Show THE GUNNISON VALLEY NEWS GUNNISON' UTAH V” AXsTco)i Kathleen Norris Says: " - m' SounderEducalionNeeded To Maintain f The Business of Being an American Free World Economics and Geography Among Studies Required to Ground Students in the Problems at Home and Abroad Service 1618 T Vlihlntton D C the first oftwo articles sn the subject at the '‘new reconvert Ion”) In the last two months the public has learned a lot about the lmpor tance 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 and proffered Its Labor has contributed its suggea All three know what tions they want Together'tfcey hope to obtain a successful synthesis But what many people do not realise Is that the nation the whole world for that matter Is facing an other recohverslon problem equally as difficult to Solve equally as Important to achieve It Is the recon version of our whole educational eyt tem and upon Its success depends the poUtlcal 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 realise 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 coun-eof 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 stone of world democracy We have the task of reconverting our own antiquated machinery so that it will be geared to produce nd maintain freedom The United Nations’ task Is to build new machinery 'Which will evolve a prod uct which must displace 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 eombat (This Is it Nazi Propaganda Remains Strtng A report made public only a week or two ago reveals how ’’Naslism at its blackest” as too report describes it Is being kept alive in a series of "resistance dubs” in Germany scattered from toe North sea to toe Bavarian mountains Allied lnvestlga tors have pieced together an appalling picture of a widespread activity based upon race hatred and other Nazi principles with which toe German youth has been so thoroughly indoctrinated In a manner pointed out in these columns seme time ago and which I then said must be dealt With eventually The offense Is powerful and toe weakness of our defense Is Illustrated! in recent dispatches telling us how Nazi propaganda is affecting toe of the American army of Viewpoint occupation A major is reported as doubting toe truth of the atrocity stories In the concentration camp of Dachau located only a few miles from where he was stationed Amer-- ‘ lean soldiers are heard parroting the familiar Goebbels fabrication that Cermany was forced into toe war that Hitler had his faults but was really great in many respects or if Hitler’s glory is found to be too strong a goat he Is used as a scapegoat to excuse German war guilt ! have Just come from a long talk with one of America’s great edueators’ John Studebaker United States Commissioner of Education It was he who Introduced me to toe phrase "the new reconversion” "Our democratic system Is threatened from within and without” he said to me earnestly "The Amer- - BARBS They've Just made a film about teacher— for the children’s sake let's hope they don’t get a film about It might result In more puplla spankings than a bad report card A new process of canning In aluminum for highly aensitlve machines and psrts saves warehousing —and we hope It will make more new Jobs than will be loat by dls placed warehousemen 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 oth ers’ I couldn’t 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 effected us— would make us deaf to German prevarications and excuses In order to meet the threats against democracy from within am 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 produc must be remodeled” he says He chose two subjects— geography and economics—as examples of how the product must be altered If mount toying to Iho ombltiout of medical school anyway " By KATHLEEN NORRIS VERY woman who man- ages a house and a fam-JLily blows the value of a plan No matte how tangled the KnowUdga of problem is if she can sit down with a pencil and paConditiont Vital Geography is Important because It per and plan It all out she is a study of toe world in which we feels a great relief in her live It Is a study of toe peoples who live in toe world— of our very near troubled soul and she knows all will go well thanks to Jet propulsion and atomlo energy If not always very dear neighbors Geography is also the s study of toe pursuits toe of toe people of the world Its grasp is essential If we are to bring intelligent thought to Judgment of events and toe conditions at home and abroad and their effect upon each other and upon us "And yet geography was never taught to our people” Mr Studebak er says "We stop teaching It at toe eighth grade The younger children from three to eight are taught by teachers who themselves never had more than eighth grade Instruction In toe subject" And his second example of one of our educational products which must be strengthened economics "belongs still less to tos people” 8 Only per cent of toe high school pupils ever studied economics he Informed me and only 8 per cent of these ever learned anything about International trade "How can we possibly meet toe 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 toe questions that toe papers are full of every day? How can a person say whether a wage Increase Is fair If he has never studied toe simplest theories of supply and demand or toe more complicated relations of wages gosta1 profits?” And In toe international field he continued how could a person who had never learned toe fundamentals of international trade know whether a tariff was Justified whether a cartel was dangeroue whether certain foreign business activities benefltted toe people as a whole- whether free or government subsidy Competition was a better policy? How could they advise their congressman to vote on toe Bretton Woods agreement or toe policy of foreign leans? Just as geography suffers because its teaching ends before maturity Is reached (maturity In this sense Is toe year group roughly high school age) economics la begun too late It Is offered as a high school course and boiled down Into such a concentrated potion that not only are vital elements omitted (suck as international trade) but It becomes a dry and highly abstruse subject Furthermore since It Is often an elective (a subject 111 touch on In a later article) ft may be omit ted entirely because It Is "hard” These two subjects are only two examples of those which should In Mr Studebaker’s opinion make up a solid "core” of education avail able to an ?h!s core” be says "Is essential If we are to build solidarity in democratic society A certain group of vital basic subjects Which will us understand toe problems help that threaten democracy toe facts necessary to give- us tor basis for a sound faith In our way of life” by 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 playroom—” and so on Or perhaps It li this sort of plan- ning TU combine celery and have a good oup—that’a Saturday night' corned beef hash and and with cabbage and bliculta that’ll do for upper That leaves all those sausages for Sunday morning— and a picnic lunch Well now I have only to make a dessert or two and I’m all fixed” And so with toe children’s 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 y meals or picnic and plans to work on Now we hve world problems of feeding and bousing to settle "World problems!” Wa are accui-- ’ tomed to this phrase now and wa dismiss it as too big to handle It dimly meetis straitened markets at home great ships loaded with medicine and food moving to foreign porta hordes of hungry honteless folk waiting for that food We have nervous sense that this winter will be hard on ns all but that we’ll weather It And then afterward— The "then afterward” is what ought to concern us now We'll get through this winter on limited meat and fuel we’ll get through toe next and toe next and we'U slowly work our way out to that prosperity and plenty that nothing can keep away from ns But then? Then comes tha time when everyone will want a little money Ten thousand 12 thousand 20 thousand dollars In 1930 are going to spell tha' simple word "fortune” Opportunities will be everywhere you may have what you want In 1930 If you plan for It today To buy things now— homes furniture rugs cars la not thrifty 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 meant saying to the ambitious boy "we can give you your first year or two of medical school anyway” It means an investment In tome growing Industry that will bring you and your husband a comfortable and secure old age It may mean to' boy W can m4u v A far a brighter tomorrow I or two travel It may mean helping a beloved daughter through the herd years when her nursery Is small Money la going to be just as important to you in 1950 as It Is today and worth twice as 'much Invest In Government Bonds My answer to this problem Is to Invest In the last government bonds toe bonds that mean victory rehabilitation toe beginning of a new Vorld This Is not government propaganda I have not been asked to do 11 I am saying It because consider It an extraordinary opportunity If In toe dark war years there was ever a question as to how America was going to come out of this world agony toer la no question now She has emerged gloriously convincingly unequivocally on top We who bought bonds when German buzz bombs were besieging London when Japanese suicide planes were sinking our ships may have ehown some little faith and patriotism In toe act But not now Now there Is no doubt that an investment In America as she makes her last great effort to clean up toe remains of toe war ruins everywhere end get her own wheels btarted again la toe safest Investment In toe world When 'I ssy save and scrimp if you must and cut down and sacrifice— but lay away victory bonds end bonds and bonds” I am talking not for America not even for the soldiers and tailors and airmen for whoae benefit this great drive Is opened but for you— yourself— end those you love and your brighter tomorrow centett SECRET SERVICE FROWNS Another incident the secret service men didn’t like was when the President arose shortly after 8 a m left the austere' frame Majestic hotel which had been cleared of guests In his honor end walked down to toe Mlsslftlppl river It seema that there la an old custom to those psrts which makes It Incumbent upon a visitor to spit to tot Father of Watera Tha secret sendee men not being in the know regarding this spitting custom were taken by surprise One of them’ however- spotted toe truant President of toe United States ambling off In tha direction of toe river sounded the alarm and a tew minutes later four bodyguards were trailing him After Harry ’got through spitting he skimmed a few stones out over the river found tost hla technique ss a hadn’t changed alnce boyhood days and was then content to go back to town On the way he met two old Ca ruthersvile cronies Nearl Helm county wholesale liquor dealer and James Reeves former commander of toe American Legion They swapped stories as they walked down to toe post office where they dropped in to see Postmaster Bailey S Brooks There they swapped some more BOMBS FOB CONGRESS Six members of a congressional committee sailing to Europe laat Auguat were nearly scared out of their wits while on the Queen Mary Headed by Rep Louis Rabaut of Michigan a aubcommlttee of toe house appropriations committee had debated whether to fly or to go by boat Finally they decided to sail--: but they wished they hadn’t’ ‘ 'The group which decided to enjoy aome relaxation on ateamer chaira Included Dean Gilleaple of Colorado Robert Jonea of Ohio Sutler Hare of South Caroltnai Thoma O’Brien cf Hllnoia and Judge John Kerr of North Carolina Kerr had argued tor toe boat trip and filially convinced hla colleagues The congressmen were Just beginning to relax on toelr first night out from New York when an army officer came to Chairman Rabaut with a disturbing message "The skipper thought you gentlemen ought to know” be aald ”that we have Just received a code message from toe FBL They report they have discovered there are a number of Incendiary bomba on the boat scheduled to go off at midnight "There are several companies of Japanese American troops on beard” toe officer told Rabaut "and Japan is still it war with tot United States” Rsbaut called hla colleagues together and told them toe newt Judge Kerr's flrat comment was: "I wonder If toe skipper haa ordered airplanes to hover around the ship” All were alerted toe entire night while the ship’s crew searched for the bomba No trace of them waa ever found but the l relaxation the congreasmeo bad hoped for was not achieved until they let foot on solid ground once again CAPITAL CHAFF Congratulations to Gen Arthur Eaterbrook cf Santa Ana CaLf for permitting hia enllited men to give him their gripe face to face and for Speeding up diichargea If there were more generals like Eaterbrook there would be more men to wanting tay in the army 1 Wayne Coy Rooievelt lieutenant now mutant publiaher of the Waahington Post I dirk her possibility In Indiana politic Hoosier Democrata are trying uj periuade Coy to run for the aenate Hay UltllTiZ Notes of a New Yorkeert Here Is a sue way to handle men They tell It around the Pentagoa A aoldlef Bldg In Washington' was talking to a diplomat Said tha soldier: 3n peace times personally bandied one WP-Aproject made It a' point to ask each nun about hla Job and its objective' found tha accomplishment charts soaring: — with no other incentive than Interest and appreciation of ef fott I believe that to be toe backbone not only of discipline but 0! an army's combat spirit” Tha aoldler was Gen‘Georga Marshall The Chief of Staff U S Army diplomat waa Adolph A Berle Jr ‘fsnoV ta‘ taSSg U At Jadge Clark’s wedding Pres dent Truman wore a new suit which everybody admired After the ceremony Dark went up to the Preal denf and remarked: "You know Harry a suit like that would cos $500 in Fraace” "That ao?” chirped the chief executive "With or without a veat?” gfl trouble to Help loosta r farm laden phlegm sad1 to soothe and heal t a ft bottle of Creomulslonv tfcrstanffing'youmuxt lib Quickly allays the cocrt to have your money bad Peter Donald was talking to Torn' my Lyman in Jimmy Ryan's when one of toe phonies (who tough harder to stay out of toe service than he did 'in uniform) strolled into tot club In civilian clothes Donah cracked: "He fought toe war guardIn Brooklyn Do you ing a think he got out on points?" "No” Lyman replied “Angles! t CREOMUU! far Ccsdn Chest Ccl4 CHAPPY FACT aM What la perhaps toe beat piece o political oratory waa being discussed by a group of politicos toe other night In toe Zanzibar They began by tracing the early speeches of oar leading politicians Finally Jimmy Walker aald 'that the best pUce of political oratory he 'ha ever heard cama from MaJ'Gen Claire Chennsult who (finding himself being considered for toe governorship of Louisiana) deadpanned: Tm an honest man I know nothin: about polltlca" Tbowartan’t-over-y- AAr Mtyl 6 CU3DER Over 300 patents dwaOng her chemistry ort aswup fa United States psttih liens land nationals ( countries which arc nsw 4 for licensing to Amorims lva at peak prodnetissn It way take eight yssni sanufactarert te mceli sand far now eutoteeUk sf' In live years the Number rubber pauongof-ce- r Dm i country ha risen from hot and fires to about JiAX The London Evening Standard's litre critic used tola simile to describe a tome: "It rasps the nerves like 4 Brooklyn accent” Normalcy note: Sponsors are dropping some newscasters At toe same time they are waiting In line tor - an opportunity to broadcast football games Menu it p t’h( jotrai f combat tho shed t Icy wetenl produced synthetic rubber entha: vrosult fur filers aeatac with ®drlch has When President Harding waa once queried about American foreign policy he said that 'foreign countries were frequently confused by the fact that toe U S had two foreign policies "Whit are they?” be was asked "The Serfy of State’s” be said "and Nicholas Murray Butler’s!” Hobby Lobby of famous men: Pau Revere of course would live as a great silversmith Thomas Jefferson as a great architect Winston Churchill s a most competent bricklayer r In the last warGreat Britain’s Chief Array Commander Field Marshal Haig was an excellent leather worker A returning GI was anxious to bring back a Luger pistol ts -souvenir from overseas As the transport neared tos dock the became more and more nervous Finally In desperation be confessed his fears to a The kindly pal offered pL to trade picks and assume all responsibility The GI was vastly relieved and the switch was effectedThe luggage was not searched upon debarkation A few minutes later the two met on short The GI wee exceedingly grateful "By toe way” he said ss they switched must packs "you hsvs a lot of things In your pack It’s awful — heavy” "Yes” aald the: pal’ "I have TWELVE gats In ‘mine” COLD UQU10 A3 CIRUTU 0TltBi portnnity te add asntsrisily I insome by aeoepting subearipd year friends and neighbor Ainu pnse time Become oar Cwf BepreeenUtive Enjoy hbaii t 0m money for Christmas th?h dignified way RIDVCED E0 rna-m- d 1 hal ta beta asrusca msis mid assure immediate order Nss sanded to asako many wsIomm before Cbrtatmaa Mail penny t" ow for full details aadfres aids to ALLAN SCOTT WTho Reader’s Digest T? dhf fltaNY VfcnYcur’In: 11 ere Crying thst p a hit at n rirt I t a Mi ti The Btatae of Liberty whet right hand bolds a torch but few are war the left hand grasps tab-let representing the Declaration Independence tnccrlbed “July 6 1771” Harlem’s serving three shifts of sleepers dUy nowtver not all of Harlem la a alum area R ai0 contains many lavish penthouse apartments Musle lovers waiting in line belcony setts at the Metapert though you can pee only half stage from the side teat ti SALVE CULY Til KXADES'S PICEST Then them’s tha Colonel from Kentucky who was charged 830 for a quart of bourbon in Paris His buddy observed tost It was an exorbitant price to pay "Not In my estimation tub” said toe Colonel Ita to' fust time I rvtih bad to' privilege of payin' aomewheh neah to' flgglr J always considered it wuth” Uppity Park Ave shops catering to cosmopolitan trede Many of the clerks are linguists The Riverside Drive front lector Moat arresting at this ton of the year when the sky la rhapsody In blue and cool breeze herald the approach of Winter : A bonflr of aunset spreading it glow across the morning sky as Silence standi guard over the loua town Broadwayite Mralnln I convera Zn through clgara fi ‘‘tag In n ocean of amall talk PREPARATiC TABLETS USI I” x t n v Vi t want ccxsnrAnox punk as th dick t bring peek seer bum tah Dr CnMweU’S t eolckty yea the wrd” mid help yen I" chipper xU wt SCHOOL LUNCHES days mean days Here are some suggestions to msk lunches "go over In e big way” Use enough wsxed paper to cover sandwiches fruit and cake com pletcly so that the food does not dry out And Use paper cups with Udi to keep raw vegetables crlap To keep lettuce from wilting long before lunchtime wash the leaves dry them well and wrap them In waxed paper Then the leaves can be added to the sandwlcfc Just before eating School Set give you y our year FOR A HAPPY FUTURE Although the war is ove c many grave problem remain with us We cant do much about the hardships of Europe or Asia excepting' to contribute what we Can to relief But in our own agencies sphere toe cart do a lot Shortages will be with us Fuel and clothfor sometime ing 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 rear than we have had in a long time This is a time to think of the future Right now most people have considerable ptoney saved up and they have good Jobs There Is a great now that tha retemptation strictions of war are being removed to go out and buy ell 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 cart to assure a happy future JASTIER Baukhag There won’t be enough oysters this yesr to supply to demand Probably the wer took too many aheila An is being established th of which is to make purpose available healthy corneal tissue to restore sight to those who are blind through so a miction of the comee The System Is similar to the end no less valuable I wUh they would establish a PRESIDENT IN MISSOURI WASHINGTON The next two months of President Truman’a lift) are filled with junkets similar to that which ba has Just taken through tha heart of the Mark Twain country At ‘first newsmen covering the White House figured that ha took these trips for political reasons but' they have now changed their minds The President takes these Junkets because be loves them Never since tost fateful April day when he took toe oath of office bas be bad more fun than at Carutoersville Mo where he swapped yarns with &e local postmaster got up at 8:18 to ipit” In the Mississippi river and ran out In toe street to ring toe bell of k locomotive e locomotive waa being conducted through the streets of Caruthers-ville- y toe "Forty and Eight” club of toe American Legion (commemorating the "40 men— 8 horses” capacity of French freight cars In the last war) Suddenly toe President ef the United States spied it Perhaps it reminded him of 1918 when he unloaded artillery horses from those same French freight cars into Meuse sector Aayway with a shout te War MobiUter John Snyder who ence worked behind toe cashier’s n cage ef banka Harry went ever to the locomotive Right then and there toe war meblllser and toe- - President ef toe United States had toe time ef toelr Uvea staging a locomotive - 7 ll and Commentator Eye Street NW 'teas S jfy By BAUKHAGE News Analytt VTSV : HMlKID Ball Syndlcata— WNUyssturew ' '1 ft f v cAtuwmt MlamHivt contained lag 7 Pnpola to maks it JT s WANT bOCTOSS tfamala preaeft prion to P'TW 4 etna moc palatable j Uka So b nor yew in2” brined la SyTp Pepsin MUST ON DSL vwtte tt millions for 59 7”1- rs' that Wholeeon I8 boa Ire a finicky CJUmOM t Vts only t '! 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