Show 4 gyp Seli schools rise ris el to offer training for defense jobs minneapolis racket trade schools are springing up all over the united states to take advantage of the anxiety of young men to secure quick training for defense jobs like most rackets the gyp job training school is flourishing on a wave of popular enthusiasm for something legitimate and is muscling in among the many legitimate schools for trade and vocational training the job of separating the he t good schools from the bad is complicated for the ambitious young job seeker by the fact that some new trade schools are entirely legitimate and have been established due to the fact that many older schools are already crowded to capacity and have long waiting lists high pressure salesmen for the gyp schools have already filched the savings and secured the contract signatures of thousands of ambitious young job seekers by guaranteeing an jobs with the big airplane plants and other defense production industries and by representing that their schools have deals with such companies to supply them with trained employees according to a re report port by the northwestern national life insurance company the situation has become so bad t that at major aircraft companies have been flooded with inquiries and complaints regarding guaranteed placements promised by such sale salesmen amen several california companies have issued warning bulletins to the effect that hat they had authorized zed no such agreements understandings der standings or guarantees chambers of commerce in various defense industry centers are issuing warnings on the subject the report emphasizes that the two principal faults of the racket trade school are to oversell the opportunity port unity in the first place and to under train in the second place the report suggests simple tests which any youth can apply to the school he is considering before he pays any money down or signs an application blank he should demand a list of recent graduates of the school he should get in touch with several such graduates either by personal contact or by letter and ask them the following three sim simple ale questions 1 was the course satisfactory 2 did it help you to secure a job 3 has it helped you win advancement in your job or if you have been employed only a short time do you feel that it is likely to help you win advancement in the case of a newly established d school the prospective student should enlist the help of some older olde r friend to investigate the financial responsibility of the sponsors the completeness of the equipment and the previous connections of the instructors tors public school authorities can usually give helpful inform information atio n about a local private privat e school and the report emphasizes that a legitimate school will welcome investigation the report also warns that a certain proportion of young men due to individual tastes mental characteristics te and personality type could not be fitted to hold a job in a mechanical or technical trade therefore the legitimate trade schools invariably examine the qualifications of the applicant and refuse to accept those who they feel cannot b be e successfully trained the gyp I 1 school exercises no such selection but accepts any ap applicant who can raise the amount of the down payment |