Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-27
HOTELS TO Be CALLED ON
TO SUPPLY SKILLED COOKS
Experienced Men Accustomed to Pre-
pairing Food Wanted as Instrue:
tors at Gantonments:
OTHER SKILLED MEN NEEDED
Great Demand. Says Council Of De-
tense, Which Urges Technical
Schools to Revise Courses and
Operate All the Year Round.

Assistance of The State Council Of
Defense was sought yesterday by the
United States government to Secure
trained workers to mi the needs Of the
government. Both the Department of
generate department, lave asked the
aid OF the council ia recruiting both
men and women.
Training skilled mechanics and high
grade helpers ls perhaps the next step
IN national preparation. Manual train
ing nigh schools and NIL schools with
Fhep-work departments will BIO ro.
questea to prepare to moot tho dcnnhds
mat VIII como for scmitochn!cnl work
ORR In tho mctnl trnden and other In
dustries. President Wilson. Secretary
or Commerce Rcdheld and other gov
eminent officials are vigorously be-
nina tho effort to enlist vocational
schools and classes everywhere in the
establishment OF this second line Of
industrial defense.
IL Is Impossible to forecast definitely
the number of mechanics and opera-
tfes of various kinds that will he re-
CURED. Officers in the Army. Navy and
civil Service Commission are agreed.
however, that during the next few
months there will be an unusual de-
mand for capable forcmen. mechanics
and high grade helpers in "A number
OF important occupations The follow
ing are some of the workers who will
DC most urgently needed: automobile
mechanics. bakers. blacksmiths boat
puilders. chauffcurs, cooks. craftsmen.
electricians. engineers (stcam). cngi-
necrs (gas), machiniSts motorcycle
mechanics. painters. pipchtters. rlvet-
ers. saddlers, shiptitters. shipwriEhts,
tentmakcrs. textile workers. wheel.
wrights. stenographers. typcwriters
DEMAND FOR ItnIfISt>Dc
FROM MANY SOURCES
1t is pointed out by the Department
OF the Interior that the demand for
these workers will come from tho roo
uiar enlisted corps of army and navy.
from the enlisted reserve corps of mo
army and navy. from the eligible reg
iS'ers OF the Civil Service Commission.
workers are called into government
service. After the war there will also
ne continued demand for s;mila p
WORKERS. IN the reorganization and re
haollitation of industry
maintaining school throughout tho
800 encouraging students between
sixteen and twenty years OF arc now
already enrolled to continue thor tr,i,,
."s ana discouraGinE premature en-
necessary as
Ihere are over SEQ special scboo,s
a..ii 1911, Tor service of the kind indi-
Gated now on the lists of the Pure,
OF Education. according m ~ a.
par'ncnts statement, and these schooIs
nave been asked TO notify rho 60
missioner of Education at once az -
me plans this will be adoptcd for
government VI tHe
The quartermastcr-g generals den.r.
ment wants approximately Assn -
~ supcrintcnd sixteen army c,n,on-
asked TO help supply this need
WANT EXPERT COOKS TO
SERVE AS INSTRUCTOR c
Is not the object of the Quarter
$3.50. department. TO make these
-, appointed cooks a permanent
par' OF the military organization IL
IS believed that their services Will Nor
ne required longer than from one
month 10 six weeks In addition m
'heir Work OF getting the army kitch-
ems into running order, thew will ho
util!zed as instructors for the cooLs
VINO are permanently TO serve in tho
natiohal army cantonpent. While re-
ceiHinS government pay they viii y.
supervised by trained instructors froyn
the regular army.
The presidents of the hotel ossoci,
IONS have been asked to act as com
mittec in working out this scheme
Each hotel proprietor who recommends
experienced, reliable cooks Will be held
responsible for the efficiency of these
ineh. Ihese cooks will be transportcd
at government expense to and from
thelr places OF employment They will
be paid the salaries they have received
at the hotels which regularly en-
ployed them
There are at present four govern
ment schools for the training of cooks
ana bakers. IT is obvious that. in
preparing to feed the new national
army. much more extensive training
must be devised. With this in view
the war Department has worked ont
plan whereby the captain of each
company shall choose, out of the most
iikclE men presented, three cooks who
VIII he trained in school methods while
inc national army is undergoing its
course This Will give something like
90 enlisted cooks TO each cantonmcnt
over these men the civilian hotel cooks
VIII have supervision until the work
is vel! organized. The most proficient
of the enlisted instructors from the
four government schools have been
recommended for commissions in the
quartcrmastcr'S reserve corps TO or
ganiZc new schools along the line of
the ones now in existence.
The courses in the new schools un-
der contemplation arc planned TO be
half as long in time as those now fol-
lowed in the four existing schools.
where the student is graduated after
four months of instruction.