The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-02
GET EDUCATION NOV
WHILE YOU WAIT"

New York, March l5.---Educatiou
while you wait is now being offered
and accepted heartily--to the Ameft~
can soldiers and sailors quartered 81
the Y. NJ. c. AS eastern department.,
which comprises New York. New Jer.
sey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, MAry-
land, District of Columbia. viYE1filA
and West Virginia.
! The men are waiting, OF course. tor
discharge, but while they are thu
marking time in camps and navy sta~
lions. the educational secretaries OF the
are helping TO make the time
fly. MS well as to prepare the men for
the sudden thrust back into civilian
life that is soon TO come. Vocational
courses in agriculture, trades business
and commerce. as we'll as elementary
subjects for those men who cannot
read or write. are being taught under
the "f's' supervision. and the caInp
curricuia include everything frpm
public speaking and movie opera4me
classes are tagging bit. secretaries
report. but Spanish 10 q most popular
subject with the men who have their
weather eye on South American hs11t~s
ness.
In January, S7,se4 were enrolled ia
and attended daily the classes In the
eastern department There were al
the total number Of class sessions wns
1886. In addition to this, education
al lectures in the department num-
bered T86, and wero attended by
23o.445 men. The lectures, which are
supplementary to the classes, are given
by prominent lecturers on business.
commercial and reconstruction prob
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Camp Merritt, New Jersey, has one
OF the most complete Red Triangle
schools in the east, with a list OF four
teen subjects from which tho soldier
may choose his future vocation. Al
zebra and agriculture head the list
wireless telegraphy. automobile me-
ichanics and mechanical drawing are
livery popular. The school at Merritt
Ihss overrur the first barrack that was
assigned to IT.. and although attend
ance Is voluntary. q new barrack has
had to be turned over to the ~" by
the military authorities for the over
flow.
| AT Camp Dix. New Jersey, the Sec
Iretaries have worked cut with the mill
itary officers and the surgeon-gun-
erals representative a highly satisfAc-9
tory trade school for convalescent sOl-
diers who Nave been discharged from
the hospital but not from the army.
Men are detailed to this school, wlSer4
a dozen different trades ara taught "
technical instructors.
One OF the best organized pro-
grams of lectures In offered at Camp
Lee. Virginia, where the Y. IL. e. AL
educational secretaries and the morale
officer Of the camp have put tAsir
heads together and developed q sygA
tenn by which the ~" school = fun
as smoothly a. 4 university. 4
AT Curtis Bay camp. In the BaIti-
more district, ESQ soldiers who cannot
read or write, are being taught Eng
lish penmanship, arithmetic and oGhoT.
forty-two soldiers, assigned by the
commander OF the camp to this work
AT Quantico, Va, especial emphA1in II
being laid on business ana CONNER
cial courses, including stAnoeraphy.
typewriting and bookkeeping. Camp
Meade, Maryland, has organized QuitA
a complete course in agriculture
Extension Of this educational WORT
to reconstruction hospitals has 1uGt
educational director for the eastern
department. after . communicates
from the American Red Gross, which
states that Major Crane. Of the aprs
'geon-general's office. feels that thoe4
Is emphatic need for such asoi1tAnc4
in the hospitals. The educational -
retaries OF the 7. NJ. c. A. and ~
educational officer OF the hoepttAIA
viii cooperate in perfectine tho d.
tails of the new project. The ssXN
will furnish class instruction ana -
lures, will post bulletins ana n1apos
and viii manage and circulate boo1gM
supplied by the American Library 49,
tsociation. a
1.-THE most unkindest cut u alfs ~
the one handed you by tho butc2oe.