Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-15 | Page 14 | 150 Social Workers Start War Training

150 SOCIAL WORKERS START WAR TRAINING Will Undertake Task of Teaching Warworn War-worn Poilus "How to Play Again. ' ' NEW YORK, March 13. A class of 150 men, the forerunners of an army of 1000 or more workers required to man 54G social centers or "foyers des Sol-dats, Sol-dats, " which General Petain has ordered or-dered constructed along the French fighting lines, will begin a week of intensive in-tensive training at Princeton university univer-sity March 21. to teach war-worn poilus "how to play again" is the task to he undertaken under-taken by these workers, according to an announcement here today by the national na-tional war work council of the V. M. C. A. This organization began the recruiting re-cruiting and preparation of the workers work-ers at the request of General Petain and Premier Clemenceau. Princeton university virtually will belong be-long to the war workers during the week designated, Mr. John Gricr Hib-ben, Hib-ben, its president, having directed that j they shall have the benefit of every facility fa-cility the university affords in pre paring the men for their ' work over-i ! sens. The "foyers'-' over which they ;will have supervision will be similar to the " red (triangle " huts built by the Y. M. C. A. for American fighting men j near tlie fighting front and in the vil-i vil-i lages to the rear where they are billeted. bil-leted. j The course of training at the univer-; univer-; sitv will include instruction by the j Princeton professors in the French lan-I lan-I gunge, French institutions, ideals and I customs and how best to promote the ! social, recreative and educational life of the French soldiers.