Show Miller Rubber Co Trains Men For W Work WorkOut orl On Out One of t the b most Interesting and im- im J phases of ot military activity In and around Akron 0 O. the rubber tire tiro Center enter of the w world are the United Slates army tire r repair schools where the I young soldiers ar are given tion in the building and ant of casings and tubes In the case of the Miller company where Miller the road tires thes ar manufactured the class Is conducted In the large service station across across' the str street et from the factory Ea Each h month a class of enlisted men puts In four weeks of ot diligent work in an effort to master th the mysteries of tire construction There are six ix hours of work each day v The de detachment detachment de- de is und under r command of Captain A. A E. E Aub and is quartered when not in lh the classroom In barracks on the campus of Akron university When the four weeks of of ti tire Stu have been con concluded each man must pass pas an examination of twenty-nine twenty questions concerning tire building and repairing He Is then gra d according to his proficiency pro pro- I as shown by his answers to the examination questions That the young soldiers are unusually good stun stu stu- atu- atu dents t I Is Indicated n l by nt the average g standIng stand stand- Ing of t the h class of June There h were rt 7 I men taking the course at various plants In Akron and the average grade trade was 90 per cent pein Tn the MUlCt Miller r school and the sam m sit sitUation sitti situation sit sit- ti tion prevails elsewhere tire men of long long- experience are instructors for the soldier students The Miller students are never allowed to handle customers' customers tires although when they finish their course It is said th that t they ar ate are perfectly qualified qualified quaIl quaIl- fied fled to do so go When tit the enlisted men first enter the they are confronted with a huge pile of old tires of every variety variety curd cord molded wrapped and so eo on There Ther are also Innumerable tires for their Inspection inspection inspection tion and study After Atter two or three e lectures lec lec- tures the Ipen b begin gln to t tear ar apart the tubes and casings and learn what they theyer er made of Then comes the actual repair work An aged casing that has been skillfully skill skill- fully repaired until it will again render Cervi Service e is subjected to terrible abuse until un un un- til the average layman would pronounce It fit for nothing but the scrap pile This casing Is turned over to a couple of students stu stu- stu I I dents and they are told to repair it tt so It can be used again The results are Often orten EO eo En remarkably well attained that they are amazing I Of such men is the United States Blates army's tire repair d department torn Corn posed t t |