The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-05-14
At Present Rate Of Enlistment
the 254, 900 Personnel viii
Soon Be Filled.
SOLDIERS NOW LEARN TRADES
Military Organization Becoming Vast
Trade School-"Earn While You
Learn" 10 Popular-New Re.
erulting Policy.


Washington.--Surm the in
roads of rehabilitation, the recruiting
campaign begun early this year has
brought the total strength of the reg
ular army to within $4,000 of the 254,-
900 personnel aut orized under the ma
tional defense act Of 1915, according
to latest war department figures. II
the present rate of enlistment Is MAIN
tanned throughout the year, and nearly
5000 men are being accepted week
ly, 1t will more than balance losses
through expired enlistments, furlough
to the reserve and other causes.
Most of these enlistments, recruiting
officers report, are by men anxious to
take advantage of the army's voca-
tional education, an learn while you
learn" system. to fit soldier for
trade by the time he leaves the army.
Last year $4,000 men were accepted
who never before had been in the
service. Nearly half of the enlisted
man are going to school, and the army
Is becoming not university In kha-
ki but vast military trade school.
Much Of the instruction in technical
subjects is given not by officers, but
by civilian teachers, lent to the army
n many cases by corporations desir-
Gus of employing trained men at the
expiration Of their enlistment. The
war department has received commune
cations from concerns who have sent
unframed applicants for employment
to the army for a years enlistment
and trade instruction with promises OF
jobs at the end Of their service.
Farmers, musicians, stenographers,
masons, bookkeepers, pharmacists. me
chanics of all kinds, wireless and tele-
graph operators, printers, gas engine
experts. even embalmers, are among
the vocations taught. In large canton
ments barracks are being transform d
into machine shops, laboratories and
school rooms. At Camp Dodge, Ia.
where the Fourth division Is stationed
there Is a 2OO-acre farm where army
students do practical work in agricul
ture and stock raising under the di
rection Of Dean G. B. Waldron of thu
North Dakota agricultural college.
A committee from the Chicagt
Church federation visited Camp Grant
Illinois, the home Of the Sixth divi
sion-the sightseeing Sixth" as 1t
members In France called their divi
sion, which hiked from one sector t
another without getting into action
The committee inspected the division.
4 schools and returned to Chicago, re
porting, '.the aim of those who hav
! this work In charge Is TO train me
so effectively that at the end of thei
!; three years in the army they came
1 afford to re-enllst."
Teaching Pharmacy to Men.
AT Camp Pike. Ark. the HON
1 station Of the Third division, whIc
4 won it's spurs at the Marine. buildin
4 has been erected to house the scho
I Of chemistry. Training in the dispen
I Ing and manufacture Of drugs will /
given. also instruction In the use ,
] the microscope for the detection Of I,
!. puritles in drugs. Students who sho
!. the necessary proficiency win be Ct
. en- special tutoring for the examin
y lions Of the Arkansas state board.
I'll Formerly. to learn trade IN 4
= army. q man had to be assigned
y the ordnance or signal corps, the a
i service or motor transport corps. 81
7" aiers In such combat branches Of Il
service - the infantry had few q