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Show Ccrrcrpcndenco Course Used In Training Men For The Navy 1 In an inti rvi"W with Roland I!. : ."until, CHM., U. S. Navy, 0:l.eir iii Cli:;:-,!- of tin; U. S. Navy Ueeruit'iig Station at Provo, Utah, 1 observed that a .fact which was perhaps not g( nerally known by 1110. .1 people was that the sy,,leiii of training men by correspondenc.; courses J was d.seuvi red by the U. S. Navy ong belore il was widely used in evil life. He attributes to the de-co.opiiv de-co.opiiv lit ol th s method of ra n.ng, the fact that the Navy l as long been known as a place ; l,eii a man can get more valu-a valu-a trade experience in a given iiine tnan he can 111 most civil oci ligation::. It appear:;, firun what Mr. I'm.th sa-s, that a gnat many Jo-ng in"n do still continue to jo n the Navy to "sec; the world" n the face ot not infrequent good la. mod adv.ee from tiie.r ir.eiid; :.a: 1 11 :- v.i w Voin a porthole of :. nip :s apt lo be a somewhat re-. re-. ru.J o:ie, but tne giva est majority ma-jority 01 applicants do, nonetheless, nonethe-less, profess a serious-minded de-s de-s re lo leai n a ti ado. I It has been said by one of the ' country's leading educators, that ! one of the most striking devc-lop-' nienls in education during the past ten years has been the tremendous growth of part time j schools, evening schools, extension exten-sion courses, and other kinds of .instruction for men and women who are employed. States, cities, colleges, and even the great business busi-ness corporations of the country, are spending millions of dollars on education for people who have to earn and learn at the same time. The chief reason for the success suc-cess and rapid growth of this kind of instruction is that studying study-ing any trade or business, and getting practical working experience experi-ence in the same line, at the same t.me, seems to be an almost ideal combination for practical success. The man who can follow his chosen line of work and study it at the same time gets a broad, practical knowledge of his '.rade or business that it is hard .0 get in any other way. Such training in the Navy, Mr. Smith states, commences on the :iay a man enters the service and ends on the day he leaves it, whether it be at the end of one enlistment or on his retirement after 20 years. Mr. Smith did not venture an opinion as to the total number of trades and professions practiced practic-ed by men in civil life, but he did 'state that 55 different and distinct dis-tinct trades are engaged in by men of the Navy. Here are some he mentioned: machinist, electrician, elec-trician, printer, shipfittc-r, baker, cook, radioman carpenter, molder, pattermaker. stenographer, pharmacist, phar-macist, photographer, boiler-maker, boiler-maker, musician, metalsmith, aerographer, aviation machinist, and aviat on metalsmith. |