Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-09

announcement of the federal board
for vocational education, in whose
hands has been placed the response
bility for the American program OF
re-education, this training will be
given in the shops of high schools,
trade schools. or colleges where
there is adequate equipment for
good practical instruction. In addi-
ton to the school instruction, train
ing will be given in commercial ga
RACES UNDER actual shop conditions.
! Thorough Instruction.
1t may be that alternate weeks or
months will be spent in the school
and in the shop, or that the first or
last part Of the training period may
be spent in the shop and the other
part in school. In any case the aim
will be to provide instruction which
will enable the disabled man after
completing his course to compete
with able-bodied workers and to
command the prevailing wage, 1t is
expected that the mans previous
training and experience will be from
six to nine months.
The entire cost OF this training
will be borne by the government and
maintenance allowances will be paid
TO the men while they are following
the course.
Already in some Of the larger re-
construction hospitals in the United
States wounded soldiers during theft
convalescent period are kept inter
ested, busy and cheerful tinkering
with the fascinating automobile en-
CINE. AT General Hospital No. 9, at
Lakewood, N. J., and at General
Hospital No. 2, at Fort AcHenry
motor mechanics is one of the most
popular courses offered. At Fort |
McHenry the men in the class have
become so efficient at repairing and |
rebuilding the WORKOUT cars do
mated them that they have taken |
over the care of the ambulances and |
trucks in use at the post. Each man J
has an ambulance or truck assigned |
to him, and it is his duty to see that |
it is always in perfect running order. |
Courses in motor mechanics are |
offered in a large number of con-
valescent hospitals in Canada, and |
the best technical schools in the
country in collaboration with the in
valided soldiers commission have
arranged special classes for disabled |
men. AT the Montreal technical |
school the instruction is divided into !
number of courses, to each of
which from two to three hours a /
week are given, supplemented by 20
hours a week of practical garage
work. The course in mathematics
takes up each individual of the class
at the point where his previous
training left off and carries him to
the point where he can make the
simpler computations of horse
power, read a scale, estimate clear
ance, etc. The course in automobile
engineering follows standard text
book on the automobile. The first
half of the course is devoted to the
theory of the mechanism of the car;
the second half to the cause and
remedy of trouble.
Canadian Courses.
In the west of Canada courses in
motor mechanics are given a Cal
gary, Saskatoon, Winnipeg and
Vancouver. A class for returned
soldiers who wished to become
chaufeurs was organized at Vic
toria in the early days of the war by
the invalided soldiers commission
in cooperation with the board of
education, and the men thus trained
now conduct a well-patronized jit-
ney stand in the town. A one-armed Il
man, trained in automobile me-
chanics and gas engineering at the
Provincial Institute of Technology 4
and Art at Calgary, is preparing to
go into business with a friend in
small -four and grist mill in the
Peace River district. While his !
chum attends to the milling proper, Il
he will take charge of the station n
airy gas engine which furnishes the
power, untilize the engine for cutting
wood, and in his spare time repair
his neighbors' automobiles.
English soldiers, sailors, and air
men" are afforded an opportunity to
learn motor mechanics at Queen \
Mary's convalescent hospitals at
Brighton and Rochampton. The I
New Zealanders can take a prelimi- /
nary course in the New Zealand /
hospital at Weybridge, while they /
are waiting for the artificial limb 1
which is furnished by their govern
ment, and then practical continue
ton course in the big motor factor
les of the Midlands. In the hospital
they receive a grounding in the prin-
ciples Of automobile design and con- H
struction and in the more simple op-
erations that have to be performed
in the maintenance and repair of
motor vehicle chassis; in the work
during a six-months' course they
acquire a sound insight into the
practical side of engineering.
Trained at Bombay.
Indian soldiers of the British en-
pire who have been disabled in the
war are trained to be self-supporting
at Queen Mary's technical school at
Bombay. They, too, have felt the
fascination of the motor car, and the
class for chauffeurs is the most
popular in the institution. AS there
is great demand for chaufeurs
throughout all India, the men can
obtain good wages as soon as they
have completed four or six months
course. One feels that it must be a
curious sight to see the turbRned,
bearded representative of midas
ancient races earnestly studying the
throbbing cylinders of a modern Il
motor car.
In France, disabled men are not
encouraged to become motor driv-
ers, since it is felt that the army
trained drivers will monopolize the
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