The daily morning oasis., 1919-04-13
WILL TRAIN
DISABLED TROOPS
AT MOOSEHEART
War Department Asks MOOseheart
to Give Wounded Men VOca-
tional Training
START ARRIVING THIS WEEK


During the war Mooseheart was call
ed upon to train great many sol
diers in concrete construction for mil
itary work. Naturally this work
ceased when the armistice was signe j.
However, the Mooseheart Cover
n RS received a great dea. of COM
mendation from the War Department
for the work they did which, had the
yar continued an indefinite period
would have proved of inestimable
value in France. Mooseheart was one
of the five or six places equipped to
give this training for as is generally
known it 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 program
for disabled and wounded soldiers was
first brought up the Mooseheart gov
ernors offered their services to the
War Department in any capacity
they saw fit. Consequently in the last
few days Mooseheart has been solic-
tied through the rehabilitation divi-
sion of the Federal Board for Voca-
tional Education asking if Mooseheart
was prepared to give vocational train
ing to a certain number of disabled
soldiers. The Mooseheart governors
who were at that time in session i'm
mediately wired that they were ready
to start this work at once. The reply
came: "Troops will start arriving
next week."
A great deal has been told of
Mooseheart education. Lecturers have
told of the activities of Mooseheart
Soroieties intended to promote voca-
tional training but this approval by
the federal government of the Moose
heart training is perhaps the strong
est emphasis that can be laid on the
necessity for training of this sort.
When it is understood that more
than twenty vocations are included in
the Mooseheart curriculum, that the
training course covers from three to
five years and includes actual work
on permanent construction, more
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cationdcan be secured. This is further
emphasized by the fact that when
boy leaves Mooseheart and has COM
pleted his vocational training he is
given union card in that particular
trade that he has chosen to follow.
This approval by the labor unions
shows that they consider that the
Mooseheart training covers the ap-
premiership usually required by the
labor unions in all of the various
trades.
In addition to the training afforded
in concrete construction and building,
thorough training in carpentry,
plumbing, electrical construction, cen
trail station power plant operation,
machine shop practices, drafting and
architectural designing are given to
the children after pre-vocational
training period which acquaints them
with all of these various trades in a
way that permits them to select that
training which is best suited to their
capability.
Domestic science courses, stenog-
raphy, bookkeeping and office prac-
tices are offered to the girls at the
institution and the same opportunity
for training as is offered the boys.
1t is assumed that a great per-
centage of the men who will come to
Mooseheart will present to- them an
extent of having lost an arm or leg
or having received some other injury
that will enable them to take the
vocational training course and adapt
themselves despite their misfortune.
Mooseheart will presetn to them an
added advantage for they have in the
employ of the institution man who
unfortunately lost an arm and an
eye lin his youth but has so overcome
his affiiction that he has been the
life guard, scout master and official
photographer for the institution in
the last few years. The value of this
mans ability will be impressed on
these returned soldiers as he will aid