Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-12-09

or course, TO locate the bOdy of every
soldier that fell and be sure that the
Identification is correct. 1t is the testi
mOny, however, of many persons who
have been to France and back during
recent months that the government has
done remarkable piece of work in
| locating isolated graves, identifying
the men buried in them, and in as
| sembling the bodies in the large GENE
teries, where each grave is marked
with a cross that bears the name of
the soldier, if the name is available.
For the most part the American
dead are being assembled in cemete-
ries that are to be in fact American
cemeteries. Through an arrangement
with the French government these
cemeteries have been established. and
WIFI be under the control of the Unit
ed States government. Uniform plans
for them have been adopted. Each one
is TO be surrounded by white fence,
the paths are to be gravelled. and, as
| already noted, there is TO be cross
at the head of each grave. which is
to be the temporary marker. 1t is the
intention of the government later TO
provide a stone for each grave.
The commission of fine arts recently
sent its president, Charles Moore, to
France to inspect the work of the
| graves commission, and Mr.. Moore re-
ported that everything is progressing
in most satisfactory way. He says
nf ri ara
excellent and that the care given to
the graves is increasingly good and
that the plans which are being devel-
oped are such as will make these GENE
teries sacred places to which relatives
and friends may go with the certainty
of finding that the graves are respect
| ed and honored, even beyond those in
any military cemetery in our own
country.
Commercial Occupations Survey.
commercial occupation survey
| in the various states is to be made
| by the federal board of vocational
education. During recent years most
of the states have passed laws
making continuation school attend
ance compulsory on the part of
younger workers, and this has made
it desirable, according to the vocational
educational board, to consider what
kinds of education such boys and girls
should receive. 1t is assumed by the
federal board. of course, that instruc-
| ton in the fundamental subjects will
be part of any program. Still, ac-
cording to the boards view, such sub
| jects as English, arithmetic, geography
and spelling must be taught from a
new angle if they are to interest wide
awake boys and girls who are en-
ployed in various occupations. Such
boys and girls. it is pointed out, are
likely to fail to appreciate the connec-
ton, assuming that there is one, be-
tween text book courses in such sub
jects and their work.
| A cursory examination of the con-
ditiOns that exist in some of the states
convince the board for vocational ed
ucatiOn that for the most part the
boys and girls who would be consid-
cred in such survey as is proposed
| of age, although in some states the
upper limit has been placed at seven
teen, and in still others at eighteen.
Many Types of Commercial Training.
| According to the boards information
practically all business courses below
college grade at present are built
around two commercial occupations
bookkeeping and stenography. Inves-
! LEGATIONS in several cities show that
fewer than 10 per cent of employed
boys and girls under eighteen years
of age are engaged in either of these
occupations. In one state where such
a survey has just been completed it
has been found that only 1 per cent
of LOO boys and girls included are
| boOkkeepers, and 4 per cent are
stenographers II per cent are Oper-
ating various office machines; 10 per
cent are filing; Is per cent are operat-
| ing telephone switchboards % per
cent doing general miscellaneous cleri-
cal work, and the remainder are typ
| lists, file clerks, messengers, stock
workers, timekeepers, cost clerks, etc.
All of these positions, it is pointed
out, involve important and more or
less difficult kinds of work and each
one of them offers possibilities for
commercial training. From the study
that has been made by the vocational
board, it is apparent, so the board
says, that there are at least 26 dis
tinct types of commercial training
that should be provided if the needs
of younger employed boys and girls
are to be met.
The survey that is about to be
undertaken will be made in selected
cities and towns to ascertain more def
nitely the exact kinds of work that
younger boys and girls are called on
TO perform and the kinds of training
! best calculated to help them succeed
| In the performance of such tasks. The
survey will. of course, be made in CO.
operation with state directors for vo-
cational education and will be of great
est Importance to those states that
have passed compulsory continuation
school laws. 1t is proposed that the
survey shall reveal not only the kinds
| of positions now being filed by boys
and girls and the training required
| to help them TO do their work better,
but also the promotional opportuni-
/ ties that lie within the reach of such
young people. If the boards plans do
not miscarry the survey will enable
the educational directors TO develop
1 the kind of training that will assist
younger workers in the performance
of their immediate tasks and will pave
/ the way for early and certain promo
/ lions.
China Buying Books.
China is becoming very heavy buy
er of British books, especially text
books.