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Show hammer out nonleakinp; tin cups and fry-ItiK-pans in. a typical army workshop ami with a minimum of equipment fcta quickly as in a perfectly equipped civilian Bhop. I'ntll tiift students in an auto repair detachment de-tachment can be trusted with an army motor truck, they are given old and battered bat-tered automobiles to work on, and, no matter what the instructor does to ona. of these, the student must bo able to locate the trouble and know how to remove re-move it. The government started its college courses for training workmen about three months ago. Fifty thousand men are in training at a time, and by November 1 flO.OOO will have been graduated. So great Is the necessity for workmen In the army that even raw recruits with only promise of ability are taken In if otherwise qualified. quali-fied. Under present regulations few men who cannot pass the physical tests of the army are taken for this work. The army cannot assure a man that he wijl make jfood at his trade, and, therefore, it may be necessary later to transfer him to some other branch, possibly to a fighting unit. Then, too, the workman of the army goes everywhere with . the troops and needs as strong a physique as the Infa ntryman. Evert when the colleges start on their regular fall program, the army training detachments will continue their work. Two hundred and twenty thousand men must be trained by next June, and to accomplish ac-complish this the college! must share their faculties and halls with the army. This will be made easier by the fact that the colleges themselves will be run on a military status during the coming year. According to present, plans, which may be altered by the proposed change in draft age, students between 18 and 21 years will be members of a part of the national army known as the students' army training corps. Olive drab will be the official color for men at the colleges this year, lioth the army training detachments de-tachments and the college students enlisted en-listed in the corps will wear the uniform at all times. The effect will, be decidedly military. Affairs of the army training detachments detach-ments and the students' army training corps pre administered by the committee on education and special training, a now branch of the war department, composed chiefly of well-known college professors. It Is the commlttec'a work to plan higher education along such lines that the 1 ol -leges will turn out the mot valuable material possible for the army. Twenty-five Twenty-five thousand graduates of the training detachments are the first practical result of the committee's efforts. 4 Fighting Mechanics By Frederic J. Hatklo. WASHtNGTON.'D. f In order to ee-cure ee-cure skilled workers in larger numbers for the army, tha gov-rnin,nt has Indirectly Indi-rectly taken over HO cellegvs and turned each of them into a coroulnatlon workshop, work-shop, svhool n1 war camp. Army traln-In traln-In detachment, composed of men ee- locltd from the rank nnd others just i enlisting, are sent to these college for (two month' intensive mudy at a trade, I nfter wtilch they are qualified aa "fighting m '-hanlcs" and set to work to run ana i repair the machine, y of the army. It is estimated that another year of war would fTitl for one million tig I lied WOfianajsj to be nt ovar from this roun-try roun-try to back up our flfchtern. It has been difficult to secure such men In ufflclni numbers for our army at Us present slic, ever, though every skilled man W helng taken out of tin- ranks and placed In the army workshops and LRpOT Attach ments. To supply tin deficit and provide for the future, the army Is now givtiul the man with a fimdumentnl knowledge &f a trad, or tth untrained ability, the chance to develop under expert teachers. Two months at a technical college undet army unpen t.Mnn inulu! n re rult an Intelligent workman and soldier. Six hours of the tUldenl - soldier' p day are clven to study, ahop training and lectures. Thre hour are devoted to military drill. The development of morale Is nn lin- porlanl feature, of the trniniu.,- Rearular olaeaeri arc beg by ppofeaeors epectally detailed to Inculcate into the itudente thar eluelve spirit of confidence, under-Standi under-Standi nK and poise known as morale, The unusual thinK auuut thesij elsenes lt! that the students cone prepared to ask questions. ques-tions. nd It Is t ho professor who must frngVer thern. Military strut cgy, rilplo-rtiit-y. InlernaMonul Isw are a few of tho topic- dlscPMed, A lint of question! asked by one class contains such samples sa: "wiini is tho good of intamaUonal law ?" "What will hecomc of the (Jar-tnan (Jar-tnan empire nftT tho war?" and "Is Ruib la neuirni?" ii in underetood that the knowledge of war eooditlons obtained t h rough t hesci eliMsea given I he soldlera iv Kllmpufl Intu th purpose behind nil the man ot on out drilling end labor, ana thus tends I" Strengthen the 'nil-important morale Of the unit Outside "f working hours tho men are quarter od in barracks buU1 for them near the rolled. HJVery efort Is nia1e t(1 provide pro-vide entertainment tor thnm, gnd In moet pases the college town rooelvai its visitors gladly, if. W. C huts are erected In some-of the itUQant camps, nnd when this III ImpOOlble Lhc boys fit up :m i rmory ns a recreation hall and hold their dencee h ml moving -pi' til in shows In a gym- nwLum. Every college that has sufficient equip-meni equip-meni t-'1" technical training1 Is opening its rtogrs to the eriny. Au u rule, hot .id of Mho training I Riven at the college. In Akron, for Instance, kfte ROiueri g0 Into thft tire factories for practTosu opplioa-tjpp opplioa-tjpp of tgQl ures glyen el .Akron nimrr- slty, CooperaVon of the factonei lb furnlthlDf tnajr experts gs thgtructori end their flOOr Ipat ' M (" hoolroom ipeedl up appreciably the work of turning out fighting meohanloii In record time, ai ( thar school, where! mining i taught there te reai.TOni oloee by, ;t whbh iie gtudentl ar( nrst-nand oxperlenoei Xh eohob atmoephere Ii kept by reguJ i,m quleeei und reporte which are a part ,,f tni lyeteni al Men oollege. Cnetruo torii n s weii an pupils, are given leclureii their lUbjecl stuay being methods of leachlnd. ,S need for thli teacher training train-ing i-; round in that the shop olaeiM are taughj by osporl workmen twho oftoit have bad no pxperlenee In teaching tnelr tade tO "I hers. Tho college pr-ifesHoi H tu Charge nf lecture olMRgi have, or couriOi no need r thui eorli. The fl of trades needed hy t tin inod-,.rn inod-,.rn iiitn Is a long oie, A few of the inn 'i essential gre blaokeniltbe, minora, i immimh he, sleotrlolaps. machlnlets, oar-Renters, oar-Renters, meootnlos nnd ivfiamUhii As iMKeutl' ii'; Ihe m'liiy needs men of Ihr-ft" (l M( i)hpr I t'foh -i, it hs no t line for th , 1 1 rult tnftl ll lacking ability nnd willing IM'MS. few nun ol IhlR It tint ttnit t tielr u;iv Into e training detachment) anu. if Line doss, hi" ongeer nn i atudent-ioldler Is brief tralrnng detaehmeni hgi too mUi i, io i :i' ii in Its allotted two months I n w: i Mnifi u iUMi tine Indifferent pupil. The .mi i i ii lm l o reproduce net ii n 1 ll.-Ut . Mii HI lii iu, ill nn 1 1 vn n I ncefi nnd Idnni inceR inotuded i '"1 ihte reaewi tne smooth oonurete rtoori i,r the iveriige workshop are replaced with loll Boldlers giu dying to he ifnatnlthg Wi taught to |
