Show importance OF TRADES AND HOBBIES TO THE ARMY AMMY DRAFTEES it must be remembered that a modern army Is a cross section of our specialized mechanized civilization and that it rates special skills higher than they are rated in civilian life most of us think of an army as a group of riflemen and machine gunners but right now every executive officer is crying for more male stenographers teletype operators bu business siness machine operators cooks etc the same shortage applies to radio men and photographers when the recruit is interviewed for the information to be placed on his soldiers zold lers qualification card at the reception center he is asked to state his first second and third best occupations occupation s later the interviewer begins di digging 9 ing into the mans hobbles hobbies to determine skills talents and interests in order that he may receive further training along the lines where he has specific experience or preferences f feren eren ces naturally Natu raly every recruit will get a I 1 certain amount of basic military training drill discipline and cour tussles one in every seven soldiers is a skilled specialist and a much greater ratio fall in the semi skill ed category for when all Is said and done there are no unskilled workmen in a modern army As soon as qualification cards are filled officers will start combing them for skilled specialists in no less than different dif ferrent traded boltie of the important army crafts are s follows blacksmiths railroad conductors dooks coppersmiths railroad dispatchers pat chers trainmen yardmaster yard masters 3 locomotive oco motive engineers foremen fabric workers telegraph and telephone linemen maintenance men lithographers radio operators pharmacists photographers grap hers xray X ray operators pressmen rotary lithography radio plant chiefs repairmen camera instrument signal saddlers shoemakers cable steno grapher typists mechanical technicians nic ians wire chiefs canvas workers and cordage workers |