Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1941 — Page 21

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National Emergency Reverses Traditional Philosophy of hi

U. S. Educational System;

Skills May Be Unwanted

After Condition Has Changed, Officials Admit.

By EARL HOFF | |

The defense training program, now going at top speed |: in 41 Indiana cities, is shaping a ney philosophy in public:

education.

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That philosophy is “train the nn for the State.” It is a philosophy that has farireaching implications.

but Department of Vocational Education officials here say it is dictated by the national

emergency.

The philosophy of the defense program is to. train men in very specific, narrow fields so they can immediately become useful in defense industry. No longer is there emphasis on developing completely rounded machinists. It’s:placed rather on .operators of particular machines.

Officials admit that when the emergency is over, those who found jobs through the training program may find themselves masters of an unwanted skill.

Cite Auto Plants

But they protest private industry has been doing this for a long time and cite the example of automobile plants, where workers on assembly lines have very limited training. To protect their own security, workers who have been absorbed into industry through emergency training should seek additional training to broaden their knowledge beyond the immediate .demands of the Government, defense officials warn,

They argue that the man who

. knows only how to operate one ma-

chine vital only in a war industry, is almost certain to be the first to go when peace-time production again becomes the keynote. Emphasis was placed on the fact that men are to be trained for the benefit of “the State” rather than to their own advantage (the reverse of public education’s usual theme) for the first time last week when an official of the National Department of Education conferred with local officials. But .to defense training officials, there are more important questions than what will happen after the big push.” Those questions revolve around the problem of supply and demand.

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Six thd usand men have beer trained in Indiana since last July and | 3000 now are receiving in. struction, But still the demaiid exceeds the supply.

Where will the workers for the proposed propeller plant in Indianapplis/| come from? How about the employees needed for the new Naval ordnance plant? The Allison ‘En ngineering Division .is | expanding/ Where will du Pont get workers for the Charlestown powder factory?! The hundreds of carpenters busy there now must look for other building jobs when comnstruction lends at Charlestown, and they don’t khiow how to make powder. The problems are realistic ones. . How defense training officials intent to | meet those problems wos demonstrated here this week 2s four | ‘high schools, Tech, Washington, |Manual and Crispus Attucks, went| orl a 24-hour schedule Ww ita addition| of after-midnight classes.

Ch-Ordinated by State

| Five other Hoosier cities are on around-the-clock schedules. Five phases of the training progran are now in operation in Indiang, all co-ordinated by the Sia e Department of Vocational Education.| |

The largest is the regular defense program with no Federal reir on the spending from a reservoir of $26, 000, 000. The rule is “train ¢s many nien as are necessary for the work." le skcond is a schedule of equipmen} for which $8,000,000 has been set pside. A large order has just gone in to Washington for Hoosier schaols, at least part of which officials here expect to be filled,

| Funds for Schools The ment of funds to three Indiana engineering schools, Purdue, Rose Poly and Notre Dame. The fourth is an| dut-of-school youth program for whith $186,000 has been allotted to Indig na. A total of $180,000 is available in Indiana for the fifth program. This is for introducing NYA workers Zo

which. they seem to be fitted. Ther is greater pressure for ifraining | industrial workers in this emergency than for the last World War ‘bécausg warfare has become more complex mechanically. Where it took two men behind the lines [to keep one jn the trenches in 1918] the ratio now is 18 to ore defense officials say.

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|Bill Asks Reforestation of Strip Mine Properties)

By JOE COLLIER A guarantee that Indisna’s future generations will inherit a

series of small lakes with wooded banks and not ugly and useless stony craters in ‘he strip coal mine area is contained jn a hill now before the Legislature. The bill, sponsored by the Conservation Departme nt, arid drawn up with the co-op eration of the coal companies erigagediin strip mining, provides for the reforestation of the craters left af ‘ter giant shovels removed top dirt to coal

| seams and the coal is removed. third program is an allo- |

Coal companies and the Conservation Departinent have for years been developing a technique for reforestating these craters, a project that most foresters. and conservation people at | first believed impossible. |

Lakes Stocked With Game

Since 1918, about 81,865,027 tons of coal have been taken by the strip method from a] total of 18,886 acres mined. This was in eight principal stiip mining counties—Clay, Greene, Owen, Pike, Sullivan, Vermillion, Vigo and Warrick. Some craters already have been wooded and now constifute pleasant little lakes which have been stocked with gare fish, This bill, shold it | become a law, would require strip coal companies to post g bond of $30 for each acre stripped as g guarantee that the compariy woui id, after all coal had been mined, plant the banks of the craters with conifers or hardwoods.

Planted 4 Years Later

The bill provides tha the planting should be d¢ne no barlier than four nor later tlian six years after mining operations have been completed. It takes abouf four years for the craters| to wether down and settle. If the compenies, for any reason, did not plant the craters by six years, the 330 borid would he forfeited to the Stale Forester, who would then move in and plant them. Conifer trees cost Jot $10 a thousand and hardwoods about $5 a thousand. An adequate plant-

and a man caji plant upwards. of 300 trees a day. Thus, the $30 an acre would leave the Forestry Department a little leeway.

Fees Pay for Inspection

The bill als¢ provides for a sliding scale fee to be paid by the operating con pdnies according to the size of projects to be undertaken. Conservation officials believe that these fees will be enough to pay for the inspections of plantings made by the companies, to see¢ that they are adeuate. In ‘additioii to these, the bill would provid: that the companies go back ang plant| craters created by former.opetations at the rate of 1 per cent ¢f the acreage stripped after the. bill became a law. In this way, conservation men hope that all stripped lahd eventually will be planted at the expense of | the Ope; ‘ating companies. Recreation, watep- saving and flood control all are by-products of the refo ‘estation, sealing and

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daming of strip mine craters. Another bill, sponsored by the Indiana Tax Committee, would fix taxes paid by the operating. com=panies so as to guarantee a rate after operations comparable to the rate existing when companies are in operation. This bill would increase the taxes paid by operating companies and is designed as a stabilizing measure.

DIES WHILE JOKING

Ollie W. Stivers, supply house worker at the Monon Railroad roundhouse, 1103 E. 28th St., was joking ‘with fellow workers shortly after last midnight when he suddenly fell dead. The coroner’s office attributed death to hedrt disease. Mr. Stivers was 62 and lived at

VITAL TO NATION

Hardwaremen Told " Be Ready for Widening U. S. Horizons.

What happens to business in the United States after the war in Europe is over depends on American initiative, according to G. A. Bryant president of the : Bryant Machinery & Engineering Co., Chicago, Ill “Business - promises to be an intense bureau of activity in the next few years, which, in the long run, will not be for the good of : our country,” Mr. Bryant said. Individual American initiative will de-. cide what the condition of business and our daily lives will be, he stated. Mr, Bryant, who met with defense

officials in Washington recently to

discuss the problems of American defense, addressed 500 members attending the 42d annual convention luncheon of the Indiana Retail Hardware Association, Inc. in the

{Murat Temple yesterday.

‘Be Prepared’ He is past president of the Associated Machine Tool Dealers of America and spoke on “Be Preparegl —For Widening Horizens.” Mr. Bryant said that the effect of the present war on business will be much greater than the one in 1918 because of the highly mechanized operation of the one now going on. He spoke of the dangers of the present business boom after the wat is over and described that boom as a “necessary evil.” He told the hardware dealers that it “is essential to understand the underlying factors in the situation . what confronts you and what will affect you.

Reduced to 3 Things

These can be reduced to three things,” he said. “They are that the tempo of business will be governed on how the war ends, that it will be governed by our national policy, and, most important, ‘that what comes later depends on individual American initiative.” Mr. Bryant said that it is ridiculous to believe that Americans can go no farther in the improvement of business. “Things we have today will be obsolete in years to come,” he said. “There will be new markets and new ideas. We should prepare for horizons of opportunity y2that will surpass anything we've ever attained before.” The hardware dealers and distributors were to meet today at 9:30 a. m. in the second session of the convention at the Murat Temple. Four speakers were to address to-

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Opens = Medicine Forum—Maj. I. F. Peats, Medical Corps, adviser to the Indiana University. R. O. T. C., will speak Friday night to the I. U. Medical School Faculty. Forum in the first of a series of lectures on medicine for service units. All physicians in Indiana may attend the forum in the Medical Schoo! here.

Club to Hear Helms — Richard Helms, national advertising manager of The Indianapolis Times and a former United Press correspondent in Europe, will address the Optimist Club Friday noon at the Columbisg, Club. Mr. Helms will discuss his work in Berlin,

Honer Howe Teacher—The Howe High School faculty today presented a portable radio to Frank E. Noffke, mathematics teacher who will begin a year’s active duty in the Army Saturday, at a luncheon at the school. Principal C. M. Sharp presided. Arrangements were in charge of Mrs. Mildred Loew, chairman; Miss Ruby Lou Lillard, Miss Eva Abbott, Mrs. Madge Temperly, E. A. Patterson and Darrell Gooch.

Organizations

Bake Sale Planned—The Republican Auxiliary .to the 14-40 Party Club in Wayne Township, outside, will sponsor a bake sale tomorrow at the Sears Roebuck store, 333 N. Alabama St. The sale will last from 9:30 a. m. until. 9 p. m: Mrs. Clyde Barker is chairman.

Townsend Club 4 to Meet—Belmont Townsend Club 4 will meet at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow in Brown's Hall, 2621 W. Washington St.

Townsend Club Plans Party— Townsend Ciub No. 21 will hold a card party tomorrow night at the McKinley Club, 2117 E. Michigan St.

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John Mason Brawn, drama critic of the New York Evening Post and one of the foremost lecturers on the theatre, will speak at the Indianapolis Open Forum at 8:15 p. m. Sunday at the Kirshbaum Community Center, 23d and Meridian Sts. His subject will be “Broadway in Review.” This will be the fourth lecture in the 15th annual Forum series, Mr. Brown, who has written several books on the theatre, staged plays in the attic of his home when a boy. He attended Harvard University, was president of the Dramatic Club there and edited a volume of miracle plays. He wrote and acted and began his drama criticism for the Harvard Crimson. Mrs. David Lurvey, chairman of the Open Forum managing committee, will preside at the lecture. Other members of the committee in charge ar Milton Abrahamson, Dr. Ebner Blatt, Maurice Block, Theodore Dann, Richard Effoymson, Robert Efroymson, Isidore Feibleman, Ernest Fisher, Mortimer Furscott, Mrs. J. A. Goodman, L. L. Goodman, Tevie Jacobs, Jack Kammins, J. J. Kiser, Dr. Bennett Kraft, Mrs. Samuel Kroot, J. L. Mueller, Dr. Bernard Rosenak, Mrs. David Sablosky, William Schloss, Dr. Louis Segar, Mrs. J. B. Solomon and Allan Bloom, general secretary.

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