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Show SCHOOL FOR THE SOLDIERS German Empire Establishes Courses That Young Men May Become Skilled In Some Occupation. In keeping with the German goern-ment's goern-ment's idea of making tho empire one nst training school for tho declop-ment declop-ment of tho best thero Is In tho jouth of tho country for national commercial commer-cial success regular business school courses aro now being organized In tho German army, so that the recruit during his term of mllltnry senlco will bo fitting himself for the business life ho will have to enter on quitting the colors, says tho Army and Navy Journal. The hundreds of thousands of children chil-dren aro not permitted to pass through tho public schools and to drift through life as unskilled laborors. Each one, as far as tho government can order It so, Is turned out skilled In some occupation. occu-pation. One of tho most powerfully educative educa-tive forces In tho ompiro Is tho continuation con-tinuation r-hool originally Intended to maintain some kind of discipline over youths from fourteen to eighteen years of age prior to their enlistment in the army. Of lato years these continuation con-tinuation Bchools havo been changed into vocational schools. Twlco every year great, flaming posters call tho youth of tho land to obligatory attendance at tho trade and commercial schools Theso posters enumerate moro than 100 trades or vocations vo-cations and each youth Ib Bummonod to nppear at tho school devoted to his particular calling. Connected with these schools have naturally grown up actual workshops, where tho pupils handle real machinery and make commercial com-mercial articles No one who observes the almost military precision with which all this vnHt system is carried along to the advancement ad-vancement of the commercial succoss of tho nation can fall to associate it with the impression mado upon tho popular mind by sorvlce in tho army, and tho student of sociology will not fall to mako a note of the fact that this great method of training of tho jouth of a country has had Its origin In tho land which so many shallow thlukors have said wob cursed by a militarism that was "crushing tho life out of tho Industrial forccB of tho country and undermining tho character charac-ter of tho youth of the land." |