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Show STUDY COURSES FOR RECRUITS LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27. Drafted men who aro awaiting call to the ranks may bo given intensivo educational edu-cational work along the lines planned to help fit them for service, in the schools of this city, If the war continues con-tinues until schools resume in the fall. This announcement was included in a review of war work in tho schools Just completed by Dr. Albert Shlels, superintendent of schools hero. Dr. Shields says that Intensive training Is possible for the men, as well as for prospective officers, and that arrangements may bo entered into by which the schools can undertake, with their existing force, to train men in technical branches before they enter tho service. The school .authorities believe, It is stated, that such preliminary training train-ing would help to reduce the time spent in training camps and would increase tho number of skilled woik-ors woik-ors without retarding the general program. pro-gram. 00 |