Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1918 — SCHOOL TO ASSIST IN TRAINING DRAFTED MEN [ARTICLE]

SCHOOL TO ASSIST IN TRAINING DRAFTED MEN

Decatur, 11l. —Milliken university here is preparing to co-op-erate with Uncle Sam in the training of drafted men by offering special dburses along lines suggested by the Federal Board of Vocational Training. It is planned to train conscripted men in the second and succeeding draft in about fifty occupations necessary to war work at the school. It is proposed to send the drafted men to the schools wholly or in part, as early as April or May, with' a view’ to completing the courses which the government will outline in September.