The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-28
SCHOOLS OF THE ARMY.
An the Trades Advertised Are Taught
hut Not An In Each School.


refusal of the War Department fully to
approve the scheme of the commanding
General at Camp Lewis TO inaugurats
q most comprehensive system Of voca-
tionai training at that station and to
sanction reduction In the enlistment
period fixed by law has been miscou-
strued by your Journal The editorial
article under the heading war De-
partment Unprepared for Vocational
Training" which appeared in THE Sum
on July 81. reaches q conclusion a. un-
just as II Is erroneous. believe II II
founded on incomplete information or
rnisapprehension Of fact, probably on
both. For this reason take the liberty
Of asking you to set your readers right
on this most important matter.
Advertisements in the daily pres. pub
lished recently by authority Of the War
were believed to DO appropriate and GER
tainly were truthful They announced
that service in the army afforded oppor-
tunity for young man to learn trade
which would be Of value to him when he
returned to civil life. Among the skilled
trades advertised were the following
Land surveying, switchboard installa-
ton. lithography. auto repairing. motor
mechanics (air or ground), bricklayins.
telephone repairing. baking and cooking,
blacksmithing. road construction. car
pentry. masonry. wireless telegraphy.
photography. welding (acetylene and
electric), draughting. electrical work.
telegraphy. airplane mechanics, plumbing
and steamfitting.
These trades are being taught at thu
following places. some at one school and
| some at another, but the list shown
above is covered at the various schoo!a
| enumerated below:
The Coast Artillery School at Fort
Monroe. Virginia; the Engineering
School at Camp A. A. Humphreys. vir-
ginia; the Tank Corps School at Camp
Meade, Maryland; the Air Service
schools at the different flying fields; the
Signal Corps School at Camp Vail. New
Jersey: the Motor Transport schools at
Camps Holabird. Jessup, Boyd and Nor
| moyl: the schools for bakers and cooks
at Camp Merritt, New Jersey; Fort
Riley. Kansas; Fort Sam Houston, Texas,
and the Preside of San Francisco. Cal.
the Ordnance schools at Raritan Arsenal.
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