Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1917 — SCHOOL OF TELEGRAPHY [ARTICLE]

SCHOOL OF TELEGRAPHY

NIGHT SCHOOL TO BE RUN FOR REGISTERED MEN OF - COUNTY. Through the Educational section of the State Council of Defense, the Rensselaer Board of Education has taken steps to organize a Night School of Telegraphy, open to all registered men in the county,.the work to be given free of charge. Indiana has been asked to furnish 900 telegraphers for the army, and so far 500 hundred have enrolled in classes for receiving this instruction. Miss Spaulding of the local Western operator has offered to teach this class and any registered man in the county who is interested in the Signal Corps of the army may take this opportunity of qualifying for that work. Classes will meet two or three evenings a week for two hours. As soon as twenty have enrolled the War Department will loan the telegraph instruments necessary for this work. When a person is able to receive twenty words a minute, he can qualify for the Signal Corps work. Here is an opportunity for service that should not be overlooked and it is hoped that at least twenty will be interested. Monticello has recently opened a similiar school and they lave a good class started. Why can’t Rensselaer do the same?

It is planned to give the work in one of the school buildings, the first meeting being Monday evening, December 17th at 7:30, in room number three of the High School building. All persons interested please apply to Miss Spaulding at the Western Union Office or Supt. C. R. Dean, at the high school. Supt. C. R. Dean, Rensselaer, Indiana. My dear Mr. Dean:— It is by no means too late to establish a class in telegraphy. Indiana’s quota is 900 and we now have only 437 students. It is true, as I understand it, that the registered jnen who desire to enlist must do so by December 15. This will have no effect on the fellows who study telegraphy for they will be sent to the Signal Corps when called by the draft. There is urgent need of a much greater number than is now available for service. I am writing to Capt. E. C. Huggins, Signal Officer, War Department, Chicago, and asking him to write you and to send literature describing the work. Enclosed you will find copy of code to be taught. If we can assist you further from this office, let us know. jf v Very sincerely yours, R. E. CAVANAUGH. Asst. Secy. Educational Section.