The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-17
ND what vocation would you follow?"

~ S It was the deep, sonorous voice of Maj. John A. Fillmore asking the question as the blonde young man sitting before him handed his papers to the officer and answered:
 veterinary"
 "What do you know about veterinary work?" asked Major Elmore.
 "Just what I've learned on the farm," the blonde young man answered.
 "Just horse sense you learned on farm? Was farming your vocation before you went into the service?' asked the major.
 The bov nodded his head in assent and then the major said:
 Suppose we found something else that suited you just as well as pelng veterinarian-how would you 1eei about if? You say you want something that will keep you off your feet. as they are the disabled members or your body?'
 It would be all right" said the blonde boy. q can do most anytnihs' I'd like telegraphy; I know a lot aooue electricity. dynamos, and the rest' i've done A lot of work like that on ships' I've heen most everywhere; three times ocross the continent-to California which is Gods own county "Rut man. you haven't lived in Ala bama long enough to say that, MaJor Fillmore interpolated with the true southern chivalry-that characterizes his avery word and thought and move ment "The eyes of the world are now turned upon Alabama; the Rainpow oi- vision has put Alabama on the map as no word of advertising-or anything else has ever been able to do" And then turning to me-(for I had been willing listener, sitting by Major Elmore's desk in his office at the federal board of vocational education up in the Jefferson County Bank build ing yesterday when this conversation took place, and the troops of disabled soldiers, one after another, awaited their turn to talk with the affable major). He said:
 "The Rainbow division has made old Alabama famous; the eyes of the entire world are now centered upon us; and as far as the vocational training by the government for our disabled soldiers ! is concerned-well, you know how Ala I bama stands in the illiteracy class; if | our people don't take advantage of this l opportunity to send the boys to us and l let us fit them for future citizenship, l then it's Alabamas own fault. There are 1500 vacations open to disabled men which the vocational | training by the government makes am- pie provision for" said Major Elmore The main thing is for the disabled
 man to get the location he likes best and is best fitted for; often man starts l in one vocation and finds he is mis- taken and we are glad to have him
 make a change and get something more to his taste AS in the case of a young soldier a few days ago, who 1 had finished business course and l tound that he wanted to go in for az 1 riculture; of course we gladly made provision for him for his business l training will make him all the more efficient as a farmer-a scientific | farmer"
 A word about Major Fillmore (jus | here) of whom every Alabamian is | proud; his fine war record, his adapta- l bility to the kind of work he is now
 engaged in, his all round splendid abil' ity his polished manner and his broad | education make him an ideal man fol
 the position he so ably fills.
 James L. Sibley, director of vocationa | education for District No. 6, which in cludes Alabama, Mississippi ant l Louisiana, could have made no better choice than in sending Major Elmor' to his native state-Alabama-to con
 duct the vocational training work. man of exceptional ability, him self, Mir. Sibley, from his headquarter | in New Orleans, keeps in close toucl
 with Major Elmore ia the work here
 and visit to the local officers reveals
 the tremendous scope and influenc
 which this work is accomplishing
 Major Elmore, during the past yea
 spent in France, where he went a judge advocate from Provost Marsha Crowder's headquarters in Washington following closely upon his duties a
 recruiting office" in the early stage of the war, is we'll equipped to handl
 the big work being done for our dis
 abled men; the protecting, kindly , manner of the man-his deep sympath