SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 1941.
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By HERBERT G. KING United Press Staff Correspondent
Vichy, Jan. 17—(UP)—In a determined drive to disprove the totalitarian assertions that the French race is tired and worn out, the government of Marshall Henri Philippe Petain set about the dual task of giving French youth healthier bodies and new ideals.
A recent law empowered Jean Borotra, sports leader and France's former Davis Cup ace, to appropriate $40,000,000 for the building of stadiums and swimming pools and for purchase of sporting material.
Meanwhile, the youth movement, characterized by the creation of work camps and workshops under the guidance of farmers, mechanics and skilled artisans, is being boosted with an enthusiasm rarely seen in France. It is well known that the youth movement is Marshall Petain's chief pre- occupation and he is probably more concerned with its success than many other affairs of state.
The Youth Movement (Mouvement de Jeunesse), which is under direct state control and subvention, already groups more than 100,000 youngsters between the ages of 14 and 21, while the autonomous Companions of France (Compagnons de France) movement is steadily growing and now has something in the neighborhood of 5,000 adherents.
Hope to Clear Slums
The aims of the two groups are to eliminate juvenile unemployment, to reduce congestion in over-populated city slum areas by teaching young people rural artisanship and to instil nationalistic principles combined with greater discipline. Both boys and girls are included in the movement.
For the time being, the young people are employed in work for which there is a dearth of adult labor. They are paid 20 francs daily, most of which is consigned directly to parents for their upkeep and, with the exception of those engaged in forestry, most of them live at home.
The Companions of France movement is slightly different from the Youth Movement in that children of any age are accepted and the organization is directed along the lines of the Boy Scouts. It aims, as does the Youth Movement, to eliminate unemployment, but also puts great stress on games as a medium of molding character, building the body and instilling into the youthful mind the necessity of maintaining throughout life the "team spirit." This ideal runs somewhat counter to the traditionally individualistic French way of thinking. The French press is daily insistent on the fact that as far as this country is concerned "every man for himself" is a thing of the past and must be stamped out. The Companions of France organization is financed by the state.
Schools Play Vital Roles
Schools Play Vital Roles
The French government's interest in youth is not confined to these movements, and during recent months a veritable revolution has taken place in the teaching world. Teachers and professors throughout France, who were considered as being too much in sympathy with prewar Popular Front ideas, either were
retired or dismissed. Several leftists professors from some of France's universities were deprived of their citizenship.
Petain recently declared:
"The French school of tomorrow will teach the meaning of respect for humanity, the respect of the family, society and the fatherland. Schools no longer will strive after neutrality. Life is not neutral. It consists in taking hardy steps forward."
Dovetailing into this line of thought is the guiding slogan of the youth movement which proclaims that the family is a social cell on which "New France" is to be built.
The motto of the Companions of France is—"You shall be courteous to women. You shall respect your family."
The need for intensive sport training in France can be seen from the following officially quoted statistics:
Physical Unfitness Cited
"Half the young Frenchmen called to the colors each year were declared 'inapt' for military service. According to 1926 figures, of 53.4 per cent of those declared inapt, 36 per cent were temporarily exempted, while 17
per cent were declared useless for armed service.
"In Germany during recent years the number of those declared inapt was estimated at 10 per cent. In Sweden there were only 7 per cent.
"Research in the Upsala high school showed among those attending the school 100 per cent normal subjects and most of them were magnificent athletes. In a similar school in one of our departments only 21 scholars were declared to be truly normal, while 79 were deficient or sub-normal."
Sports for Masses
"It is necessary that the crowds of spectators who passively sit in the stadiums on Sunday afternoon come down and take part in the games.
"Teachers of our French schools gymnastic instructors in our colleges and in our sporting clubs, you are to be the ironworkers who will 'orgue a new race.'
Professionalism in sport is to be abolished gradually. In the meantime a small number of teams grouping both professionals and amateurs will be tolerated. In no case, however, can a professional's license be granted to a man under 26.
Chapeaux a la '90--- Schiaparelli Has Nothing On Grandma's Modiste
If you are allergic to present-day women's hats, stop by the display room in 320 Frank Strong hall. There you will find examples of extremist millinery that will make you think all 1941 headgear to be studies in moderation. versibles was a free library
If you weren't sure surrealism was a twentieth century phenomena, you'd swear that little Gay Nineties job of rosettes, ostrich feathers and jet calochons was something only Dali could have dreamed up.
As an NYA project started in 1938, two department of design students have made water-color fashion plates showing the styles of every decade since 1700. The plates are completed now and are being exhibited.
The collection was made for the bureau of general information of the extension division as part of a loan the state for those who need infor-library. It will be available all over mation on early American styles. Drama groups and women's clubs are expected to be the main sources of demand.
The students spent months of research in selecting and finding the authentic costumes and then reproducing them. Each decade is illustrated with a man, woman and child in one costume of that day. Women's accessories for each decade are also shown.
The Gay Nineties hats not only remind you of surrealism; there is one reminiscent of nothing but a Fourth of July pinwheel caught in still-life. Some resemble miniature flower gardens, slightly wind-blown; another looks like a fountain in suspended animation.
Other hats are titled "Tooreador with Plisse Chiffon and Silk Pompons," "Toque with Crown of Lace and Chiffon, "Draped Toque of Straw and Pliss Mousseline de Soie."
A 1770 color plate shows a demure young thing looking very much like a hooded coed on a rainy day. She has on a cash (collapsible bonnet). A far cry from hair re-
versibles was a fur-lined hood attached to a fur-trimmed cape of 1740, but the resemblance was there; showing in this instance that all 200 years does to the silhouette is take off a little trimming.
The present-day vogue for nautical fashions harps back to 1900. Even in those days designers borrowed ideas from the dress of sailors, but it was mainly for little boys costumes. Huge sailor collars graced the middles of youngsters in those days. Now the grown-up youngsters wear them. Time marches back!
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