Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1917 — CLASS OF TWENTY IS NEEDED [ARTICLE]

CLASS OF TWENTY IS NEEDED

In Order to Secure Instruments From War Department. The first meeting of the class in telegraphy for conscripted. men was held at the high school Building Monday evening, and but half the required number was present. It is necessary to have a class of twenty students, when the war department will provide instruments for carrying on the study. Supt. C. R. Dean of the Rensselaer high school, and Miss Spaulding, local Western Union operator, were present and explained the work in hand as it has been given to them. In enrolling one does not in any way obligate himself for service sooner than would be the case if he did not take the course. Some erroneous impressions along this line have been held by some and kept them from enrolling. There is, however, one pertinent fact connected with the work, when you are called for duty if you have prepared yourself as a telegraph operator you will quite certainly not 1)3 put to digging trenches, and the work should appeal to many from this viewpoint. Others have expressed a belief that a high school education was necessary in order to take up the work and pursue it properly, and this is also erroneous. A common school education is ample. The next meeting of the class in telegraphy will be held at the high school building at 7:30 Thursday evening, and all who are thinking •f enrolling are urged to be preseat and talk the matter over. The new International code will be used in preference to the Morse code, and the study of the same is intensely interesting as well as full df future possibilities.