high school, York, Pa., will be able to take their places without much furthEven such a desirable er training in the ranks of those who are planning to defend their com- ment does not mean that thedevelop United munities from death dropping down during air raids. States and Britain would have peace by the end of this year. panding vocational departments and provision of food stuffs and the use But a collapse in Germany would schools of less than college grade of foods dictated by modern knowlleave British and U. S. power free which had undertaken to train edge of nutrition for both civilian workers for defense industries. The and soldier are of vital importance. to concentrate on the Far East. L need of workers was so It is this conviction which has urgent and Many of the opportunities may be led so many prominent persons, the plan of meeting it so successful seized without leaving home or in the United States and in Britthat subsequently other sums were community. The alert and eager ain, to urge the "second front" appropriated for this purpose. high school graduate will look about against Germany. It is on the By March, this year, approxi- him for unfilled places in the ranks, Russian front, they think, that mately 2,463,862 workers had been step in where he is best qualified the war can be won, and won prepared for the war industries in and serve. this year. They are figuring on The student selected by fate for this manner. This number is in the state of morale inside Geraddition to those trained for simi- graduation in 1942 faces towering many when next winter closes lar occupations in the vocational handicaps as well as opportunities. courses that constitute the normal For many of these graduates, school in, with no brighter prospects of ultimate victory for the 'Gerservice of the schools. days are ended. In any case, edumans than they had last winter. cational careers will be interruptThe demand for the graduates ed or diverted from original purof these vocational courses is "I know the Russians can go on poses. much greater than the supply it, and can win if we eive taking The Test They Face. and Is increasing. According them help," said a high official to to the War Production board, Ambitions must be modified, new the writer. "I am not sure the Ger over ten million additional war emphasis placed upon ideals and mans can stand a continuance of duties. The high school graduate of their losses on the Russian front." industry workers will be needed within the year ahead to staff 1942 faces the severest kind of test which can be given to individuals plants now being buiH or exReasons for British the test of flexibility, adjustment to panded. ' in N. Africa untoward Activity circumstances. The vocational training activities This apin Oakland, Calif., are typical of plies to the minor as well as to the Since Dunkirk, Britain has lived those in many cities near, great ship- major enterprises of life. in daily fear of a Nazi invasion via The contrast is still greater if we ireiana. This is the kev to the mi yards or other centers producing the machinery of war. On April 1, compare this generation with grand- zle which has caused so manv un- father's as an illustration of change lifted eyebrows 1942, there were 199 classes in "deand worse in fense training" in the Oakland in our. national life. To that elderly America since the announcement schools, enrolling 3,901 students. gentleman now toasting his slippered that a strong United States expedt This was 473 less than the number heels in retirement by the fireplace, uonary rorce had landed in Ulster. of students the Oakland schools Horace Greeley's advice, "Go West, "Why." critics all over this were prepared to accommodate in young man," was an inspiration. try have been asking, "have we not this kind of work. There was an immeasurably wealthy sent troops to help General Mac- During January, February and West to conquer. Grandfather saw Artnur instead of to Ireland?" March an average of 500 trained the finishing touches given to the There are two answers. It was workers a month were placed in world s greatest economic empire. considered, during the period bewar manufacturing from this school as the ingenuity, energy, and de- tween Pearl Harbor and th tim system. ' There have never been termination of a New world, assem troops were landed in Ulster, that sufficient trainees enrolled to meet bled from the tribes from the Old, to attempt to send transports loaded the demand for riveters, chippers, trimmed off the last frontiers from with troops across the Pacific to Macaulkers, ship fitters, sheet metal the American wilderness. ' nila would be in vitin tr disastor th the drowning of. thousands of troops Looking beyond strife. present William J. Hamilton, superintendthere is the witnout doing MacArthur's heroes ent of schools, Oak Park, 111., spoke for the years ahead. any gooa. getting ready on this problem which faced educaThe sending of troops to UlComplete and final would be tion: "There is evidence that dur- unavailing if we lostvictory in peace what ster was motivated by strategy ing the post-wperiod, conditions we had won in war. There is a trewhich has been explained only pertaining to the support of the pub- mendous task of reconstruction to the American peopartially lic schools will not be improved. ahead of all the world. There. is Had those troops been sent ple. The demand for social security is the rubble to clear three months earlier, there away; but much n already being given much more important there are new struc might have been a very differ-- . as the principal factor in the tures to take the ent story in North Africa. Field place of the old. new social order and may superThe vision and capacity of today's . Marshal Rommel might be a sede education in importance , . . youth will determine whether prisoner today, his command they public- education will become in- live in the ruins of a killed or captured, had that been past or in new volved in a confusing mass of edifices builded upon the ideals of i;doM."' ireeaom ana liberty,. war-industri- es school graduate, but all those who have read the story of man's upward struggle from the early dawn of history to the present time, recognize the climax of history in which they are now living. ,ach and everyone especially the high school graduate is seeking to find the proper place, the suitable niche in it. The Significance of Today. Only to the man who is in some measure educated is it granted to know what is going on about him and to estimate its significance. There is an old story of two peasants of Brabant who were weeding their crops on a sultry June day in 1815 when the guns of the Iron Duke greeted those of Bonaparte at Waterloo. One of the peasants lifted his eyes from his hoe and scanned the horizon. "Soule," he said, "it thunders; it will rain today!" As the guns of destiny broke the silence of their fields, these two peasants went on hoeing their vegetables, almost as. ignorant as their beets and cabbages of what went on anywhere else in the world but in the limited sphere in which they moved. The mental Isolation of manunkind, in the happy days of the human race when one class of men was privileged to enjoy the culture and . refinement of wide knowledge, and another class was doomed to live and die in vulgarity and poverty, is banished. Universal education has banished it. The high school, especially, is responsible for making this vastly ' different world 'from 'the one which existed a century and a quarter ago when Europe was rocked as it Is today by the clash of arms and ideals and only a few knew the issues and fewer still had a part in resolving them. Today; high school students, see themselves in the setting of time and events. In their hearts is a stirring that finds its expression in a common question, "What is my place in all this?", Some of the boys may volunteer at once for service in. the "armed forces. The army has just announced that volunteers 18 and 19 years old may select training in the combat branch of their own preferenceinfantry, cavalry, artillery, tank corps, air corps, signal corps, or corps of engineers. Others will wait ,the decision of the Selective Service system as to where and when they may serve best. Many graduates will . continue their education under the direction of the navy, which has in operation plans by which graduates may go on to college and pursue studies in which they may earn college credits and at the same time prepare for more effective service in the navy. From this group, the n battle fleet now huge building in our shipyards will secure many of its commissioned of. ficers. War Industries to Hire Many. Some thousands of these high , two-ocea- 7 mnteetiNr I 1 4 1 I ,1 r f ' I IP I-- , Re- gaining consciousness, clinging to a wing, he made a tourniquet of his trouser leg He had swooned again when a Russian destroyer picked him up, his leg blown away. In Washington, he became consulting engineer for the United States air $ervice, building amphibian planes, master of stunt flying with a dead motor. He has filled out an illustrious career as a designer and builder of planes. He is no armchair h'a strategist. maw i 1 II f A mechanized army calls for the utmost inventive and operational skills which the American people ean produce. These Denver high school boys will' know how to operate an electric semaphore If they should serve in the signal corps of the army. Problems of Education Aired at Conference At an annual meeting of the American Council of Education, Chicago, 111., the following statements were made by educators: Roscoe L. 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