The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-04-23
5000 SOldieS In
France Training
For Better Place
In Civil Life

and getting paid for it's one OF the
ways the A. E. F. puts in its time.
There's plenty of play time IN tour
ing France while on leave and IL
camp athletics.
But aside from being tourists and
athletes the former fighting men o.
the United States are students. You'd
think all of them, officers and men
had seen enough of schooling-for II
was school all the time while they
were under military training in the
camps at home and before they went
into acton over here.
This is different. They won their
military degrees" In the well done
job of licking the Germans. Now
thousands are schooling themselves
for better jobs and better citizenship.
More than 5000 officers and enlist
cd men are attending the A. q. F.
university at Beaune. It's an Ameri-
made university, created almost
overnight in hundreds Of buildings
that formerly were used as a hospi-
tai.
Beaume is a small town about zoo
miles southeast of Paris. in the De-
f., patrment Cote-d, Or, not far from d.
jon.
Register 1919 on Opening bay
On opening day last month 1918
students registered. The number
climbed rapidly until now there is an
attendance exceeding that Of MANY
big universities in the United States 1.
All OF the students had previous
college and university records. many
already having degrees. In the ma
jority of cases they are men whose
college courses back home were in.
terrupted when they enlisted. Now
they are finishing in the interim be-
tween the armistice and demobiliza-
ton. And they draw army pay and
living allowances while they're doing
IL.
Thousands more are attending post
schools in camps scattered all over
France. Courses range all the way
from preliminary schooling, for those
handicapped in their earlier years by
lick of opportunity for even common
school education, up to the advance
technical schools,
The agricultural school at Allerby
has big attendance. testifying Z
the desire of many soldiers to take
their living out OF the soil when they
get home.
The College of Business In thu
university at Beaune has the larges
enrolment. The faculty include,
several officers and enlisted men whit
gave up business successes to answer
the call to arms. The dean is W. H
Lough, formerly of the New Yorl
University School of Commerce.
/ Many embryo lawyers are N tn,
army according to the enrolment i,
the College of Law. The dean 1,
Captain Warren A. Seavey, who hold
the distinction Of being the onl.
white man who ever conducted sue
cessful school Of law in China.
4 Major William H. Parker Is hea,
of the College OF Letters. He wa
formerly professor of political econ
omy at the University Of Cincinnati
In the College of Fine and Appliet
Arts, the Industrial and commercial
branch is directed by Major Harry
Cunningham and the painting by Cap
tain Carl v. Burger.
Doughboys rub shoulders with feel
officers here and in the various uni
versities in France and Englan
where special arrangements hav
been made to take care Of America
soldir students.
Il At the University of Diion Their
are 262 Americans. Others, from ey
cry branch Of the service, are at
tending the French univrsities O
Lyons, Caen, Paris. Grenoble an
others, while the army ia also repre