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Brunner Presents 4-Point
Postwar Agriculture Plan
"What part will vocational agri
culture play in the postwar
world?"
In answer to this question, Prof.
Henry S. Brunner, head of the
agricultural education department,
presented a four-point program in
an interview this week.
"Inevitable production of food
i!or the world, - the professor lists
as the most immediate problem-of
the postwar period.
Offices of vocational agriculture
are also concerned with the re-
]iabilitation of servicemen into
agriculture, with a program of
education for the transition of the
social, economic, and spiritual
thinking of rural people from a
war to a peacetime basis, and with
the permanent program of educa
i ion for the postwar world.
The latter will be based upon
the recognition of responsibility
for preparation of individuals to
make a living in, and contribute
to the welfare of, a society based
on a world-wide human fellow
ship, according to Professor Brun
ner.
But until world situations call
J!or such a postwar plan, depart
•ments in agriculture are constant
ly working with problems created
by the war. "Pennsylvania has
been very fortunate in the teacher
situation by drawing on former
graduates and older farmers," the
professor remarked. "It has been
possible to. keep all but a few de
partments operating in the public
schools. This is in distinct contrast
with other states as evidenced by
figures released at the North At
lantic Regional Conference in New
York last week." He went on to
explain that these figures show
nearly 55 per cent of the total
teachers left their • jobs prior to
..January 1, 1944. More than half of
this number went into the armed
forces.
"High school boys as well as
young farmers who take vocation
al agriculture become better farm
ers." Prof. Brunner supported this
statement with the results of a
survey of more than 100 farms. It
was found that the labor incomes
of those who studied vocational
agriculture were greater on the
whole than those of the non-voca
tionally trained, and in six out of
nine enterprises the vocationally
trained had larger yields:" The in
creased labor incomes we account
for by the fact that vocationally
trained men have better balance
in farm business."
Since women have been accept
ed in most occupations today, the
professor was asked to explain
just what women are doing in
agriculture. He said that women
and school girls are helping a great
deal with farm chores, particularly
in truck and fruit farming. Three
women, none of them in Pennsyl
vania, are teaching agriculture.
"Vocational agriculture is con
tinuing to function in assisting
young men and adult farmers
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through the Food Production War-
Training program." He remarked
that there are 615 such classes in
Pennsylvania this year, one-half
of which were devoted to instruc-,
tion in the repair of farm machin-'
ery that otherwise would not have
been available for crop produc
tion.
According to the authority, the
agricultural education program to
day is designed to prepare individ
uals to make a living, as well as to
contribute to society in general.
However, he says the general ob
jectives of this type of education
are: to produce farm commodities
efficiently; to market farm pro
ducts advantageously; to conserve
soil and other natural resources;
and to maintain a favorable farm
living situation. "Teachers of voca
tional agriculture accept as their
responsibility the placement of
their students in farming."
Dean Edward Steidle
Heads Organization
Election of Dean Edward Steidle,
School of Mineral Industries, as
chairman of the newly organized
United States National Section of
the Pan American Institute of
the Pan-American Institute of
took place recently in New York
City. The organization plans to
found chapters in each of the
Americas.
Although the institute has been
in existence only two years, Chile,
Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia,
Brazil, and now the United States
have acquired national sections.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is tenta
tively scheduled for a joint meet- ,
ing of the sections in October,
1944, This convention may have to
be postponed until the end of the
war.
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Col. Mills Advocates
Compulsory Military,
Vocational Training
Readiness for war is the only
way to insure peace, according to
Lt. Col. Guy Mills, acting head of
the department of military science
and tactics at the. College, who ad
vocates a year of military training
for all men and women between
the ages of 17 and 20.
"We can't have peace merely by
being peaceful," Colonel Mills
said. "Peace must be maintained
by force—that is, the capacity to
maintain force when necessary.
Only a strong man can keep order
in his own home, and only a strong
nation can avert wars," he added.
He emphasized that American
institutions will be perpetuated
only so long as the citizens are not
merely willing, but trained .and
maintained in a constant state of
readiness for the nation's defense.
This spirit of readiness, he said,
should start with elementary
school children and become an in
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Newfoundland to Help
Relieve-Farm Shortage
One hundred natives of New
foundland will arrive here shortly
as "duration farmers" to help al
leviate Pennsylvania's shortage of
farm labor. This group will be
half of Pennsylvania's quota un
der the emergency farm labor pro
gram.
Members of the agricultural fac
ulty of the College will give these
workers ten days of orientation
work in farm methods employed
in this state. College facilities will
be utilized for the ten-day period
of instruction.
tegral part of our educational pa
tern.
He advocates military and voca
tional training for persons both in
and out of • our colleges on the
grounds that such a program
would instill discipline—"habitual
correct behavior"—in the nation's
youth, and provide training in
skills which could be .applied to
the solution of military problems.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 28,1944