Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1917 — AT GREAT LAKES TRAINING STATION [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AT GREAT LAKES TRAINING STATION

Fathers aneF mothers, If your boys have the honor to be accepted by our Uncle Sam for his navy for four years, be assured that when the youngsters are discharged they will possess a very valuable industrial training that will help them get on prosperously In civil life. This picture shows a group es student seamen at Great Lakes Naval Training station, in Illinois, building a hydroairplane on the shore of Lake Michigan for use in training naval aviators. Leading to construct such a delicate and expensive, machine, the boys will learn also the fundamentals of gas-engine building, electrical engineering, mathematics, wood-working, metal forging, aerodynamics, physics and chemistry. The youth accepted for Uncle Sam’s navy is fortunate indeed!