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Show ARMY SCHOOLS ! ARE POPULAR Offer Only Opportunity tor Education Edu-cation to Many Thousand Americans. MANY PLEAD FOR ENLISTMENT Parents of Children Under Enlistment Age Atk Special PermUslon for 3ont to Enlist War Department Depart-ment Receives Inquiries. Washington. That the army oflVys. the only opportunity for even an elementary ele-mentary education for thousands uf young Americans who live In uudovel- J oped communities Is evldcul from I the Hood of letters which have been ro-' celtcd by the adjutant general .liiee I the policy of edticnlloii ill the tniuy I was recently nuntiuticed. Mothers and falhers wIiom sous bae 1 tieen declined for enlistment lu-eatiMi I of minority or phyolcul defect have written Milling that there uiv no schools to which their bos eiui be sent and that they are unable, tlnnn daily, to send them nwny from home to schools wbert gainful occupations are taught, and asking that special , permission be grunted for their no ceptnnee Into the army. j Public-spirited citizen Iu many com- j uimiltles lwe sent In the names ot I young men who should bo In school, ! requesting (he nrmy to send them lit-1 ernture culling their at lent Ion to tbe : opportunity being missed. Plead for Enlistment. : The father of eleen chlldrvn. ulna ' of whom are boys. Including a pair of I twins, riles that he sees no poittltill-' lly at boiiK' for a proper cdm-stlon fori any of iheth, nud dc-drc that special , permission be given to enlist his second sec-ond oldest sou nml the twins, all three of whom nre a IHHh whorl of the nihil-, mum age. He sajs his bojs "nre large for their ages nud will grade well up lo the average ctitliiti.v buy In looks and Intelligence." He lives no a "rundown" "run-down" Ozark farm In Missouri, and finds difficulty In eeu otitfllllug hM children lo nttend the common district school. A teller from Nebraska rends In part ni follows: "I don't know where the recruiting olllce around bete Is, but I lmc it bo" who will be eighteen jears old Christmas. Christ-mas. He has quit kcIiooI and has n profession; ut present he Is helping on a farm. We read the literature nil through, and o wish be was old enough to go. He might bolter bu In tbe nrmy for three ears leuruing to bo n good fanner or whnlevur ho would rather learn and nlso earning something, some-thing, too." i This letter came from n small town In Oklahoma: "I have read the letter that was sent to and I sec It Ib nn opening for anyone with ambition. Since my parents par-ents died I have not had the chance to obtain the education I desire. I sincerely sin-cerely hope I may Join the army, although al-though 1 am not of age. I am only sixteen years old. 1 am Ihe feet, eight Inches mil and weigh YX pounds. 1 utn doing a tnnn'H work and drawing n mini's pay. I am working In the mines, not Iu the ground, but on top. I have not u desire to attach myself to the mines, but to butter myself and country. Therefore I hope thut 1 may join the army and schools with your consent." Widow Pleads for Son. A widow pleads that her mm be taken tak-en Into tbo nrmy training schools, since she Is compelled to wbrk out. nnd she feels that be Is not having proper associates tinder present circumstances. circum-stances. "It Is killing me to see my) only boy go to ruin. Ut Is not a bad. boy, but he nocls training. Tlense let me know If I can get him In the nrmy's schools. Please help me to snve my only I V ' let me hear ns soon as tosslble. Please state what I may haw to do to put him there." Another Missouri father writes, that his boy Is anxious to go on with school, "but hns to attend school under un-der great dllllculties, as we live six,' and a hnlf miles from town and lm has to go ou horseback." He states that the boy is only tlftecn years old,'-Is old,'-Is five feet eight and a half Indies tall and weighs 1.15 pounds, and asks that age requirement!! be waived. As n part of Ihe campaign to widely advertise the new educational work In tho army, circulars were sent to thousands thou-sands of rural uddrcss where recruiting recruit-ing officers could not be sent. This wns done In November, so that farm work would not be Interfered with by enlistments. enlist-ments. Twenty occupational subjects which, nredniight In the nrmy were advertised ad-vertised In this clrculnrlzntlon. Thousands Thou-sands of replies have been received ru-questing ru-questing further Information. |