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Show AMERICAN gtlfGDN (Copy fiir Tills lin i tin nut Hupplif A by I h A nirli'n 1 Ion Nrws Si vie. ) FORMER SOLDIER AN ARTIST John Avardo Will B Sent to Rome by Veterans' Bureau to Com-plete Com-plete Hla Course. lVforo tho war John Avnnlo was n waltor In a roataurant In Ilalllmore, Md. Now lie Is u stuilcnt of art, and, according to the A in e r loan l.oK'lon at Washington, Wash-ington, 1. C will be uont to ltoino to complete his course. While recovering recover-ing from war Injuries In-juries at n ltaltl-I ltaltl-I more hospital, ' Avardo displayed ' consldoniblo skill lu moulding clay. The Veterans' bureau became Interested In the case, and sent him to an art school where he shortly afterwurd won (list prize In a modelling contest. Ills 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 pushing shovels hnve discovered dis-covered their true talents In the course of being yocatlonallzed. Men who previously had been content with unskilled labor are now attending classes la nuto-mechanlcs, radio-work, drafting, machine design, agriculture, and various other trades and professions. |