Evening star., 1942-08-28


Specifically, he asked the enlist
ment of all elementary school chill
dren in a salvage campaign-to
scour backyards and attics for
iron, rubber and other vital mate
rials. He also urged students to aid
the Treasury victory savings cam
paign. Every high school teacher
should qualify himself to counsel
with his students so the best ca
pacity of his students may be de-
veloped for the Nations service, Mr..
McNutt said.
Mr.. McNutt's address was broad
cast by recording to the gathering of
educators.
To-day the Nation needs pilots,
mechanics, nurses, navigators, engi-
neers, DOCTORS" Mr.. McNutt said.
There will be no time for man to
feel his way. There is no excuse
for any young man or woman to be
in college preparing for any profess
sion not directly useful to the war
effort.
Reserve Program Begun.
Through the ROTC and through
student loans to accelerate training
in certain technical fields, we have
the beginning of a national college
war reservist program. I hope to
see this expanded to the point that
every college student is formally en-
rolled as a reservist."
Mr.. McNutt emphasized that
teacher should stay at his post un-
less drafted for work of higher pri-
ority rating. Education, he said, can
help shorten the distance to VIC
tory. He pointed out that very few
soldiers visited their high schools
in the first World War, because only
4 per cent of the doughboys of 1917
had completed high school, as COM
pared with the fact that Al per cent
of the present Army are high school
graduates.
I'm 1917 a high school mathe-
matics course was no particular help
to man carrying rifle" Mr.. Nc
Mutt said. But today's Army is an
Army of experts-trained for spe-
cial jobs. Both the Army and Navy
right now are crying for skilled me-
chanics, engineers and radio tech
nlclanS. War industries also are
crying for trained men and women"
Mr.. McNutt paid tribute to the
contribution made by educators to
the Nations war effort, adding that
teachers served as registrars for
selective service and rationing pro-
cedures. Few people know, he said,
That more than $500 vocational
schools have trained some 5000 900
men and women for work in war in
dustries and that special training
has greatly increased the effective
usefulness OF more than a half
million engineers, physicists, chem
lists and management experts.
Women Workers Needed.
The Federal Government is not
and will not be haven for draft
dodgers" Commissioner Arthur S.
Flemming OF the Civil Service Com
mission told the delegates. He
pointed out that the Government
today is making requirements at a
rate OF l,750,Q00 year, as contrasted
with 10000 replacements in a nor
NAL year.
Government, as an employer of
1900, 900 persons, Mr.. Flemming said.
is faced with the necessity Cf using
more and more women in Govern
ment jobs, even if some appointive
officers are utterly unrealistic" in
employing women. He said educa-
tional leaders would have to readjust
their thinking in the training of
students. He emphasized that the
quality OF supervisory personnel in
Government needs improving.
DR.. Joseph w. Barker, special as
sistant to the Secretary of the
Navy said the entire system of ed
ucation would have to be integrated
into the war program. He made an
appeal for the stressing of physical
fitness of students, adding that
classroom training emphasis should
be placed on mathematics and
physics.
Labor Shortages Noted.
Fowler Harper, deputy chairman
OF war ManpoWer Commission, told
delegates that the Nations total
labor supply, including the armed
forces, is 100000 men and wom-
en-. In order to maintain and reach
production goals by 1943, he said it
will be necessary to add 100000
more persons to our labor forces.
More women must be brought into
industry, the professions and skilled
trades, he said, adding that 13,00O,-
600 women now are employed in
essential and non-essential indus
try. He pointed out there are labor
shortages in IS major industrial
areas.
The purpose of the conference is
to enable the armed services and
Government to "sit down for four
| days with key people in education
to discuss the more effective use in
the war program of a school, army