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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ SEPTEMBER 11, 1942 Future Pilot* Students at Albert Leonard high school. New Rochelle, N. Y., being instructed by teacher Frederick L. Lobdell on plane stresses and strain in an aerodynamics class. They are all ATCA students with visions of the day when they’ll be flying their own plane. 500,000 High School Youths Will Receive Pre-Flight Training Nation to Get Jump Over Axis by Readying Students For Future Aviation Career It’s an ironical twist of fate that the most far-reaching change in our modern educa tional system was set in motion by a war. As September rolls around, pub lic, private and parochial high schools through out the nation will have radical ly altered their curricula to in clude instruction in pre-flight train ing under the aus pices of the Air Training Corps of America, work ing in conjunction with the Civil Aer onautics administration and the U. S. office of education. Educators themselves readily ad mit that the war, with the attention it has focused on aviation, must be credited in large measure for the speed and efficiency with which ATCA’s program has been launched, although the program’s peacetime objectives are considered equally important. Studying With New Interest. Regardless of cause, this Septem ber some 500,000 boys who volun tarily are enrolling in ATCA units will be studying algebra, geometry, physics, and other subjects with a new interest. They’ll be enthusias tic about subjects they once con sidered “dry” because these stud ies will be taught in terms of avia tion. During five, or more, hours each week, ATCA members will study subjects in pre-flight training such as air navigation, communications, aerodynamics, meteorology, safety, and the structure and design of en gines. And if there are those who doubt the enthusiasm with which boys are taking these courses. they need only visit one of the schools where the ATCA courses already have been introduced. There these youngsters can be seen tackling the fundamental problems of aviation with an eagerness that is surprising. They build their own model planes to scale, following specifications pro vided by the army and navy. These planes perform a useful function in the classes on spotting, where ATCA members learn how to dis tinguish one type from another at a casual glance and from any angle. New Style School Arguments. The visitor will see these boys arguing over a problem in plane de sign—discussing where stress and strain will affect the craft—as though the chart on the wall were a real bomber and they were going to take off in it themselves. In classes on communications the pupils will be taking down the dots and dashes of the Morse code with the same zeal they might put into remembering the signals for an off- tackle play on the football field. In classes on engine structure, in physics, in algebra, in whatever these future fliers now are studying in their pre-flight courses, the same TRYING HARD On the drill field, where mem bers of ATCA units learn march ing formations and take callis thenics to build them up physi cally, these lads show the same earnest attitude. They’re try ing hard every minute, so that sometime they can earn the right to fly a plane for the army or navy, or become pro fessional fliers in civilian life. degree of youthful eagerness is ap parent everywhere. This attribute of the Air Training courses in secondary schools, as much as the fact that the new stud ies have called for a complete over hauling of the curricula, is the reason that educators are quick to acknowledge that the system of teaching is going through the most radical change it ever has seen. And They Like It! They find it adding to their own enthusiasm to be met with such a ready response on the part of their pupils. When “x plus y” can be something to do with a pursuit plane The theory of flight becomes a real thing to this student as, stick in hand, he controls the model plane while the wind tunnel, extreme left, whips a stiff breeze in the “flier’s” face. This is another part of the course given in the pre-flight ATCA training throughout the nation. This lad some day may become an expert aviator in the U. S. army or navy. Model Builder This ATCA student is building his own model plane from army and navy specifications. Such practice gives youth throughout the U. S. first-hand knowledge of planes they hope some day to fly. and “a times b” has something to do with increasing the already ter rific speed of a giant bomber, it’s something which both teacher and pupil find exciting. ATCA members present a dashing appearance in their uniforms espe cially designed for the corps. Jack ets, shirts and trousers of the uni form are all in a matching tone of gray-blue. Ties are navy blue and buttons on the jacket are silver- toned. The caps have a piping of bright red and the same color ap pears again in the single stripe on each sleeve cuff. The red and white ATCA insignia is attached to the up per left sleeve. Considering the spirit it has in jected into the system of teaching, it is not surprising that ATCA courses are finding a ready wel come in the schools. As for the army and navy— they, too, are all for it. They have long recognized that the best professional flier is the one who has been trained from youth. They realize the impor tance of the program in filling the lack that has existed for providing training in the funda mentals of aviation. Objectives of ATCA have been en dorsed by Robert A. Lovett, assist ant secretary of war for air, and by Robert Hinckley, assistant secretary of commerce and founder of the Citizens Pilot training program. Sponsoring the work of the ATCA are some of the outstanding men and women in the country, includ ing Bernard Baruch, James A. Far ley, Alfred E. Smith, Jeremiah T. Mahoney, chairman of the Pan- American games committee; C. R. Smith, ex president of American air lines; Robert Hinckley, assistant secretary of commerce, and Mrs. Colin Kelly, widow of the American air hero. That’s the story of ATCA. It’s one of those things created during war which is not necessarily a part of war. It will, educators feel confident, live long after the war is over, and the ways of peace returned again, because it is inex tricably tied up with aviation—and aviation itself has many long and vigorous years stretching ahead of it. End of War Will Mark Aviation’s Golden Age America invented the airplane— yet the greatest single threat to our security today is the plane itself. Having created the means by which man could fly, America failed miserably to recognize the signifi cance of its own invention. It re mained for other nations to grasp the airplane’s enormous possibilities —to visualize it as a gigantic instru ment of peace and war. It remained for other nations to sense the possibilities of training— not just a small segment—but all its youth, to be air-minded and air- wise. Americans have been caught nap ping. But, if a determined group of American citizens have their way, this will not, cannot, happen again. These determined citizens have, unit ed to form the Air Training Corps of America. Wings for America at Peace. No informed person will deny that the end of this war will mark the true beginning of the Aviation age. There will be new markets to be won, new lands to be developed. And in this post-war race for trade, aviation will play a major role. In America and throughout the world, the highways of commerce will be in the air. In transportation, in a thousand as yet undreamed-of facets of our daily life, men trained in avia tion will be the leaders of tomorrow. And the nation which molds these leaders will be itself a leader. In training its youth for aviation, America is assuring its sons a rich opportunity, and is at the same time, taking steps to insure its own future. Wings for America at War. Every decent American hopes that boys now in high school will never have to go to war. But every thinking American realizes that they may have to fight before this war is won. And make no mistake about it, this war will be won by trained, pro fessional airmen over that “last battlefield,” wherever it may be. These airmen, grim though the idea is, must be young. For the air warfare of today, with its 40,000-foot altitudes and 400 m.p.h. speeds, demands youth— trained youth. No one else has a fighting chance. This is the lesson brought us from England, a lessen dearly learned by the heroic RAF in the Battle of Britain. England itself has already profited from this lesson, and has set up its own Air Training corps un der the air ministry. So far, Eng land’s Air Training corps has gradu ated 75,000 boys into the Royal Air force. Helpful to Canadians. The idea, transplanted to Canada, has resulted in the training of 26,000 boys—and has not yet hit its full stride. It is already considered an indispensable part of the Royal Canadian Air force training pro gram. It is saving the best part of a year—precious time when time is all-important—in preparing airmen for combat duty. It has materially reduced training casualties. Not all of these boys, of course, become pilots. One of the important benefits of this training is the fact that it “screens” the boys into the par ticular job in air or ground crew for which they are best qualified. Furthermore, it gives them the essential psychological con ditioning that their own job, whatever it may be, is all- important. Naturally, an important part of the program is a carefully worked out course of training to promote physi cal fitness, to make the youth of America strong, hardened and ready for the tasks that lie ahead. Members of the Air Training Corps of America^ will also receive basic training in th'e manual of arms and military drill, and will be schooled in the highest ideals of dis cipline and patriotism. ATCA’s Role in the War Effort. In undertaking to set up pre-flight squadrons in the nation’s high schools, the Air Training Corps of America is co-ordinating its work with that of' other organizations in terested in the progress of aviation. The Civil Aeronautics administra tion, working with and through edu cators who have a thorough ground ing in aviation and aviation prob lems, have done a splendid job of preparing practical, easily under stood textbooks in the various phases of pre-flight training. Kathleen Norris Says: Buying Victory Bonds Is Self-Protection Bell Syndicate—WNU Features. You do a sensible, even e selfish thing when you buy Victory Bonds; you do a smart thing in a businesslike way. It is self-protection, nothing nobler than that. By KATHLEEN NORRIS HE probability is that you and your husband have in vested a certain amount of dollars in Victory Bonds and Victory Stamps. And you prob ably feel a little thrill of pride and patriotism with every dol lar so invested. But the real truth is that there is no reason here for complac ency. You do a sensible, even a selfish thing when you buy Vic tory Bonds; you do a smart thing in a businesslike way. For if there is to be an America to morrow, your bonds and stamps will be the most valuable things in it, and if there isn’t —an impossible .hypothesis, which I put in merely for illustration—noth ing that you have hoarded or saved, money, property, stocks, will be worth what is classically known as a tinker’s dam. More than that. If we of America rise to this situation, not with a sense of being generous and reck less and wholehearted, but because we appreciate the facts of the case, this country will be spared infla tion. Our financial authoiities could create that inflation now, very sim ply. They have the power to float billions of new bills amongst us; we wouldn’t full realize, seeing these new bills, that every one of them meant that what you and I have in the bank was worth that much less. It Is Self-Protection. So buying bonds is self-protection, nothing nobler than that. If we don’t, we lose what we have. If we do, we keep what we have and add to it valuable investments that in ten years will be redeemed at in terest. You’d get the general idea fast enough if someone went to your bank and drew out one-third of your mon ey. A thief who did it would be punished to the full extent of the law. But this wouldn’t be a thief; this would be a person with per fect rights, who might remind you, as he went away with your good money, that in another three months he meant to come and get another third. If your comment on this is, “That’s outrageous!” the real an swer is simpler still, “That’s war.” We are in a desperate battle now against forces that may gain power over all the world, or that may be curbed and controlled for 100 years. Curbed and controlled until the hor rors of militarism and invasion die away into the sunrise of a saner day. We can’t stop now. We can’t go back to the comfortable day when one hundred dollars in the bank was one hundred dollars, and nobody could take it away. Ten Per Cent Is Too Little. The only thing we can do to save what we have is to invest in Amer ica. They are talking now of “10 per cent” investing. That seems to me too little. My own suggestion would be that every family give one-third of its income to the gov ernment for safekeeping until the day of peace. Wages are high now; salaries have ballooned upward, and every man who wants a job—and quite a few who don’t—is at work. Hearts are opened to deeds of courage and to the facing of changes; many of us who have nev er seen any good in w ar itself are nevertheless determined to find good in the enlarged opportunities of sharing and brotherliness that war time emotioms bring with them. We are all knitting, cooking, writ ing letters to camps, gathering up AFTER THE JFAR You have heard it said many times that anything worth doing is worth doing well. Why, then, should we not give our best to the war effort? For surely there are no higher aims than ours should be today. Unless we dem onstrate our faith in those aims by doing our best to realize them we must not be surprised if oth ers doubt their value. After the war is over will we be able to say with pride, “This is the democ racy l helped preserve”? Or will we have to listen while a con quering enemy tells us that de mocracy could not have been worth while if those who en* joyed its benefits did not think enough of it to fight for it? We cannot all fight with guns. But we can fight with dollars—and fight now! tinfoil and rubber, active in many ways we didn’t think necessary or possible a few years ago. What we women have to get through our heads is that no service to the family compares to the serv ice that is investment in Victory Bonds. It is small use to get into uniform, keep office hours, collect packs of cards and packs of ciga rettes for the boys, and at the same time to say dreamily, “I did buy two dollars’ worth of stamps from Mar ion and I meant to buy more, but I forgot.” Would Prevent Inflation. Victory Bonds ought to come next to rent and grocery bills. If the government coul I count on one-third of the national income in the next two years, we wouldn’t have to have inflation. We would be the only country that ever came through a war without it. But while women are under the delusion that buying Victory BDnds is a pretty and loyal gesture, done partly to please dear Louise Baker, who sits at a little table selling them in that hot department store five mornings a week, the govern ment’s vigorous determination to spare us inflation is jeopardized. Our fate is in our own hands now; it is for us to decide it. One woman I know finds herself today with an income of something like $350 a month. Up to this time it has hovered irregularly around $140. She is putting $100 a month into Victory Bonds. Three of her four children work, and she insists that one-third of what they earn shall be invested that way. She does her own work; the fam ily table is the same plain old ta ble; the girls put aprons over their office clothes and do the bedrooms and the dishes; the small boy sweeps porches and runs errands just as he did before the aggregate monthly family income was approx imately $700. I said something, praising the spirit of this woman, but she laughed it off. Excellent Opportunity. “Wonderful?” Milly Carter ech oed scornfully. “There’s nothing wonderful about it. It’s a chance ta fix this family up for life. In ten years these girls will be married, and each one will have a good sound investment that will mean a home for all of them. I never dared hope for such an opportunity. America is still the land that gives the work ing people the best break,” Milly concluded, her eyes on the flag that flies cheerfully above the shabby Carter home. “I’m taking advan tage of it as my ancestors did, that’s all.” NEW EFFECTIVE HAY FEVER RELIEF Hay fever, which annually causes more sneezes, more in flamed noses and more red, streaming eyes than any other scourge, may have its final big fling this September, all because a Pennsylvania electrical engineer was served a dish of corn meal mush wtiichwas entirely too salty. The engineer, sneezing, and with all other hay fever mani festations, stopped at a hotel where he was served a dish of mush which he considered send ing back as it was much too salty. Finally he ate it, however; the hay fever attack lessened, ul timately ceased. Next day he had three meals, all oversalted, and experienced his most comfortable time in years in the “hay fever season.” His analytical mind quickly grasped the possibility that the saline substance in his food was responsible for his relief. About this time, Dr. E. E. Sel- leck, a graduate of Columbia Uni versity, met the engineer, made notes, and when he returned to his home, began experiments. To day Dr. Selleck declares he has found a certain means of relief for hay fever and is supported in his contention by other medical experts, and a nationally known chemical manufacturing concern, the Hollings-Smith Company, at Orangeburg, New York, has tak en over making the remedy, which is called Nakamo Bell. Describing the experiments. Dr. Selleck said, “After I was sure I had found a means of quickly relieving hay fever through the chloride group, I tested it in the most practical way I knew. I held a three day clinic, to which many hay fever sufferers responded, from ages ranging from 10 to 60 years. Each person was given two tablets with a little water. Some relief came to all within ten minutes. Reports on these cases during the ensu ing weeks showed practically a complete cessation of symptoms.” —Adv. If you are ever stumped by the question of what to send a friend or relative in one of Uncle Sam’s armed forces, here’s a tip. If he smokes a pipe or rolls-his-own, nothing would please him more than a pound of his favorite to bacco. Surveys among the men themselves show that. Prince Al bert Smoking Tobacco has long been known as the National Joy Smoke—it is the largest-selling smoking tobacco in the world. Lo cal dealers are now featuring Prince Albert in the pound can as an ideal gift for service men who smoke a pipe or roll-their-own.— Adv. CALLOUSES To relieve painful callouses, burn ing or tenderness on bottom of feet and remove callouses—get these thin, soothing, cushioning pads. Df Scholls Zino pads Manufactured and guaranteed by ■FEDfRAL RAZOR BLADE CO., NEW YORK) STILL AT THE SAME LOW PRICE! America’s favorite ready-to-eat cereal! Get several packages today and enjoy me “SELF-STARTER BREAKFAST** A big bowlful of Kellogg’s Com Rakes with some fruit and lots of milk. - VITAMINSI MINERALS! PR0TEINS1 FOOD ENERGY! I Let's Get Going—Full Speed Ahead Show Our Foe Patriotism Isn't Dead! IN THE AIR FORCE they say— for the new flying recruit * KITE* for airplane *#f ITTHE SILK* for taking to parachute ''CAMEL*for their favorite cigarette With men in the Army, Navy, Marine,, and Coaw Guard, the favorite dgadette is Camel. (Bawd on actual sales records from Post Exchanges and Canteens.) AND NOTE THIS: The smoke of slow-burning contains LESS NICOTINE than that of the 4 other largest- selling brands tested—less than any of them—according to independent scientific tests o/ the smoke itself!