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ltlurnnig Daily (Founded 1n 1887)

President: 1.11111. c111. w: ChBSlQr s. Mo-Lnre- vn-e President: J. 1i. Burnett. FJ-l. Seen-tar): |.ii~ut. Col. D. A. ltlaclfilnnon. 9-5-0- Ilditur aiitl 31.111. ,,in;; Director, J. L. Burnett, F.J.l. Aiisoiiate liilitin-s; r- nk Walker and lfln A. Dime"

h‘! ll>1(‘ll1l"l'I()!\‘ RATES 3y 111,," 5,, |-_i»;_|__ ;;|.1 o pi-r year; $2.50 for 6 mnnthl. $1.23 fur months; 50c for one mouth Clty Delivery $5.00 per year; $3.00 for 6 months $1.75 fur 3 months 00c [or one Month By Mail tu other P-nvini-is and USA. $5.00 P" Y"? b-“LL-uuy- \\'\_\'kl_\ 0 pvr year; $1.00 for 6 monthl. - fur ll months

Th1». (‘liarluttclinin (lua 1:1 be 05ml"!!! l‘ llotalling‘: xi-irs .111-11~y. ‘limes Soil-H's. New York: 01d South News .\1.:l'1\l')', Corner Milk and WnhlnIl-on Boston; llctrnpnl 1 Non-s Agency, 1248 Peel 5L. Muntrc. ' J. l-‘ini- .251 ' S1,, Toronto: News Stand. (‘hateaii l.'1\\1l-‘.'l‘ .- .; Wolfe's- News Stand bub- bury Unt.: llub 1:1‘ .111-1.> $111111, Alnncton N. B.

Tfheibtronqest Mcmory is’ Weaker than the Weakest Ink." Min-RT‘. >111- EMBER 11. 1941!

Cuiiseimiliu-s Now As Ever

A C,,;.1',.,1,~,.,,¢ 1.; ,,;;..;'i'ii~i;1i Q1111s1-r1-ati1-cs met

a, 11,,“ “up; 1.1~ i.» 1l:~.-i1~< p.-licies; but not 1- e11I1;l1i1-i1i11.nt and gtntlaitce

. 1.18:1 11f findings on 111111-

1 111.11 111. 11nd these have been ~_ 1- ‘ 11 in L'1111~-_-rvative ltead- ._ 1111- 1-1~11~i4.-i-. ion 11y the 11111111411 t‘lli1l'('l'\' unofficial

. 11 1i-i-“ivlcss the Confer- 1 .- 11-11-111-11 to the extent that ht. llon. Arthur

~s1l to it a letter in the

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v --1~'. that y-otir dclibcrzitiotis .1...-1 t» 1111-. paritmouiit and over- . . '.-.'n 1115s subject has 1111011 our - 1' 1:'1 1551c lK-irty must, of course,

-.,1 111111, 111111, :15 it 11:15 S0 . 1.1m- tite lead i11 sensible and

111111-11 .- 11. “l1, 1 - 111111; lttl\\'(‘\'€l', is to throw the .~ 111111 this struggle to pre-

1-f t.1n.-11l.-1, to become

:1» il-tlf 1l1e instrtiinent .-.....i.;111 111114111: for war, to the .1 111-.~r1-n1111-, lit-fore it is too late, i ~~ 1111:1111 sitrrninttl and retard 1'. -~1- 111.1 {on is to forge into 1.11111 1111- single thought of 1:11 iviilly resolved to win this

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wgir, 1.». - 111-1: to die,

"l.11- 1 ~- 111w:- which you preside has t.1l..n 5 ‘.- 11f tl11-1-d11vi1-ti1111 of a num- 1111' 11f - ". 1~--.11--.‘. -l 1-i1i/1-11s that through its

1 1111-4111 b1- rcitdered to Cait- “it 1111s l1rnuglit about this itreous 111111 in no sense di- 111- i111l1-e1l by ntciuhers of

- 111-: 11;» .1'-cl11>c1l to nic I have ful- 11111-1-11 f: 11 ' . 1.1 115111 lively interest and am 11111re ll"lil 1 111 find that the response

1.1. l1.-ci1 widespread and 11l.-11.11-1~ is large hoyotid all i-iii-rfcrcil in no \v.'I_y with 111s 11111 1111156 who know, as l

do. the >111" ‘ c; "rnsliip of those now as- SClllltltitl at l'---.-' l111p1- will look with confidcitce for 1‘.~ttl'..1,i' \..' ‘i-y iiiir i-iiiiiiti-yr, ‘

Flt is 1111 » ._ 1.1 1-1-1-1111 the vital national princz11lt-s 11}. I: zi-Jviitiut for the Conservative l/"Ylfi i‘? "1- and 111111-11 have dominated its Cmmc-ls 1' .1111 11111‘ country -—-fi(lelity in letter aixl t‘...- 11111-1 of Confederation: “"511?- ‘ 1- lt-gisllttiott, in the fact-

Of 1111.-

_ s 1111111 without, of high stand- ards ot agr.

. 211111 labor; the preservation,

0r should l ~.'1y 111111; the restoration of our British i: 111111-1- 1.1‘ 11-111- iii;iitiiiioiis_ '-'1‘1,,..-,.1 ,.,.,-11. . 1 , ~- .. 1s .11 .... uiou, 111-11 one tradition-

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.. of the Conservative party which dcwi-vt-s sg-tt-izil inantion at this time; I15 (lfilCflllillllllttll (I-inrnln Should Cominue 1,, l"'.\'1'1l -'\“t'1""ll--1t \\‘I‘.l1 llritziin and the British Do- minion-. i- :1 iwli-litv which flows from our 11511-1‘) .1=11i 1.11.111 is 11111-1 important from the

11511111- 111' 11-1-‘11 our great races from earliest £11116‘. azitl ‘ has proved and is today helpful

to all our 1-‘1111 interests and particularly our dc.

fcnvc. "ll \‘ -- l‘ "i 11‘ t-111l1-\'t'\'<‘ and livc truc to this 111 t1.l1‘1_111.11l1 11-11 11s 111 the cariy 1t \‘...t' <1 11 zttilly unprepared in arms

morale and which 21C- '11, and inadcqtizitc rc- U1" -‘ "11Il1't'Xl'_1t‘llL‘l('S which have rtvqr. .1-1 1' -: ‘.11.; slinllows and miseries w-liicli

.1 in '1‘11l1yo in February is .~' 11f the Japanese people much ‘ '. ".\l1;ii1 l\';1n1pf" affected the 111-111110. The Japanese 11111 of the nation, and 1s 11 .1 fltfllillg revelation into thc l. 1-1 -.~ 1-"151111-11 to be the original

1111111111 r.'i.1-1- and world civiliz- :11l1l to soc themselves

l i.‘ ~- .'ll't‘ ._ 1-.11- 111 11-1111111: warring mankind s ‘\1:'~.11 11111111): \\'lthin that family, 1 V111; is 1.1 b1- l1>1~1-l_1~, ln the universal house- 1"-?"-1-1 1.1111 b1- acrorrlcrl its proper " 1'. 1151? ~111-1-ri-i1.{i1ty of the Jap- ‘1111 :1~ :1 ilircct descendant “zibsolutc cosmic life-

. .1 ~ iii the 11 .- . '- 1:11 11.11.11 il11-i1.-.1ioi1sl1avc strayed and 1 . 11h w‘, 1 11111-1 r1-tnri1 Tlic Japanese bclicvc tl- 1. '1.1 ‘1 Iti'll'lill('1l to fight this ivar to ' 1.11 1 1-i‘f-111< |:.'11‘k within the fold.

.- ._-. -.~1. m; .111 .111 in 1111- booklet is as de-

lihw ".1 1. » 1‘ 1111» 1111- lzipancsc pcople into br- lY-rin-g ' 1. "glitfiil rulers of the world, :1, 111-1 -.1 1 ‘ l 1: .l distortions in "Mein h-llllhl" t‘-- ~‘~ 11 1111 fii-rin-iiis into looking on tlwv11~ ‘1- - :1.~ t'.1- ll‘.'ll'lll\"lll\', r11’ master race, to \‘.'1l‘1lll :1‘! 111111-11: 111111 cvcn the world must bow

down in slavery.

The Tokyo booklet gives the key to ambitions which are as prevalent among the intelligentsia as among the military and ultra-nationalist cliques. It contradicts known history without tuakiitg sense, and yet is the work of a personage among Japan's political thinkers. That is Professor Chikao l-‘irjisan-a. l-Ie is professor of political 51-101,“; in Kyushu 1111111-1-1111 University and an accepted c x p o n c 11 t 11f Japan's political thought and philosophy, bttt his standing in this respect would be only of academic inter- est. if hc had not, also, been a pcrmament Jap- anese representative 011 the secretariat of the Lcague of Nations.

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'l‘l1ere is plenty 11101101‘ circulating these dayi. 15

21-‘- the ztdvertizing store?- testify. w u 1r 1o-

Baitks are great hcneficaries but bad neigh- bours of stores —their perpetual black-outs I10! being conductive to attracting rctail business.

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All storckccpcrs and other employers should see that their female employees, born 1918, I919. 1920, 192i, 1922, are prepared for registration next week, Sept. I4 to I9.

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Tomorrow is \\'ar Saving-s Stamp Day. Every stamp thus purchased is not only a sound iii- vestnient, btit the surest way of contributing to Victory.

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Now that schools and colleges have rcopcttcd it is well to remind parents that boys ovcr sixteen must be connected 1vith some cadet or officers Training Corps; those under sixteen 511011111 have Scout training.

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The lslandis- cln-t-sc factories are 1vorl<ing to capacity this year, turning out twelve times last year's c1uantity of cheddar. The federal ntonthly review Slt0\vs the five months make in Prince. Eduard Islznitl at 87,856 pounds this _1-1-:1r, coin- pareil with 7,222 pounds last year. Creamery butter output also increased, by 18.8 per cen‘, from 456,020 to 541,594 pounds.

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Arrangements in llritaiit for the registration of fnrthi-r ago groups of boys and girls ziftci‘ they reach the age of 16 are announcctl. Boys and girls will be registered at intervals of six months (1nd the next two registrations 11-ill be on Saturdzijv. September 13, 1114.’, and 51111111111)‘, March l3, I043. 'l‘hc_v will be encouraged to 110111 in the national effort by joining a pre-servicc unit or a voluntary organization.

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l\lr. 11111111011111 Churchill, M. I‘., son of Primi- Minister \\'in.st1>n is as frt-c in express- ing his i>11inioi1 and convictions as were his father and grandfather, Lord Randolph, before hiin. .\1 Preston, l-Ingland, the other day he told his con- stituents that the prc-u-ai- lcitders of the Con- servative party, of which he is a incmhcr 11.1111 h‘ father is lczitlcr, tended to "serve thc interests of the purseproud, acquistive and selfish ininoi-ity, who for the most part were more alarnicil at thc spread of Socialism than the rise of llitlt-risin." The Labor party, hc said, "is doinnt-d 111 frust 1- tion and llll1)t)lt'llC1‘ if it rciuiiiiis tit-d 111 the i11- terests 0f one class."

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Sir James 11111111111111 Jeans, distinguished Eng- lish scientist, born this date 1877; :1 graduate of Cambridge where h1- bccztinc lcctui-cr in Blathe- niatics; stibscqucntly- professor of Applied Mathematics in Princeton L'nivcrsit_1-, and then returned to Cambridge to the chair 011 the same subject; secretary of the Royal Society from 1919 to I929, u-hcn he l1ccaii1c President; 111111-

lishcd many works on Mathematics and 151cc- tricity, Astronomy and Cosmogony", also “The Universe Around Us," "The Mysterious Uni-

verse," "The Stars in their Courses," “The New Background of Science-z" “The tniivcrsc can bcst be pictured as consisting of pure 1110111111. the thought of what for a better word we must des- cribe as a mathematical thinker." o n1 1v n1 The people of this country, who are daily 11c- ing suhjcctctl t0 new curtailmcnts, can 11c assurcrl that their sacrifices -—cvcn if conipulsory- —arc not in vain, that the economic controls can be made to hold solidly until the Ottawa problem is eased by the firmer policy inaugurated at Wash- ington. The approach to the problem of con- serving sorely ticcdcd tnaitpou-cr and material for war purposes, however, is not l1y the method of telling an industry it must slitit down be- cause what it itiakcs is 11ot as necessary as what it might nizikc- but by telling thc nicn 111111 wo- nicn employ-ed in that plant that their services are required for more essential production. The result is probably the same, but the method is likely to avoid needless hardship on coiistimcr and employee alike and needless indtistrial disloca- tion. n- o The Curfew idea is spreading throughout Canada. It began in this Province, of course, Sitmmerside lcatling the way 1111111 a view to lmndling the war time juvenile 5111111111111. (Dtlici- municipalities elsewhere followed. suit, includ- ing Charlottetown, and now Montreal, of all places, has passed such a measure making it un- laivfttl for a child of I4 or uudt-r l1ciug out o1 doors after 9 l’. M. tinaccotttpanictl l1y an a11- thorizcd adult. The legislation adopted (lccri-t-s that in case of the first infraction, the father, the mother or the guardian of the child "may be summoned" before the Juvenile Court or chief of police or the nearest police station to 11c ad- vised of the child's conduct. llmvrvcr, if thc lll- fraction is repealed, the youngster must appear before the Jttvcttile Court and is liable to a fine not exceeding $2 and costs, or detention not ex- cccding two (lays if the fine is 11111 imutctliatcl)‘ paid, 'l'l1crc is .1 third sci-lion lo thc measure, dealing \\'llll rcpcatcd infractions of thc curfew nteastirc, providing that any falhcr, mothcr,itutor or other guardian who allows a child to con- travene the ruling repeatedly‘ "shall appear" hr.- fm"? 1110 l\'<‘t‘FtYtl<‘F's (ottrt and 1K’ liable to a fine l"?! Wcffllltli: $2 and costs, tll’ iiuprisuiiiiiciit lint "Cf-‘Nllllll 1W1 ilays if the fine is not paid ini- mediately.

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NOTES BY THE WAY

There is no need to stress the nccessliy for Britain o1 retaining i111- power on the seas. For all the vast potenlrulitics of the airplane, tne man counter-re of war tnusi. 5.111 be tz-axtsacwd by sea. Wltbuut sen power vie iii-e a. condemned ls- iano anu no 1011501‘ 1m eiupue among ine uiineu 1x11111115. We reiqite 111 Lne great rtmelxcau vlctorics In the Hat-lite. out let us fifllltillllfljl‘ that for 1.111s maritime nation ialairc to learn the lessen of these victories would mean oeath.—miidon Even-

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The Ottawa Journal, tililch ls at the sea’. o1 1.111s. things in 1:..e-.".:l affairs, 111101 is sttzrcunucd by apnost. a town of clvzl servants, g.ves a different idea about employ-es there than generally ex- ‘lne liutn, 11s Mr. Ilsley ‘ - ‘mt there are no bard- ei- ivorkca people in tbs connLy to- day 1.111111 tne Ottawa Civil Service. We hear o1 40-hour weeks and ~14- hcur weeks. and so on and so forth. Yet there are cl\’1l servants in 111a: city who p111. 1n as many as 80 hours a week, 11-‘110 hardly know what 1t. Ls to Splfilltl an evening at 11.11110. And they don't get cv-e1"111ne-— Kingston Whig-Standard.

--Ever since. the 11111- of Jesus be- gun to tu.11 up 1:} war cisbotches from North Africa, people have wondered how an Egy-ptLan _l1_i1l came to have stichaxiame, The 11111 of Jesus has 110111.111; to do with the flight, u1 Egypt 0:" the hermit fi-tli- ers of the desert. about wlicm Flatt- bcrt wrote The Tclllptnfiflll of St. Anthony and Anatole France write Tniiis. “The Hid ov.';s its 11:11 l0 the fart that Mchiinnnutlans regard Jesus, like Mohammad, as an 1111111- cntlc prophet. The Arabic to m 515a 15 5p popular among Egy-ptiatis that. they often give it to cltlldren. geographic locations, farms, and ewn c11b1\1-ets.--T.111e.

People who cnntgiliiin lit-caust- 1111-3- CllllllOl. pct 5111112 ul the ltixufit-s‘ they eitiuycd in prc-ivar ilays 11119.1" do well to rem-J iii-r that our tore- futhcrs lved “about. sugar U11 Ill? thirteenth century, vvitlrstit ch1- till the fourteenth. Wllll0lll. binter on their bread till the fifteenth, 11111110111, tobacco 111111 potutccs- 1111 the sixteenth. without ten. C0111‘? and soup till the seventeenth, 1x11111- umbrellas and lamps ttll the eighteenth. WllhOUL trains, tele- phones, gus and Iniitchf-s 1:11 the nineteenth. 1vttliont. street, ‘izilla: autnnobiics 111.11 l y“ the ttvcn; W69? things may b: 11c uni-y new but the high cost of 111-111; is certainly- not reduced b1.‘ overizizltilgencrym their use.-Scclgew:ck Ccmmumty Press.

A simple r\il_". of Japanese pro- paganda rPnds, as ttultslittcd from the vernacular: "When lying, tell u-hoppcrs." At Pearl Harbor, as the Japanese people were Informed. the iitt-i-tcati flcct was \'ll'lll'\lt_y annin 11111-41. In the Cottl sea it was destroy-ed all u\".-1_ flg-"llll- M Midway 111-11111 few 1111 rcmtmti had survived wet-c _. u to Davy Joncs.

The general impression any ciLze-n of 'l‘ckyo must. have by now is that i1 couple of scows and a llgl-ittl‘ or two are itbc-ilt llll that 1s lelt afloat to t-irrry- the Sim-s and Stripes. The unlnstrttctcd 01 Mil- meticpolis evizi itly have 1119f vet lieu d of our Amertczin formula. which also ls lzi-nittlfttl 1n 11s stin- plicliy. It, reads: “Cut JAD- aucse claims 111 half, tin-rue b-t nlue and red" the quotient ov twenty pciuent." ‘This is 11 fcrintila that worksy-Nciv York Sun.

Just, by way of an interesting footnote. here are thrte more 11.21115 gleaned from the clcl filcs of 1917: Although there was 110 \\‘=\t‘ 111 ill? P-aclfie in that year, 1t 1s noted that

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the c.st of rr-111spo.ii11;.1 rice. ten and ceans. \vh..h xvas Sl a w“ 111 ‘.1111 in 1917.

early 1914. 1111s $60 a _ ‘ ' A5 harvest 1111c uppi-oinhed In 1118- yeur, CullfttllillLs 11nd AIIJBNCHHS were urged to reduce thelr ct", sumption of u-lit-at by l6-J.0£)10,t 1314511915 9, your the CXDOEJYJM? surplus Wns 111.. 11111cunt short cf the needs ol the Allied til-titles in Europe And on August 14,1917. Canadians observed their NYSE meatless clay. Two meatless day's a week had been ordered tor the duratlon.,~Edmonton Journal.

One o1‘ the reasons why the sec- ond world war is so appalling, z-o dlsmuylng and shocking to minds. hearts and innermost. nerve fibres is its proof brought home to ClV1llZ- ed 139011195 everyw-ltoe that every value they have been tiutght. to believe, trust and revere 1s 11011 only being debit-d in the-cry, bu. also viley attacked m practue. From childhood we have never questioned that mercy. kindness and justce are good, that mauklrd does progress no matter how sloul

and falter ugly, that war ls evil even when 11cc "'\l'y. For some luindrcds of _1-1-.1rs it scented that wars, although always hon-talc.

gQuld be fought with only occasion- 31 outbursts of torture and rope. stick and massacre. Now we are lighting llflfllllhl, Iiutions that have allowed their rule-rs t0 organize efficiently and exalt shamlcssly those ve.y clinics so long held de- spcable. As men and women es- cape from the prostrate and pillag- e: vlctlms of the Axis powers and tell their stories of what they have seen and endured the evidence accumulates as to the kind of world the Herrcnvolk 11nd melt 0i Nippon are trying to createvin their New Order and Co-Roslfinl-Y 5111\- ere.—From the New York Times.

By Thursday all. pigeons 1n the Netherlands must be ilcstroyed. It. Ls the edict. of the German auhor- ltles. Carrier pgcons are med l0 convey messnges, and no mcssane that. the Nazis do not themselves send or censor ls pezmlsslble under thclr totalitarian rule. As homer pigeons, to be tisefiil. must firs‘. b.- takcit abroad from their lofts. 1t. looks as flu-ugh splcs and satictcn": were bclng flown over from Ellfllflslil to Holland. How valuable pigeons are for the tran-mlssfon of fntelll- gence has long b.1111 recognized by the Royal Afr Force and now the R.C.A.l=‘. ls developing its cnr er pigeon services Last. monih lt nppcnlcd for more loftmcn, 1'15 the handlers of pigeons are termed When n plane makes a forced land- fnw 11nd its rndlo cqtrlpmetit ls on. of o der, pigeons trre a godsend. They nrc valuable. too, to comman- dos, whcn thcite totiizh. darlniz flizh- tcrs operate bflllllltl- the cncmfz-s lines. We Shftll hear much of the work plgeorts have done when the war ‘s over. Carrier pigeons are tn- valuable as a means of corrmumc. ntlon when mechanical devzcz-s Tall or cannot, be used. They fly 11n- crrlnglv, ln the thy or the nkzht. tn thi- loft. f om which thi-v have bcoi taken, whet-sever that loft. may be, Only death or a broken wlniz 11m stop thcm. They have flown home wit-h broken legs, with an eye lost

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Co-operation Pays In P.E.l.

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Few places can boast. of glvlxig more men to the armed servzces man the little fishing village of North Rustlco, on Prince Edward Island‘; north shore. Forty-seven percent. of all North Rustlcos f-sh- ermen have 10111211 up-—yet so hard are the other fifty-three per cent. working that village flah product- ion has not. slumped.

North Rustl-co had made a nmie for Itself long before war came, tn 1936 1t was gust. another Maritime village of ixscouraged fishermen trying to live twelve months a Y3!" cu wnat. little they made from six months‘ work. Then t0 the village came a young parish priest, Rev. J.D. McNelll, who had learned at Cape Brctoifs progressive St. Xavier Unverslty how a small community like ths might benefit from co- operative enterprise. _

North Rusticds hundred fisher- men organized study groups that year under Father McNelllb guid- ance. and a year later launched a credit; 11111011. Then came a btlylfl! club to help the vlllagers save money on all purchases.

Meanwhle a Fishermervs Union. afflllated with t-he P E.I Fisher- meivs Unlon, was formed and 1n 1937 the union local purchased a $2,000 cannery, The fishermen be- gun to con and market their 0W0 product. The first hundzed b01195 cf bciteless cod ivez-e out on the 10:11 market as an experiment, and the tiext year North Rustlco was also first ln P.E.I, to pack mackerel

§c WORDS OF CHALLENGE

"Let us be realistic and nclthei- distracted ncr moved \ by etieiny propaganda." —

- r-General L. R. LaFlisc-h”. As- cinto Deputy Minister of National War Servloes.

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Education And The War

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This weekend me nation's school leaders, represenunst every branch o1 naming from nursery biuouzn inc univclsity, W111 gather in wasn- ingron to develop u comprehensive Drcgratn for education clurlmz the war crisis Under the direction 0f Dr. John W. Studebaker the 1.41011- ers will consider means of making tflllCllfdDll a. more influential factor 1n the total war effort. That Ameri- cat's 1.200.000 school teachers, ao- ministratois and educators have al- txauy taken an active pat-t In the‘ emergency need not. be reiterated. ‘Int-y have trained 3.000.000 techni- cal wot" rs for war industries. hate lnlped register 19,000,000 men for selective service. have supblleu ra- tion t-al-ds to 00,000,000.