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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH Army of School Children In Step With War Effort Technician WHO Two More to Go NEWS Shortage of Teachers Is Most Serious Handicap Of New Academic Year. fts getting late" remarked the first fisherman , and we havent caught a single fish "Well" replied his companion, lets let two more hig ones get away and then go home" v THIS Willard E. Givens, Executive Secretary National Education Association of the United States. The 30,000,000 school children who march back to school this WEEK month keep step with another army an army burdened with the equipage of battle, whose units march in Australia, Ulster, South Carolina, Dutch Harbor, Colorado, Midway. Both armies are enlisted in the, same total war, both have the same objective Consolidated Features. high school, especially, will have fewer students, fewer teachers; for the teachers, too, have gone to the fighting fronts, to the factories. 100,000 Fewer Teachers. The .most serious handicap which the schools face due to the war is the loss of teachers. It is estimated that up to 100,000 of them, a tenth of the total number, are not in their schoolrooms this fall. Many of the men teachers have joined the colors. Newly created auxiliary forces will take many of the women teachers, too. Many of those still with their school classes find that their incomes as teachers are not within reaching distance of A teacher the grocery basket. whose salary is $800 a year the average salary paid to the teachers of a large midwestem state accepts a war industry job that may net him three times as much money. He may not wish to leave his profession but he and his family must eat. There are many thousands of teachers whose salaries are not $800 a year, but $400 or $500 a year. A teacher who receives $500 a year will look longingly at a position in a government office paying $1,600 a year. She is quite likely to be qualified for it and quite likely to take it. The shortage of teachers is naturally the most serious where the salary schedules are lowest, as in a southern state where the state average last year was $559 for all teachers and school officers, but there is a trek from schoolroom to factory all over the nation. The most alarming phase of the teacher shortage is that it is greatest in the school subject areas that are most vital to the war effort. Teachers of physics, chemistry, mathematics, manual arts and certain of the biological sciences are in great demand in war industries and laboratories. When they leave the classroom for such work, they cease to train the thousands of students of mathematics and the sciences who are so urgently needed by the armed forces. Between three and four million schooT children this fall will, therefore, find the school door closed when they arrive, or their educational opportunity considerably curtailed. Measures are being taken to minimize, as far as possible, the ill effect of the teacher shortage. Where students who have lost teachers are in the same school with those who still have teachers, classes are combined. This is usually not possible in rural areas where it may be many miles from a school without a teacher to a school which has one. Even where classes are combined, they often become so large and unwieldy that ef Release. ' Cln., Lookin' Former teachers are being urged To carry on the war to a successto return to the schoolroom. The ful completion industry Is requiring ban against married women teach- more and more youth with technical ers is being removed in some com- training. This young lady, intently munities. studying an object through a All of these measures, however, microscope, will be well offer only temporary relief, as was prepared to take one of the thouproved by the experience of World sands of jobs which will be open to War I when the supply of teachers her when she leaves high school. became so inadequate that the quality of education was greatly reduced. hurry the preparation of men is a It is well worth considering, nev- logical demand. It has been proertheless, that efficient instruction posed that high schools continue depends largely upon the teacher during the summer. On Saturdays and that fully trained teachers are and holidays, that the school terms now, and always will be, hard to be reduced in length in order to give get at a salary which will employ those who will soon be under arms a clerical worker who can be pre- as much education as possible. In general, educators have strongpared for her work in a few weeks. The army of 30,000,000 is entering ly opposed universal acceleration of schools this year that are geared high school pupils. The attitude of the Wartime as fully as possible to the war effort. Whether or not there is a lack commission of the United States of teachers, the organization, adOffice of Education may be tak-- methinstructional en as typical. Its recent report ministration and points out that hastening the progress.- of students through Effective Remedy school will enable them to go into defense jobs, defense trainOnly one remedy has much promise of being continuously jobs to ing classes, effective. Teachers must be replace persons who have left paid well enough to enable them for defense jobs, or into the to remain at teaching. This is or to enter armed forees These purearlier. impossible in some states unless college the federal government participoses are commendable, thinks pates in financial support of the commission, but it rules schools.1 Educators and friends against general acceleration in of the schools are trying desfavor of stepping np the rate of perately to secure such aid. progress only for pupils who are That, however, is another story. and intellectually physically able to speed up with profit to the war effort and 90 damage to ods employed will be adapted, withthe pupils themselves. in the limits of available staff and Because this opinion is so widely facilities, to war needs. held by educators, there is little In many communities the stulikelihood that the school year 1942-4- 3 dents of 1942-4- 3 will find a whole will be shorter than the years new division of education the preceding it. Another policy will be nursery school. The Man Power followed by colleges and higher incommission of the federal govstitutions where the maturity of stuernment is thinking in terms of dents and the exigencies of war woman power as well as man make acceleration feasible and profpower. It asks for 3,000,000 additional women in the war indus- - . itable. tries by January 1, 1943. A Different Courses Emphasized. The students who are entering large percentage of them will be married women who have school this month will find some outThe nursery young children. standing shifts of emphasis in the school is being established to courses of study since September, 1941. These do not represent raditake care of these children while their mothers are in the faccal changes. tories and offices. Only a few of these changes can The nursery school is already a be offered by way of illustration. fixed educational level in many of Geography is an excellent subject the better school systems, and the with which to begin since, unlike necessities of war will likely in- current events and history, it is crease the scope and efficiency of usually thought of as not changing ' learning in the earlier years of much from day to day. childhood. The continents and oceans, the mountains and rivers are more or Speed Up School Army? The school army will face the de- less constant in size and position. mand for speed made in every field These physical facts, however, are of preparation for this war. The not of great importance except as United Nations have until recentthey affect the lives of men. The ly found themselves everywhere geography textbook, therefore, which equipped too late with too little. includes a chapter on the rubber Consequently the cry, Hurry, hur- plantations of Sumatra and the It is aimed at the assembly Malay peninsula, is due for some ry! lines, the cantonments, and field op- revision. War has considerably alerations. The urge has not missed tered the political status of great the schools. Battles are fought by portions of the map, world commen who use machines; therefore merce has found new trade routes, and trade itself is heavily in commodities little sought a few years high-power- ed - non-defen- se ... . ago. Methods of travel are changing the character of the maps which todays students will use. Aviation has made the flat map or Mercator projection of secondary importance. The globe is taking its place. Those of us who visualize Japan due west of the United. States find it difficult to realize that airplanes on their shortest route from Tokyo to the Panama canal would first strike the United States somewhere on the Canadian border. the nation had well deFortunately, many high schools throughout before United States encurriculum veloped technical courses in their tered the war. Now, throughout the land, such scenes as this one taken of the aviation technical course in a Brooklyn (N. Y.) high school 'are common. Reading, writing, and repairing is the theme today. WNU Wife XTEW YORK. It might be a good house. Never Husband (absently) 1 idea to turn Glenn L. Martin toast. some make mind, dear; just loose on this cargo plane job and let him see what he can do. We once A SIMILE This is to be a story of the army that is answering the schoolbell; of the rebuffs it faces, of school its part in the fight. The fective teaching is impossible. army is not as large this autumn as Former Teachers Urged to Return. The Toast His Shins? (preparing breakfast) There isnt a slice of bread in the By LEMUEL F. PARTON victory. it usually is' some of those who would have marched with it are in the other army, or stand beside assembly lines, or pore over drafting boards, or are busy in laboratories. Seems therell always be a demand for cosmetics for women cant go wan forever. The Need for Mathematics. Mathematics, another study that is often thought of as fixed in nature since the same two numbers always add up to the same total, will see its change also. For many years the schools have been adjusting arithmetic to the daily needs of a people at peace. The textbook problems, therefore, have had to do with matters like life insurance, income taxes, budget making, home management and bookkeeping. Suddenly there comes a demand for in the use of file mathematics needed by the bombardier and gunner. Kite? Opened Eye O Public in 1P12 doubtful en- - giUtl bet as nearly so good a Short-en- d making cargo planes in a hurry. It was at Avalon Bay, Los Angeles, in 1912, when aviation was fascinating outdoor vaudeville, with its hall mark of world destiny still hidden. Bleriot, the French flier, had our lads by a flight over the English channeL The man that pnts his energies On this golden day in 1912 into givin advice there appeared at the water's Is what? edge a clumsy looking kite, pre-- . Is like a person that would cariously poised on a single lend oat his lawn mower rather Word got wooden pontoon. than cat his own crass. around that this Martin, whoever he might be, was actually Which Kind? going to fly this thing over to Do you think Im conThelma Catalina island, 20 miles away. ceited about my brains? Young Martin had been ramming Virginia Nonsense! Im sure around with barnstorming troops,' that nothing of the kind ever enwith home-mad- e planes, known to tered your head! fliers as a daring innovator, but with the public in general not quite Wish a Few Bones, Too? sure of even his first name. LinHave you seen my dog, Fido, this coln. Beachey, Art Smith, Si Christof-ferso- morning, Mr. Butcher ?" Seen him? I should think t have. Bob Fowler and others had found in the California skies a clear Came in here and chewed up a leg of field of operations and Martin was lamb, and then upset a customer into one among many there, having a some eggs." mind Really? Well, I wonder if good time in what seemed then a putting this Lost notice in youd winyour sport, rather than a business. At dow?" any rate, bankers of the day so regarded it. Still Better Idea He had built his Catalina Clipper Twins arrived during the night. in an abandoned church, with such The next morning father said to material as he might come by, with- little Joe, You neednt go to out benefit of bankers. We recall school today. You can tell the that it had a quaint, homespun look. teacher tomorrow that you have It seemed that it might do almost two baby sisters. No, I know what Ill do, Dad, anything except fly. Getting ready for the take-of- f, young Martin wasnt Joe said. Ill tell teacher Ive paying any attention to the skeptical got one baby sister, and then next crowd. He tightened up some bolts, week I can stay at home again put an inflated rubber tube around and tell him Ive got another. his neck, and strapped a compass around his leg. Then, to state it precisely, he flew to Catalina. Just in passing, when he reached What Causes the financial, as apart from the techYour Constipation? nical, stage of his operations, he wore most elegantly tailored black The foods we eat flying suits, and no more messing these days too often do not give around in dungarees. His flying us enough "bulk food. And mates called him Dude Martin, medical science tells us that achieved an effect but this get-u- p lack of sufficient bulk" Is one and of safe and sane conservatism of the commonest causes of constipation it was not surprising that he got If that is your trouble, harsh backing from the bankers. cathartics and violent out-stunt- ed n, super-refin- ed I are, remedies. much better to get at the cause and correct It I sure that you not make Why ace getting the "bulk you need by eating Kellogg's is a delicious, crispy cereal that millions of folks rely on. Eat yourself eat It dally and drink plenty of water not only to get regular but to Is made keep regular. by Kelloggs In Battle Creek. If your condition Is not helped by this simple treatment. It's to see a doctor. we saw Waldo Frank was in the summer of 1939, on our terrace in the country. It was a month or two before the S. America Chief Interest of This Frank was trou Prolific Writer ?fej-l- "pHE last time All-Bra- n? All-Br- an All-Br- an All-Br- an It was a dead-en-d conversation, every way we turned. War was coming of that Mr. Frank felt sure. We would be pulled in, and we wouldnt be ready, either with arms or under- standing. is more clearly recalled than just what Mr. Frank said. However, we do remember that he was sad because continental America had not shaken loose from a dying Mediterranean civilization and built a proud and safe and cohesive civilization of its The mood of the conversation purges at best, only temporary How V IN SAN FRANCISCO own. A short, stocky man, with a loose tweed suit and a neat black moustache, he moved down a trail in the dusk to a dark cave of interlocking forest trees. The dark trail led to Buenos Aires where he lies today, a casualty of a war of ideas which he has been waging for more than Superb accommoda- 20 years. Fascist thugs beat him with the butt of a revolver, after the Axis - inclined Argentinian government had found him persona non grata. tions, fine cuisine, and distinctive service await Six His book, Our America, published in 1919, was both an exalted declaration of faith and a disquieting appraisal of our complacent and slovenly failure to realize what the gods had bestowed on us, and to measure up to this endowment. In this and many later books and magazine articles, he preached a somewhat mystic philosophy of The Whole, with such earnest faith add plodding persistence that it is not surprising that he carried his challenge to the dangerous political front of Argentina. todays travelers at this citys largest, best located hotel. IOOO I ATMS IOOO ROOMS FROM S4 SINGH s to DOUBIK ' V. 1 7 |