The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-10-23
Train Workers
After W. ar Ends
Specialists Give Plan for
Service Men and Those
In Industry.

NEW Neutrality-suspicious.
for training or retaining $4,000, 900
Americans, now in the armed serv-
ices or war industries to enable
them to resume their places in
peacetime industry at the end of the
war, were contained In a report by
q commission on postwar training
and adjustment published by the in
stitute of adult education of Teach
ers college, Columbia university.
The commission, composed Of As
specialists and educators, was set
up by the institute to make study
of postwar employment problems.
Publication Of its report followed a
six-day conference presided over by
George d. Strayer, professor of edu-
cation at Teachers college, and APP
proved by the wartime commission
of the United States office of edu-
cation. A copy Of the report will
be submitted to the latter body,
which may join in the findings.
Money Needed.
The principal immediate recon-
mendation of the commissions re-
port was for planning by local state
and federal agencies through local
councils and state and federal con-
ferences to develop a co-ordinated
program. While emphasis was put
on action by individual communi-
ties with the public schools as the
focal points of activity, 1t was point
ed out that federal funds would be
necessary to help finance any pro-
gram finally agreed upon, with both
Washington and state governments
playing part in it's realization.
Three principal groups of Amer
leans were seen in the report as
needing help in the postwar period:
Men and women discharged from
the armed services, displaced war
workers and the war-disabled, in
Guiding those injured in battle as
well as the victims Of accidents in
war industries and civilian defense
organizations.
The commission estimated that of
the $4,000, 1000 Americans who would
be in the fighting services or in war
industries before the conclusion Of
the war, $4,000, 900 to 10000, 900 will
be Gin a process of economic and
social change" when peace came.
Must Plan Now.
"The only way in which we can
hope to meet such an emergency
condition successfully is to plan for
meeting it now" the commission
declared. "Hasty efforts to deal
with it after peace has come will be
no more effective than a few dirt
levees hastily scraped up against a
flood that should have been con-
trolled and directed near its source.
The problem should be chiefly one
for community action"
The commission advocated that
preliminary guidance and training
be furnished by the army and navy
for men and women held in the
services after cessation of hostili-
ties. Similarly, it pointed out that
selective service and the United
States Employment service already
had responsibilities for placement
of returning service men. which
would continue.
The commission suggested that
the federal government not cancel
war contracts Immediately after
conclusion of the conflict but encour-
age war plants to complete their
contracts and use the period for
training of their employees for
peacetime work.
Members of the commission in
clude Harvey N. Davis, president of
Stevens Institute of Technology; L.
H. Dennis, executive secretary of
the American Vocational associa-
ton; Guy Stanton Ford, former
president of the University of Mime
sofa; Lillian NJ Gilbreth, professor
of management at Purdue univer-
sity, and Edwin A. Lee, dean of
the School of Education, Los
Angeles.