Group services bulletin, no.7

              PRICE CONTROL - RATIONING - RENT CONTROL 
          
         O.P.A.   BULLETIN 
          
          
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                              FOR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES 
                   ISSUED BY THE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES BRANCH 
                   DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION 
          
          
         WASHINGTON, D. C.                 No. 2                       MARCH 1943 
          
          
          
              National Education Association Head Stresses OPA Program 
          
           The role of schools in the economic program of the 
         Office of Price Administration was stressed in a special 
         message to teachers from Mr. A. C. Flora, President of 
         the National Education Association and Superintendent 
         of Schools in Columbia, South Carolina. Mr. Flora said: 
           “‘We ask that every schoolhouse become a service 
         center for the home front,’ declared President Roosevelt 
         in his message to American educators last September. 
         Already teachers throughout the Nation have demon- 
         strated their eagerness to take every opportunity to aid 
         the war effort. As leaders in their communities, they are 
         truly making the school a vital center for strengthening 
         the home front and for winning the war. 
           “Because of their key position in the community, 
         teachers receive many requests to cooperate in war 
         programs—war savings, salvage, civilian defense, price 
         control, rationing, and Red Cross, to mention only a few. 
         Some of these are short term campaigns of only a few 
         days’ duration. Others are continuing projects calling 
         for attention over a period of months. Many of these 
         programs are appropriate to the school’s recognized pur- 
         poses and practices. All deserve consideration on the 
         part of teachers. 
           “Among war programs of great concern to teachers is 
         that of the Office of Price Administration. This pro- 
         gram is important to every American family for it deals 
         with the cost of living and the distribution of scarce 
         goods during the war emergency. Because of its adapt- 
         ability, the program can be readily taught at all levels of 
         instruction from the elementary school through the college 
         and in nearly all subject matter fields—social studies, 
         home economics, business education, mathematics, sci- 
         ence, and fine arts. In short, it is a program to which 
         teachers can make a distinguished wartime contribution. 
           “In every community, teachers can aid in developing 
         understanding of the why, what, and how of OPA’s 
         measures. Through the Community Service member of 
         the War Price and Rationing Board and through the 
         Area Rent Office, they can keep up to date on OPA 
         programs. Through school activities and through con- 
         tacts with parents and other adults, they can help dis- 
         seminate OPA information among local residents. 
           “Recently I had the opportunity to study at first hand 
 
          
 
 
 
 
 
         the program of OPA’s Educational Services Branch 
         as it is being carried on with schools and colleges, State 
         and local school systems, and with teachers’ associations. 
         This program, I can say without reservation, ranks 
         among the most significant of those to which teachers are 
         asked to give assistance. It, furthermore, presents to 
         teachers an excellent opportunity to convert the school 
         into a wartime center which serves the community and 
         America as well.” 
          
          
                                      CONTENTS 
          
         National Education Association Head Stresses CPA 
          Program 
         To School and College Administrators, by Walter 
          Cocking                                  
         War Price and Rationing Boards are Democracy in 
          Action                                  
         Consumer Service Now in Victory Corps            
         CPA Reports to the Nation..                   
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         What Youth Can Do to Help Wartime Price and Rent 
          Control and Rationing                        
         Rent Control Holds Down Living Costs             
         State Schoolmen Aid Point Rationing              
         Foundation Sponsors Negro Education Prolect        
         CPA Educators at Service of Schools              
Education for New Rationing Pro gram       
         Bibliography on CPA Economic Program           
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