Putnam patriot., 1917-11-16

pIeted and the members of that class due for service have been given their certificates The aim k to enable the school in any community through continuing classes to train successive groups Of men as far as possible in the same order as that in which they are due for service.
 The trade school aIfeady has large class room fitted up for this work. Wireless receivers are installed in the person learning sits At the booth. Messages are sent to all booths at the same time by the instructor placed in the middle of the room. As fast as messages are sent the student writes them down in his message book. This work of course comes after the student has thoroughly .learned the dot and dash signal corresponding to each let ter of the alphabet.
 . The beginner Is required to learn the code by memorizing the first letters
  repeatedly then the second D there- after, writing the total first 10, and so on until the alphabet is completely mastered. It has been found that the majority Of the students learn the al phabet in this manner within periods assigned during the school hours ot two or three days By this method the student gets his first impression Of the telegraphic characters from the sending of an expert telegrapher, and he is thus quickly impressed with the correct sound of each Of the letters of the alphaoet rather than with the sound which he or some other beginner would make if attempting to send. In addition, he begins the coordination of hand and mind, which later results in his automatically reducing to writing the sodnd which he heHrs
 Il has been the eXpeuence of army authorities that an operators pteiimi- nary training should consist of enough practice to enable him to send and re- ceive 70 words of j letters each per minute. This degree ot proficiency has been found to require about 20o hours of work. The operators further instruction will be carried on after he joins the signal corps nt the canton. meat,
 All students at the time they leave the schools will receive some written evidence cf what they have done in the school in order that they may present this evidence at the cantonment No student will be allowed to withdraw from the class without this written statement These written statements will be of two kinds:
 For those students who have reached the required standard of 20 words in sending and receiving. a certificate will be issued This certificate of proficiency will give the following information: Name of student, draft number, resi- dcnee number of hours attendance on the course. name of school. and his ahil- i itN as shown by test to send and re l eeNe a stated number of words per min ute which must not be less than 20 l This certificate will also state that the instruction was gwen in accordance with the provisions in the training of radi, and bu21er operators issued by the Fed eta Board for Vocational Education n corporation with the United States Sig nal erps
 For those students who for any req, son fail to reach the required standard statement of attendance will be Is. ] sued. winch with the exception of lts caption will furnish exactly the same information about him. in rludiRg the l fact that he has shown an ability tC send and receive stated number oi words per minute which obviously vii | be less than the standard
 It has been urged that the sehoo authorities do not in any case neglect [, equip all men with this evidence, as il i k highly important that the army au thorities should have information. hott through these certificates and througl raports made to the Federal Board, con cefning all the men who have enrolled in these courses and taken any instruc tion
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