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Show TIIE RxCH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Sounder Education Needed To Hollywood Adds Atomic Touch to Nations Strikes Maintain Free World Economics and Geography Among Studies Required to Ground Students in the. Problems at Home and Abroad. By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. 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 rsion.) existence in a pewly integrated In the last two months the public world of which we are an integral has learned a lot about the impor- part. We must understand our own tance of industrial reconversion. For problem and the problems of othmany more months, business men, ers. i with the help of the best technical I couldnt help applying this theadvice they could obtain, have been ory to the stories from Germany. preparing to shift from wartime to A thorough understanding of democpeacetime production. Government racy is proof against Nazi propaganhas shared the knowledge of its ex- da. !An understanding of other peoperts and proffered its ples and events beyond our borders Labor has contributed its sugges- which affect us as the rise of Hitler tions. All three know what they and Mussolini affected us would want. Together they hope to obtain make us deaf to German prevaricaa successful synthesis. tions and excuses. But what many people do not realIn order to meet the threats ize is that the nation, the whole against democracy from within and world, for that matter, is facing an- from without, Mr. Studebaker beother reconversion problem, equally lieves, with most of his colleagues, as difficult to solve, equally as im- that our present educational system portant to achieve. It is the recon- will have to be thoroughly renovatversion of our whole educational sys- ed. "Both the plant and the product tem, and upon its success depends must be remodeled, he say. the political future of democracy He chose two subjects geography and its economic future as well, as and economics as examples of how embodied in the theory and out- the product must be altered. working of free enterprise. It is no exaggeration to say that Knowledge of our current educational system, Conditions Vital which along with our wartime inGeography is important because It dustrial system made Allied victory is a study of the world in which we possible, is no more adapted to meet live. It is a study of the peoples who the new and startling problems of live in the world of our very near, the postwar world than the Japanese thanks to jet propulsion and atomic defense could meet the atomic energy, if not always very dear bomb. neighbors. Geography is also the Enlightened educators everywhere study of the pursuits, the indusrealize this. In a short time experts tries of the people of the world. - Its will meet in London to work out a grasp is essential if we are to bring program outlined in San Francisco intelligent thought to judgment of by the men and women who planned events and the conditions at home the educational and cultural coun- and abroad and their effect upon cil of the United Nations. Here at each other and upon us. home and in other democratic coun"And yet, geography was never tries, domestic educational policies to our people, Mr. Studebaktaught are being reshaped to meet the new er says. We stop teaching it at the conditions. eighth grade. The younger children, Education for world freedom is an from three to eight, are taught by important objective; education for teachers who themselves never had freedom in the land of the free is more than eighth grade instruction equally important, for it is the foun- in the subject. dation stone of world democracy. of one And his second We have the task of reconverting of our educational example which products our own antiquated machinery so must be strengthened, economics, that it will be geared to produce "belongs still less to the people. and maintain freedom. The United 5 per cent of the high school Only Nations task is to build new maever studied economics, he inchinery which will evolve a prod- pupils formed me, and only 5 per cent of st uct which must displace the about ever these learned teachings which still have international trade. anything their hold on a large segment of the "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. crease is fair if he has never studied Nazi Propaganda the simplest theories of supply and demand, or the more complicated Remains Strong relations of wages, costs, profits? A report made public only a week And in the international field, he or two ago reveals how "Naziism at its blackest, as the report describes continued, how cquld a person who never learned the fundamentals it, is being kept alive in a series of had of international trade know whether scatin "resistance clubs Germany tered from the North sea to the Ba- a tariff was justified, whether a carvarian mountains. Allied investiga- tel was dangerous, whether certain tors have pieced together an appal- foreign business activities benefitted the people as a whole, whether free ling picture of a widespread activity or government subsidy competition based upon race hatred, and other How could was a better policy? Nazi principles with which the Geradvise their congressman to man youth has been so thoroughly they vote Woods agreeon Bretton the in a manner pointed indoctrinated out 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 the 6 year group, roughly high weakness of our defense is illustrated in recent dispatches telling us school age), economics is begun too 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 (suph.as international trade) but it Dachau located only a few miles becomes a dry and highly abstruse from where he was stationed. Amer-- 1 subject. Furthermore, since it is ican soldiers are heard parroting the often an elective (a subject Ill touch familiar Goebbels fabrication that on in a later article), it may be omitGermany was forced into the war; ted entirely because it is "hard. that Hitler had his faults but was These two subjects are only two 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. I have just come from a long talk , "This core, he says, "is essential if we are to build solidarity in a with one of Americas great educademocratic United States society. A certain group John Studebaker, tors, Commissioner of Education. It was of vital, basic subjects which will he who introduced me to the phrase, help us understand the problems that threaten democracy, the "the new reconversion. facts necessary to give us "Our democratic system is threatbasis for a sound faith in our the he and within without, from ened said to me earnestly. "The Amer way of life.. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. (This is the first of two articles on the subject of the "new reconve- but "atomic, the strikers at can put on an "atomic strike. n Shown above were strikers who blocked the main entrance to Warner Bros., Burbank, during the height of their strike. Deputy sheriffs who did not approve of the blockade are shown removing some of the strikers from the entrance. As all productions from Hollywood must no longer be considered colossal the motion picture plants have led the way in proving to the world that they sit-dow- Honolulu Now Ha's Largest Airport in the World , . Nazi-Fasci- BonoWa first photos of the Jolm Itoters airport of toe crossroads toe larsest ta the world, the airport is truly One of th. to , .X ?parTtU committee. - Theyre Here Today . . . Gone Tomorrow Led Kachin Rangers 15-1- one-yea- r, who was Capt. Charles Coussoule, Kachin Bangfamed the of a leader ers who snaked through swampy Unm! are mentally agile perhaps you became for ation. Here is WAdm.Hector Peron juS, Vice ich ousted of the navy in thefoup was ime. When Peron returned to office the admiral m Burma jungles to beat the Japs at their own game. He has returned to his home at Indiana, Pa. down-to-ear- th |