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Show fatre Six Ian. The Cache American. Cache County. Utah DcGaulIe Slavs In fI " SounderEducationNeeded To Maintain Free World MOPSY by GLADYS Problems at Home and Rtltiud Abroad. By BAUKIIAGE Newt A naly tt and Commentator. WNU Service, Eye Street, N.W Washington, I). C. (Thla U the first of two articles on the subject of the new reconve1616 lean school gave our polyglot nation the solidarity to carry on the war successfully. But." he added, we have severe tests ahead. We must educate for freedom, and educate for existence in a newly integrated world of which we are an Integral part. We must understand our own problem and the problems of others. I couldnt help applying this theory to the stories from Germany. A thorough understanding of democracy is proof against Nazi propaganda. An understanding of other peoples and events beyond our borders which affect us as the rise of Hitler and Mussolini affected us would make us deaf to German prevarications and excuses. In order to meet the threats against democracy from within and from without, Mr. Studebaker believes, with most of his colleagues, that our present educational system will have to be thoroughly renovated. Both the plant and the product must be remodeled," he says. He chose two subjects geography and economics as examples of bow the product must be altered. rsion.) In the last two months the public has lcBrned a lot about the Importance of Industrial reconversion. For many more months, business men, with the help of the best technical advice they could obtain, have been preparing to shift from wartime to peacetime production. Government has shared the knowledge of Its ex perts and proffered Its Labor has contributed Its sugges-- tlons. All three know what they want Together they hope to obtain a successful synthesis. But what many people do not realize is that the nation, the whole world, for that matter, Is facing an other reconversion problem, equally as difficult to solve, equally as Important to achieve. It is the recon version of our whole educational system, and upon its success depends the poliUcal future of democracy and its economic future as well, as embodied in the theory and outworking of free enterprise. It is no exaggeration to say that Knowledge of our current educational system, Conditions Vital which along with our wartime inis Geography important because It Allied made dustrial system victory Is a study of the world in which we possible, is no more adapted to meet the new and startling problems of live. It is a study of the peoples who the postwar world than the Japanese live in the world of our very near, defense could meet the atomic thanks to Jet propulsion and atomic energy, if not always very dear bomb. Enlightened educators everywhere neighbors. Geography is also the realize this. In a short time experts study of the pursuits, the induswill meet in London to work out a tries of the people of the world. Its is program outlined in San Francisco grasp essential if towe are to bring intelligent thought Judgment of men who the women and by planned the educational and cultural coun- events and the conditions at home cil of the United Nations. Here at and abroad and their effect upon home and in other democratic coun- each other and upon us. And yet, geography was never tries, domestic educational policies are being reshaped to meet the new taught to our people, Mr. Studebaker says. We stop teaching it at the conditions. Education for world freedom is an eighth grade. The younger children, Important objective; education for from three to eight, are taught by freedom in the land of the free is teachers who themselves never had equally important, for it is the foun- more than eighth grade instruction dation stone of world democracy. in the subject. And his second example of one We have the task of reconverting our own antiquated machinery so of our educational products which that it will be geared to produce must be strengthened, economics, and maintain freedom. The United belongs still less to the people. Only 5 per cent of the high school Nations task is to build new machinery which will evolve a prod- pupils ever studied economics, he informed me, and only 5 per cent of uct which must displace the teachings which still have these ever learned anything about their hold on a large segment of the international trade. How can we possibly meet the population. Our own product must be both a weapon of offense and of problems arising now if we do not understand this subject? How can defense. We have a powerful example In we possibly maintain free enterprise the need for this in the demonstrat- if we cannot pass a considered judged strength of the Nazi ideology and ment on the questions that the pathe weakness of what we have so far pers are full of every day? How can a person say whether a wage inproduced to combat it. Oh! A DUDE, huh? crease is fair if he has never studied the simplest theories of supply and Nazi Propaganda demand, or the more complicated Remains Strong DIFFICULT DECISIONS Br CLUYA3 WILLIAMS relations of wages, costs, profits? A report made public only a week And in the international ha field, or two ago reveals how Naziism at its blackest, as the report describes continued, how could a person who it, is being kept alive in a series of had never learned the fundamentals resistance clubs in Germany scat- of international trade know whether tered from the North sea to the Ba- a tariff was justified, whether a cartel was dangerous, whether certain varian mountains. Allied investigators have pieced together an appal- foreign business activities benefltted the people as a whole, whether free ling picture of a widespread activity based upon race hatred, and other competition or government subsidy was a better policy? How could Nazi principles with which the Geradvise their congressman to they man youth has been so thoroughly indoctrinated in a manner pointed vote on the Bretton Woods agreeout in these columns some time ago ment, or the policy of foreign loans? Just as geography suffers because and which I then said must be dealt its teaching ends before maturity is with eventually. The offense is powerful, and the reached (maturity in this sense is 6 weakness of our defense is illustrat- the year group, roughly high ed in recent dispatches telling us school age), economics is begun too r, how Nazi propaganda is affecting the late. It is offered as a viewpoint of the American army of high school course and boiled down occupation. A major is reported as into such a concentrated potion that doubting the truth of the atrocity not only are vital elements omitted stories in the concentration camp of (such as international trade) but it Dachau located only a few miles becomes a dry and highly abstruse WONDERING VHAt To DO WHEN YOUVE ASKED IWo OT from where he was stationed. Amer- subject. Furthermore, since it is Your dinner guests who are pricing pick up the other couple, ican soldiers are heard parroting the often an elective (a subject Ill touch WHO HAVE NO GAS, MEETING AT A CERTAIN CORNER, familiar Goebbels fabrication that on in a later article), it may be omitj AND AS THE HOUR GETS LATE YOU REALIZE THAT SOMEWHERE THE SIGNALS 60f Germany was forced into the war; ted entirely because it is hard. WED AND THAT THEYRE PROBABLY WAITING TOR EACH OTHER that Hitler had his faults but was These two subjects are only two In different places, starving hungry really great in many respects, or if examples of those which should, in Hitlers glory is found to be too Mr. Studebakers opinion, make up strong a goat he is used as a scape- a solid "core of education available to all. goat to excuse German war guilt. Wife Worry Sounds Good I have just come from a long talk This core, he says, "is essential with one of Americas great educaif we are to build solidarity in k HI What makes our neighbor Father I want no more of that tors, John Studebaker, United States democratic society. A certain group and down in front of bis standing on the Commissioner of Education. It was of vital, basic subjects which will pace up porch with that house like that? young man. he who introduced me to the phrase, help us understand the problems Si Hes awfully worried about his the new reconversion. Daughter I only stayed for a that threaten democracy, the wife, poor chap. second. Our democratic system is threatfacts necessary to give us Hi Why, whats she got? ened from within and without, he the basis for a sound faith in our Father I distinctly heard a third, said to me earnestly. The Amer- - way of life. fourth and fifth! Si The car. Nazi-Fasci- st 15-1- one-yea- t down-to-ear- BARBS th by Baukhage There wont be enough oysters this Theyve Just made a film about teachers for the childrens sake year to supply the demand. Prob- lets hope they dont get a film about in more It might result pupils. spankings than a bad report card. A new process of canning in aluminum for highly sensitive machines and parts saves warehousing and we hope it will make more new jobs than will be lost by displaced warehousemen. ably the war took too many shells. k An is being established, the purpose of which is to make available healthy corneal tissue to restore sight to those who are blind through an affliction of the cornea. The system is similar to the blood-banand no less valuable. I wish they would establish a hair-baneye-ban- k. Nobody Home Say, John, the census taker Is at the front door. Hubby Just tell him we lost our census several years ago. Stationary Cora The school principal says you have a model brother. Dora Too bad he isnt a working model! Household Ceres Hubby What kind of a disposition does the new cook have? Wifie She has a very even temper always mad. Advice to Lovelorn Do you believe in long engagements? Sailor Yes. 1 think young people should be happy as long as possible. Way Off Base Harry They say his wife drove him out of his mind. Home Sweet Home Wifey- - And what would you be now if it weren't for my money? Hubby A bachelor Wifie Jerry That was just a bunt WAC I V PARKER Economics and Geography Among Studies Required to Ground Students in the - by Weatern Newspaper Union. WASHINGTON. People do not seem to understand the meaning of inflation, which li being raised as a spectre behind the daily news of strikes, wage debates and government economic planning. No one in this country bas seen an Inflation walking, or I should say, running. Adults with memories may recall it as something which happened in Germany after the last war, when a bushel basket of money was necessary to buy a meal But in general the news debate treats it as an infinite kind of prospect without dimensions, a sort of economic hell they know can happen, yet they cannot picture it. The kind of inflation talked about now, should be easy to understand thoroughly. We have gone far enough toward it to make the landmark visible. It is unlike any which baa gone before in history, because primarily it is a price inflation. In Germany, the wreckage of the money system and the bankruptcy of the country, brought the condition in which a glass of beer cost 100 marks or so. In other countries, such as China, a depleted treasury already has brought comparative inflation. We are not bankrupt and our treasury took in 45 billion dollars last year. Ours Is an inflation of prices directly. We have a shortage of goods, all goods, due to war wastes, increased consumption and free distribution of our supplies around the world. The cost of many things already has doubled since before the war. WILL REFUSE TO BUY Now the unions want a 30 I -- A. Gen. Charles de Gaulle Is shown Just before be was retained head of the French government, at the first election of the Fourth Republic. Ills party did not fare at well aa the general. Navys Izaak Walton per cent wage increase in this time of a goods shortage. However much they get of their demand, prices will be increased at least that much and probably more. My experience as a consumer in this brave new economic world has convinced me that all that is needed to increase prices is an excuse. If a man can sell his goods for an ever increasing price, he will do it. If he controls a sellers market such as we have now where people pay anything asked, he would oe superhuman if he did not resist both the loose government regulations and conscience, if any. But the course of upward wage jumps and upward price jumps will run, as soon as the shortage of goods is over, into buyer resentment. The wage-pric- e Inflationary spiral inevitably must encounter the day when people will not buy. Indeed there necessarily must be a day when they cannot pay the price if they would, because the wages of no other class have Increased as have the wages of union labor. We are getting to the point where we can see the people will close their pocket-book- s and strike or will have to strike in the economic sense, purchasing only that which is Skip Parker, one of the experts at the navys Seagate near New Yorks Coney Island, lends hos-pila- helping hand and teeth to Crip Groves in preparing his tackle. Crip is an expert caster, even though he has to do it from crutches. Canine Vet Uses Head K necessary. Then the house will fall down. The spiral will collapse with a thud. Declining demand will cause declining depres-sionproduction unemployment From then on the depression can many ways. The government s cannot collect even 35 billion or a fraction of it from a coun-trin the throes of depression. business brings declining tax receipts. The government can hard ly borrow on top of a 300 billion dollar war debt for deficit financing to promote another gigantic spending program to save the situation. It would probably start the printing presses and bring to its final logical conclusion the bankruptcy of the nation, because this is the only thing it could do. In this process everyone who has anything of value from a bank account to a bond would lose It or snffer a terrific depreciation of anything he was able to hold through the crisis. But those who have nothing of value would suffer more severely, for it is reasonable to expect the starvation here that every other nation in similar circumstances has encountered. Then would come dictatorial socialism. It would have to be a dictatorship because the world knows no other way to handle people who will not behave of their own accord. It would have to be socialism because this is the common political method today of handling nations in bankruptcy. The Truman administration has been working behind its doors the last week trying to get a wage policy upon which to base solutions, but has found it hard to do. Labor Secretary Schwellenbach thought we bad one in the oil settlement, but after the bricks started falling upon his head for that one, he crawled out of the pile with an aching he?d aware, he had made a mistake. After all, if you give the men i 15 per cent increase and then granl them the right to negotiate or arbitrate for another 15 per font, you have not solved much. go dol-ler- demonstrates why he Lucky was successful in helping his master, Roy Newman, of Chicago, instruct other canines in the art of war. understands more Lucky than 100 different commands and can and does carry all of them out when given. President Escapes President Isias Medinaw Angarita of Venezuela, who fled from his Miraflores residence before it was taken over by rebels in a military revolt against the government. |