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Show Tjfie AMERICAN (Copy for Thl Department Supplied by the Amerlran Legion Newrj Service.) FORMER SOLDIER AN ARTIST John Avardo Will Be Sent to Rome by Veterans' Bureau to Com. plete His Course. Before the war John Avardo was a waiter in a restaurant in Baltimore, .mu. -ow ne is a student of art, and, according to the American Legion at Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, will be sent to Rome to complete his course. While recovering recover-ing from war injuries in-juries at a Baltimore Balti-more hospital, Avardo displayed considerable skill in moulding clay. The Veterans' bureau became interested in the case, and sent him to an art school where he shortly afterward won first prize In a modelling contest. His growing ability has led the bureau to undertake under-take to send him abroad. Avardo's is only one of a number of cases of rehabilitation in which men who before the war were driving trucks or nushinir shovels have dis- covered their true talents in the course of being vocationallzed. Men who previously had been content with unskilled labor are now attending classes in auto-mechanics, radio-work, drafting, machine design, agriculture, and various other trades and professions. |