HUNGER - THE NEW FRONTIER

...The conquest of hunger is in fact the positive program for which the little people of the world are waiting...

...The lack of communication between staff and officialdom accounts for much of the low teacher morale and the desperate resort to strikesThe Guild believes teachers should enjoy the ssme right as other workers and professionals, including the right to strike...

...For the conquest of hunger is an enterprise great enough to end all our worries about idle workers, idle - — "nines, surplus crops, and glutted arkets...

...Whatever merit the theory of reward for distinguished service has, the fact is that Its effectivenease depends on finding an adequate machinery for its application...

...Instead, we face the domination of . political party which is interpreting its victory as a mandate to reaction, confusion among liberals and division in labor, f nd the threat of war...

...If governments do not give wholehearted cooperation to ths beginnings of a food plan for the benefit of the people of the world, there is no alternative to a third world war...

...of the democratic process as well as of school problems...

...It is a powerful weapon in the hands of supervisors which many of them will resent having to wield...

...Tildslcy...

...Such democratic relationships are often accidental and too rare in school administration...

...Contact with the labor movement helps to break down educational isolationism, gives them broader social vision, enables them to become what teachers should be—community leaders, heralds of progress, teachers of understanding and truth...

...Taking account of the increase in world population, food supplies would need to be increased by over 100 percent so that all people could be reasonably fed by 1»70...

...The prospect of a thriving American democracy is threatened by fears of industrial conflict that may bring desolation throughout the world...

...Hunger, in other words, is the world's new frontier...

...in 1928 an Assistsnt Superintendent in New York City's Schools who was instrumental in bringing about this superior merit rating, was the most vigorous fighter to eliminate it...

...The world food supply," says Sir John, "would need to be Increased by eoaaiderably more than 59 percent to enable the diets of sll people to reach 2.7M celeries a day...

...We recognized that sound teaching conditions—tenure, pensions, academic freedom—are basic to sound education...

...that the welfare of the public school system is inseparable from the welfare of the public school teacher...

...Agricultural Organisation), it seems, is vigorously rebounding from . the rebuff it received at the hands of the Truman administration when the American delegate rejected Sir John Orr's far-reaching recommendations for a World Food Board...

...I challenge the public to answer this question: Is a city worse off if its teacherrs as a last resort, strike for acceptable living conditions, or if they desert the profession altogether and leave the school 'system to deteriorate because it does not offer sufficient rewards to attract the qualified and needed personnel...

...Teachers affiliated with labor believe that the use of collective bsrgaining in the education systems of the country will give superintendents, boards of education and teachers a better understanding Dewey's Plan Deficient By REBECCA SIMONSON • President of tk$ N.Y...

...the program that General Marshall should be going to Moscow to discuss...

...Thi suggested minimum and maximum schedules are an improvement ovei moat of thoae now in existence in rural and upstate communities...

...Teacher strikes dramatize the fartj that education is in special crisis...

...the reason being that although, as every practical person, knows, my idea of solving any Important world problem la by definition Utopian, nevertheless something had to be done Immediately about wheat, and cotton, and sugar...

...According to some of his associates, the distinguished nutritionist, who leads the first organised, world-wide attack in history upon man's ancient enemy, Hunger, is himself a little on the malnourished side, for the reason that at seventy-odd, he is too furiously busy to pay proper attention to his diet...

...This won't do, say the aforesaid associates, because there are no standins for Sir John...

...Otherwise its dangers fir outweigh all its promise...

...F.vsn the Russian holdout shows signs of softening, although the Director-General refuses to disclose the reasons for his persistent optimism in that quarter...

...Beyond that frontier lies the beckoning hope not only of peace, but of an end at last to our American tragedy of starvation and unemployment amidst plenty...

...The report could have set a shining example to the whole country, now feverishly seeking guidance in the national education crisis...

...If you agree with Sir John that we should try to cross It Instead of holding up until the first bomb drops, you might write the FAO to that effect...

...nobody can see any substitute for the hold vision, the moral fervor, and the moving eloquence of the great Scotchman...

...Ttaeker't Guil, The Edacatiea Committee repor t« Governor Dewey of New York Stat, contains some admirable provisions especially adoption of the single salarj schedule and the gradual eliminatioi of the exploitation of substitutes...

...if the nations cannot get together on food," said Sir John, "they can work together on nothing...

...MILITARY victory, remarkable advances in scientific and industrial techniques should have helped America become a triumphant democracy, prosperous and at peace...

...I suspect they could use that kind of mall as a means of softening up some of our less enlightened statesmen...

...It proved unworkable, discriminating, and finally illegal...

...the objective to whic' not even the obdurate Russians can afford to say "Ne" for fear that NO would echo and resound even back of tha Iron curtain of totalitarian censorship...

...HUNGER — THE NEW FRONTIER By James Rorty Author of "American Medicine Mobilizes" and other works THE FAO (Food and...

...for fear new democratic hands might bo lifted to seise ths direction of thosa "directed democracies"—to use Henry Wallace's euphemistic phrase...

...But teaehers have a devotion to their students that causes them to look with grave misgiving on the use of that right...

...The Teachers Guild made its rhoice in March 1916 with the launching of the American Federation of Teachers affiliated with the American Federation of Labor...

...and legislation, teachers have no proper status...

...So if the world supply of food is to be regulated by the needs of human beings, there will be no surplus in our day...

...The present Spartan ration of the United Kingdom is 2.7M calories—we in America average nearly a third more than that per capita...

...These deficiencies must be eliminated...

...There, 0 pioneers, is your new frontier...

...What has happsnad is that when the dooi was closed on the revolving fund snd across-the-board price stabilisation on the world market, the same problems came climbing back thr»»|h the windows into FAO's lap—crop by crop, commodity by commodity...

...Anti-labor threats combined with labor's own failure to clean house or present a unjted constructive program are arousing grave concern...

...Hundreds of thousands of teachers for the fiist time are facing the need of organizing to force remedial action- They face the choice of joining professional organisations, "company unions," or trade unions affiliated with labor...

...Hence, the FAO and its various committees are very much alive, very busy snd distinctly more hopeful fhsn I had expected to find them...

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...In vital matters, such as budget...

...It does not do that because it includes such grave weaknesses, of commission and ol omission, that unless these are corrected by implementing legislation it is likely to create as much division snd distress among some school groups as it gives eoursgc and hope to others...

...Instead it thro vs on the local community the burden of imposing consumption taxes...

...The report gives no consideration whatsoever to a large group of education employees—supervisors, administrative and non-teaching personnel, all of whom are essentisl to our school* snd all of whom need financial relief...

...The superior merit proposal has caused the greatest consternation...

...Trade unions are a training ground for democracy—where teachers weigh arid effect policy, participate with a sense of responsibility in trade union affairs, and grow more understanding and efficient in the process...

...There should be budgetary and legislative round-table conferences with local and state authorities and teacher representatives...

...The report violates the basic irinciples of state aid, which are to In according to ability and to distribute according to need, in order to equalize educational opportunity...