War Effort Strengthenrd
l?y High School Graduates
Armed Services Industry, Farms Lure 1912 Students:
Vocational Training Now Becoming
Increasingly Important.
By WILLARD E. GIVENS
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1“ T HAS been estimated that over one million boys and girls
will leave high school this spring with their diplomas.
It is this same group of boys and girls, the youth of the
nation, who were figuratively being spoken to when a com
mencement speaker said to a group of graduates before him:
"You have seen more history than you have read.”
During the first half of 1942. the pages of history have been
turning fast, recording the names oi *
men and their deeds in the greatest
drama of all ages.
And now today, not only the high
school graduate, but all those who
have read the story of man s up
ward struggle from the early dawn
of history to the present time, rec
ognize the climax of history in
‘which they are now living. Each
and everyone—especially the high
pchool graduate—is seeking to find
(the proper place, the suitable niche
In it
The Significance of Today.
< Only to the man who is in some j
measure educated is it granted to
know what is going on about him
and to estimate its significance.
There is an old story of two peas- ;
amts of Brabant who were weeding
their crops on a sultry June day in
1815 when the guns of the Iron Duke j
greeted those of Bonaparte at Wa- i
terloo. One of the peasants lifted :
hi« eyes from his hoe and scanned
the horizon. '‘Soule," he said, "it
thunders; it will rain today!” As
the guns of destiny broke the silence
«f their fields, these two peasants
went on hoeing their vegetables, al
most as ignorant as their beets and
cabbages of what went on any
where else in the world but in the
limited sphere in which they moved.
The mental isolation of man
kind in the not-so-long-ago un
happy days of the human race
when one class of men was priv
ileged to enjoy the culture and
refinement of wide knowledge,
and another class was doomed
to live and die in vulgarity and
poverty, la banished. Universal
education has banished it. The
high school, especially, is re
sponsible for making this vastly
different world from the one
which existed a century and a
quarter ago when Europe was
rocked as It is today by the
clash of arms and ideals—and
only a few knew the issues and
fewer still had s part in resalv
ing them.
Today, high school students see
themselves in the setting of time
and events. In their hearts is a
stirring that finds its expression in
• common question, “What is my
place in all this?”
Some of the boys may volunteer
St once for service in the armed
forces. The army has just an
nounced that volunteers 18 and 19
years old may select training in the
combat branch of their own pref
erence—infantry, cavalry, artillery,
tank corps, air corps, signal corps,
or corps of engineers. Others will
wait the decision of the Selective
Service system as to where and
when they may serve best
Many graduates will continue
their education under the direction
of the navy, which has in operation
plans by which graduates may go
on to college and pursue studies
in which they may earn college
credits and at toe same time pre
pare for more effective service in
the navy. From this group, the
huge two-ocean battle fleet now
building in our shipyards will se
cure many of its commissioned of
ifleers.
War Industries to Hire Many.
Some thousands of these high
A mechanised army calls for the
utmost inventive and operational
skills which the American people can
produce. These Denver high school
boys will know bow to operate an
electric semaphore if they should
serve in the signal corps of the
army.
school graduates, boys and girts,
will at once enter war-industries to
help manufacture the guns and
tanks and planes upon which the
fighting men on far-flung battle
fronts depend. The graduates may
enter these industries at once, or
they may enroll in one of many
different types of training for more
skilled service in the factories pro
ducing the material of war.
These training opportunities range
from the elementary vocational
schools where the simpler skills of
the assembly line are acquired, to
the technical and engineering
schools of our great universities
which are turning out recruits for
highly responsible positions both in
the armed forces and in industrial
ranks.
The high schools themselves in
many city school systems, and in
some of the village schools serving
farm areas, are equipped to offer a
high grade vocational training.
Some graduates who have taken
non - vocational courses in high
school will immediately begin such
courses, if available, in the schools
from which they have been gradu
ated, or they will seek that kind of
training in neighboring communi
ties.
The federal government in June,
1940, appropriated $15,000,000 to
equip and staff the rapidly ex
Victory vt. Luxury
"'John'* oldet brother oho tto
•shod high school In INI horned
np the tires of hi* old Jallopy on
tho highway* nl sixty mile* an
hour, either pleasure nr hoslnes*
henl John will rtde a ho* or
Walk ta "go places and do
things.'* Susan oho graduates In
IMi will find that permanent*,
fluffy evening dreoseo, nilk and
nylon hose oere luxarte* that her
older sister of IMt did not be
queath to her. Youth, like the
rest of ns, must sarriftoe some
of the refinement* of existence,
and before the straggle Is over,
may forego some of the necessi
ties."
workers, electricians, ship carpen
ters. joiners and other skilled
trades.
There ts opportunity ef some
kind today for youth every
where. AD can Join in the
"great adventure" in some
capacity. This is true for girls
as well as for buys. Many girls
are taking their places in the
war industries. The great ex
pansion of offices in Washington
and other centers of administra
tion of the war effort issue calls
for typists, stenographers, clerks
and secretaries. Many girls are
enrolling in nursing courses
which lead to direct or indirect
service, for some of which of
ficer’s commissions are avail
able, in the armed forces.
The kinds of military work for
Kiris to choose from are numer
ous, and announcements of far
ther opportunities are expected
from time to time.
Oft times the impulse to seek serv
ice far afield is ill advised. There
is also the home front. Whole states
must be prepared to resist invasion
from land, sea or air. Civilian de
fense is vital. First aid, air raid
duty, auxiliary fire and police serv
ice must be manned and adminis
tered.
In hundreds of agricultural com
munities hiph school graduates will
immediately lay aside their diplo
mas for cultivator handles and hoes.
There is much truth in the sloKan
that “Food will win the war.” The
Many high school graduates, such as these at the Hannah Penn. Junior
high school. York. Pa., will be able to take their places without much
further training in the ranks of those who are planning to defend their
communities from death dropping down during air raids.
panding vocational departments and
schools of less than college grade
which had undertaken to train
workers for defense industries. The
need of workers was so urgent and
the plan of meeting it so successful
that subsequently other sums were
appropriated for this purpose.
By March, this year, approxi
mately 2,463.862 workers had been
prepared for the war industries in
this manner. This number is in
addition to those trained for simi
lar occupations in the vocational
courses that constitute the normal
service of the schools
The demand for the graduates
of these vocational courses is
much greater than the supply
and is increasing. According
to the War Production hoard,
over ten million additional war
industry workers will be needed
within the year ahead to staff
plants now being built or ex
panded.
The vocational training activities
in Oakland, Calif., are typical of
those in many cities near great ship
yards or other centers producing
the machinery of war. On April 1,
1942, there were 199 classes in “de
fense training" in the Oakland
schools, enrolling 3,901 students.
This was 473 less than the number
of students the Oakland schools
were prepared to accommodate in
this kind of work.
During January, February and
March an average of 500 trained
workers a month were placed in
war manufacturing from this school
system. There have never been
sufficient trainees enrolled to meet
the demand for riveters, chippers.
caulkers, ship fitters, sheet metal
Problems of Education
Aired at Conference
At an annual meeting of the
(American Council of Education,
.‘Chicago, 111., the following state
menu were made by educators:
Roscoe L. West, president. State
Teachers college, Trenton, N. J.,
said: “People know intuitively that
education must focus on getting
folks ready to live better in their
community than they would have
lived otherwise. And by community
1 mean the nation and the world.”
William J. Hamilton, superintend
ent of schools. Oak Park, 111., spoke
on this problem which faced educa
tion: "There is evidence that dur
ing the post-war period, conditions
pertaining to the support of the pub
lic schools will not be improved.
The demand for social security is
already being given much consid
eration as the principal factor in the
new social order and may super
sede education in importance . . .
public education will become in
volved in a confusing mass of legis
lation."
provision of food staffs and the use
of foods dictated by modern knowl
edge of nutrition for both civilian
and soldier are of vital importance.
Many of the opportunities may be
seised without leaving home or
community. The alert and eager
high school graduate will look about
him for unfilled places in the ranks,
step in where he is best qualified
and serve.
The student selected by fate for
graduation in 1942 faces towering
handicaps as well as opportunities.
For many of these graduates, school
days are ended. In any case, edu
cational careers will be interrupt
ed or diverted from original pur
poses.
The Test They Face.
Ambitions must be modified, new
emphasis placed upon ideals and
duties. The high school graduate of
1942 faces the severest kind of test
which can be given to individuals—
the test of flexibility, adjustment to
untoward circumstances. This ap
plies to the minor as well as to the
major enterprises of life.
The contrast is still greater if we
compare this generation with grand
father’s as an illustration of change
in our national life. To that elderly
gentleman now toasting his slippered
heels in retirement by the fireplace,
Horace Greeley’s advice, “Go West,
young man," was an inspiration.
There was an immeasurably wealthy
West to conquer. Grandfather saw
the finishing touches given to the
world’s greatest economic empire,
as the ingenuity, energy, and de
termination of a New world, assem
bled from the tribes from the Old,
trimmed oil the last frontiers from
the American wilderness.
Looking beyond the present strife,
there is the citizen-in-the-making
getting ready for the years ahead.
Complete and final victory would be
unavailing if we lost in peace what
we had won in war. There is a tre
mendous task of reconstruction
ahead of all the world. There is
the rubble to clear away; but much
more important there are new struc
tures to take the place of the old.
The vision and capacity of today's
youth will determine whether they
live in the ruins of a past or in new
edifices builded upon the ideals of
freedom and liberty.
THE first v ng that made
Norma angi' was her inabil
| It; to find the right trail lead
ing back to the ranch. Sec
ondly, the handsome, bronred cow
boy who was descending the slope,
ostensibly to rescue her, was
Fletcher Carey. She hated Fletcher
Carey because he was so good
natured and popular and likeable,
yet so wholly indflerent because she
was so free and easy with all the
other cowboys on the ranch. She
was, he thought, not decent
She wondered how Fletcher Carey
would have acted if he but knew her
apparent free and easy attitude
toward the other cowboys was mere
ly a means of taunt an assertion
of independence and lack of interest
at what Fletcher Carey thought of
her.
Thirdly, Norma was angry be
cause of her present helplessness;
because it was fast growing dark
and she was afraid and she’d have
to depend upon Fletcher Carey to
bring her safely back to the ranch.
This third reason for her anger fair
ly made her boil inside. It was go
ing to be difficult, having to depend
on a man she hated.
Fletcher Carey came loping along
the trail, sitting on his horse in that
casual western fashion that is the
very personification of grace, and
grinned at her. Actually grinned.
Norma's face flamed.
“Hello.” he said innocently, bring
ing his black horse to a halt “Lost?”
Norma glared at him icily.
“No," she said, her words dripping
with sarcasm. “I have a date with
“I—I guess I'll ride. If yon don’t
mind." She looked np at him.
the big bad wolL He's due any
moment."
Fletcher Carey arched his brows
in the faintest of surprise gestures.
"Oh," he said. "Well, well For
give my curiosity.” He made a
clucking sound with his tongue and
the black moved ahead.
Norma waited, without looking
aronnd. She felt sore he'd come
back. He'd never dare to leave
her alone out here. Why, even
n stupid cowboy like Fletcher
Carey must have known she was
kidding. Perhaps the idiot had
misinterpreted her wisecrack.
Perhaps he thought by “big bad
wolf” she’d meant one of the
ranch cowboys.
Impulsively Norma turned and
rode down the trail in the direction
taken by Fletcher Carey. She rode
slowly at first, half expecting to
meet him coming back. But she
didn't, and it was growing dark, rap
idly. Somewhere up on the slope of
the mountain a bobcat howled, and
a little shiver ran down her spine.
She touched spurs to her horse’s
flank, and the animal leaped ahead.
And all the while Norma was fairly
boiling inside. Of all the rude, ig
norant, conceited men she’d had the
ill fortune to meet, Fletcher Carey
sure took the prize. She’d see
that he lost his job for this. Then,
bitterly, she remembered that he
owned a half interest in the Double
6. and it would be rather difficult
getting him fired.
Something stirred in the bushes
beside the trail. Her horse shied,
nearly upsetting her, and went rac
ing down the trail. Norma’s heart
began to thump. They entered a
grove of evrt’greens, which shut out
the last remaining vestige of day
light Ahead there was nothing but
black stillness.
Suddenly the horse stopped short,
and Norma went sliding up around
its neck. She pushed herself back
and clucked frantically, digging in
her spurs. Something swept past
her head. She sensed, rather than
felt its presence, and her breath
caught.
In the next instant her horse was
rearing on its hind legs, striking out
in the dark. The air was suddenly
filled with a strange, unpleasant
odor. She went hurtling into space,
struck with a sickening thud—then
a gray curtain of nothingness closed
about her ... ,
When Norma opened her eyes
she was lying on a bed of fir boughs.
There was a fire a few feet away,
over which a man was stooped, lay
ing sticks on crosswise. She sat up
with a start, remembering. The man
turned and grinned.
"Hello,” he said. “Remember
me?"
"I remember everything but you,”
•aid Norma, self-possessed once
more now that Fletcher Carey wa*
there to protect her, ' What hap
pened***
"Your horse shied at a skunk end
threw you. Fesky things, skunks **
'i can agree with that," said Nor
ttia meaningly, and Immediately
hoped he wouldn't get her point,
"There was something overhead,"
"An owl,’* said Fletcher Carey.
He came and sat down beside her.
Your horse went hack to the ranch.
We 11 have to ride double."
"I'd rather walk," Norma said
coldly,
Fletcher Carey shrugged. "Suit
yourself." He stood up and moved
off in the darkness, "Douse the fire
before leaving." he called.
Norma got to her feet in a hurry.
•'Oh! — Wait! — Mr Carey!" She
started running, frantically, and al
most collided with Fletcher Carey
coming back. Whoa!" he grinned.
"You'd better not start by running.
It's a long ways,"
"I—I guess m ride, if you don’t
mind.” She looked up at him, meek
ly. almost cringing, fear of the dark
in her eyes. The grin vanished from
Fletcher Carey’s lips.
"Sure.” he said. “Wait here.”
He went away again. Norma
watched the spot where he disap
peared until he came into the light,
leading his black. "Up you go," he
said cupping bis hands.
When he went to douse the fire, she
had an impulsive desire to strike the
black smartly and race off. leaving
him there. But she didn’t She
waited, and Fletcher swung up be
hind her, grinning once more, and
they started ahead.
He guided the black, with his
arms about her waist, which
made her resentful at first, and
later sent a little tingle of
pleasnre coursing through her
veins. Suddenly she was regret
ful for everything: she wanted
to be friends, wanted to know
the man better. She wanted to
tell him so, hut her pride sup
pressed the longing.
And so they rode along in silence.
Norma leaned against him, feeling
safe and protected and curiously
happy. His voice, coming out of the
blackness, startled her. Fletcher
Carey said:
"I guess I’ve treated you pretty
mean. I’m sorry. don’t ordi
narily treat our guests like this. But
—with you—it was different.”
“Different?” she asked, her heart
beginning to pound.
“I fell in love with you—a month
ago.” His voice was apologetic.
“Sorry. Didn’t mean to. Just one
of those things. Figured you had
no use for me, so I steered clear.
Kinda got under my skin, the way
you played around with the hands.”
He paused. “Fact is, I been follow
ing you all afternoon. Hoped you’d
get lost so's I could have this
chance. Sorry now, though.”
Norma felt the tenseness of his
body. His tone was casual, but she
knew it had taken an effort to speak
at alL And it wasn’t because she
was a guest either. The Double 6
had a waiting list. It was—it must
be—
Suddenly she laughed, a little sil
very laugh—contented, happy. “Fact
is, cowboy,” she said, trying to
sound as casual as he, “I knew you
were following me, and got lost on
purpose.”
The black stopped, then went
ahead again. Its reins hung loose,
but the lights of the ranch house
showed ahead and the animal W'as
hungry.
‘Kathleen* a Kentuckian,
Not From ‘Green Island’
Despite the fact that the song,
‘Til Take You Home Again Kath
leen.” tells of a home “across the
ocean wild and wide,” the fact is
that it was written by a native of
Virginia, Thomas Paine Westendorf.
“In the fall of 1875,” states James
J. Geller in "Famous Songs and
Their Stories,” “he (Westendorf)
and his family were residing in
Louisville. Ky., but the sudden
death of a son brought illness to
Mrs. Westendorf and caused her
physician to prescribe a change in
surroundings.
“While reading to her one eve
ning, Westendorf suddenly laid down
his book and both began to discuss
their future plans. His wife indicat
ed a desire to join her mother in
New York, but dreaded the long
winter journey and the husband ten
derly promised to accompany her
there in the spring. Having thus
assured her, he continued with his
book until she retired for the night.
In the stillness of the following
hours, Westendorf began slowly to
improvise at random on the piano.
Suddenly his eye lit upon a frayed
copy of an old composition written
by one George Parsely and titled,
‘Barney, I’ll Take You Home
Again.’ The title of this song yield
ed the very sentiment and thought
talked over earlier in the evening.
In an hour he had written the words
and music of Til Take You Home
Again, Kathleen.’
. . The new ballad went off to
a Cincinnati publisher . . . Westen
dorf s song was introduced in
Macaulay’s theater in Louisville at
a benefit for a Catholic church by
a local tenor singer. The words and
sentiment of the ballad revived fond
memories of the Emerald Isle in
most of the parishioners, who were
of Irish extraction, and their coun
trymen soon adopted ‘I’ll Take ^You
Home Again Kathleen.' ”
Nine Ohios
While Nova Scotia province is
about half the size of the Buckeye
state, yet there are nine Ohios with
in its boundaries, three of them
served by Canadian National Rail
ways.
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Part of Ponderous Duelist
Declared Out of Bounds
T'WO Irishmen arranged to fight
a duel with pistols. One of them
was very stout, and when he saw
his lean adversary facing him he
raised an objection.
“Bedad!” he said, “I’m twice
as big a target as he is, so I
ought to stand twice as far away
from him as he is from me.”
“Be aisy now,” replied his sec
ond. “I’ll soon put that right.”
Taking a piece of chalk from
his pocket, he drew two lines down
the stout man's coat, leaving a
space between them.
“Now,” he said, turning to the
thin man, “fire away, ye spalpeen,
and remember that any hits out
side the chalk lines don’t count.”
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THE
POWER
OF THE PRESS
• Manufacturers and merchants sense the
power of the press. Early they began using
it to carry their advertising facts and ideas
into homes. And they found it a most
profitable way in which to tell their story
to buyers. And the buyers in turn found
it profitable to deal with those who were
willing to state in print the values and
services they offered.
