Evening star., 1942-11-08

letters from and women who ask where they can be
trained for service in another war torn land.
For some time groups of Americans and refugees in
New York have been working plans for the reeduca
tion Of Germany after Htlers defeat Some of these
people feel that thousands of teachers will be needed
in Germany to help overhaul its mentality that it
will not again plunge the whole world into
Recently Pearl Buck who knows the Orient as other
American out in favor of extending Passage Back
proposal to Japan She calls attention the loyal Japanese
Americans in evacuation centers the Pacific Coast urging
they be trained - here, - for future governors admin
istrators and democratic leaders of postwar Japan.
The Department of Agriculture has long been storing
food seeds and fertilizer for eventual in the Old World
The Board of Economic Warfare headed by VicePesdent
Wallace has plans for stats of experts who will follow the
invading armies and take prompt steps tackle the economic
they will find in the wake of the retreatng Nazis
Step Wexld Wax M
Dur many people, looking grimy toward their postwar
jobs abroad feel will not be enough merely to relieve mme
date distress and give financial aid and advice Why bother
this generation of Europeans they ask if cannot
do something that will keep the generation from blowing
up another war? Americans who going abroad relief
workers should be equipped with technique to influence the
future organization of the world
Many universities colleges and schools want to train these
people few have already begun their programs experiment
tally; many others will start such programs soon.
At Smith College plan afoot to train for teaching posi-
tons postwar Poland the talented Amercanbon daugh
of Polish immigrant farmers who have settled in large
numbers in New England.
In August, Columbia University started postgraduate
to train administrators executives and other experts
for lifelong careers in postwar reconstruction
Fotyodd schools of social work all America in the
midst of campaign to get students who will prepare for
here abroad wherever their individual backgrounds
and special qualifications will be of greatest advantage
Programs for the training of reconstruction people
are being initiated also Yale Princeton Stanford Temple
New York and Bucknen Universities, the Massachusetts,
Institute of Technology the Universities of Iowa. Michigan
and Minnesota and Vassar, Kenyon Antioch and Obern
Colleges About Is Others appear to be on the verge
There lot of confusion about all this both in the
government and in the educational institutions In the
eminent there rivalry among the State. War and Agr
culture Departments and the Board of Economic Warfare
who will head up the reconstruction program In the
colleges, there is systematic unified plan for train
ing workers. But Washington officials with whom b
have talked from Vice-President Wallace down.
eager that the training of postwar relief workers begin
possible and, eventually, these efforts and
STRINGS will be co-ordinated and definite program
will be crystallized. mn
This will be accomplished believe, by the creation IN
of unofficial board This board will find out what sort
of personnel will be needed for reconstruction work
each country will then for its training by
our colleges devising crrca and techniques of instruction
Individual colleges will be asked to train workers for
single country Smith College, for instance will not be able
to all the teachers needed Poland Other colleges
will have to be assigned to the same project.
suggest that colleges and universities in and Chicago
where have large Czech and Polish groups, be given the
task of training personnel for Poland and Bohemia that