The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-12
TRAIN ARMY men
X. U. May Teach Students TO BE
MunitiOn Makers.
Offer Courses to Other Men
Needed in Service.

Lawrence. Kan, April IA school
for training munition workers army
and navy mechanics, signal corps, en-
cheering. quartermaster and ordnance
recruits and for officers is to be OPEN
ed by the University of Kansas in a
few days. DIR. Frank Strong, chan
cellor of the university, has approved
the plan worked out by the faculty of
the school of engineering and Dean
p. F. Walker of the engineering
school went to Leavenworth Monday
to confer with army officers.
The army training school will be
open to all students of the university
and to young men from Kansas towns.
The training will last about six weeks,
it is now planned. Each student Will
be given five hours intensive work a
day under as nearly as possible the
conditions he would meet in navy
yards, arsenal, munition plant or field
service. The remaining parts of the
time will be spent in giving the ele-
ments of steam, and gas engineering,
automobile construction and operat-
ing, electric wiring, Transmission OF
electric power, elements of telephone
and signal engineering, explosives and
their proper handling and the use OF
cement in concrete and masonry con-
struction.
realized when you know that the in
dustrial and civil branches of the army
require three workers to every man in
the field" said Dean Walker. IF nee
essary the school of engineering IS
ready to diminish work of regular stu
dents, allowing them to act as assist
ants. where possible, and so handle our
staff that we may instruct a large
number of men. The university en-
gineerins shop can be manned to OPP
crate twenty hours day on four or
five-hour shifts and so accommodate a
large number of army students
To Use All Branches.
Every branch of the school of en-
gineering, mechanical, electrical, civil,
mining chemical, sanitary, will be
used in the work of the new school.
Besides this training for men who ex-
pect to enlist in the army departments
requiring special training, such as the
quartermaster's the signal and the
ordnance departments, a course will
be given strictly along military lines
for men who expect to qualify them
selves for commissions in the army.
Dean Walker taught these subjects in
the University of Maine at the time of
the Spanish war. Captain
Jones and other officers of Company
NJ, the university unit in the First
Kansas, will aid in this work as long as
COMPANY M IS IN IdWT6HCo. MANY OlA-
er members of the faculty have had
military training in the army or in
school. This training here will include
| field service, army organization, regu-
lar drill work, class work in military
! topogra ply, mapping and military
roads. and military engineering in
| Guiding drainage, sanitation, earth
works, stream crossings There also
will be special classes for electrical
signaling and telephoning, practical
care of explosives. mining and trench
| ing. -
Dean Walker urges the need of ev-
cry Kansas young man who can take
the training to do so, unless he hap
| pens to be on a Kansas farm. In that
case Dean Walker hopes he will stick
to the farm and let the town boys
do the army's work, because of the
threatened food shortage.
| Dean Walker in his report to the
| chancellor details the many ways in
which the engineering school shops
and equipment can be used for the
army, either in manufacturing or in
testing and measuring various ma
chimes. apparatus, products or supplies
where extreme accuracy is required
The laboratories are offered for test
ing work or for any work the nation
NAV need of them.