Above Army Men Learning Field Communication with Field Wireless in the Foreground. Below The Army Class of Machinists. taught in short unit courses. Therefore, for years years Dunwoody had required its teachers to prepare lesson sheets for their own work. This was a burdensome task in many cases, but the men who did it ought to feel rejoiced to know how valuable their effort proved when the war came. The lesson sheets which they prepared through the years were not only ready for use in the training which Dunwoody gave along mechanical and technical lines to soldiers and sailors, these lesson sheets were scattered broadcast over the United States and were used in the training of thousands of drafted and enlisted men by other institutions. So great, indeed, was the demand for these lessons that the school found it very difficult to supply the need. Much of the material was furnished without charge. When the demand became so great that it became burdensome the material was prepared and furnished to schools at cost. Some of it was mimeographed and some of it printed on the Dunwoody press. In addition the school published during the war, to meet a special demand, the following text books: Tire Repairing & Vulcanizing, by H. H. Tufford; Aeroplane Construction and Assembly, by J. T. King and N. W. Leslie. These war students of Dunwoody are today scattered not only over the whole country but over the whole world. From every quarter the school hears praise of the records of these men and gets, from time to time, facts showing their rapid rise in the service because of their training. Private soldiers became lieutenants and captains; non-coms became "lieuts," captains, and colonels. Perhaps when all the facts are gathered we may have harbored at the school unknowingly a future brigadier. Who knows? It would be impossible to describe here the many different things these men did during the war. In the navy they performed every kind of mechanical and technical work required in the service. On board ship they manned the transports that carried the doughboys to the front and guarded the sea lanes against the submarines. From wireless stations on shore or ship they sent flashing across the sea the messages that guided the ships through perilous waters and bound every unit of the navy into an effective fighting whole. No less creditable and effective was the contribution made by Dunwoody students in the army. They became instructors of others in mechanical and technical work at cantonments. They kept the mechanism of the barracks in good repair. They furnished the army with the staff of life and trained other bakers for this important duty. They drove truck and motor cars on the shell-torn front. They manned the listening posts in No Man's Land and fought battles with our enemy above the clouds. The story would not be complete without paying a tribute to those earnest, patriotic young women and older men who gave of their time at Dunwoody to prepare themselves to take the place in telegraphy, telephony and munition work of those called into service. Many of these former students of Dunwoody paid the final debt, some of them in camp and hospital on this side of the water, many of them in mortal combat across the sea. In after years when the facts can all be gathered-and it will be a difficult task because of the far flung line of Dunwoody men the school expects to erect a tablet in the memory of its sons who gave their all for the republic. -C. A. P. ONLY CAUTIONARY He wondered why his wife suddenly turned cold on him and remained so for several days. For all that he had said in remonstrance was: "My dear, you'll never be able to drive that nail with a flat-iron. For heaven's sake, use your head." -Ladies' Home Journal. |