The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-20
AIMS OF K. OF c. SCHOOLS IN BIC EDUCATION DRIVE 15,000 Service Men Will Benefit By Scheme In
 This Country. WILL ESTABLISH
 CAMP SCHOOLS These to Furnish Weapon to "Carry- On" in Every
 Day Life.

fOIG THE SOLDlEEEs To
 help him to advance in the world
 by teaching them the trades
 or occupations for which they
 are best fitted so that they may
 be able to earn their living ac-
 cording to the American standard
 and 10 raise their children worth
 fly according to the same stand
 ards.
 FOR THE CIVILIAN: - To
 give boys and girls, men and wo-
 men, regardless of creed, such
 instruction as will fit them for
 skilled positions and enable them
 to become prominent and infIu-
 ential factors in American life.
 
 Following an exhaustive survey of the industrial field and of it's needs in the way of workmen, the Knights of Columbus have put into operation an educational plan for soldiers which will enable 15,O0O men to qualify within a period of three O. tour months as automobile mechanics and in other profitable mechanical trades. The k-C investigators have found that thero is a scarcity of men with the technical knowledge and mechanical skill required to fill posi- tiOns Tn automobile factories, garag ges and as chauffeur mechanics for own CTS of motOr-Cars who can afford to pay comfortable salaries for man who knows how to repair a car as well as drive one.
 Instruction also is being given to large number of men in the oper- ation of motion picture machines, an other field which promises future employment to thousands of capable men. These courses of training are but part of the comprehensive pro Erame of the K-C, for teaching men to better themselves. a program which is no longer merely a pro- Eram for it is in full blast.
 For example. more than thirty men already have been graduated from the K-C's hauffeur-mechanics class es at Camp Dix. At Camp Upton there are classes now in full swing, learning everything from radio-tele- sraphy to bIacksmithlng and includ- in between acteylene welding. black smithing. plumbing. tinsmithing, car pcntry, stenOgraphy and a course in English.
 In the school of the Knights of Columbus at Camp Dix, Major Gen eraI Halo is one of the enrolled stu dents In all more than 15.00O men are taking instruction.
 When the soldiers began to return from Europe their first impulse was to seek education along bOokish lines That was natural, but in many individual cases 1t was not practical. Professor e. M. Hayes, of New York, supervised the school work of the or ganizatiOn in the eastern camps and added the wage-earning trade courses to the teaching of English, type writing. bookkeeping and the other office pursuits which were first in- stltutcd
 However. 1t was found that there was demand also for higher educa- ton in some of the camps. To meet that demand, there was established classes in commercial law. real estate law and international law at several camps, notably those in the South. At Kelly Field instruction has been given in analytical law, including special study of the Irish question. It is at Kelly Field that the Knights have progressed to the point where they award diplomas and that school now numbers two hundred and fifty graduates, of whom seventy-five were army officers.
 The K-C schools at Camp Devens, 1 Camp Dix and Camp Upton now rank with some of the best business and technical institutions in the country. At these camps only service men are admitted. At many of the other schools, however, notably the large one in the K.LC. Home, Berkley Street, Boston, Mass. discharged men | are admitted.
 +n I1 frrI the beginning, away back in 1918, l and what they actually are accom- | plishfng now, in 1919, may be de- scribed as the thoroughly practical service of helping men to earn money enough to live according to the American standard and to raise and educate their children worth fly. This idea was amply expressed d 1 by Daniel J. Sullivan, of Boston, a pioneer in educational reconstruction, 1 when he said: "the purpose of the Order was to give the service man a new weapon to go out and fight his way up fn the wor1d.''
 While the time will come when the army schools will dwtndle by reason of demobilization, they will be kept up as long as there is work to be done.
 Even more important for the fu- ture is the K-C Educational Pro- gram along general lines. for boys and girls, women and mon, with cIaszes everywhere throughout the country and with these classes open to all persons of good character without regard to their religious creeds.
 These classes, in civilian life, are designed to be principally along yo- cational or ooeupHtionai lines. the purpose being to fit the students for skilled positton in businezs or in the industrfsss
 Tn addition, and by no means the | least important of the Orders aims, | t is planned to give courses in | American citizenship and a system of education that win enable the stu- dents ta become influential factors fin l American life.