Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1942, Page 18

Auto Leaders Pledge Use of All Equipment For' War Production Problems of Swinging Into $8,000,000,000 Program Outlined By DAVID J. WILKIE, Associated Press Automotive Editor, DETROIT, Jan. 24—Heads of the Nation’s automotive industry pledged themselves today to set every item of production equipment in their possession to the task of maximum armament output in the shortest possible time. The pledge was given at a meet- ing of the industry’s Council for ‘War Production, called to co-ordi- nate the listing of all machine tool equipment to the use of all com- panies, erstwhile competitors with- in the industry and concerns out- side but engaged in war work. More than 800 company heads, engineers, production experts and others heard outlined some of the problems involved in swinging into an $8,000,000000 arms output pro- gram and also heard Ernest C. Kan- zler, new chief of the automotive division of the War Production Board, tell what the Government expects of them. Calls for More Speed. “We must use our imagination to do things faster, in a new way,” Mr. Kanzler said. “We must have at once an all-out war economy; we must remember that we are in this war and in it all the way.” Mr. Kanzler—slender, baldish, be- spectacled and with closely cropped black mustache—met with most of | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, DETROIT.—AUTO CHIEFS LISTEN TO NEW BOSS—Ernest C. Kanzler (center) holds the undi- vided attention of two automobile corporation presidents during a recess in yesterday’s meeting of the Automotive Council of War Production. Paul G. Hoffman (left) of Studebaker and C. E. Wilson of General Motors listened intently to the new head of the War Production Board's au- tomotive branch, War Presents Hard Problems \For Schools and Colleges Courses of Instruction Are Hastily Revised And Shortened to Meet New Demands the car manufacturers for the first time since his appointment by the war board. He spoke bluntly of the board’s objectives and of the task ahead, but won a standing pledge of full co-operation from all the automobile companies, body manu- facturers, tool and die firms and | other allied industries, all repre- | sented on the Council for War Pro- duction. The pledge came at the sugges- tion of Paul G. Hoffman, president of Studebaker Corp., who called for it after asserting that the automo- tive industry, representing “free la- | bor and free management,” could | “outproduce any economy that uses | shackled management and slave la- bor.” Problems Described. C. E. Wilson, president of Gen- eral Motors Corp.; K. T. Keller, | head of Chrysler Corp.; O. E. Hunt, General Motors engineering author- ity, and Alvan Macauley, chairman | of the board of Packard Motor Car | Co., described some of the war pro- duction accomplishments of the in- dustry and some of the problems to be mastered in getting into all-out production. “It is too bad” Mr. Wilson said, *that we can't use figures on tanks and many other things we already have produced, so that we might show that the job already is under way.” Permanent divisions were estab- lished by the council to disseminate tooling and contract information and machine tool and equipment service data. As outlined by one industry spokesman, any idle tool equipment in possession of one man- ufacturer is to be made available to another in need of it. “We propose to take the tools to the job and the jobs to the tools,” Mr. Macauley explained. Western Union Offices Selling Defense Stamps Defense savings stamps have been placed on sale in 5,000 ‘Western Union telegraph offices throughout | the Nation, according to a Treas- ury Department announcement. Secretary Morgenthau called the| arrangement “a major contribution | to the defense savings effort” in acknowledging notification from A.| N. Williams, president of the firm. | Spanish War Veterans To Honor Commander Commander in Chief Joseph R. Hanley of Albany, N. Y., will be the guest of honor at the United Span- | ish War Veterans annual banquet | at the Willard Hotel on February 14. By JOHN W. THOMPSON, Jr. Japanese bombs at Pearl Hatbor December 7 exploded all plans for | “business as usual” in United States high schools and colleges. Nearly all the colleges are con- sidering a full term during the sum- mer vacation to shorten the col- lege course to three years. Many, including District, Maryland and Virginia institutions, already have ordered the change. Instruction is being revised hastily to provide the military mathematics of artillery and navi- gation and to include such subjects as the aerial bombardment pro- tection course opening at New York University February 15. Harvard and Dartmouth, taking cognizance of the 20 year selective service age, will permit freshmen to play varsity football. Villanova and colleges in New York are plan- ning to follow their example. Blue Ridge College at New Windsor, Md., has eliminated all intercollegiate athletics for the duration to con- centrate on intramural physical fitness programs. ‘The University of South Carolina will admit high-ranking high school graduates as freshmen in the second semester, instead of requiring them to wait until the term beginning in the fall. The University of Tampa has organized three companies for military drill and has rearranged class schedules to permit students to take first aid. Among high schools, Philadelphia is planning to reduce the time re- quired for graduation from three | to two years and at Atlanta, Ga., the suggestion was made schools go on a six-day week and lengthen the working day as a speed-up measure. Chicago’s high schools are prepared taq graduate students in three instead of four years. The Navy is planning to use selected universities such as Yale for development of officer personnel, and has started a system which allows students to join the Naval that the' Reserve and still complete all or most of a college course. The Army will not experiment | with college military camps such | as those of the First World War this time, since officials believe present R. O. T. C. units and its own officer training corps will be able to furnish necessary officer personnel. The Army, however, wants emphasis on physical education, because Amer- icans must train to defeat the Ger- man soldier who is “probably the finest physical specimen since the days of Sparta.” The Army also urges instruction of studenis in maintenance and operation of motor vehicles, radio, telegraphy and map reading, as well as the mental dis- ciplinary subjects such as math- | ematics, languages, physics and chemistry. To co-ordinate the national edu- | cational effort and serve as a clear- ing house for military and edu- cational leaders, the Federal Office | of Education has established a war- time commission including some of the highest ranking educators of the country. One branch of the com- mission, dealing with the colleges, is under Dr. Fred J. Kelly and Dr. John Lund of the Education Office, and a second division on the high school and lower levels is under Harry Jager, also of the Education Office staff. These divisions hold meetings regularly at the Interior Department to work out the prob- lems arising from new educational demands. | Members of the commission say the problem for both colleges and high chools resolves itself into three phases: Effect on the pupil, effect on the faculty ahd finance. ‘While acceleration of the program from four to three years seems generally desirable in the colleges, it is far from certain that educa- tional speedups are good for high schools. If, for example, the high schools begin to turn out graduates one or two years earlier—at 16 in- stead of 18 for instance—many com- pulsory education laws and child Prices Reduced ON USED, FLOOR SAMPLE AND A FEW BRAND-NEW Richard J. Harden Camp No. 2 held installation exercises at Pythian Temple. Chief of Staft John A. Gallagher was master of ceremonies. Officers obligated were: les H. Appich, commander: Charles Bayne. senior vice commander: Emil 7 inior vice commander: Orin P. adjutant: Thomas &.mflggle;e. aster; Peter Roesle, o QAT e Fitspatrick. officer of the guard: Berkiey Inge, Binckiey, patriotic williams, _historian: ~Warren surgeon; Terence N. Fielder, Willlam F, Grimih, =~ sergeant Joseph J. Harvey, quartermaster sergeant: | Chaties Ammann, senior color sergeant: | Anthony B. S. Consol, chief musician. . James S. Pettit Camp and Pettit Axfi’l‘m’;‘ held joint installation rites at Naval Lodge Hall, Officers obligated by 0 artment Commander Calvin Toeas arer am T Ryan, commander: | tehior Vice commander: | Tom ;_ Charles E. Hunt. | chaplain; major: guard | William _ Peacock, chaplain, ' Clark R. | Pettit., historian:_Samuel Hubacher. patri- ofic instructor: Samuel D. Jones, sergeant major: Charles Luebner, quartermaster ergeant: George F. Lang and Edwin J. %ob\a color sergeants, and Charles Cohen, trustee * ‘Auxiliary President Carrie Flaherty ad- | ministered the obligation to Margarei Fel- . president: Bessie Alford, senior vice sident: Kathryn Wood, junior vice pres- &Pnl‘ I1da Wildman, chaplain: Myrtle oxley, secretary: Marie Lucas, treasurer: | Clars Hass, patriotic _instructor; ~Ethel | Sandlak. historian: Dorothy Alford, "eon- | ductor: Dorothy Thompson, assistant con- | Webb, guard: Mary Holt. as- . and Beulah Waller, musician. | Pettit Auxiliary will celebrate McKinley pisnt st Naval Lodse Hall tomorrow st ol | lock. Pettit Camp convenes Tuesday. Capitol City Fort No. 22, Daughters of *9R. will install officers “at the Thomas Circle Club on Friday at 8 pm. They are: Dorothy Alford, captain: Margaret | Carter, first lieutenant: Marjorie Grissam, second lieutanant: Heien Grissam, lain: Beulah Cope. adjutant; Helen Mi selman, quartermaster: Gladys Rockhold, officer of the day: Louise M. Shaw and Estelle Fowler, color guards. President McKinley Camp, Sons of Veterans, installed the followls st department headguarters: P. J. Clarke, ident: Francis D. Cooney. senlor vice it ts. ice pres- the D. C._ Department the first ‘Wednesday of Northeast Masonic Temple. es 8. Pettit the 'depart- fes of Auxiliary meet each month at Officers of the Col. Jam Auxiliary were instalied “by ment president, Carrie L. Flaherty, at a Joint public installation with the officers of the Col. James S. Pettit Camp. The Margaret Pelton, Yrrie Maies, easurer, and Beulah Wi Plans are being mad; B ross ;\ s to 73 1o do national An after-inventory clearance of stock we want to move at once. Included are many popular new and floor sample pianos and our entire stock of slightly used and reconditioned instruments. Over 50 to choose frc;m, of such makes as Mason & Ham- lin, Chickering, Story & Clark, Knabe, Steinway (used), Musette, Everett, Cable, Hallett & Davis, Huntington and others. have been cut deeply. Prices in every instance VERY EASY TERMS, ALLOWANCE FOR OLD PIANOS ALSO SPECIAL VALUES IN RADIOS and COMBINATIONS We have dozens of fine floor sample and slightly used sets on sale at substantial reduc- tions. Choice of many makes. ARTHUR popular models in good JORDAN PIANO COMPANY Comer I3%&Gists - National 3223 —A. P. Wirephoto. labor, rules will have to be changed. Educational leaders, including Mr. Jager, cannot see the advantage of accelerating high school courses. In the first place, they say, a large per- centage of high school graduates never go to college. In the second place, employers are not likely to want 16-year-olds for work of any consequence, and in the third place, even under best conditions, many students have too short an exposure to education. There is no sense in hastening failure, these educators say. A 16-year-old out of school, un- able to get a job, unable because of priorities and material shortages to get a tennis ball or a golf ball with which to play, unable to find space in which to play, becomes a juvenile problem. Of course, it is pointed out, certain selected high school students can have their educational tempo step- ped up if they desire it, and this places an especially important guid- ance problem on the teachers. They must see that these pupils are care- fully selected and directed toward the proper educational exits. In the case of the universities and colleges, it always has been possible for students in most institutions to | finish early through summer study. The fundamental change for the | colleges announcing accelerated programs will be the maintenance of full summer facilities and a longer summer program. Among the coleges already an- nouncing accelerated programs are the University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins, Wilson Teachers College, Georgetown, Catholic University, Western Maryland, Loyola of Bal- timore, Washington and Lee, Emory D. C, and Henry, University of California, Xavier University, six teachers’ col- leges in New Jersey, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cern gate, City College of New York, and Oberlin. One of the problems arising be- tween college and their students is the question of credit for military service. England has developed a war-time degree which carries less prestige than the regular degree, but under which military service counts & little less than half of the number of credits required, ac- cording to Dr. Lund. This country’s institutions have agreed to count military service only wehere the student asks that it be counted and to issue the degree only in cases where the student meets certain tests. For teachers, accelerated pro- grams will place them on a 12- month rather than a 10-month basis. The problem of physical strain and additional compensation is raised in this change, and many institutions running close to the line financially may not be able to stand the additional expense. Non-war research projects probably will be eliminated to give instructors more teaching time. The man who taught half time and spent the other half looking into the derivatives of the adverb will become a full-time teacher, Dr. Lund says. ‘The financial problem presented many institutions by increased sala- ries and by decreasing enrollments because prospective students are called to military service raises the issue of Federal aid. This will be handled by the Office of Education, as tactfully as possible, to avoid any suggestion of Federal control of education. In the same manner that engi- neering and vocational courses were subsidized before the war, Federal aid will be used to help institutions meet some of their financial diffi- culties. Many proud private insti- tutions are now unwilling to accept the precedent of Federal aid. War is being felt on the college campuses in a number of smaller ways. Materials for laboratory ex- periments are scarce and this re- quires doubling up in the work. It is difficult, in some instances, even to replace broken crockery in college mess halls. Easter vacation trips to Washington are being canceled. But despite the emphasis on pre- paring for war, neither military nor college leaders are forgetting the post-war period. For this reason the basic liberal arts courses in the colleges will continue, regardless of additions of those subjects specifi- cally related to war and officer training. The basic study, it is hoped, will produce leaders with sense enough to keep the cycle of war from recurring. As an official put it: “We don't want to train the boys to win the war and then lose the | peace.” The Navy's plan, by which a stu- dent can join the reserves and still ocmplete most of his college course, works in two ways. College juniors and seniors may enlist in what is known as Class V-5 and be deferred from call to active duty until com- pletion of the current college year. Sophomores may enlist in Class V. JANUARY 25, 1942. and complete the second year before called. This class is for in- duction into naval aviation, how- ever, and because of the urgent need for men really provides only s few | ing months’ deferment. However, the Navy also wants 7,000 seniors and 7,000 juniors for officer training, and these men will be allowed to complete their four- year course before they are called to active duty. This class is V-7. The Marine Corps needs approxi- mately 3,000 seniors, 2,000 juniors and 500 sophomores under circum- stances similar to those for the Navy. Marine officers will go to colleges in February and March to explain the plan and advise appli- cants, Included on the wartime com- mission, headed by United States ‘Commissioner of Education John W. Studebaker, already mentioned are: Bess Goody- koontz, - assistant _commissioner of education; Selma Borchard, District school teacher representing the American Federation of Teachers; Francis J. Brown, executive secre- tary of the subcommittee on mili- tary affairs of the National Com- mittee on Education and Defense; Morse A. Cartwright, director of the American Association of Adult Edu- cation; Francis S. Chase, executive secretary of the Virginia educa- tion Association and reprgsent- ative of the National Association of Secretaries of State Teachers’ Asso- ciations; John W. Davis, president of West Virginia State College, rep- resenting the Conference of Negro Land Grant Colleges; L. H. Dennis, executive secretary of the American ‘Vocational Asociation and secretary of the National Committee on Edu- cation and Defense; Ralph M. Dun- bar, chief of the library service division and secretary of the special committee of the American Library Association on Defense; Walter C. Eells, executive secretary of the American _ Association of Junior Colleges; Paul E. Elicker, executive secretary of the National Associ- ation of Secondary School Princi- pals; Guy Stanton Ford, executive secretary of the American Historical Association representing the Na- tional Association of State Univer- sities; Willard E. Givens, executive secretary of the National Education Assoclation; Ralph Himstead, execu- tive secretary of the American Asso- ciation of University Professors; H. V. Holloway, secretary of the Na- tional Council of Chief State School Officers; C. B. Hoover of Duke Uni- versity, representing the Association of American Universities; the Rev. George Johnson, director of the Department of Education of the Na- tional Catholic Welfare Conference; Mary E. Leeper, executive secretary of the Association for Childhood Education, and W. A. Lloyd, infor- mation director of the Association 1716 14th St. N.W. NOrth 9300 in addition to those | of of Land Grant Colleges and Uni- versiiies. ¥ Howard H. Long, sssistant super- intendent of schools here, represent- the American Teachers’ Asso- ciation; Eva Pinkston, executive sec- retary, Elementary School Princi- pals’ Department of the N. E. A.; Frederick L. Redefer, director, Pro- gressive Education Association; 8.D. Shankland, secretary, American As- sociation of School Administrators; John J. Seidel, State director of vocational education, Maryland, and president American Vocational As- sociation; Guy E. Snavely, executive director, Association of American Col- leges; A. P.Stoddard, superintendent {of schools, Philadelphia, and chair- man Educational Policies Commis. sion (William Carr as alternate); Charles H. Thompson, dean of the college of liberal arts, Howard Uni- versity, representing the Association Colleges and Secondary Schools for Negroes; Edna Van Horn, execu- tive secretary, American Home Eco- nomics Association; J. C. Wright, assistant United States commis- sioner of vocational education, and George F. Zook, president, American Council on Education and co-chair- man National Committee on Educa- tion and Defense. Geological Society To Hear Three Speakers “The Oil Outlook in This War” will be discussed by John W. Frey at a meeting of the Geological So- ciety of Washington at 8 pm. Wed- nesday in the assembly hall of the Cosmos Club, Madison place and H street N'W. The public is invited. Others who will speak and their subjects are E. B. 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