Group services bulletin, October 1944

              PRICE CONTROL - RATIONING - RENT CONTROL 
          
          
          
          
          
                              FOR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES 
              ISSUED BY THE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES BRANCH 
              DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION 
          
          
         Washington, D. C.               No. i                     January l9~3 
          
          
          
                               THE Three R’S OF 1943 
          
            Now is the time for Americans to master the 
         Three I’. of 1943 Regulation of Prices, Rent 
         Control, and Rationing. As in the past, America’s 
         teachers will lead in shoving the way toward mak- 
         ing these necessary wartime measures effective in 
         every community throughout the land. 
          
            Many teachers in these times are thinking of 
         leaving the classroom for other occupations. 
         Various reasons are given; fear of rising living 
         costs; prospects of better pay; end the wish to 
         work directly in war production. 
          
            And yet there is good reason to believe that 
         teachers can best fight the rise in living costs; 
         that they can beet improve their professional 
         standing; and that they can beet contribute to 
         winning the war, by staying on their present jobs. 
          
            The fight to stabilize living costs depends 
         heavily on the battalions of the schools, both for 
         administrative assistance and for public education. 
         The teaching profession, by its work in prolaining 
         the price regulation and rationing programs, has 
          
          
                                   IN THIS ISSUE 
         The Three B’s of 1943         1 
         OPA Announces Point Rationing 2 
         General Study Suggestions on Point 
             Rationing             3 — 6 
         Car Sharing Helps Keep Them Rolling     6 
         Schools Follow Through on Fuel Saving   7 
         Instruction Sheet on Point Rationing    .    S —  9 
         A Brief History of OPA       10 
         Colleges and Universities Mobilize 
             on Home Front            10 
         Educational Associations Stress Home 
             Front Economics          11 
         School Systems Highlight OPA’s 
             program              12 —14 
                      College Administrators               15 
         Who’s Who the !.S.R. Staff         15 
 
          
 
 
 
 
 
         Consumer Declaration for Point Rationing . . .16 
         impressed the public with a new realization of the 
         value of education as a community service. At the 
         same time, the price, rent, and rationing program. 
         have protected the present purchasing power of the 
         teacher in the general campaign to keep our economy 
         in fighting trim. 
          
            Already teachers have scored major victories 
         for our country in their capable guidance of regis- 
         trants for rationing. They have also performed 
         great service in informing their pupils and the com- 
         munity of the reasons for and nature of CPA regula- 
         tions. 
          
            With these contributions to the credit of 
         teachers, still greater opportunities lie ahead. 
         Very soon our country is undertaking an extensive 
         program of Point Rationing. Teachers need not be 
         told how imDcrtant it is for the general public to 
         have a full understanding of this vital program. 
          
            Point Rationing represents a tremendous task 
         of administration and education. 
                   Every employee of the Office of price Adminis- 
               tration is fully aware of the great administrative 
         Page  responsibility which this task entails. Teachers 
               may feel a similar sense of responsibility when 
               they regard the great educational task that falls 
               to them. 
          
                  In the past, teachers have given-communities 
               cause to feel justifiable pride in the operations of 
               the schools and the banishment of illiteracy. Today 
               teachers are giving communities additional cause for 
               pride in the operation of new community services 
               through the schools and in the banishment of economic 
               illiteracy. 
          
                  The American people are counting on the readi- 
               ness of teachers to master the new Three B’s — Regu- 
               letion of Prices, Rent Control, and Rationing, — and 
               to explain to all our people our war—imposed methods 
               of distributing goods. The official family of OPA 
               humbly salutes its companions in arms in this great 
               public enterprise. 
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