The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-29


ment was made today Of the FORM
alton Of the American Association
for an International Once for Edu.
cation consisting Of leaders in the
fields Of industry. labor, religious
organizations Of Catholic, Jewish
and Protestant faiths, service clubs
and educational groups to secure
public support for the establishment
Of an International Once for Edu-
cation as an essential instrument
for an enduring peace.
Onlcers Announced
Onlcers Of the Association are
Chairman, DR.. Harlow Shapley
Harvard College Observatory; vice.
chairmen, James Marshall, New
York City Board of Education,
Monsignor George johnson, Cath
ole University of America; treas
urer, Sylvan L. Joseph, former
Regional Director o. p. A. The COM
mittee includes Dean Grayson M.
Kefauver, chairman of the Inter-
national Educational Assembly, who
has recently joined the State De-
partment as consultant assigned to
work on the problem of education
al reconstruction, and Owen D.
Young, General Electric Company;
DR.. Samuel McCrea Cavert, Federal
Council of Churches of Christ in
America; Charles Johnson, Grand
Secretary, Grand Lodge Of the
Free & Accepted Masons, New
York; Mrs. Henry A. Ingraham,
president The National Board
Young Women's Christian Associa-
tons; Varian Fry, executive secre-
tary American Labor Conference
on International Affairs; Henry I.
Hartman, New England Power AS
ISOLATION: Mrs. Ruth Bryan Rohde,
former U. S. Minister to Denmark;
DR.. Wilfred Parsons, ST., Catholic
University of America; Ebert D.
Thomas, Senior U. s. Senator from
Utah; Joseph Clark Baldwin, Con-
gresham, New York; DR.. Louis
Finkelstein, president, jewish Theo-
logical Seminary of America: DR..
Reinhold Neibuhr, Union Theolog-
ical Seminary; Clinton Golden,
Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tons; Miss Selma M. Borchardt,
American Federation of Teachers;
DR.. Alfred Simpson, Harvard Grad
uate School of Education; DR.. Alex
ander j. Stoddard, Superintendent
of Schools, Philadelphia, Pa, and
chairman, Educational Policies Com
mission: Mark Starr, Educational,
Director International Ladies Gar
ment Workers Union; Miss Bess
Bloodworth, Member Women,s Adj
visory Committee to War Man.
power Commission; William l..
White. author; j. Raymond Walsh.
Director Department OF Education
and Research Congress of industrial
Organizations; Louis Adamic, au-
thor: DR.. Karl Menninger, Mennin-
ger Sanitarium, Topeka, Kansas; A.
Philip Randolph, International
President Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters; DR.. Henry A. Atkin-
son. Church Peace Union; Dorothy
Canheld Fischer, author.
Statement Issued
In q statement explaining its pur-
poses, the Association declared that
"An international organization for
education with a permanent secre-
tariat-an international education
Office-can be an instrument to Gre
ate healthier relationships between
people and through them between
nations. 1t can materially contribute
to tie peace Of the world by help
ing to improve educational stand
ards, to clarity educational aims and
to foster intercultural fellowship
and understanding.
"No peace program" 1t goes on to
say will be complete which fails to
place education on a parity with
political organization, police, dis
tribution Of raw materials, the stab
ilization Of currencies and raising
standards of health. Such things
can be pacifiers but they cannot
bring peace unless the peoples who
support them are imbued with ethi-
cal ends, unless they can shed a
large part of their aggressive spirit
and learn to be cooperative. Educa-
ton, teachers, school are the process,
the personnel and the institutions
which must in large measure bring
this about If there Is to be any hope
for an enduring peace"
Following Purposes
An International ONCE for Edu-
cation, the Association declares, will
be able to serve the following pur-
poses. Il. 1t can prepare and recon-
mend minimum standards at all
educational levels. 2. 1t can on re-
quest give expert advice on schools
and school systems in all parts Of
the world. 3. 1t can recommend and
supervise the distribution Of funds
to repair devastated school systems
and universities and stimulate new
ones II the United Nations deter
mine upon policy of relief and re-
Mobilization of schools. 4. 1t can
assume leadership in assisting the
nations to meet through adult edu-
cation the problems Of adjusting
demobilized armed forces and the
people in war industries and in the
resettlement Of refugees. S. It can
provide O center for the exchange
of experiences and techniques in the
field Of education and cultural rela-
lions. 6. It can facilitate the inter-
national exchange Of students, pro-
fessors, scientists and artists. Z. It
can set up schools for administra-
tors and teachers, to train personnel
for those countries which after the
war will be inadequately stated and
which will not at first be able to
set up their own schools for admin
istrators and teachers or have the
background for such an enterprise.
9. It can create commissions to pre-
pare curriculum materials to bring
about better international attitude