The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-09
BY HOMER W. ANDERSON

Formally enrolled or not eeaeh- CTS end pupils deserve credit, They are tackllng the War Sav- angS job with Q for-the-dWration spirit which win make the results snowfall as tho need for doing with- out grows, We hope to report this summer that AmericaS school chil- clren have invested $500, 100000 in War Stamps and Bonds during the school year,
 Volume Trlpled
 Even though $S00,0O0,OO0 Is about three times last years figure, we are confident the schools can attain 1t. From oil corners of the country, schools write to the Education Sec- ton of the War Savings Stan that War Bond and stamp goals for the entire year arc being reached in Q single term, This is just as true of the metropolitan school that aims for Q $500, 900 bomber as its goal in War Savings, aS it is of the one- room school that accompliSheS just as much when its savings equal the cost of "walkie-talkle,"
 Your schools will soon exhibit thesr Schools at War scrapbooks. Go Co see them. See what the schools of your community have contributed to the war effort. It will alalse you proud, Enrolled schools 9ill he eligible for Q certificate of servlce from the Secretary of Treas- lEy. All will deserve your thanks for . job well started.
 There Is an up beat In the tempo of school War Savings everywhere. It shows that teachers and pupils are well aware that their reports to you through the ScholoS At War Scrapbooks Is but an early phase in their War Savings effort. The Schools At War program Is a pro- gram for the duration, and its ef- fleets will carry far beyond.
 l0.OoO Jeeps Is Goal
 The Education Section of the War Savings Stan is launching a campaign to mark Minute Man Day on April l9, the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord. It should provide a new rallying point for the schools to dramatize what they can do for the country. We believe that be- fore that date school children can "buy"-that is, invest the equivalent of the cost of 10000 jeeps and 100 war planes. This is in addition to the projects schools now have under way. or the projects which will be completed after April l9.
 Such Q record would be a fitting tribute to the Minute Man of i776, who symbolizes the War Savings program today. We are counting on school. local and state War Savings committees to continue their valiant work by making good on this pre- diction.
 The Schools at War program calls for both dollars and sense. Our goal is to have the youth of America understand the personal and national significance of War Savings. The tangible measure of our success and the tangible meas- ure of youths willingness to post pone spending is investment in War Stamps and Bonds.
 The record so far is good, but its improvement and maintenance at high level will rest on the un- derstanding. in personal sort of way, of how dime spent needless ly now pOstp0nes payment on five .45 caliber cartridges. Young folk need to know that earners of new income. as many of them are, boost prices hardest when they spend it in competition for scarce goods. Youngsters need to know these things and educators and parents need to be reminded of them.
 The schools can rightly be proud of their growing effort to carry out the War Savings program, because it is national policy calling for the widest possible democratic shar- ing. Indeed the Schools at War pro- gram of the War Savings Stan has been created in recognition of the fact that . democracy expresses it. self through It's educational prac- tices.