EDUCATIONAL PLAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1943, Page 4

EDUCATIONAL PLAN

FOR DEMOBILISED MEN & WOMEN PROPOSED BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. BEST WAY OF REPAYING PART OF DEBT. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, October 27. President Roosevelt has sent a message to Congress recommending a 10C0 million dollars post-war educational plan, affording a years vocational cr academic training for service men and women. Mr Roosevelt explained that the programme had been devised by a special committee of educators, who had rcommended that it be made available to all with six months’ service in the armed forces. It had also been recommended that a limited number of service men, selected for their special aptitudes, should be provided with funds for a further peiiod of one, two or three years. Mr Roosevelt said that, while the successful conclusion of the war was by no means within sight, the time to prepare for peace was at the height of the war. ■’After the war, he added, “the best way we can repay a portion of our debt to the men and women m the services is by planning action now so that members of the services aye demobilised into an economy which is sound and prosperous, with minimum unemployment, and that they are given an opportunity to find a job for which they have been fitted and trained."