Evening star., 1949-09-30

concentration camps in German dominated
areas but not in actual warfare.
America is not the only country with
physicists developing atomic energy. When
was in high school in Vienna l930-1934),
I studied the theoretical part on the split
ting Of the atom and it's scientific use.
Now that the world knows that the USSR
also has developed the A-bomb. some nations
propagandiZe the fact that they can pro-
duce 1t on a larger scale. These same ma
tions likewise insist that their planes are
superior in number and power and endur-
ance to those Of the Russians. But what
actually do we know of Russian air power?
Not any more than the Russians want us to
know about it!
In and during the -Bessarabian war
Northeastern Romania) in the mid-30s the
Russians used what the German and Aus
trian newspapers called "f1iegende festun-
gen" (fying castles or fortresses), with
which the Russian forces dropped h-ton
tanks by parachute. These planes had very
strong arnor and were found to be impreg-
nable by the shells of Romanian anti-air-
craft.
What factual knowledge do we possess
that the Russians today do not have more
and larger planes than the United States
has at this time?
It is easy to talk about what we ought to
have and what we may have But doesn't it
seem unwise just now to try to bluff another
nation more than twice our area and with a
population 80 per cent higher than ours?
II we stop stressing our manufacture of
planes and atomic energy for use in war, I
am sure that the other nations will do like
wise. Only through emphasizing peace and
peace1ul relations can peace be preserved in
this world. WILLIAM OSTEN.
Sounds Something Like "Gulliver's Travels"
This Description of Clearing Assembly Hall
To the Editor of the Star:
Listen. my children, and you shall hear of
Operations Assembly in school so over
crowded the children attend in relays. At
the assembly period, however, all shifts are
present and accounted for.
Now in the average school, circa 1949
where overcrowding is no more than 10 or
20 per cent and all the eager youth who
would drink of the Pierian spring can be
Jammed into the claSSroomS, the auditorium
is used only for assemblies. So when an as
sembly is called, the students assemble, and
that's that. Not SO in School Relay.
In School Relay, it goes like this: The
cadet instructor wants an assembly of boys
He asks the assembly chairman for date
She gives him a date, and then her troubles
begin.
She must clear the assembly hall Six
ScCtlOuS Jake refuge GIeTe NOME
room period. She cannot send them to
vacant rooms. If there were any such speci-
men at School Relay, the poor little assembly
hall sections would not have been assembly
hall sections in the first place. And no
rooms will be vacated by this assembly
because only boys go. and no section is
composed entirely of boys, the sun of con-
temporary pedagogical philosophy beaming
warmly on co-education for the nonce And
she cannot send the dispossessed sections
to the gym because the gym. too. is home
room for four or five sections nor to the
library because-yes, you guessed it-that
4 also shelters homeroom sections.
So the assembly sections must be split
up so that the girls are sent to various
sections in the same numbers as boys are
taken from these sections. Each homeroom
teacher of an assembly section must be
notified where her girls are to 60. Each
homeroom teacher who Is to receive girls
E must likewise be so notified. To effect all
this notification, the assembly chairman
must take her pen IN hand to frame notes
to 20 of her co-workers.
Twenty two notes must be written just
to clear the hall so that an assembly can
be held! THE CHAIRMAN.