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Show Education Week American Education Week is being observed throughout the nation this week with a central theme 0f "Education for Common Defense." No theme could be more timely in these troubled times than the one selected by American educators. In this community a united effort is being made to stress the importance of the week, and churches, schools and civic organizations have accomplished a fine job. It was not until the meteoric rise of the Nazi Black Shirts that the real importance of education in national unity was driven home with resounding thoroness. Educators Ed-ucators probably could invision it, but to most of us the problems of education was essentially in reading, writing writ-ing and arithmetic. Hitler organized one of the most patriotic youth legions in the history of the world and he accomplished it through education. The wrong type you may say, but nevertheless, the result he desired was reached. This nation can accomplish national im'ty not the kind of blind enthusiasm that holds true in Nazidom by a careful educational program of our peoples .... and the best place to begin is in our schools .l.cre the citizen of tomorrow is receiving lasting imprr-sions. American Education Week will be definitely at a variance vari-ance with the programs of the dictator-inspired education educa-tion programs, for in this county it will be a progrem of enlightenment rather than a suppression or distortion of facts. |