Evening star., 1943-04-22
Trade Board Unit Hears
Essential Jop Training
Spurred by Freeze
Public Schools Committee
Is Told Too Few Youths
Tuke Vocation Courses

The War Manpower Commission
job freeze order has produced an
upsurge in war industry training
rs men and women are switching
from non-essential to essential Jobs.
Max Chambers of the VINO train
ing division told members of the
Beard of Trades Public Schools
Committee yesterday.
More women, he emphasized,
must enter war industries, as they
constitute the only available labor
source after military needs are Civ
en- priority.
He predicted stimulation of paid
trainee courses with schools gearing
their courses to needs of industry.
Out of the war will come a great
er interest in the mechanical voca-
tions, asserted DR.. Carroll r. Reed.
assistant superintendent of schools,
adding, I'VE must have trained me-
chanicS to win a mechanical war"
Not Enough Youths in Training.
There are not enough young peo-
pie in our District vocational schools,
although training is being given to
between 800 and 900 persons each
dav, DR.. Reed said
Commenting on statement by
George E. Keneipp, committee chair
man, that the armed forces must
grant deferment to certain instruc-
tors and physical training experts
if the schools are to be able to do
the things the Army and Navy want
done. DR.. Reed said the Board of
Education probably would not ask
determent.
IF we are to have an army of
several million men, it seems every
body from Is to IS years old will be
IN uniform" DR.. Reed said.
1t was suggested by Brig Gen.
Amos Fries, retired, that needed
school instructors could be freed of
any Stacker charge by having
them enter the armed services and
be assigned to teaching jobs, where
they can do the most good. Gen.
Fries said it appeared the Army
would have to detail soldiers for
farm work this summer.
Mr.. Chambers pointed out that.
while the manpoWer policy is to de-
centralize, the overwhelming num-
ber of war workers must be trained
in one way or another. The neces-
sity for training workers at all levels
will continue for the duration. for
the only certainty is change, change
of weapons, change of methods" he
emphasized. He added that 10000
persons can be trained at one time
on a three-shift basis.
Handicapped in Supplies.
1t is no easy job. Mr. Chambers
remarked, to get women to enter
war industries. adding, however, 1T
must be done"
Dr. Reed. briefly reviewing voca-
itonal training here, said our big
gest trouble is getting supplies and
equipment promptly" Other sec
tions of the Nation got a head start
on Washington in vocational train
ing because Federal funds for this
purpose were not made available to
the District until 1886, he asserted.
Mr.. Keneipp said the question OF
school instructor deferments might
await action by the Board of Edu-
cation before the Board of Trade
takes a position.
Mr.. Keneipp paid tribute to L. P.
McLaChlen, retiring president. for
his successful administration as head
of the Board of Trade. Mr.. Nc
Lachlen said he was appreciative of
the support accorded his regime.
Mr.. Keneipp noted with pleasure"
that the District budget approved by
Congress included an item of $685.
00G to purchase school sites, as rec
commended by the boards Public
Schools Committee. The committee
will meet May l9 at pm. at the
Trade Boards Offices, the chairman
announced