A plan has been developed by the Federal Board for Vocational Education, with the cooperation of the commandant of the navy yard and the commanding officer of the naval hospital at Norfolk, Va., for the establishment of a combined curative workshop and subsequent vocational apprenticeship system, which may be used as a standard for all navy yards. Certain features of the plan may be modified to meet special conditions of any particular station, but commandants of navy yards are urged, so far as possible, to follow this plan in its provisions for the treatment and training of disabled sailors and marines.

The general features of the plan as outlined by the Board are as follows:

"Ambulant, convalescent patients may be given therapeutic training through appropriate operations and exercises in the shops of the navy yard, but under conditions which duplicate actual productive shop conditions. A surgeon from the medical staff of the hospital has been placed in charge of the therapeutic work, and one ward of the hospital has been set aside for patients who desire such training. The Federal Board's representative advises with the men and with the surgeon in charge. These two men decide upon appropriate work that is to say, the surgeon writes a prescription, the vocational adviser decides upon the appropriate exercises, which are then approved by the surgeon. In the office of the yard is another representative of the Board, a coordinator, who receives the prescription and arranges for training under a competent mechanic who has also been trained as an instructor by the Federal Board. During this period of therapeutic training the men are under the continuous observation of the surgeon in charge of this work. Arrange

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ments have been concluded to the satisfaction of the naval authorities whereby men having completed their period of hospital training and therapeutic training may continue to receive vocational training in a wide variety of navy-yard occupations. Neither in the therapeutic phase nor in the vocational phase is it assumed that men will necessarily eventally become employees of the navy yard."

The work is carried on at the expense of the Federal Board, with the cooperation of the navy-yard authorities. Mechanics in those trades which seem suitable for disabled men are specially trained by the Board to act as instructors. With the approval of the navyyard officials these instructors may be taken from their usual employment in the yard as the need for instruction demands, returning to productive work in the shops when there is no longer the necessity for instruction to be given.

The advantages of the plan are summarized in this way: ̧

(a) The primary aim is training adapted to the therapeutic needs of individuals. Production is a secondary aim.

(b) Its flexibility permits any and all kinds of work which the man should have to fit his particular case.

(c) It throws no additional burden of work, management, or organization upon the navy-yard officials.

(d) It does not add to the navy-yard expense or pay roll.

(e) It has the approval and hearty cooperation of representatives of the navyyard officials and representatives of the employees' organizations.

(f) Its purpose, organization, and methods of operation are such that no surplus of navy-yard workmen will be created.

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(g) It requires no modification of existing civil-service regulations.

What the Boys Say of the Training They Are Receiving from the Government

"Perhaps the Board might be interested in hearing how I am progressing and how I like the school. I was very enthusiastic when I first came here, and so far I hardly believe my enthusiasm has dropped a bit. I feel sure I have picked the right line of business, and with the proposition the Department of the Interior has announced, which will be ready, I hope, by the time I have acquired sufficient education in this line, I believe my future has the brightest prospects. I seem to be doing fairly well here in my work. Naturally I was handicapped by starting at a mid-term, and late besides. My subjects are very interesting and I feel that I will get a great deal of practical training in the line I am interested in. I was rather lucky in having a pretty fair general education to start with here, so that my studies are not too advanced for me. Some of the boys, I believe, find they are having a little trouble, not having sufficient groundwork in mathematics, where the chief trouble lies. However, the mathematics teacher has started a special class here, and there can be no excuse for not learning unless the man is too old to learn readily. However, all the boys here who are Federal Board students seem to be trying their best. We have to do our best, as there is no excuse, and if others can get an education and work for their living at the same time, we certainly ought to succeed with everything provided for us.

"Hoping the good work will go on successfully and that there will be more deserving fellows sent up here next semester by the Board, I am

Illinois School of Photography, Chicago. University of Illinois, Chicago.

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Metropolitan Business College, Chicago. Mergenthaler Linotype School, Chicago. Northwestern University, Chicago. Washburne School, Chicago.

Brown Business College, Decatur. Effingham School of Photography, Effingham.

Chicago League Hard Hearing, Chicago.
Koester School, Chicago.

Lane Technical School, Chicago.
Lyceum Arts Conservatory, Chicago.
Rush Medical College, Chicago.
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ALABAMA.

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CALIFORNIA.

University of California, Berkeley. University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Chaffey Union High School, Ontario. Healds Business College, San Francisco. Polytechnic College of Engineering, Oakland.

Munson School for Private Secretaries, San Francisco.

College of Pacific, San Jose.

City Engineer's Office, Alameda.
Pacific School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles.
Vocational High School, Oakland.
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University Farm School, Davis.
Weigle-Raymond School, San Francisco.
Willis Woodbury Business, Los Angeles.

COLORADO.

Barnes Commercial School, Denver. Brown Business College, Colorado Springs.

Colorado College, Colorado Springs.
Colorado School of Agriculture, Fort
Collins.

Colorado School of Mines, Golden.
State Agricultural College, Fort Collins.
University of Colorado, Boulder.
Denver University, Denver.
Denver Opportunity School, Denver.
School of Commerce, Denver.
State Agricultural College. Fort Collins.
Y. M. C. A. Auto School, Denver.

Y. M. C. A. Preparatory School, Denver.

MARYLAND.

Baltimore Business College, Baltimore.

Johns Hopkins University,

Baltimore.

Leonard Hall High School, Leonardtown.

Maryland Institute, Balti

more.

Maryland State Agricultural College, College Park. Atlanta Medical College, Baltimore.

MASSACHUSETTS.

Baypath Institute, Springfield.

Boston Trade School, Roxbury.

Boston School of Telegraphy, Boston.

Boston University, Boston. Boston Law School, Boston. Bryant & Stratton School, Boston.

Burdette College, Boston.

Eastern Radio Institute, Boston.

Franklin Union Institute, Boston.

Forsyth Dental Institute, Boston.

Harvard University, Cambridge.

Hawley School of Engineering, Boston.

Horrick's Institute, Fall River.

Huntington School, Boston. International Y. M. C. A.

College, Springfield. Lowell Textile School, Lowell. New Bedford Industrial School, New Bedford. Springfield Business School, Springfield.

Springfield Vocational School, Springfield.

Wentworth Institute, Boston. Y. M. C. A. Training School, Springfield.

HERE

ERE is the place where I worked before they told me I'd have to go;

I'd climbed along to a pretty fair job-it made no difference though;

They needed me—or the Nation did—and they didn't make no excuse.

"Come on," they said,

"and we'll show you where you'll be of the greatest use."

So they sized me up for a khaki suit and showed me the bunk I drew,

And they taught me to hate the German brute, which wasn't so hard to do.

And they hung a beautiful service flag up here where I worked before;

I've just been told that there ain't no job left open for me no more!

I wish that I could have seen it wave- -it must uv been mighty fine;

There's many a boy who is in his grave whose star was on there with mine.

They hung it high on the outer wall, a wonderful thing to see,

And because I went when I got my call they sewed on a star for me!

I took my chance as the 'others did, and it wasn't no holiday;

I have eaten dirt and I've slept in mud out where there was hell to pay

And they hung up a service flag back here, a beautiful thing, I've heard;

It was meant to show how loyal they were, how deeply their hearts were stirred!

Their cheers were loud when I left the town; I acknowledge that I was thrilled

But the war is done and the flag is down, and they tell me my job is filled!

I'm sorry their glorious service flag no longer will be displayed;

What a lot of meaning it must uv had for the heroes who got it made!

They put a star on the thing for me-now wasn't that noble, too?

At present there doesn't appear to be much left for a man to do;

I've walked the town till my feet are sore; I'm lonely and sick and broke,

And I guess my star is a fallen star—and their service flag was a joke!-S. E. Kiser.

tration, Boston.

MICHIGAN.

Detroit Institute of Technology, Detroit.
Ferris Institute, Big Rapids.
Michigan Agricultural College, East
Lansing.

MINNESOTA.

Central High School, Minneapolis. Dunwoody neapolis.

Institute, Min

Federal Schools (Inc.), Minneapolis.

Federal Schools for Commercial Designing, Minneapolis.

Mankato Commercial College, Mankato.

College of Agriculture, Minneapolis.

Minneapolis School of Lip

Reading, Minneapolis. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Rasmussen Business School, St. Paul.

Semby School, Minneapolis. Twin City Barber College, Minneapolis.

Y. M. C. A., Minneapolis. Minneapolis Institute of Pharmacy, Minneapolis. Minneapolis School of Business, Minneapolis.

MacPhail School of Music, Minneapolis.