U. S. Schools Must Prepare Young People
To Cope With Future’s Difficult Problems
Citizens Are Urged
To Visit Their Local
Learning Centers
Labor, industry, educators,
the churches and women’s
clubs are uniting in a call for
the observance of American
Education week, November
5-11. The week is dedicated to
public tribute to schools and
is sponsored by the National
Education association, the
American Legion, the United
States Office of Education and
the National Congress of Par
ents and Teachers. An annual
pilgrimage to the nation’s
schools is made in more than
4,000 communities by more
than 10 million persons dur
ing the week’s program of
school activities.
Calling upon the “citizens to visit
their schools,” President Roosevelt
asks observance of American Educa
tion Week to “become better ac
quainted with those faithful serv
ants of the nation’s children and
youth—the teachers.”
In the President s message to
"patrons, students, and teachers of
American schools," he asks that
teachers be encouraged in their task
of "cultivating free men fit for a
free world. For these teachers are
the conservators of today’s civiliza
tion and the architects of tomor
row’s world of promised peace and
progress. They serve within the very
citadels of democracy, devotedly
whether in war or in peace.
"When victory on the fields of
battle shall have been achieved, the
work yet to be done through our
schools will be enormous,” the
President continues. “I therefore
call upon the teachers of America
to continue without flagging their ef
forts to contribute through the
schools to that final consummation
which alone will make possible of
fulfillment all plans of education for
new tasks.”
Realizing that the schools play a
vital role both in the prosecution of
the war and laying the foundations
for the peace, "Education for New
Tasks" is the theme for the 24th an
nual observance.
"Schools are preparing children
and young people for the new tasks
which confront our country,” states
F. L. Schlagle, president of the Na
tional Education association, "the
new tasks of making postwar re
adjustments, maintaining economic
security at home, improving inter
group relationships, assuring justice
to minority groups, adapting our life
to the new technology, and im
proving community life. Only a
people of intelligence, character,
goodwill and earnestness can meet
these issues with success."
Program for the Week.
Daily themes in the development
of “Education for New Tasks” are:
Sunday, November 5 — Building
Worldwide Brotherhood.
Monday, November 6 — Winning
the War.
Tuesday, November 7 — Improv
ing Schools for Tomorrow.
Wednesday, November 8 — De
veloping an Enduring Peace.
Thursday, November 9 — Prepar
ing for the New Technology.
Friday, November 10 — Educating
All the People.
Saturday, November 11 — Better
ing Community Life.
"When the war is over, our coun
try will be faced with a problem of
readjustment which in many ways
will be as difficult as the problems
of mobilization for the war,” warns
Mr. Schlagle. "Millions of men and
women must be retrained for new
jobs. Boys and girls in schools must
be aided in adjusting to postwar con
ditions. The war has emphasized the
nation’s need for youth. We cannot
afford in the postwar period to per
mit youth to become the lost genera
tion again,” he says.
‘‘Building Worldwide Brother
hood," topic for Sunday, opening the
week’s program, will be observed in
the churches throughout the nation.
According to Everett R. Clinchy,
National Conference of Christians
and Jews,” ’’Brotherhood is giving
to others the dignity and rights we
want to keep for ourselves. We need
to make universal brotherhood part
of the learning experience.” He
points out that this can be done by
thinking scientifically on questions of
race, religious cultures, and nation
ality differences which divide people
into groups.
Monday’s theme, "winning the
War,” is a reminder of the wartime
job being done by the schools in pre
induction training, adjustment of
courses to permit pupils to do war
time work, rationing and registra
tion programs, conducting scrap and
bond drives, as well as continuing
their regular program of education
for 25 million American children.
"Improving Schools for Tomor
row emphasizes the steps needed
for improving American education.
Equalization of educational oppor
tunity through state and federal aid,
payment of adequate salaries to
teachers, streamlining the adminis
trative organization of education in
many areas, and the building of
school programs around real life
problems are among the pressing
needs for better schools in the post
war era.
Hope For Enduring Peace.
"Education is a potent force which
can be used for the promotion of
peace,” underlies Wednesday’s top
ic, “Developing an Enduring
Peace.” Proposals for the inter
national organization following the
war include a council on educational
policy which would become a per
manent international agency for edu
cation. The purpose of such an
agency would be to lif\ educational
standards, to encourage education
for international understanding, and
to report for action to the general
international body attempts in any
nation to promote war through edu
cation.
“Preparing for the New Tech
nology” points to the reliance tech
nology and science have upon edu
cation. The need for intelligent man
agement and the reduction of un
skilled labor are emphasized. The
ever-increasing need for specializa
tion on the part of workers calls for
cooperation and mutual helpful
ness. "The promise of a new world
depends upon technology. To reach
that promise we must develop
through education people capable of
using it,” Mr. Schlagle points out.
“Educating All the People,” topic
Practical and scientific training is getting increasing empiiasls dur- 1
ing the war years, even in grade school. Probably this trend will con
tinue into peace times. These boys are making radio sets.
for Friday, emphasizes that despite
the great strides in establishing a
system of public education, there are
13^4 per cent of our adult population
having only a fourth-grade education
or less. Hundreds of thousands of
men fully qualified in every other
respect have been found by the
Selective Service to have less than
a fourth-grade education.
“Bettering Community Life,” topic
for the last day of American Edu
cation Week, underlines the role of
the school as a community center,
serving adults as well as children,
and acting as a force for bringing
the people together so that plans
for improved community life may
be made and developed.
Problems of Future.
American Education Week grew
out of the First World War. It was
first observed in 1921. Twenty-five
per cent of the men examined in
that draft were illiterate; 29 per cent
were physically unfit; many were
foreign-born and had little under
standing of American life. These
were startling disclosures. Unfit as
they were for war, these men were
also incapable of serving their coun
try most effectively in time of peace.
Members of the newly formed
American Legion wished to correct
these conditions. They saw in this
situation an opportunity to serve
their country after the war. When
a campaign of education appeared
to be the only answer they consulted
the other sponsoring organizations
and as a result the first American
Education Week was observed.
“All the new tasks which confront
our society as a whole are the ones
with which our schools must deal.
For the schools are of society and
their task is ten build society by
developing goo* citizens,” Mr.
Schlagle further points out. "Let
us utilize the power of education to
Many adults need a grade school
education, either because they came
from some region of the country
where schools are remote, or be
cause they are foreign born. Here
a young woman from Austria waves
her hard-won diploma.
further fulfill the promise of Ameri
ca and to enable us to do our part
among the family of nations in the
establishment of a just order of af
fairs in the world.” he urges.
Six Billion Investment.
The National Planning committee,
a private agency, most of whose
directors are businessmen, recently
stated that if we make our eco
nomic system work reasonably well
after the war we shall have a na
tional income of at least 110 billion
dollars. The report goes on to re
late that according to the estimated
figures, we shall spend: 25 billion
for foodstuffs as compared with 16
billion before the war; 16 billion for
housing as compared with 9 billion;
seven billion for automobiles as
against four billion; three billion
for recreation as against one and a
half billion; 13 billion for household
operations and equipment as com
pared with six and a half billion.
“Shall we,” asks Mr. Schlagle,
"under such conditions refuse to
increase the two and a half billion
which we have been spending for
schools and colleges: Shall we, with
the highest per capita income of any
nation in all history, use our in
creased wealth to feed, clothe, and
house ourselves in comparative lux
ury, to buy entertainment, airplanes,
automobiles, radios, and refriger
ators. and neglect to spend any of
our increased income for the educa
tional improvement of our children?
We can readily afford the five or six
billion dollars which a genuinely ade
quate educational program for all
would cost. This would be the
wisest investment that American
citizens could make," he contends.
Eric A. Johnston, president.
United States chamber of com
merce, says the organization “is
glad to give its support to the ob
servance of American Education
Week, 1944 Business recognizes the
relation between education and an
expanding economy. There is no
more important task before us than
the development of the kind of edu
cational program which will pro
mote good citizenship and economic
yftll-being.”
T £ L E F A C T_
HOW MANY STUDENTS GET A COMPLETE EDUCATION?
OF 1.000 STUDENTS
IN THE fIFTH GRADE
(1939-90)
THESE GRaOUaTEO
FROM H'GH SCHOOl
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THESE
ENTERED COUEGE
(1937)
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ILLITERACY IN THE U.S.A.
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By VIRGINIA VALE
JIMMY CAGNEY is settling
down to wtfrk on his new
picture, “Blood on the Sun,”
after too long an absence from 1
the screen. During that ab-1
sence he’s made a four-month
overseas tour, and his brother 1
William has gone through several
hundred manuscripts, trying to find
suitable material for James. Two
possible stories turned up for the
picture following "Blood on the
Sun"; no matter which is selected. !
Cagney will be seen as a soldier in
the American army in the days of
the Indian wars.
-*
RKO executives swear that "Tall
in the Saddle,” starring John Wayne,
is absolutely a non-formula western.
Wayne never bids his faithful horse
a fond farewell: Ella Raines is not
JOHN WAYNE
■ schoolteacher; Wayne doesn't win
all the fights, nor does he gallop off
up canyons just for the sake of gal
loping. And surprise—he not only
kisses Ella Raines, he kisses Audrey
Long, too.
-*
For several years now Bob Hope
has not broadcast before a civilian
audience. Only servicemen are ad
mitted, whether he has been giving
performances abroad or here in
America.
-*
Parks Johnson and Warren Hull
have starred GI Joe and war work
ers since Pearl Harbor, keeping
their own voices in the background.
But recently Parks was riding in a
New York taxi, and the driver
turned around. "You’re Warren
Hull, aren't you?" he asked. "No,
I’m Parks Johnson, but you have
the right show,” said Parks. “I
knew it,” said the driver. "Soon’s
you told me where to go, I knew
that voice.”
-$
"Without Love,” the new Katha
rine Hepbum-Spencer Tracy-Lucille
Ball picture, went before the cam
eras the other day, with Keenan
Wynn and Patricia Morison in sup
porting roles. It’s based on the play
by the same name in which Miss
Hepburn appeared.
-5*
Just for her own convenience,
Joan Bennett’s an inventor. She in
vented and patented a lipstick brush
that can be carried in a purse with
out smearing other articles; that's
Just one of her inventions. At the
moment she’s having fun designing
wall paper.
-*
Lois Wilson, star of the silent
screen, is carving out quite a career
for herself on the stage and in radio.
She was practically snatched from
I this Saturday matinee of “Chicken
Every Sunday,” the day before the
first broadcast of the Ethel Barry
more show, “Miss Hattie,” when
producers wanted to make • last
minute switch in the role of “Martha
Thompson.” Lois got the role; you
hear her Sundays.
-*
The Radio Hall of Fame has cer
tainly lived up to its name; now
beginning its second year on the air,
it has brought to the Blue network
nearly every nationally famous per
son in the entertainment field—more
than 150 of them.
-*
If you gave your dog to the army,
you’ll want to see "My Pal, Wolf.”
The picture, revolving around the ad
ventures of seven-year-old Sharyn
Moffett and a dog, has a sequence
showing how the army performs in
transferring a pet into a perfect ca
nine soldier.
-*
Picture and radio people are
agreed on one thing—no matter
what anybody says, they’re con
vinced that Joe E. Brown did every
thing in his power to cheer the boys
overseas. If ever a man put his
heart into doing anything, the “Stop
and Go” star put his into entertain
ing servicemen.
ODDS AND ENDS—Dinah Shore
and 7 mi my Durante are among the
tlurs uho will record the Christmas
I “Command Performance” show for
those overseas. . . . House Jameson, of
“Crime Doctor,” was named as a result
\ of the close friendship between his
father and Col. E. M. House, President
Wilson's adviser. . . . Begis Toomey
has been signed for a role in “The Big
'Sleep”; Humphrey Bogart und Ixitiren
Bacall head the cast. . . . Dick Jones
I (Henry Aldrich) is writing ell his let
ters to one Miss Betty Bacon of Ims
Angeles. . . . It hen the Eddie Cantor
slum per ft i ms for servicemen, it’s red
haired Nora Martin the boys whistle at
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