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Show Vr War Effort Strengthened By High School Graduates ff -- wSTTr .r & Farm Prospects Bright Despite War Restrictions t Solution to Farm Experts See Labor Problem; Shortage of Tools AVuj Analyst and Commertttor. N-- . now. There is the question of farm machinery; of fertilizers and sprays, of transportation from tlie farm to the primary market, from there to the processor and finally into distribution. And another bottleneck which backs right up to the barn and the sty is the lack of processing families. I understand that if the pig crop now in the making proceeds at the present rate there will not be enough square feet of killing space in America to handle the hogs when they come in. Some of you will recall that in 1924 embargoes had to be placed on certain slaughterhouses to keep the pigs from piling up at their doors. However, there is more experience stored up in Washington heads than there was then and greater ability, equipment and incentive to make use of it. One thing that is being done is to get the farmers to begin feeding their hogs earlier so that the peak period of slaughter can be Battened out and ail the pigs wont come to market at once. Experts who have studied the situation say that the farm labor problem is by no means insoluble. It exists but it is going to be licked with the help of women, school children and part-timhelp from men in the small towns in rural communities who are willing to close up shop and help with the peak load at harvest time. This has already been done in some communities fruit picking, for instance. On the whole, the prospects are that the farmer will be much better off than he was after the last war. Then he took his extra money, made down payments on more land, mortgaged what he had to buy still more and when the depression came lost everything. There are no signs of boom now. The farma er, once bitten is twice shy, he has begun to lay away this extra cash for the rainy day that he. of all people, knows is coming. Farmers have already made rainy day payments to the tune of $5,000,-00This is the amount reported e land-buyin- BRIEFS More than half the persons 25 years old or over in the United States of April 1, 1940, had completed at least eight years of formal school, according to the census bu- reau. . At the present time, families are to be allotted five pounds of sugar per person for canning for the , Rational Education Association. HAS been estimated that over one million boys and girls will leave high school this spring with their diplomas. It is this same group of boys and girls, the youth of the nation, who were figuratively being spoken to when a commencement speaker said to a group of graduates before him: You have seen more history than you have read. During the first half of 1942, the pages of history have been IT By BAUKIIAGE WSV Service. 1343 H Street, Washington, D. C. As Washington takes a look ahead cross the fields and pastures and dairy farms of the nation, the prospects for the farmer seem pretty good. He is going to have some tough problems but they aren't insoluble. And there are good times ahead. The ceilings on retail prices till leave room for price rises which will turn to the farmer's advantage. Congress has yet to decide whether the point at which the ceding on farm prices is to begin can be lowered to parity or whether it will be held at 110 as the law now holds. Price Administrator Henderson Is firm for the lower figure. Secretary of Agriculture Wkkard has endorsed this view which the President set forth in his fireside chat. But congress will decide. Meanwhile, behind closed doors the pioblem will be threshed out as to methods to be used when the lowered retail prices roll back through tlie processor right up to the barn gate. This will be the point where the department of agriculture steps in with its technical knowledge and experience to supplement and probably to modify some of Mr. Hender-son- s ideas. For one thing cannot be forgotten: the farm products of the nation have still to be changed over to some extent from the things that are not essential to the war effort to the things that are essential to the war effort This cannot all be done by the waving of a big stick; there must be left for the farmer a certain price motive for this changeover on his part And how to keep prices up for the products needed and down for what isnt, is a complicated problem which cannot be settled entirely by an arbitrary system of retail price controls in a market of Increased demand and limited supply. One hardship which the farmer shares with the rest of the producers, is the difficulty of getting the tools he needs to produce with, when munitions have the first call. That is the thing that Is causing tlie most headaches in Washington By WILLARD E. GIVENS ExecuUte Secretary Greatest Headache. right Armed Semees, Industry, Farms Lure 1912 Students; Vocational Training Now Becoming Increasingly Important. Victory vs. Luxury John's older brother who workers, electricians, ship carpenters. joiners and other skilled trades. There is opportunity of some names the ofy turning fast, recording kind today for youth everymen and their deeds in the greatest school graduates, boys and girls, All can Join in the where. drama of all ages. to will at once enter in some adventure great And now today, not only the high help manufacture the guns and capacity. This Is true for girls school graduate, but all those who tanks and planes upon which the as well as for boys. Many girls have read the story of man's up- fighting men on battle are taking their places in the dawn the ward struggle from early fronts depend. The graduates may war industries. The great exof history to the present time, recenter these industries at once, or pansion of offices in Washington in in of one enroll ognize the climax of history many they may and other centers of administrawhich they are now living. Each different types of training for more tion of the war effort issue calls and everyone especially the high skilled service in tlie factories profor typists, stenographers, clerks find to is seeking school graduate ducing the material of war. and secretaries. Many girls are the proper place, the suitable niahe These training opportunities range in nursing courses enrolling in it. vocational from the elementary which lead to direct or indirect The Significance of Today. of schools where tlie simpler skills service, for some of which ofOnly to the man who is in some the assembly line are acquired, to ficers commissions are availto technical and engineering measure educated is it granted the able, in the armed forces. him schools of our great universities know what is going on about The kinds of military work for which are turning out recruits for and to estimate its significance. girls to choose from are numerThere is an old story of two peas- highly responsible positions both in ous, and announcements of fur-- ' ants of Brabant who were weeding the armed forces and in industrial ther opportunities are expected in June a day their crops on ranks. sultry from time to time. Duke Iron of the 1815 when the guns The high schools themselves in WaOfttimes the impulse to seek servmany city school systems, and in greeted those of Bonaparte at terloo. One of the peasants lifted some of the village schools serving ice far afield is ill advised. There his eyes from his hoe and scanned farm areas, are equipped to offer a is also the home front. Whole states the horizon. "Soule," he said, "it high grade vocational training. must be prepared to resist invasion deAs Some thunders; it will rain today! graduates who have taken from land, sea or air. Civilian vocational courses in high fense is vital. First aid, air raid the guns of destiny broke the silence non of their fields, these two peasants school will immediately begin such duty, auxiliary fire and police servwent on hoeing their vegetables, al- courses, if available, in the schools ice must be manned and adminismost as Ignorant as their beets and from which they have been gradu- tered. In hundreds of agricultural comated, or they will seek that kind of cabbages of what went on anymunities high school graduates will where else in the world but in the training in neighboring communilimited sphere in which they moved. ties. immediately lay aside their diploThe federal government in June, mas for cultivator handies and hoes. The mental isolation of manun1940, $15,000,000 to There is much truth in the slogan appropriated kind in the The equip and staff the rapidly ex that "Food will win the war. happy days of the human race when one class of men was privileged to enjoy the culure and refinement of wide knowledge, and anoUier 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 Hits vastly different world from the one which existed a century and a quarter ago when Europe was rocied 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 resolvConcept of War ing them. How does it feel to register for Today, high school students see the second time? themselves in the setting of time When the men from 45 to 65, espeand events. In their hearts is a cially those near enough the top of stirring that finds its expression in the bracket to have served in the a common question, "What is my first World war, went to the school place in all this? house and signed their registration Some of the boys may volunteer at once for service in the armed card, they did it with quite a flourish. Of course they knew they would The army has just anforces. nounced that volunteers 18 and 19 probably never be called for military service but just the same it years old may select training in the Many high school graduates, such as these at the Hannah Penn, junior gave them a sort of a "we did it combat branch of their own prefwill be able to take their places without much before we can do it again feeling. erence infantry, cavalry, artillery, high school, York, Pa., further training In the ranks of those who are planning to defend their T) ey felt, if the feelings of one of tank corps, air corps, signal corps, communities from death dropping down during air raids. them who is making these observaor corps of engineers. Others will tions are typical, as if there was wait the decision of the Selective panding vocational departments and provision of food stuffs and the use quite a lot of fight i the old dog Service system as to where and schools of less than college grade of foods dictated by modern knowlstilL when they may serve best. which had undertaken to train edge of nutrition for both civilian But any one of them who paused Many graduates will continue workers for defense Industries. The and soldier are of vital importance. to reflect a moment must have realtheir education under the direction need of workers was so urgent and Many of (he opportunities may be ized what a wholly different attiof the navy, which has in operation the plan of meeting it so successful seized without leaving home or tude many of the boys of 1942 have The alert and eager plans by which graduates may go that subsequently other sums were community. compared with the draftees or the on to college and pursue studies appropriated for this purpose. high school graduate will look about A who men enlisted in 1917. quarhim tor unfilled places in the ranks, in which may earn college By March, this year, approxiter of a century ago America had credits andthey at the same time pre- mately 2,463,862 workers had been step In where he Is best qualified only the quaintest conception of war. pare for more effective service in for the war industries in and serve. It was based chiefly on romance. It the navy. From this group, the prepared The student selected by fate for this manner. This number is in had little or nothing to do with the battle fleet now addition to those trained for simi- graduation in 1942 faces towering huge In soldiers experiences previous In our shipyards will selar occupations in the vocational handicaps as well as opportunities. wars had encountered, still less of building cure many of its commissioned of- courses that constitute the normal For many of these graduates, school the experiences they themselves ficers. service of the schools. days are ended. In any case, eduwere to encounter, such as for incational careers will be interruptThe demand for the graduates to Hire Many. Industries War stance trench warfare under sused or diverted from original puris courses vocational of these of these high Some thousands tained bombardment or aerial atmuch greater than the supply poses. tack. The Test They Face. and is increasing. According To the men of 1917 fighting a war Ambi lions must be modified, new to the War Production board, was, besides being a patriotic duty, over ten million additional war emphasis placed upon Ideals and more or less of a sporting thing. duties. The high school graduate of workers will be needed industry But the writings and the teachings 1942 faces, the severest kind of test within the year ahead to staff of the last 20 years have Served to now being built or exwhich can be given to individuals plants root out the ides that war is a the test of flexibility, adjustment to panded. chivalrous thing. To many of the This apactivities untoward circumstances. vocational The training modern generation it seems conin Oakland, Calif., are typical of plies to the minor as well as to the temptible and patriotism doesn't apmajor enterprises of life. those in many cities near great shippear to be involved. The contrast is still greater if we centers other or producing yards There is one thing that many peothe machinery of war. On April 1, compare this generation with grandple fail to understand. One has to fathers as an illustration of change 1942, there were 199 classes in "delive through war conditions to unin our national life. To that elderly in the Oakland fense training derstand war. This understanding schools, enrolling 3,901 students. gentleman now toasting his slippered makes It possible, paradoxical This was 473 less than the number heels in retirement by the fireplace, though it may seem, for a normal tlie Oakland schools Horace Greeley's advice, Go West, of students was an Inspiration. person to adjust himself to the utwere preptred to accommodate in young man, terly abnormal conditions about There was an immeasurably wealthy this kind of work. him. To live under a code consaw A mechanised army calls for the During January, February and West to conquer. Grandfather trary to that which he has been utmost inventive and operational March an average of 5J0 trained the finishing touches given to the taught; to bear up under discomskills which the American people can workers a month were placed in world's greatest economic empire, defort, delay, suffering and danger. produce. These Denver high school war manufacturing from this school as lie ingeruity, energy, and This factor evolves from a crowd There have never been termination of a New world, assemboys will know how to operate an system. psychology which produces a mass electric semaphore if they should sufficient trainees enrolled to meet bled from the tribes frern the Old, courage and serve in the signal corps of the the demand for riveters, chippers, trimmed off the last frontiers from patience, caulkers, ship fitters, sheet metal the American wilderness. army. Looking beyond the present strife, William J. Hamilton, superintend- there is the 111., of ent schools, t'ak Park, spoke getting ready for the years ahead. by on this problem which faced educaComplete and final victory would be At an annual meeting of the tion: "There is evidence that dur unavailing if we lost in peace what r Council of Education, ing the American period, conditions we had won in war. There is a treThe bureau of home economics repertaining to the support of the pubmendous task of reconstruction ports that the art of quilt making Chicago, 111., the following statelic schools will not be improved. ahead of all the world. There is may stage a comeback in these days ments were made by educators: Roscoe L. West, president, State The demand for social security is the rubble to clear away; but much of simplified living when every piece of material needs to be used effec-tiv- r Teachers college, Trenton, N. J., already oeing given much considmore important there are new strucsaid: "People know intuitively that eration as the principal factor in tlie tures to take tlie place of the old. education must focus on ge'ting new social order and may superThe vision and capacity of today's folks ready to live better in their sede education In importance . . , youth will determine whether they Tire trouble led the list of motoring woes in 1941 with a total of community than they would have public education will become inlive in the rums of a past or in new lived otherwise. And by community volved in a confusing mass of edifices budded upon the ideals of nearly 10,000,000 blowouts, the Amer1 mean the nation and the world." ican Automobile association reports. freedom and liberty. by the Federal Land banks as the amount which can be used in the future to apply to their long-terInstallment loans. Every farm over a series of years has its 'rainy days" in which Income falls below normal or in which the farm family has reverses of one kind or another. These rainy day funds are bound to prove helpful In many ways, and, as President Roosevelt said, those who comply with the suggestions for paying off debts and curtailment of installment buying "will be grateful that they have done so when this war is over." When A. G. Black, governor of the Farm Credit administration, saw that this years crops were going to bring more money In than they have for many years he began selling this rainy day" idea to the borrowers. They were sold to the tune of $5,000,000. Some farmers have already paid up four or five years' Installments on their longterm loans. They will be sitting pretty if rainy days come. "Farmers sometime wonder, says Governor Black, "whether, in these days in which they are being urged to buy war bonds as a patriotic duty, they should lay aside funds with the Federal Land banks with which to meet their own private debts. Well, remember that the Federal Land banks invest the funds received from future payments in government securities. The farmers realize that they are accomplishing not one out two things in placing their cash in the future payment fund they provide for their own security and stop payment of interest on that part of their loan equal to the funds deposited. They have the assurance that the money in the interim will be working for Uncle Sam. "Buy bonds of course, says Governor Black, "but also reduce your farm mortgage indebtedness while you have an opportunity. And that is just what the farmer is doing. g ... 19171942 i two-ocea- n Bauhhage Problems of Education Aired at Conference g post-wa- j. PATTERNS fin- ished high school in 1911 burned up the tires of his old jallopy on the highways at sixty miles so hour, either pleasure or business bent. John will ride a bus or and do walk to go places Susan who graduates in things. 1942 will find that permanents. Huffy evening dresses, silk and nylon hose were luxuries that her older sister of 1940 did not bequeath to her. Youth, like the rest of us, must sacrifice some of the refinements of existence, and before the struggle is over, may forego some of the Washington, D. C. RRs VS. SHIPS It hasn't made headlines, but a battle royal has been rag.ng between WPS Czar Donald Nelson and Transportation Czar Joe Eastman over the freezing of steel for tlie construction of railroad cars. With less and less shipping moving along the coast, and more and more traffic by rail, the question is one of the most Important facing the country. What happened was that the War Production board froze all construction materials already on hand in railroad construction shops. The intention was to transfer these materials for use in building other type of cars. However, Joe Eastman claims that these materials, chiefly steel, already had been bought and cut out for certain cars, in certain shapes, so the order merely will make the materials go unused, with car shops closing down. Already, Eastman argues, certain plants of Pullman Standard are Idle, at a time when all plants should be used to capacity. Meanwhile railroads are groaning with traffic. Sugar is now being hauled by rail as much as possible from Florida to avoid submarines. Oil is clogged up in the producing fields for lack of railroad 'transpor-tatioAnd with tlie sinkings of several Chilean ore ships, more iron ore has to be hauled from interior U. S. iron mines. In view of all this, Eastman complains bitterly that Nelson wont release the steel and let the ear foundries do the job. INFLUENCING EUROPEAN LABOR COSMETICS AND WAR Now we know tlie government is over extending itself. It is trying to make women give up powder, rouge, perfume and other cosmetics for the duration. It has the notion that a woman will abandon her makeup, war or no war. nounces that the girls must choose between their complexions and the all out war effort. Only a federal bureau could doubt the answer to that. Milady will cut down an sugar, take out a ration card for soups, give up pastries aDd even, If necessary, patch her girdle, but give up her facial cream and rouge . . . never! She wffl put the car in storage, shop by bicycle, carry home her bundles, cut out meat and take orders on skirt lengths, but toss away that skin lotion . . . dont be a goonl She will forget luxuries, economize on her groceries, give up the country house, go barelegged and even scrap the electric refrigerator, but leave her cheeks as nature awahhhhhl made em . Not even national will the go around with a shiny nose and not all in the world can make her forsake her beauty creams. ... ... MERRY-GO-ROUN- The Goldrush was a silent film. For the revival Charlie has put in a little talk. Not much, but enough army commanders. It's a ded be never meddles for most any movie and tn military operatinna and backs np light to watch this film, with just a is helpful. It bis subordinates 100 per cent Stim-so- n little talk where talk if 70 per cent of is always at bis desk by S a. m., convinces us that and rarely leaves until evening, the talk in the modem talkies could when he alwsys takes home with be cut out, the improvement would him a big bundle of papers that be be terrific. And the writers, actors and directors womd be forced to works over after dinner. provide action Good explanation of "Yohr Army "Carelessnt ss Seen In Normandie and how the draft works, has been Headline. written by George H. Jiler of the Fire. Not really! Post. Bridgeport Hard-workin- g open-minde- 1 t for unity pro-labo- r, of War Stimsnn Is held In the warmest personal esteem by ' few fashions which THERE are as much for the f.gura as the dress which looks like a suit, an appealing version of which is presented in Pattern No. 1560-B- . In this style you get a smooth fitting top which whittles the waist, trimly outlines the feminine curves of the bosom and con-- Alcohol and other products needed to win the war are being used in toilet preparations and the WPB an- Here Is one inside reason why Roosevelt leans labor. toward "If this be treason, make the most Basically, the President always has of it, she says as she applies her been and continues to be, cleansing cream, follows it up with even though he has become fed up a powder base and adds a final with some labor activities in the coat of calsomine. past year. But in addition, U. S. war strateUncle Sam may apply priorities gists are convinced that the chief to steel, rubber, coal, oil and what hope of revolution in Europe comes have you; he can tell the country from labor. And most of the psyhow far it can go with ships, shoes chological warfare strategy being and sealing wax, but he Is shouting devised here is aimed at influencing up a drainpipe when it starts bearlabor in Germany, Czechoslovakia, ing down on mascara. Austria and the occupied countries. Although not generally known, the Our Inquiring Reporter questioned nucleus of the old Social Democrata number of ladies on the matter. ic party which tried to create a real Of Miss Phoebe Goober, stenograrepublic in Germany is still intact Have you read pher, he asked: When Hitler came into power, they WPB orders on cosmetics? moved to Czechoslovakia. After the the Sudetenland seizure, they moved to No, and don't tell me about Paris. After the downfall of Paris, em, she replied. "I want to they moved to the U. S. A. Ignore em with a clear conFifty Social Democrats from the science. old Reichstag are now in this counwith U. S. officials. try Mrs. Chester Zink, a modiste, was Furthermore, It is labor in the asked: "Are you aware that every European occupied countries which time you rouge your cheeks you are is able to assemble or make radios. cramping the war effort?" German labor listens to the radio "Mister, the government is more far than other classes. Some going to have some awful labor groups even have published cramps tn this war then, she very small "underground" newspadeclared. . pers on hand presses and these are distributed by hand. German labor resents- - the long hours in munitions factories, the small pay and the lack of food, more than any other group. Also labor is about the only group which was "Do you think your face is more not taken over completely by Hitler. The Communists, his chief oppo- important than a bomber? the reporter asked a woman who did not nents, now have long been undergive her name. ground, but secret.y active. she replied candidly, "No, To European labor Roosevelt "but if 1 ever came out without always has been one of the any makeup on you couldn't tell world's greatest leaders. And me from a bomber. one thought in the minds of war to Is show strategists Europe that the rights of labor here will WAR not be thrown completely overJack Huff could wear no cuff, board during war. 8 i wife could wear no frills; And so between them both, you WALLACES FAVORITES see. The men who came to Washington They saved on clothing bills. with Henry Wallace' In the early , days of the New Deal realize now Metal swivel chairs, waste basthat they picked a winning horse. kets and ash trays are on the list Almost to a man, they have moved of things banned by the WPB and up to important posts in the govpossibly this is the first move to ernment. eliminate arm chair generals and Claude Wickard was head of the bureaucrats in general. corn-ho- g section in Wallaces AAA. Now he is secretary of agriculture. OUTLINE FOR LIVING Milo Perkins was a lowly assistant Elmer Twitchell says he is driving to Wallace, holding down a desk in to town In the car he hasnt got, on the outer office. Today, he runs the the tires be cant obtain to shop for Board of Economic Warfare, as imthe things he cant get If he gets a Cabinet portant at post. time he is going to see bis architect Paul Appleby was an assistant in about the alterations that can't be the inner office. Now he is undermade on the house the WPB wont secretary of agriculture at $10,000 a let him build. year. Chester Davis was head of tlie TOU SAID IT Now he is director of the AAA. no other torture like it. Theres in Reserve St. bank Louis. Federal And your blood with anger R. M. ("Spike) Evans was an stew aide to Wallace; now bead of AAA. At the length of the commercial Sam Bledsoe, Roy Hendrickson, When youre waiting for THE and Whitney Tharin were newsmen NEWS! is Bledsoe covering agriculture. Clayton Spicer. now an assistant to the secretary. Secretary CIRCLE 1 SEWING hips. You will like the neat detailing too, in the low cool neckthe row line edged with ric-raof tiny buttons for the front closing and the prettily shaped pocket flaps. The skirt has panels, for slender fitting through the hips and across the back. c, la deBarbara Bell Pfttern No. 1560-signed for sires 10, 12, 14, 16. 18 and 20, Corresponding bust measuremenis 28, 30, 32, 34, 36 and 38. 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