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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS, CASTLE DALE. UTAH Kathleen Norris Says: SounderEducation Needed The Business of Being an American Bell Syndicate. To Maintain WNU Features. Free World Economics and Geography Among Studies Required to Ground Students in the Problems at Home and Abroad. By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C, (This is the first of two articles on the subject of the new reconver- sion.) two months the public has learned a lot about the importance of industrial reconversion. For In the last 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 experts and proffered its Labor has contributed its suggestions., 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 another reconversion problem, equally as difficult to solve, equally as important to achieve. It is the reconversion of our whole educational system, and upon its success depends the political 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 our current educational system, which along with our wartime industrial system made Allied victory possible, is no more adapted to meet the new and startling problems of the postwar world than the Japanese defense could meet the atomic bomb. Enlightened educators everywhere realize this. In a short time experts will meet in London to work out a program outlined in San Francisco by the men and women who planned the educational and cultural council of the United Nations. Here at home and in other democratic countries, domestic educational policies are being reshaped to meet the new conditions. Education for world freedom is an Important objective; education for freedom in the land of the free is equally important, for it is the foundation stone of world democracy. We have the task of reconverting our own antiquated machinery so that it will be geared to produce and maintain freedom. The United Nations task is to build new machinery which will evolve a product which must (jisplace the teachings which still have their hold on a large segment of the population. Our own product must be both a weapon of offense and of defense. We have a powerful example in the need for this in the demonstrated strength of the Nazi ideology and the weakness of what we have so far produced to combat it Nazi-Fasci- st Nazi Propaganda Remains Strong A report made public only a week or two ago reveals how Naziism at its blackest as the report describes it, is being kept alive in a series of resistance clubs in Germany scattered from the North sea to the Bavarian mountains. Allied investigators have pieced together an appalling picture of a widespread activity based upon race hatred, and other Nazi principles with which the German youth has been so thoroughly indoctrinated in a manner pointed out in these columns some time ago and which I then said must be dealt with eventually. The Cerise is powerful, and the weakness of our defense is illustrated in recent dispatches telling us how Nazi propaganda is affecting the viewpoint of the American army of occupation. A major is Teported as doubting the truth of the atrocity stories in the concentration camp of Dachau located only a few miles from where he was stationed. American soldiers are heard parroting the familiar Goebbels fabrication that Germany was forced into the war; that Hitler had his faults but was really great in many respects, or if Hitlers glory is found to be too strong a goat he is used as a scapegoat to excuse German war guilt. I have just come from a long talk with one of Americas great educators, John Studebaker, United States Commissioner of Education. It was he who introduced me to the phrase, the new reconversion." Our democratic system is threatened within and without, he said to me earnestly. "The Amer ican 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 how the product must be altered. Knowledge of Conditions Vital Geography is important because it is a study of the world in which we live. It is a study of the peoples who live in the world of our very near, thanks to jet propulsion and atomic energy, if not always very dear neighbors. Geography is also the study of the pursuits, the industries of the people of the world. Its grasp is essential if we are to bring intelligent thought to judgment of events and the conditions at home and abroad and their effect upon each other and upon us. "And yet, geography was never taught to our people, Mr. Studebaker says. We stop teaching it at the eighth grade. The younger children, from three to eight, are taught by teachers who themselves never had more than eighth grade instruction in the subject. And his second example of one of our educational products which must be strengthened, economics, belongs still less to the people." Only 5 per cent of the high school pupils ever studied economics, he informed me, and only 5 per cent of these ever learned anything about international trade. How can we possibly meet the problems arising now if we do not understand this subject? How can we possibly maintain free enterprise if we cannot pass a considered judgment on the questions that the papers are full of every day? How can a person say whether a wage increase is fair if he has never studied the simplest theories of supply and demand, or the more complicated relations of wages, costs, profits? And in the international field, he continued, how could a person who had never learned the fundamentals of international trade know whether a tariff was justified, whether a cartel was dangerous, whether certain foreign business activities benefltted the people as a whole, whether free competition or government subsidy was a better policy? How could they advise their congressman to vote on the Bretton Woods agreement, or the policy of foreign loans? Just as geography suffers because its teaching ends before maturity is reached (maturity in this sense is 6 the year group, roughly high school age), economics is begun too r, late. It is offered as a high school course and boiled down into such a concentrated potion that not only are vital elements omitted (such as international trade) but it becomes a dry and highly abstruse subject. Furthermore, since it is often an elective (a. subject Ill touch on in a later article), it may be omitted entirely because it is hard. These two subjects are only two examples of those which should, in Mr. Studebakers opinion, make up a solid core of education available to all. This core, he says, is essential if we are to build solidarity in a democratic society. A certain group of vital, basic subjects which will help us understand the problems h that threaten democracy, the facts necessary to give us the basis for a sound faith in our way of life. 15-1- one-yea- down-to-eart- It means saying to the ambitious of medical school, anyway ." t BARBS , I 1 j ; ' . . . by Theyve just made a film about teachers for the childrens sake lets hope they dont get a film about It might result in more pupils. spankings than a bad report card. A new process of canning in alu-- ' minum for highly sensitive ma- chines and parts saves warehousing Perhaps her plan runs Dave something like this. and Mary come down with Joe in his car. Susan is coming with Aunt Alice. The Fosters will have the guest room. Alice comes in with me, the two children on cots in the old and so on. playroom Or perhaps, it is this sort of planning; Ill combine celery and have a good soup thats Saturday night, and with the copied beef hash and cabbage and biscuits thatll do for all those supper. That leaves sausages for Sunday morning and a picnic lunch. Well, now I have only to make a dessert or two and Im all fixed. And so with the childrens school outfits. And so with the proposed visit to the mountains or the seaside. Think it all out, settle the details, tell everyone just what he or she has to do and all anxiety and uncertainty are gone. World Problems to Solve. Now we have a bigger job than week-en- d meals or picnic and house-part- y plans to work on. Now we have world problems of feeding and housing to settle. We are accusWorld problems! tomed to this phrase now, and we dismiss it as too big to handle. It dimly means straitened markets at home, great ships loaded with medicine and food moving to foreign ports, hordes of hungry, fright-tenehomeless folk waiting for d, that food. We have nervous sense that this winter will be hard on us all, but that well weather it. And then afterward is what then afterward The ought to concern us now. Well get through this winter on limited meat and fuel; well get through the next and the next, and well slowly work our way out to that prosperity and plenty that nothing can keep away from us. But then? Then comes the time when everyone will want a little money. Ten thousand, 12 thousand, 20 thousand dollars in 1950 are going to spell the simple word fortune.1 Opportunities will be everywhere; you may have what you want in 1950, if you plan for it today. To buy things now homes, furniture, rugs, cars, is not thrifty, because of high prices and scarcities. Also, qualities are not what they were, and what they will be again. But to get through these next few years quietly, thriftily, means that you can buy that hillside farm, with the oaks and the creek, some day. It means saying to the ambitious boy, "we can give you your first year or two of medical school, anyway. It means an investment in some growing industry that will bring you and your husband a comfortable and secure old age. It may mean year or two FOR A HAPPY FUTURE Although the war is over, many grave problems remain with us. We cant do much about the hardships of Europe or Asia, excepting to contribute what we can to relief agencies. But in our own sphere, we can do a lot. Shortages will be with us for Some time. Fuel and clothing will not be plentiful this winter. Some foods will still be hard to get. Nevertheless, there should be no real suffering in this country, and we can look forward to a better year than we have had in a long time. This is a time to think of the future. Right now most people have considerable money saved up and they have good jobs. There is a great temptation, now that the restrictions of war are being removed, to go out and buy all those things you have had to do without for so long, even though prices are high and quality poor. The time for sacrifice and doing without is not yet over. Miss Norris warns. This is the great opportunity to put away a tidy sum for the next few years. The best investment, aside from any patriotic motives, is in government bonds. Miss Norris says. For safety and high yield these victory issues cannot be rivaled. Every one should buy all he can to assure a happy future. k Save for a brighter tomorrow. PRESIDENT IN MISSOURI The next two WASHINGTON. months of President Trumans life are filled with junkets similar to that which he has just taken through the heart of the Mark Twain country. At first, newsmen covering the White House figured that he took these trips for political reasons, but they have now changed their minds. The President takes these junkets because he loves them. Never since that fateful April day when he took the oath of office has he had more fun than at Caruthersville, Mo., where he swapped yarns with the local postmaster, got up at 6:15 to spit in the Mississippi river, and ran out in the street to ring the bell locomotive. of a small-scal- e The locomotive was being conducted through the streets of Caruthersville by the Forty and Eight club of the American Legion (commemorating the "40 men 8 horses capacity of French freight cars in the last war). Suddenly the President of the United States spied it. Perhaps it reminded him of 1918 when he unloaded artillery horses from those same French freight cars in the Meuse sector. Anyway, with a shout to War Mobilizer John Snyder, who once worked behind the cashiers Missouri-Ar-kanscage of small-tow- n banks, Harry went over to the locomotive. Right then and there the war mobilizer and f the United the President States had the time of their lives staging a locomotive contest. as bell-pulli- SECRET SERVICE FROWNS Another incident the secret service men didnt like was when the President arose shortly after 6 a. m., left the austere frame Majestic hotel which had been cleared qf guests in his honor, and walked down to the Mississippi river. It seems that there is an old custom m those parts which makes it incumbent qpon a visitor to spit in the Father of Waters. The secret service men, not bing in the know regarding this spiying custom, were taken by surprise. One of them, however, spotted the tr jant President of the United States ambling off in the direction of theeiver, sounded the alarm, and a few minutes later, four bodyguards were trailing him. After Harry got through spiting, he skimmed a few stones out over the river, found that his technique as a hadnt changed since boyhood days, and wa then content to go back to town. On the way, he met two old Caruthersville cronies, Nearl Helm, county wholesale liquor dealer, and James Reeves, former commander of the American Legion. They swapped stories as they walked down to the post office, where they dropped in to see Postmaster Bailey S. Brooks. There they swapped some more. stone-skimm- BOMBS FOR CONGRESS Six members of a congressional committee sailing to Europe Ust August were nearly scared out of their wits while on the Queen Vary. travel. It may mean helping a beloved daughter through the hard Headed by Rep. Louis Rabaut of a subcommittee of the years when her nursery is small. Michigan, house appropriations committee had Money is going to be just as imdebated whether to fly or to go by portant to you in 1950 as it is toboat Finally they decided to sail as much. twice worth day, and but they wished they hadnt Invest in Government Bonds. The group which decided to enjoy My answer to this problem is to some relaxation on steamer chairs invest in the last government bonds; included Dean Gillespie of Colorado, the bonds that mean victory, re- Robert Jones of Ohio, Butler Hare habilitation, the beginning of a of South Carolina, Thomas OBrien new world. This is not government of Illinois and Judge John Kerr of propaganda; I have not been asked North Carolina. Kerr had argued to do it. I am saying it because I for the boat trip and finally conconsider it an extraordinary oppor- vinced his colleagues. tunity. If in the dark war years The congressmen were just beginthere was ever a question as to ning to relax on their first night out how America was going to come out from New York when an army ofof this world agony, there is no ficer came to Chairman Rabaut with question now. She has emerged a disturbing message. "The skipper thought you gentlegloriously, convincingly, unequivocally on top. We who bought bonds men ought to know, he said, "that when German buzz bombs were bewe have just received a code messieging London, when Japanese suisage from the FBI. They report cide planes were sinking our ships, they have discovered there are a may have shown some little faith number of incendiary bombs on the and patriotism in the act. boat scheduled to go off at midnight. There are several companies of But not now. Now there is no doubt that an investment in AmeriJapanese - American troops on the officer told Rabaut, ca, as she makes her last great ef- board, and Japan is still at war with the fort to clean up the remains of the war ruins everywhere, and get her United States. Rabaut called his colleagues toown wheels started again, is the safest investment in the world. gether and told them the news. When I say save, and scrimp if Judge Kerrs first comment was: "I wonder if the skipper has ordered you must, and cut down, and sacrifice but lay away victory bonds, airplanes to hover around the ship. All were alerted the entire and bonds, and bonds, I am talknight ing not for America, not even for while the ships crew searched unthe soldiers and sailors and airmen successfully for the bombs. No trace for whose benefit this great drive of them was ever found, but the restful relaxation the congressmen had is opened, but for you yourself and those you love, and your brighthoped for was not achieved until er tomorrow. they set foot on solid ground once again. days. Here are some suggestions to make lunches go over in a big way. Use enough waxed paper to ccver sandwiches, fruit and cake completely so that the food does not dry out. And use paper cups with lids to keep raw vegetables crisp. To keep lettuce from wilting long before lunchtime, wash. the leaves, dry them well, and wrap them separately in waxed paper. Then the leaves can be added to the sandwich just before eating. x year eye-ban- we can give you your TASTIER SCHOOL LUNCHES School days mean lunch-bo- aukha ge There wont be enough oysters this to supply the demand. Probably the war took too many shells. 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-bank- s and no less valuable. I wish they would establish a hair-ban- boy, By KATHLEEN NORRIS woman who EVERY house and a famthe value of ily a plan. No matter how tangled the problem is, if she can sit down with a pencil and paper and plan it all out, she feels a great relief in her troubled soul, and she knows all will go well. ( B Many doctor rwr taatinr ScottVE cause it'a nch ia Vitamins and m CAPITAL CHAFF Congratulations to Gen. Arthur Esterbrook of Santa Ana, Calif., for permitting his enlisted men to give him their gripes face to face and for speeding up discharges. If there were more generals like Esterbrook, there would be more men wanting to stay in the army. e C Wayne Coy, Roosevelt lieutenant, now assistant publisher of the Washington Post, is a dark-hors- e possibility in Indiana politics Hoosier Democrats are trying to persuade Coy to run for the senate . one-tim- Notes of a New Yorkeer: oil children Here is a sane way to handle men. . , . They tell it around the Pentagon A soldier Bldg, in Washington. was talking to a diplomat. Said the soldier: In peace times, I personally handled one W.P.A. project I made it a point to ask each man about his job and its objective. I found the accomplishment charts with no other incentive soaring than interest and appreciation of effort I believe that to be the backbone, not only of discipline, but of an armys combat spirit. . . . The soldier was Gen. George MarshalL The Chief of Staff, U. S. Army diplomat was Adolph A Berle, Jr. srowth. P I'1' muel to From f Danny ed a t tted tc deficient n Ail druggi,1 today But re all maid PERFKTWUUMINb. MB ) a are of class How To make t earrings, eyelashe comes i Relit bla witt stiff Bronchiti At Judge Clarks wedding President Truman wore a new suit which everybody admired. After the ceremony Clark went up to the President and remarked: "You know, Harry, a suit like that would cost $500 in France. That so? chirped the chief executive. With or without s vest? rs, was pe Creomulsion relieves proud Pr radio germ laden phlegm, and aid to soothe and heal raw, tend flamed bronchial mucous branes. Tell your druggist to i a bottle of Creomulsion withi derstanding you must like thi! quickly allays the cough 0T1 to have your money back i Peter Donald was talking to Tommy Lyman in Jimmy Ryans when (who ;HT cov atrong teeth, aturdy bodiH ... one of the phonies sedW Wes needT1 Gordon career. ! CREOMULSK fought harder to stay out of the service than he did in uniform) strolled into the club in civilian clothes. Donald for Coughs, Chest Colds, I cracked: He fought the war guardin Brooklyn. Do you ing a coal-pil- e think he got out on points? No, Lyman replied. Angles! What is perhr.ps the best piece of political oratory was being discussed by a group of politicos the other night in the Zanzibar. They began by tracing the early speeches of onr leading politicians. Finally, Jimmy Walker said that the best piece of political oratory . he had ever heard came from MaJ. Gen. Claire Chennault, who (finding himself being considered for the governorship of Louisiana) deadpanned: Im an honest man; I know nothing about Over 300 patents dealing wittm ber chemistry are among the 45JJ United State patent seized in alien 'and .nationals of ocape countrie which are now ovoilos for licensing to American citizn sing old first pre 20th Cf contract at peak production ml it may take eight yeerth manufacturers to meet thede mand far now automobile). Even politics. In five item: The London Evening Standards litree critic used this simile to describe s tome: It rasps the nerves like a Brooklyn accent. . . . Normalcy note: Sponsors are dropping some newscasters. At the same time they are waiting in line for an opportunity to broadcast football games. ilmut Da why. H Warnei ;es of th' year the number of lynltd tires in i rubber passenger-ca- r country has risen from'c few lb sand tires to about 3J, 000,000 Died 7 combat the shock fra contact with icy waters, I. Goodrich has produced e ee e synthetic rubber ure suit far fliers. next act :tty Hntl To, ! when e am new anti-exp- room on In tl I." ichedwa When President Harding was once queried about American foreign policy, he said that foreign countries were frequently confused by the fact that the U. S. had two foreign policies. . . . What are they? he was asked. The Secy of States, he said, and Nicholas Murray Butlers! upright led temp room w to it e arse he fi during McC iter in Lillian Hobby Lobby of famous men: Paul Revere, of course, would live as a great silversmith; Thomas Jefferson as a great architect; Winston Churchill as a most competent bricklay. In the last war er. Great Britains Chief Army Commander, Field Marshal Haig, was an excellent to B loves ame on USE A returning GI was anxious to bring back a Luger pistol as a souvenir from overseas. 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