The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-01-16
for SOLDIERS
THEY ARE BEING PUT
INTO OPERATION
Free Scholarships Will Be Given
Those Gallant Men Who
Fought Enemy

ucatlonal servicG to former soldiers,
sailors and marines, the Y. NJ c.. A.
launches its largest enterprise since
the war. This plan provides 46,2OO
free scholarships for ex service men,
and also provides reconstruction lee
ture courses and occupational guild
ance and employment service. A
fourth feature Of the plan is the
Americanization work, which will be
conducted in industrial communities
where the foreign population is CEN
tered.
Not less than 10000 scholarships
will be offered in correspondence
courses, covering wide variety of
subjects, in an effort to reach the
very large number of eX service men
in rural communities, including small
cities, towns and villages, where
there are no Y. M. G. A. schools, and
instruction is most difficult to OBJ
tain. o..
approximately seventy per cent of
the 100000 men under arms during
the war came from rural commun-
tiles, it is estimated. Accordinly, q
curriculum appealing to men in ru-
raj communities has been prepared,
including courses in soils and fertil-
izers, farm crops, breeding and feed
ing OF live stock, dairy farming,
poultry husbandry, productive or
charding, market gardening, citrus
fruit raising and farm management
In addition to this there will be cor
respondence courses in mechanical,
commercial and engineering sub
jects.
The correspondence. courses will
form a new department of "Y" edu-
| cational work, and will be under the
direction of J. Foster Hill, director
of correspondence courses in France
Free Scholarship Plan.
The free scholarship plan. it was
explained, is TO the demobilized man
a continuation of the work of the Y.
NJ. c. A. educational commission
overseas. In April, 1919, the so-c call
ed "Khaki College," organized by
General Pershing's order by the
American Y, M. c.. A. at a cost of
100000 in France, Belgium, Ger
many, and Great Britain. was turn
ed over to the war department.
, together with it's entire personnel
of 400 "Y" instructors. The speed
with which the troops were dispatch
ed home and demobiliZcd cut short
the service planned.
The responsibility of the army and
navy, for the education Of the serv-
ice man ceased upon return to civil
life, yet Occupational readjustment,
! together with the high cost of liv-
/ ing. made additional educational
| training all the more necessary. 1t
| is for this reason and to assist in
! the movement to allay the present
day unrest, that the War Work
council has decided to continue it's
free educational service on greatly
enlarged scale tN
! The scholarships will be awarded
| discharged service men, Americans
who served with our allies. or sons
of Americans who died in service
during the world war;. and are Of
fered with no restriction other than
the mans ability to- carry through
/, the educational program for which he
applies. In addition to the cores
pondence courses, $4,000 scholarships
will be available in Y. M. c. A. or
] other accredited schools, and 200 in
the nations largest colleges and uni
yersities.
Applicants who qualify for free
scholarships may enroll in either
(, day OF night schools. Those desir-
GUS Of entering a course not avail
able at local association, will be
awarded a scholarship in one of thu:
schools accredited by the educational
committee. A limited number of
scholarships are available in techni-
cal schools and universities. These
last will be awarded by the state
committee of the Y M c. A. Each
/, applicant should apply to the local
! educational service committee in
the county where the applicant lives.
The makeup of these committees
will be announced within a short
time. FsD i,sa p
How Fund Will Be Administered.
| The free scholarship fund will b,
administered. and the work directed
! by the educational service committee.
comprising of L. T. Warner, of
!, Bridgeport, Conn, chairman; Roger
J Fl. Williams, of New York; Edwin l..
Shuey, of Dayton, O.gpatWalter T.
/, Diack of New York and William F.
Hirsch of New York. executive Sec
rotary. ainoG
In addition to the educational serv-
ice, the "Y" plans to- aid men in
! choosing occupationssG;sT The local
/. scholarship awarding committees will
include business and & professional
men and members of the local Y. M.
c. AS, who will confer with and as
sist the ex-service men in selecting
their life work Supplementing this
service, a corps of highly trained
lectures on. reconstructive, educa-
tional, and occupational topics will
be provided for lecture, courses in
connection with Y M. G. A. units
and American Legion posts Eli 7.
Weaver, professo of vocational
guidance at Columbia university, will
be in charge of this department.
Another phase of the. program is
the Americanization work among
foreign born ex service, men. Per-
sonal assistance in obtaining natur-
alization and citizenship papers.
classes in English. lectures, motion
pictures, social activities in indus
trial centers. and many other fea-
lures have been adoDted. .
/
\ City, Engineer Harvey, Dart re-
turned from st, Paul Friday evening.
! While there Mr. Dartt. who. is presi-
, dent of the Minnesota Surveyors and