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New Army 8-by H.V.MORTON
Goes
Every three months mén go away
SOLDIER
to SCHOOL
Their One Aim
"We get men poles apart in their per cent. of marks. That follow is Las "qualified"; Army tradeamen; and standard of education. In the school now an Army tradesman, and dif Y at this moment we have a Cambridge know anything of character, his life
has been made."/ was sold in the last war that now classes take their place. for every man in the line! We went into a workshop where graduate and a pithead labourer.
"Such men help one another. The there were three men to make a newly arrived course of gun Atters
was having its first day at the bench. Cambridge man helps the labourer to him a cup of tea. Most of the men had never used a use his head, and the labourer helps
In this war there must be In their lives-g
the Cambridge man to use his hands:
I walked round the school und', about twenty, for, as war be Against their names on the roll that's the way it generally goes, watched the men at work
"I've met some strange cases pinco
nrunt be comes more technical and call I read their civilian occupations: mechancial, an army of techni. P.. sorter, bank clerk, cloth finisher, this school opened. I always make They're quieter than
Atter's mate, Joiner, bus conductor, a point of talking privately to each cause you're a cians and mechanics is required insurance agent, plasterer, handyman man in a new course, and discover an instructor, but, if you weren't
here, half of them would be singlag an to make the equipment of the in factory, suit maker, electro-plater, ing his civilian, background.
st their jobs; and Uist's a good signe Army and keep it in repair.
The dismantling of the twin rear axle of a gun tractor is a strong man's wa job, but the heavier and the harder a the job, the louder they sing."
"And what do they think "of the
They
have one
carpet and line salesman, driller motor “fren¡ ́ salcanan in wallpaper.
First Chance
"On one occasion there arrived a
astranger
anger whimpered
had been pushing a barrow round the futuresU MEMASA TARVASGEDNA BU
glimpse Into the varied there must be something streets all his life.
you a
Army Tradesmen is something man into an engineer? Surely they and his smaller brother and sister.
ought lo
lo send you men with en- He could hardly write and he seemed, "What's on average day's work?"
So far, the War Office has
-I asked some of them how long **Ifsted · nearly 140-trades which they had been in the Army. Most carry with them special rates of of them had received a month's basic pay. The last addition, just in training, and had then been selected young man, aged twenty-four, who
likely tradesmen. cluded in the list, gives an odd
the method of selecting "His father died when he was a talk to them about it and I don't r ties of the modern, Army; it is
men?" I said to the instructor, child, and this bora whole life had say this because you may put de in "cinema projectionist."
Why try to "
to turn a joiner into a gun been spent in trying to bring home the paper and that's to get over- This army of specially paid muerto make a wallpaper sales a few shillings to support his mother seas and have a go. I spoke to some of I asked. quite new. It is the final proof,
backgrounds." gineering
a bit dull and dazed.
'Do Ho
"I said, to him,
"Benchwork, stripping down, re if proof wero needed, that we' surprised
you think you me by replying that
this course? And I saw assembling, a lecture, notetaking, are up to the neck in true totali- his best men are invariably those can pass thus white. You're not and work on vehicles actually in tarian war. ·
will no previous technical or en him turn gineering experience. The prize going to send me away?" he asked service."
Do you like the Army?" I asked pupil of his previous course had been with a sort of blank look. Please
farm labourer!
don't send me away, guv'nor, for this another
"Not half," he replied. "This is the are certain portions of is the first chance I've had in my Chero
ma trodel'
heaven compared to where I've come have never de- life to learn a As men from the listed trades
he said. "Thousands of "That pulled me up. To think frem, the training depat."."
"And you?" I asked another, enter the Army, they are given men with a genuine gift for skilled that it should take a war to give a
· Veloped," " which equivalent military duties, but, technical bench work are doing some man a chance to learn a trade. Of great as the number of trades thing quite different, and they never course. I kept him; and how that plled, "but I like Hitler a lot less!" men is, there is still a shortage they are forced to try.
know they possess this gift, unless lnd rewarded mel
"He worked as if his life depended of them, and this the Army "The trouble with the fellow who on it. He even learned to write and makes up by training recruits in has had previous experience is that spell. And he passed out with 88 140 different trades.
he knows a little, but riot enough, All round us at this moment, and he resents starting again at the
A Warner Bros. First National Picture Starring" and unknown to most of us, is "Give me a baker's roundsman, or proceeding the biggest scheme of a postman, who has never tised a file BETTE DAVIS and CHARLES BOYER from novel: adult technical education ever, or a drill, and, providing he wante
to try, it's a treat to teach him!" undertaken in Britain,
Tradesman All
It is something the night school pioneers could never have
the United Press Assocations, who reimagined in their wildest
servo all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without praviour dreams. arrangement.
WAR'S NEW PHASE
GERMAN Invasion of Yugo-Slavla and Greece opens a now phase in
what is rapidly becoming World War II-a phase which Hitler certainly did not wish would materialise and which cannot, In the long run, prove
of benefit to him. While sympathy goes out to Yugo-Slavia in that she has now to suffer the horrors of modern warfare, and to Greece because her experiences of war's | Irightfylness - will be intensifed, the fact remains that in this struggle against the evil forces of Nazlism and Fascism, the present development in the Balkans offers a distinct strate- glenl-advantage to the Democracies.
Whatever the immediate outcome of the Balkons war-and it in con- ceivable that the Nazis, with the
| numerical and mechanised superiority will secure territorial gains, in both countries the cost to the invaders in men and materials will be exceed-
ingly heavy and must inevitably
beginning,
Unorthodox
A few streets away from the in- stitute I entered a post office and, How big it is will be realised climbing several flights of stairs, came when I tell you that the War to the top floor, where young signal- Office has made plans to trainers were being taught morse by n
Post Office official. 20,000 tradesmen this year. I then visited the chief garage, of Few people have any idea of the town, a place which in former the character of this scheme. It days was proud of its vast windows, Involves the strangest general where the latest and most expensive saloon cars once gleamed behind post in employment that can be plate-glass. imagined.
To-day that huge sale room con For instance, I have just been army vehicles, and round each piece the engines and axles of talking to joiners and bus con of machinery is: gathered an eager ductors who are being turned and interested group of young soldiers into expert gun fitters; to elec- listening to the words of wisdom tro-platers, and plasterers who spoken by civilian instructors. are being turned into carpenters of the garage, men who used to sell Those instructors are the employees to bank clerks and miners who and service civilian cars before the are being transformed into en- war.
Each one has a long experience of gineers; to Post Office sorters and pottery workers who will the trade and can impart knowledge 800n emerge as full fledged not to be found in the text books.
The former manager of the garage mechanical vehicle fitters,
still occupies the room in which he once presided over the sale of
many Rolls-Royce, but now he corrects examination papers!
This war has not only plucked men out of their environment: it has switched their jobs in the most amazing way.
In peace time one was always
Improvising
meeting men who said, "If only "Tell me from the beginning," 1
I could have my time over again, asked, "how a well-known firm like
I'd never be this or that."
In Training
yours has become an Army' school,
man.
"I don't like the Army," he re-
1
TO-MORROW. A Day At Sandhurst
by RACHEL FIELD
ALL THIS
AND HEAVEN TOO
Serialised by HARRY LEE
Chapter 1
;:".,
When Miss Haines Introduced the lovely structress many of the girls felt ruefully that she could not possibly. caso." havo been the principal in-the- Emily was unmoved, however, and Inter on embarrassed the teacher with sly questions about a certain French noble : family. prison, and about a named Proslie. Mile, Henriette, who had felt the chill of, their.. suspicion from the first, and, who had gone on courageously in spite of it, suddenly turned deathly pale, and hurried troms the room.
*་r:,"
In the office of Miss Halnes who - had been aware of the facts in the case befora employing her Milo, Hen riette mot the young American thep- logical student, Hebry Field, who, but t proved her friend during all the troubled days abroad. It was he who had recommended her to Miss Habies and now he sold that he had stopped in to welcome her home... She reacted bitterly, saying that since her pupils bad found the truth about her past, sho * would resign at once.
"You can face your conscience!"?" he said, looking down at her steadily and taking her hand in both of him, "Face them. Don't bog for their respect--- demand Tell them the truth)"
"I owe it to you, to try, Henry!" she anid, and went back to her pupiis,: They scurried guntily back to their resents as she entered and waited: in
silence.
""I'm going to tell you a true story," girls!" she bogan. "Perhaps I'm wrong in telling it to you--you're so young-- but in a few years you will be women of na age to love, and suffer, and Lace difficult problems, Bo, perhaps, it will not hurt you to learn that life is 'not always the profty picture postcard you may like it to bel If there are... any. of you who do not wish to hear the And here is this horrible for, although this sort of thing is go-RAMERCY PARK-to this day story, you have my permission to go.
No one aurred. All were allent thing, War, offering men what, ing on all over the country, the story restful ausis in the wilderness ef
has never yet been told."
New York-was a sunilt whirl of little frightened. weaken the Nazis' military potential. I rarely offer: the chance.and the "The war had not been going on fort girls that cold September morning in.in Paris in a large and beautiful house; "For most of our story, we will be the struggle for existence could "It began like this," he replied. yellow leaves and laughing, chattering Hitler has been forced to divert his leisure to learn a new trade.
long when we saw that the civilian 1848. In their mid-teens, bright hair the residence of the Duke and Duches attention from the all-absorbing
motor car trade was dead for, the blown about their faces, full skirts of Prasiin. It is of the governess in
billowing, they scuttied up the sleep that house I shall tell you. prospect of invading Brilain to the
duration.
steps of Miss Haines' exclusiva school, “"On a February morning some years task of consolidating his present con-
"What could we do? We were not eager to hear moro of the scandal ago she had not yet arrived in Paris, trol over southeastern Europe. And thousands of men in trades for
The problem of training these manufacturers. We were not tooled vortest on the flock, had promised to an interview. She was a punong on It looked as though of was a passenger on enlarge the seclusion of the class- a small Channel steamer which was his armies are to meet well trained,
battling its way across the -stormy which are civilian trades, but we should have to close down.
Then one day we had a call from well equipped forces whose past and
Emily-centre of breathless waters from Southampton toward Le now become military by virtue the War Office. Can you give soldiers group was on displaying with pride Havre. She was travelling alone, too, present history as fighters abundantly of totalitarian war, was obvious on Intensive mechanical
vehicle back numbers of a Paris newspaper having long before learned to take care proves them to be amongst the best ly one that could not be solved training, bringing them in eight which detalled proceedings in a of herself.. weeks to
to a standard of proficiency notorious murder trial. It was the A young man moved to the rait in the world.
by Army schools.
equal to a motor fitter of three yeora'
first day of school and none of them beside her, "You don't mind if I talk Such schools do not exist. experience?" That was all they had yet met Mile. Henrielle, the new to you, do you, be asked with an
“Bince. we seem" to "--ba” Therefore the War Office has wanted! It sounded crazy; but we she was the woman accused of the the only ones hardy enough to brave
French teacher, but Emily insisted that honest anfle. opened schools for soldiers in accepted the job.
the deck?!" webk crime. universities, training colleges, twelve days' time twenty men will Right,' said the War Office. In
(To be continued to-morrOLO). technical institutes, workshops, arrive to start training. In twelve garages, post-offices and such days, we had transformed ourselves like civilian institutions all over from a firm of motor dealers and re- the country. It is probably the pairers into
struction. most unorthodox thing the War Office has ever done.
Overshadowing Hitler's Balkans campaign is the knowledge that the fullest aid possible is to be given both to Yugo-Slavia and Greece by Britain and the United States. London has been markedly reticent in making any statements regarding the pre- sence of British forces in Greece and it is clear from the different estimates given in Berlin and Rome that the Axis Powers are in the dark concern-' ing the numerical strength of those forces. The important polát: is that in this case the British are established ́along a strategical front, prepared and walling to strike; there can be no Norway this time. Furthermore, the Allied troops will be defending in terrain very much to their advantage, Retreat to certain polnita may be
who is Who We have studied the psychological Inevitable, even desirable, but that 'responsible for about a
1 was taken by dozen schools aspect of this job. and we decided ours are soldiers to us they are just retreat can be rendered so costly to tucked away all over this town, to our age that while these puplis of
a school of technical in-
"We turned the showrooms into classrooms. We bought, borrowed These schools, ate run, not by and installed suitable equipment, we soldiers, but by civilian teachers, who selected from our mechanics all those train the men up to specified War men with expert knowledge who Office standards and pass them out could pass it on to others, and we as qualified tradesmen; and as soon planned a syllabus and a time-table. as one class marches out with a new trade at its finger-tips, another marches in. Pig Packe
Men Poles Apart
A New World - "So we began twelve months ago.
The men come to us in a constant
I had a fascinating glimpse into stream, live in civilian billets and this strange now world when I visited are marched to and from work by
a scosida town once famous for its sergeant. Our method of training bathing and its galety...
does not follow normal school routine.
the Invaders that the sum effect for och technical Instituide to the men who, want to dearn.o particular
them victory,
Here he turned me
'me: Tover principal, who
who inds his normal classes job.
There is a spirit of friendly com
e will be defeat, nor w of civilian students enlarged by rooms, operation and mutual understanding ** The Allles cari, enter upon this new, full of.
phase of war with high shops. Ha Young, ter in: khaki,one o
-of', the
took me which över wireless apparatus,
They
at. standing
are
come inside they can forget they
the
Learni
・FOORTE" they were, bending Losses there must be; perhaps dis-- 3 oung retaliation form in between` studenta Pandelstaff): Once appointments; but the long view.sug-work-benches, or listening to Inc. 10: long as this?). It way." wish to geats that the Balkans struggle will attars, electrical
Stures! were learning to be gun
and artillery
That's the one thing that interesta teaching them, awakening their
become but another.nall in the comin-electrician Burg Siera, 233 M interesti kimulating their mindejɛandi
of Totalitarianliin, and a new path to the ultimate victo
right and uberty over might and inhumanity,5/
They come
to the institute from turning them out in ten weeks for the course Thás béon extended---ux- "every part of the country: Indeed, the the whole of Britain meets at wipert enough to have held down a job work bencher..
here in the old days
room.
And Emily was right.