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Show THE LEIII SUN. LEIII, UTAH School System reafest Crisis in tive Service Auxiliary Branches Make fieaVy ' 311 i cawiiny i Higher Wages Necessary. By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. Service, I'nion Trust Building Wasbineton, D. C. ntlT the iaie oi uc iment hung on bcuuui alarles. Tne oppoai""" lo defeat a government-spon- M.ira because it didn't pro- ior making women teachers' ... .mial to men's. The opposi- 'snally yielded for the sake of ,jny but the ISSUe JS Iiui ueau. ay a report outlining wiwi ie as "revolutionary changes ;e the social status of teachers t Britain and make their sion attractive" is before Par COfflpif; winr ft, covered lbs. ent. tv Informed Englishman admits Jie American puouc scnooi sys- offers far more to the general c than the British system. At same time, our own school a faces one of the greatest of the greatest changes, une e reason for the crisis can be j in a sentence: American Vs have lost 200,000 competent, repared teachers since Pearl r . ... lective service ana voluntary nent have made a heavy draft te men, and you have no idea nany WACs and WAVES, Ma-! Ma-! and SPARS stepped out of the blroom into their natty um- course, high wages In industry many a teacher from the three too. And why not? The aver- teacher's salary is only about a year. lis year 44,000 teachers were less than $260 a year. That lin't buy slacks and "old fash- h" for a new-fashioned lady worker. o hundred fifty-four thousand jhers received under a hundred hrs a month. My figures are u the Journal of the National station association. 'Already many classrooms have i closed," says this periodical, 4 thousands of others are so crowded that effective teach- is impossible." If these trends I a headfitinue much longer, the magazine as, r: M 1 edicts, education will be cut off h source right at a time when , SWUM tos a tremendous job ahead relating re-lating a generation which has are pi r the M subjected to highly abnormal poundings and educating another pich will have to help recreate a IrjiaL, if a somewhat altered. niMrld. -I ffter Salaries Needed this country, as in England, irst step in the solution of the em is higher salaries, the next letter working conditions, the is an active campaign to at-young at-young people to the profes- pt before these steps are accom- Nd, an interim effort is neces- and it has already begun prganized effort urging capable 1 scneoi seniors to prepare for teaching profession. any state erouna havn h. campaigns of various kinds. the National Educati nn assnpi- p, itself, has appropriated $8,500 uil DUrnosp TTnnT-oo V.n. - ..wuu. wua JL buvu- F f Damnhpts nnil loaflsta been prepared and distributed. uig that those attractive post- girls in uniforms had a lot o with recruiting women for the ea services, one of the artists helped lure private, sergeant tenant Smith out of tht srhnnl P. has been hired to try to lure wnen the war is over, or her young civilian sister, wen't seen one of the nnstArs but I hope they do the job, for ! ahead for the teacher and opportunities that the profes- Ul Offer ar hnth hniin4 and tremendouslv dim tn th nation which will follow the war. 3orl wm spring from two causes. "St is a Dart of a universal m ch is aIrea(Jy being a abroad as well as at home, " y group, formal or informal, "gether to talk over postwar JJom. Plenty of ridicule is ea by the so-called hard-headed s at the postwar planners ? name is legion. But congress already learned that there is ass-tacks phase of war-plan- that can't K iv.ii. j e day-dreaming and ignored. exemplified in the so-called BRIEFS ... jnans suffering from pre-in- ,j uav oeen aavisea to cold foot baths or cold showers -aim thpif .; . ,m f SmS nerves, i mere 7 be no hot water.) JeIfrlumh 0,000 men are needed pt, ECe"bering and pulpwood jobs be- rf r-L faQ if 1944 requirements JtaDo DQet' accrding to the War iidejfj Wer commission. Faces History ci annuel. GI bill of rights" - which includes the "billion dollar program" for education for returning veterans. Educational Demands The bill will pass congress and will be signed. The soldier, far more vocal than he has ever been before, and representing the greatest great-est group of voters with a single-ness single-ness of purpos on the subject of "GI rights" that congress has ever faced, is going to get what he wants. And the demand for greater educational edu-cational opportunities will not be limited to the veteran. Careful estimates indicate that, to carry out the postwar education program for veterans, non-veterans and their children, the present personnel per-sonnel will have to be increased 50 per cent. This, of course, includes besides teachers, administrators, librarians, li-brarians, clerks, nurses, janitors and bus drivers, nearly a million and a half persons. These figures give you an indication of the number num-ber of persons who will be drawn into the profession and Its allied activities ac-tivities if, the plans go through. The second reason why we can expect a stimulation in the whole field of education is because there is a very strong feeling that the opportunities op-portunities for learning must be greatly broadened. As a result of the social changes preceding and during the war, the strong voice of the common man has been raised, demanding that cultural as well as economic benefits be more widely distributed. The thoughtful educators educa-tors realize that a wider background of knowedge must be furnished to everyone, that technical and professional profes-sional courses must be grounded on a firmer base of general knowledge. Already there is a feeling of reaction re-action against the emphasis which the war has placed on purely material mate-rial subjects, on a purely technical techni-cal or scientific education. This is bound to call for a greater share of what might be called spiritual culture. And at the other end of the spectrum, also a demand for training train-ing in health and physical development. develop-ment. Educators themselves have their troubles from within as well as from without Of late, there has been pressure by certain groups, like the National Association of Manufacturers, Manufac-turers, anxious to see that nothing is taught that might endanger what they define as the "free enterprise" system, ' although not all businessmen business-men agree on what free enterprise is or that they like it too free. There have also been many conflicts con-flicts within and among institutions of higher learning, like the one in my own alma mater, the University of Chicago, where President Hutchins and his followers want to get back to "first principles" with an emphasis on the philosophers; and others lean toward a more utilitarian utili-tarian training. The so-called "experimental" "ex-perimental" colleges like Antioch, stressing individual development and social responsibility, do not agree with Hutchins nor even among themselves. But it would seem that the trend of the times agrees with the recent edict of a well-known well-known educator who said that concern con-cern with the development of the individual and concern with society must be the twin goals of education. In any case, it is clear that never before in our history have the school teacher and the professor been offered such a challenge. Never before has the proverb which says "wisdom is the principle thing, therefore, get wisdom" been more widely heeded; never has the rest of the abjuration of King Solomon Solo-mon , been more important: "and with all thy getting, get understanding." under-standing." FORTY ACRES AND A JEEP It never rains but it pours. With the sheep in the meadow, the cows in the corn, and even the scarecrow alone and forlorn for want of manpower to help out, the department of agriculture now sends out the warning that after the war there won't be enough farms in the country to hold all the people who will be crying for 40 acres and a jeep. Officials say that five million war-workers war-workers alone, a lot of whom don't know a spade from a club, may try to get their living from the soil when peace comes. by Baukhage According to WFA, an estimated 4 000 000 extra farm workers will be needed this year; about 1.200.000 will be boys and girls under 18 years of age and about 800,000 will be women. In Ontario alone there are more j than 30 million tons of salt deisits. enough to supply the entire world for 100,000 years. (7 vAvr 1 i riH nhf BH, -'in qJ Kathleen Norris Says: The Strangest Problem Bel Syndicate. "Keep Cyrus with you. Giv him doing his lessons with him." By KATHLEEN NORRIS Droblem is a verv I ) pec peculiar one," writes Jaan Morgan frm Hartford. Connecticut. "Both Howard, my husband, and I are teachers, but we haven't been able to find any solution to this particular puzzle. "When our first-born son was two years old we lost another an-other son, an infant. Our grief was great, for an injury to me just before the child's birth cost not only his life but the possible lives of other children chil-dren I might have had. We determined de-termined to adopt a baby girl. "We went from place to place, finding a great shortage of girl babies. But in one place we did finally find a weazened baby boy a few weeks old, with a mop f fine black hair. The unfortunate little fellow made an Immediate appeal, and we brought him home as a baby brother Tony for our own small Cyrus. "As the baby grew the dark hair disappeared, giving way to beautiful beauti-ful chestnut curls. With his big black eyes, ,warm brown skin and irresistible irre-sistible smile we discovered that we had a child who literally stopped traffic. Gay, endearing, intelligent far beyond his years, Tony has from the beginning eclipsed Cyrus, who Is a somewhat timid, quiet child, not jealous, as far as we know, but willing to let Tony win all the prizes and be captain of all the games. Tony Attracts Attention. "Howard and I have scrupulously tried to balance the affection and attention we give the twe, but visitors visit-ors always single out handsome engaging en-gaging little Tony for especial notice. He is quite unconscious of his charm he is now eight years old but we feel that there is n question that his enthusiasm and plans discourage Cyrus from making mak-ing any attempts of his own. "Cyrus has a lovely, generous nature, na-ture, but just of late both his father and I think that he carries self-effacement self-effacement too far. We want to encourage en-courage him to self-expression and individual interests and friends, but he seems already to be solitary in his tastes. 1 "Now my husband is going overseas over-seas and we are giving up our big country place and plan to place the boys in boarding-schools. For Tony I have no misgivings, but I am wondering won-dering if Cyrus does not need special spe-cial understanding and possibly special spe-cial handling. Our original purpose In finding a Tittle brother was to make Cyrus happy; it will break both our hearts if this very brother Is the cause of any real injury to his spirit When the boys go to school I will take a five-room apartment in the city and perhaps find war work to do until Haward comes back." Keep Tony from Cyrus. I th'"k the time has come now when you must separate the boys, perhaps for years, certainly for a longtime. , Find the right school for Tony, not too near, and see that he has mm "Tony U quit uncoracious of his 7? WNU Feature!. this next year wholly; reading to him, SON COMES FIRST Sometimes the most generous gener-ous and seemingly sensible actions result in unexpected difficulties. A rare problem faces the mother in this artU cle. She adopted a baby boy to be a companion to her little son then two years old. Unexpectedly Un-expectedly the little orphan, Tony, sickly and undersized as a baby, developed into a handsome and charming child who quite outshone Cyrus. This mother watched her son Cyrus, retiring and unselfish unsel-fish by nature, gradually give way before the engaging little waif, Tony. Now Cyrus is ten and Tony eight years old, and she thinks it is time to think of her own son's best interests. Her husband is soon going overseas, and she is planning to put both her boys in boarding board-ing schools. Miss Norris points out that this is not just the right course. occasional weekends at home, and plenty of affection and amusement at those times. In summer put him in a camp; he will always find friends. If you can, discover before the fall term begins some family whose own small boy is in that school, go see that boy's mother and make with her a financial arrangement arrange-ment that will mean that Tony spends most of his holidays there. This will not be easy at first, but you owe it to your own son to see it through. Don't put Cyrus in boarding-school; boarding-school; keep him with you. Give him this next year, wholly; reading read-ing to him, doing his lessons with him, taking him off with you to the mountains or the shore in summer. Let him know that he is the dearest interest in your life. You may be amazed you almost certainly will be amazed at the way this shy, backward little nature will develop de-velop under the stimulus of games, books, work, meals with you alone. You are fortunate to have this particular par-ticular opportunity to give him his chance. Be careful that the boys themselves them-selves have no suspicion of what is motivating you and what your object ob-ject is. Above all don't let Cyrus feel himself an object of pity or solicitude. You can simply enough give him reasons why Tony goes to one school and he to another, if indeed, in-deed, at the age of ten, he will ask for any reasons at alL Unwittingly, you did your own boy an injustice eight years ago. You were in no way to blame. In nine cases out of ten it would be otherwise; other-wise; it would be the true son toward to-ward whom favoritism would naturally natur-ally turn. But real brothers have to be separated sometimes, and these foster-brothers will both be better apart for a while. When you and Cyrus are alone you'll find your boy, and he will find his mother. Women Crew on Diners The buffet-parlor car service on the Canadian National Railways' main line between Halifax, Nova Scotia and Sydney, N. S., has three women as a crew supervised by a male steward; one is a buffet-cook, another a pantry girl and the third a waitress. Heretofore, men were exclusively ex-clusively employed as dining car crew. The women who are replacing replac-ing the chefs and waiters are attracting attract-ing considerable attention. The waitress' uniform is edged in maroon, ma-roon, with anron to match. ami Washington, D. C. ROOSEVELT-CHURCHILL AGAIN Churchill's recent "powerhouse" speech before Commons didn't click with persons high up in the administration. admin-istration. Actually, it brought out the growing differences between him and the President, also his spats with Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, also the importance of overhauling over-hauling U. S.-British political relations. rela-tions. (Administration permanent peace ideas are much nearer those announced by Eden the day after Churchill, when he went out of his way to emphasize the cooperation of smaller countries with the Big Four.) Here are some of the differences which realistic advisers inside the administration have been wanting to have straightened out with Churchill for some time; 1. American boys will never fight to protect India in the future, so it is foolish to let Churchill think that Britain and the U.S.A., through alliances al-liances with Russia, can help guarantee guar-antee the Empire. The only protection pro-tection to India must be a healthy India willing to protect herself. When FDR talked to Churchill about India two years ago, the P. M. was almost insulting. 2. The United States will insist on giving Hongkong and other former Chinese possessions back to China. When this was proposed by the President Pres-ident at Cairo, Churchill flatly refused. re-fused. 3. An alliance of big powers as proposed by Churchill cannot keep permanent peace in the world any more than the congress of Vienna, which divided up Napoleon's empire em-pire in 1815 among Russia, Austria, England and Germany. 4. President Roosevelt, so far as he has thought things out, favors a peace machinery based on cooperation coopera-tion with small powers as well as big. He doesn't go for Churchill's Metternich idea of balancing the world among heavily armed big powers. 5. The old British Empire for which Churchill fought 50 years ago in the Indian northwest border wars, and in the Sudan and the Boer wars, will never come back despite his youthful memories. And the United States can never assume the drag anchor of helping to protect that kind of an empire in the future. Finally, every time the British have been pulled into a war in the last half century, we have helped pull them out. Therefore There-fore we should have a large vote " In the set-up which may make -r prevent wars in the future. Seme of these general ideas were hinted to Churchill during the Cairo-Teheran conferences with no very favorable reaction. It may be that in the near future they will be taken np again. FULL PAY FOR RETIRED OFFICERS Higher-ranking army and navy officers of-ficers have recently discovered a neat way of retiring en full pay instead in-stead of ordinary retirement pay, which is only two-thirds as much. They go to the hospital a month or so before they are slated to retire for age, and then are sometimes able to retire with disability, which gives them full pay the rest of their lives. This system is based upon the fact that pongress recently changed the army-navy retirement set-up in order to aid wounded men. It was provided that a veteran might retire re-tire on full pay if disabled. However, it was the intent of congress con-gress to aid young lieutenants and lower-ranking officers who usually suffer the highest casualties in wartime war-time due to the fact that they have to be in the front lines. Apparently, congress did not realize real-ize that, when a colonel or a general reaches the retirement age of 64, it is not uncommon for him to have arthritis, gall stones or some other disability which can be discovered at any army hospital a few months before he retires. This gives him full pay for life. Another interesting angle to retirement re-tirement pay is that an officer getting get-ting retired pay cannot take another Job from the government and get paid for it, but be can take a job with a company under a cost-plus government contract In this case, the government pays him two salaries, sal-aries, except that under the cost-plus cost-plus contract, a third party hands iver the money, MAIL BAG x-Gov. O. Max Gardner of North Carolina Mrs. Gardner denies my story that when it comes to ham and hominy grits, you and Senator George always do the cooking. She ought to know. Darryl Zannck, Hollywood Congratulations Con-gratulations on bringing out one of the most important pictures of all time, "Woodrow Wilson," when it will really help us to build a new and permanent peace. Nothing could be more timely. Mrs. Laura Foss, Los Angeles A summary of how we paid part of the Alaskan purchase money to Russia Rus-sia in return for her placing the Russian fleet in American waters to offset the British during the Civil war, is on Page 292 of the World Almanac Mr SGECSCREMftl00 By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. 1 EVERYONE who's interest-- interest-- ed in movies has heard of Pickfair, the stately white house that Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford built on a Beverly Hills knoll 25 years ago where they sat side by side at dinner parties, and lived a dignified and gracious life. Well, RKO persuaded Mary to let its sweeping lawn be used as the backdrop for scenes of "That Hunter Hunt-er Girl," a picture about the richest girl in the world. Laralne Day and Alan Marshal, Marshal Hunt and Alyn Jostyn, were to get involved in the sprinkler system. But AKO had to install special pipes for the water, then the sun wouldn't shine you'll see Pickfair as a background, but credit RKO with a struggle to show it to you! Republic Pictures executives are sort of going all out on their new musical, "Brazil," what with casting cast-ing Tito Guizar, that favorite of con- ; , i JH I fill Urn fa TITO GUIZAR cert stage and radio, as the lead, and adding Veloz and Yolanda, the dance team, and Edward Everett Horton for good measure. There was a reason why Carole Landis tossed a dinner party for her co-stars, Pat O'Brien and George Murphy of "Having Wonderful Crime," as well as Producer Bob Fellows and Director Eddie Sutherland, Suther-land, just before the company went to Del Monte on location. Jack Plangini was her cook before resigning resign-ing two years ago to enroll in the merchant marlne and his ship was in port and he volunteered to return re-turn for an evening. Italian natives and American and British soldiers on Italian soil are enjoying a daily full-hour of re corded music by Arturo Toscaninl and the NBC symphony orchestra; the program Is presented every night over the Naples radio station, under the direction of the Allied military authorities, and consists of compilations of recordings, many of which were made from actual Sunday Sun-day broadcasts heard here. Jean Heather, Paramount actress, received a cuff link the other day, on the set of "Murder, He Says." She gave it to Lieut. Dan David, and he wore it in his cap while completing 90 missions against the Japs. "Had to bring it back to you," said he, returning it Don Barry, star of many Republic action western films, returns to the studio to go to work there, after a six months' tour of army posts on three fighting fronts. His return will be marked by stardom in straight dramatic roles. Cass Daley, the comedienne, is forming a non-profit entertainment enterprise called "Laugh Makers Unlimited." Her Idea Is that funny folk of pictures and radio will pool their Ideas and talent in working np comedy shows to be given at service hospitals on the West coast. Better see "Attack!" The U. S. signal corps is responsible for photographing photo-graphing it; it's a six-reeler which chronicles the Battle for New Britain. Brit-ain. It brings to the screen the complete com-plete beachhead storming operation from beginning to end, is the first war picture that shows an attack from inception to consummation; it represents the Arawe beach attack on December IS and the Decem ber 25 pressing on to Cape Gloucester. Glouces-ter. Kay Kayser's going to take a vacation, his first in six years on NBC; starting July 5, Phil Harris will take his place for eight weeks. The band and soloists will stay right on. And for his vacation Kyser goes overseas, just where is a mili tary secret s ODDS AND ESDSThat replacement replace-ment show for Bergen and McCarthy ' sounds very nice there's Grade Fields, ' Bill Goodwin as announcer, and Lou Bring, with a 20-piece orchestra playing play-ing hit famous arrangements. . . . Veronica Ver-onica Lake has gone kusless in her last four pictures; she makes up for that with torrid love scenes with Sonny , Tufts and Eddie Bracken in "Bring on .the Girls.'' . . . Sonny Tufts lived in an auto court while starring with Pou-U.tte Pou-U.tte Goddard Meredith in "l Love a Soldier" now he's bought a house with three and a half acres of land. . . . i Alana Ladd, daughter of Alan, received j t,700 first birthday anniversary cards. Is No Trie!: at Ail Km 4 WW Making Slipcovers ONCE you know how to go about it, it's really no trick at all to make your own slip covers! Thousands Thou-sands of American women are He-coming He-coming expert home-decorators and upholsterers the slipcover instructions in this design will show you how to cut, fit and finish covers for your chairs and sofa. To obtain complete Instructions on "How To Make Slipcovers" (Pattern No. 5727) send 16 cents in coin, your name, address and the pattern number. SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK 149 New Montgomery St. San Francisco, Calif. Enclose IS cents (plus one cent to cover cost of mailing) for Pattern No Nam ., Address Tires Heated Automobile tires are subject to heat both from contact with hot pavements and from heat generated by the continual berjding of the tire at the point which contacts the road surface. Adds Fertility Manure, well rotted and rather fine, adds fertility and improves the structure of the soil. It can be plowed or spaded under or used for a top dressing on the garden. Long Language There are approximately 100,000 different characters in the Chinese language, not counting many more which are strictly scientific or engineering en-gineering symbols. Grass Fire Perhaps the best homemade piece of equipment for putting out a grass fire is a broom and a pail of water for wetting the broom. Provide Vitamins Tomatoes, greens, and yellow vegetables are the vegetables that provide needed vitamins and minerals min-erals most generously. Rabbit Ranks First The rabbit is the most popular species of small game, insofar as the consumption of shotgun shells is concerned. Imported by Air Measured in terms of value, 6 pel cent of all materials Imported by the United States in 1943 came by air. Sugar Beets Sugar beets have been grown on about 4,000 Wisconsin farms for the last several years. WORLD'! LARGEST SEUER AT IP DONT LET CONSTIPATION SLOW YOU UP When bowels are sluggish and you feel irritable, headachy, do as millions do - chew FEEN-A-MINT, the modern chewing-gum laxativt Simply chew FEEN-A-MINT before you go to bed, taking only in accordance with package directions sleep without being disturbed. dis-turbed. Nex morning gentle, thorough relief, helping you feel swell again. Try FEEN-A-MINT Tastet good, is handy and economical. A generous family suppty FEEH-A-MIHTIo? Do You Hate HOT FLASHES? 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