Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-21
HUGE us.
FORCE IN FRANCE
Educator Predicts 100000
Americans There by End
z of War
ARMY OF INDUSTRY
Vocational, Training Essential to
Successful Termination Of
Conflict ~

80 0tttn IIliiloH Ultf Will ldNt " W SNhN
lfprn the United States TO France before
( the war Is ended, according TO Arthur
Z i. wiiliston, director OF the Wentworth
Institute. OF Boston. In an address made
1t the opening session OF the eleventh
annual convention of the National So
cisty for the Promotion OF Industrial
Education. These men will include en-
kineers and artisans of all description.
thousands of them requiring training to
make them highly skilled workmen be-
fore they leave this country. said Doctor
wiiIiston. and the problem of training
this vast Industrial army is one which
confronts the nation today.
WARS REQUIREMENTS
This estimate of need for 1000, 000
men for foreign service was made to
him. Doctor williston said. by an Off
cia1 in Washington, who spoke conserva-
lively. Doctor williston pointed out that
war Is no longer the simple affair which
II once was. but that the need for highly
trained men to conduct countless opera
tons backing the military forces In the
field meant the organization of the most
highly complex Industrial machine ever
known In the worlds history.
The problem OF the Government. he
said. was to train these great masses
Of men with the greatest speed to the
greatest eciency. As an instance of
the bewildering requirements of mod
ern warfare he cited single list
which had been presented 10 him and
which called for the recruiting or train
ing of 100 different men. each highly
skilled in some different vocation.
ERA OF CIVILIZATION
THE democracy of jefferson Is dead
declared G. A. Prosser. director of the
Federal Board for Vocational Education.
democracy of Hamilton is being realized
to an extent greater than Hamilton
ever dreamed of" Mr. Prosser cited the
Smith h-Hughes law. placing the Federal
Government In charge OF vocational
training in the various States, with APP
propriations for the work advanced by
the Federal Government which retains
power TO withdraw from any state this
financial support IL the administration
OF the law In that state does not suit
X, as an instance of this growth of
Hamilton's theory that a strongly CEN
tralized constitutional government Is the
ideal form.
Hugh Frayne. labor representative on
the War Industries Board, Council OF
National Defense. who was to have
addressed the morning session. tele-
graphed that an important meeting OF
the War Industries Beard prevented his
presence here today, but Mr.. Frayne
will speak at the informal discussion OF
war emergency vocational training
which will take place at a dinner to be
held by the delegates to the convention
at the Hotel Adelphis on Friday night.
A description OF the methods of train
ing wcrkmen to become shipbuilding
. t,f ~ ..
Newport News was given by L. f. Mac
Nary, expert on Industrial training for
the division of construction, Federal
shipping Board. BY lantern slides Mr.
MacNary showed the records of prog
ress kept az tlpes- advance in efficiency
made by the carpenters and men o.
trades allied to the bodybuilding trad,
under instruction.
German scientists were extolled al
"the metallurgical wonders of th'
world in an address at the mornin;
session by Edgar C. FELTON,. OF the Penn
syiyania State Department of Labo
and Industry. and also Federal indus
trial administrator for pennsylvania
who said that Germany. after her sup
plies of copper. manganese and hydrate
had been shut off by the Allies block
adc. had devised substitutes for cop
per In, manufacturing munitions. substi
t,ites for manganese i'm the manufactur
Of steel and substitutes for hydrate'
formerly imported from South America
Declaring that the United States ha
been unprepsred for this war because
II n nation habtually disposed towar
peace, Mr.. FELTON, reminded his audienc
that such inventors of machine gun
and submarines as Calling and Maxim
Holland and Lake. had been obliged {
70 TO European nations for considera
ton. since the United States had refuse
consideration to any inventions but thos
concerned with the arts of peace. Sue
national tradition. said Mr., Feltor
now called for the exercise OF unusua
efforts to win the war. the special train
Ing OF Industrial workers being one phas
Of this imperative activity.