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...check aimless, expensive, rumor-inspired wanderings, Texas State Employment Service officials conferred with Californians. Texas has 600,000 migrants, 450,000 of them Mexicans. Before 1936 they spread over the State: West Texas migrants drawn by tales of good crops and high pay in the East passed westbound migrants drawn by the same story about the West. Employment service catalogued the labor needs of every farm in every county (spanning a distance as great as that from Detroit to New York), planted supervisors at crossroads to trace the ebb & flow of men, set up 106 control stations, now delivers...
...mean between specialized and diversified study. The last two years has seen the development of combined fields of concentration, and this year will see a beginning of the area concentration plan along with more flexible entrance requirements. All of these projects are steps away from four years of aimless wandering spiced with only an occasional massage of the intellectual backbone. They indicate that American education is changing slowly, but surely...
Dewey has reached this conclusion after interviewing a number of college graduates who, after a ten minute conversation, "showed that they were not as employable as they had been four years before. Their natural enthusiasm as well as their confidence in themselves had been quenched by aimless drifting through a senseless college curriculum...
Correspondent Fleisher has been wrong before, but Prince Konoye is a good bet to pick up where the aimless Abe Government leaves off. Premier from 1937 to 1939, he is now the most popular statesman in Japan and probably the only Japanese with enough astuteness and courage to play Mussolini to Hirohito's Vittorio Emanuele. It was he who invented the famous, mystical but so far meaningless slogan: New Order in East Asia. He may find accomplishing it not only New but Large...
...Aimless War? To many & many a neutral, far from having any established peace aims, the Allies do not yet seem to have propounded very satisfactory war aims. King George VI said they were fighting lest "justice and liberty among nations ... be ended," an ideology echoed by Premier Daladier. The British Government is legally at war simply because it had an assistance treaty with violated Poland...