Evening star., 1942-08-30
High Schools Urged
To Prepare Boys for
Possible War Service
Educators Told by Kuter,
Rodford to Touehen Youth,
Stress Mathematics

SIfeSS MotnemotICS
Americas plans for long, tough
war makes it necessary to depend
on high school boys as a $780, 1000
reservoir of military manpower,
Brig. Gen. Lawrence F. Kuter, de-
putty chief of staff OF the Army Air
Forces, said last night.
Gen. Kuter joined Capt. A. w.
Radford, the Nays director OF
aviation training, In telling dele
gates to the National Institute on
Education and the War that sec
ondary schools must furnish back
ground Of mathematics and enable
the armed forces to teach recruits
modern warfare. Both speakers said
educators must begin this fall to
gear school facilities and instruc-
ton to military needs.
It was emphasized by Gen. Kuter
and Capt. Radford that schools
must prepare students for participa-
ton in the war.
I'VE hope we won't need them. but
1t is the only prudent course to
take" Gen. kuter SAID.
"All Of our training and our plans
for employment are based on pre-
cision manufacture, precision flying,
precision navigation, precision gun
merry and precision bombing. If the
blasting of English cities by the
Luftwaffe didn't bring England to
her knees, how can the Army Air
Force expect to defeat the Ger
mans? The answer is in precision
and planning"
No "Slum Clearance" Projects.
Flying fortresses did not go out
last week on "slum clearance "oj-
ect at Rouen, Abbeville or Amiens,
and "our plans are not slum clear
ance plans for Berlin or Toxic"
Gen. Kuter said. Declaring that
America knows what makes the Ger
man and Japanese war machine
tick, he added that practicable
number Of / and 2 ton bombs, ap-
piled with precision on properly Sc
lected spots. will stop that tick
ing for long, long time"
we would have more time for
that specialized training which
spells the margin between life and
death, victory or defeat in aerial
warfare If we did not have to
spend time In reviewing the ele-
mentary phases of such subjects as
mathematics and physics, which
can be taught IN our public schools,
he continued. e..
America needs many teams of
Kellys and Levines, Arnolds and
Stratemeyers, Spaatz and Eakers,
Butch OIIaras and Bulkleys to win
the war, Gen. Kuter said, in point
ing out that Meyer Levine Of Brook
lyn was the bombardier who ac-,
tually sank the japanese battleship
Haruna during the attack in which
Pilot Colin Kelly was killed.
Must Fight Our Way Out.
Gen., Kuter predicted further
crippling OF Germany's war produc-
tion through Raj saturation bomb
ing by night and United State heavy
bombers knocking out localized
strategic targets during the siAy.
"At first we may have thcneht.
We could buy our way out ~ N1is'
war" Gen. Kuter said. Then We
got the idea we could produce our
way out, but now 1t is beginning to
dawn on the american people we
must fight our way out Of It. It is
an all-out war, q war to the finish
the finish Of the dictatorx or the
fnish Of the democracies. Our
democratic schools have q major
role to play In our bid for q demo-
cratic. world In which to continue
to live
Capt. Radford urged school heads
to stress athletics and toughening
Of the body as an adjunct to de-
velopment OF the mind. Like the
Army, the Navy found high school
graduates who did not know inathe-
nnatics, he said. These young men
came to the armed services clean in
mind and healthy In body, but the
future crop also must have technical
training, he added.
"The aviator Of today" Capt.
Radford emphasized, must be pre-
pared to fly at 400 miles an hour
and make split-second decisions that
may be decisive. There can be no
pause for reflections In an air battle,
nor can refiexes be sluggish.
Physical Stamina Needed.
Moral stamina which teachers
inculcate In their pupils must be
reinforced with physical stamina,
or the failure of the one will weaken
the other, Capt. Radford said. 1--WE
do not want supermen, nor do We
want weaklings-we want just nor
NAL, manly youngsters. eager to
serve their country in the skies"
The frst task of educators, he
concluded, is to continue giving us
and the Nation young men OF great
heart and purpose, eager to learn
and ready to defend the ideals OF
Americanism ct. Without this
which they imbibe from you, our
training can do little"
Their addresses in South Interior
Auditorium, 10th and c streets NV.
marked the end of the second day.
session of the educational confer
ence attended by 800 representative:
from nearly every State.
The third days session will be
resumed at pm, today at the
American University, with numerou!
symposiums to be held on the rolf
education must play to help achieve
victory. Speakers at tonight's ses'
sion at 8 o'clock will be Chairman
Thomas Of the Senate Committe.
on Education and Labor and Elmel
Davis, director Of the ONCE OF Wa
Information. An address by Pric'
Administrator Leon Henderson vii
be the feature of the concluding ses
sion tomorrow afternoon.
Nursery