Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-03-29
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TRAIN DISABLED
TROOPS AT MoOsEHEART
war Department Asks Mooseheart 70
GIse Wounded Men Vocational
Training

During the war MO0senhd NJ H.
was called upon to train q great many
soldiers ia concrete construction for
military work. Naturally this work
ceased when the armistice was sign
ia. However the Mooseheart gover
r,ors received : great deal de cdn-
mendation from the War department
FOR the work they did which, had the
war continued an indefinite period
would have proved Of iIiestilnabie
value III France. Mooseheart wasy one
iii the five or six places equipped 70
give this training for as Is generally
known Ii Is an institution maintained
by the Loyal Order of Moose where
the children of deceased Moose are
educated and given vocational train
ing. When the reconstruction pro-
gram for disabled and wounded sol
iiers was first brought up the Moose
heart governors offered their services
to the War department ii any capac-
ity they saw flt. Consequently u the
last few days Mooseheart has been
solicited through the rehabilitation
division of the federal board for yo-
catonai education asking II Moose
heart was prepared to give vocational
training 10 certain number Of dis
ablea soldiers. The Mooseheart gov
ernors who were at that time Ii ses-
sion Immediately wired that they were
ready to start this work ait once. The
reply came Troops will start arriv-
ing next week
A great deal has been told Of Moose
heart education Lecturers have told
81 the activities ut Mooseheart So
cietiea intended to promote vocational
education have praised Mooseheart for
les thoronghness and its marked sue
cess In lines Of vocational training
but this approval by the federal gov
eminent 81 the Mooseheart training Is
perhaps the strongest emphasis that
can be laid on. the necessity for train
Ing of this sort.
When 1T ii understood that more
than twenty yocations are included Ia
the Mooseheart curriculum, that the
training course covers from three to
five years and Includes actual work
on permanent construction, more
definite idea Of the vocational educa-
ton can be secured This is further
emphasized by the fact that when
boy leaves M0osehearE and has com
pleted his vocational training ne Ii
given d union card u that particular
trade that he has chosen to follow
This approval by tbs labor unions
shows that they consider that the
Mooseheart tsaining covers the APP
premiership usually required By the
labor unions II al Ok the various
trades
In addition 70 the training Afforded
In concrete construction and building,
q thorough training IN carpentry,
plumbing. electrical construction. cen
trail station power plant operation
machine shop Dractiress drafting and
architectural designing are given to
the children after pre- vocational
training period which acauaints them
with ali Of these various trades III
way that permits them 10 select that
training which il best suiked 10 their
caUabiIfty.
Domestic science courses. stenog-
raphyy bookkeeping and once prac-
ticeg are offered to the girls at the
instftutiOn and the same opportunity
for trainfng as Is offered the boys.
Is e assumed tE1mk great percent
MsgMg m ksea xnzvk ,pY,g sesstg s.rsnn III /