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Show To Train Youth For War Work Every High School Student Given Chance to Take Part in War Effort. 1 WASHINGTON. Creation of a war-inspired "High School Victory CorDS." ODen to all of the 6,500,000 in the nation's 28,000 public and private secondary schools, was announced an-nounced here by Paul V. McNutt, manpower chief. Established to give "every high school student in the United States , the opportunity to take a definite place in the war effort through a voluntary enrollment plan," the corps will be headed by Capt. Ed-. Ed-. die Eickenbacker, aviation leader and flying ace of the first World war. Simultaneously with the announcement announce-ment here, state school superintendents superintend-ents throughout the country were asked to call on school boards and officials to launch the program local- lv a ennn as nnssible. A manual recommending methods of organization was sent to all school superintendents and high school principals along with this statement from the national policy committee for the corps, composed of army, navy, education and civilian aviation avia-tion men. "A realistic appraisal of our need for trained manpower, both in the armed forces and in war production, produc-tion, makes it evident that the high school can't go on doing business as usual." Two aims of the corps were set forth as: "First, immediate, accelerated accel-erated and special training of youth for that war service they will be expected to perform after leaving school; second, active participation of youth while still in school in the community's war effort." |
