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Show UNCLE SAM BUILDER OF MEN ! v 'riJth-i Soldiers In the rarpenter school nt Camp (.rant building school buildings build-ings and officer's home. By HA I. M. OOGHR 1 N. B A. Staff C'orrvfsijondeni . CAMP GRANT, III. The Cjilted States army has become tho maker of business men. us well as the trainer of fighting men. Under I'ncle Sam's huge peace-time plan, enlieted soldiers may gruduato from the University In Khaki" the largest university in the world Into real professions and positions. There are now 105,000 students taking 107 course?. An Illiterate rookie, born anywhere in the universe, may step Into the American army, with little, or no education edu-cation at all, and step out of it as a full-fledged and educated machinist, baker, electrician, carpenter, musician, music-ian, textile worker. tailor, farmer, cook stenographer, saddler, teamster, furrier, painter or any one of many other tradesmen This has become a possibility since the research and development service has been added to the regular military mili-tary training In tho American army camps NINE CORPS AREAS. In connection with the governments plan of building men the country has been divided Into nine corps areas' which are spread all over the land I Each corps area will be the permanent perma-nent home of on army corps and the educational center for the vocational training of American youth. Camp Grant, in the Sixth corps area, has been the center In the? development de-velopment and research work, with Professor G. M Hoke, formerly connected con-nected with the University of Chicago and with the vocational training during dur-ing tho war, in general charge of education edu-cation The new schools at Camp Grant were started in November. 191U, and ran for a term of six months So successful was the tryout thai a special spe-cial school was carried on during July and August, with 700 pupils at class for the benefit of teachers from evory post and camp in the United States. LEARNING BY DOING, In the vocalloiiul training 32 trades are taught. Practical training is tho keynote of the now system men learning by doing "When America got Into the world war," as Professor Hoke explains, "It t was soon discovered that there was a shortage of developed manpower. I The army decided on a system of educational edu-cational training as well as military training Three ideas were made tho background of the new work- Make the time spent In the army attractive and Interesting "Open up lanes of business lire. "Send a man out of the army so that he .i be able to go back to civil life at a higher level. "In a nutshell, the idea was to civilize civ-ilize the army bring It in closer to I' h with t he ri-n r .1 I civil llfv TEACHING GROWNUPS. 'The great plan meant that grown men must be taught to become skilled In their choice of Industrial work, and that they must be taught to meet their social responsibilities as well as their Individual responsibilities, in tho business world "lie nee n place of the old all-military training, the reseaich and development devel-opment work gives soldiers six hours of education and the balance of the working clay at military training "The soldiers elect their own branches of education none are compulsory." |