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By II. R HARRIS. .
Fascinating and well-nigh aston-.
ishing is the work being done by
mere., slips ofjf tbys and slender
youths, by gifls ., with pigtails
down
sweet
theif backs and girls of . :
sixteen or ' thereabouts in
the 'mechanical department of th
Omaha High School 1 of JGom
merce, where the youngsters-are.
.being taught -to usV their brains
and hands Jwithsucli knowledge
and skill ihat they may step right
out of school into the great classes
of independent; wage earners. .
The printing class has a reg-
ularly equipped job print shep and
the boys do regular, jmnt shop
work from 'sticking type" to run- '
mng a nnotvpe machine ana op
erating a job 1ress. ,
Over ia the, garage and repair
shop of the ''auto" mechanics class
there iall .of, the bustling ac
tivity ""that you will ee in a reg
ular auta repair shop. Cars you
will see that have suffered ill at
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the hands of a telegraph pole, or
a curoing, a aitcn. or anptner car.
These the boys -are putting nto
running shape again. Tires are
being repaired, cars put together,
parts made, every one is playing
the game in deadly earnest
Erect Two Buildings
Embryonic carpenters have, all
by fFiemselves, erected two splen- ,
did buildings for the. school and
are just completing a hallway be-
tween them. -
Everv angle of carpentry is J
. k. nr, . , vJne day a .week recitations are
taught to the boys. , Many a man . heW 0a text book. Xhe other
might learn a. vast deal from My. 0f; the school week the boys
look with a great ""deal of envy spend actually working out the
,
at the mere driving of a nail by
Bornof the lads who are yet in
-their knee pants. i -
In the rooms where radio and
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telegraph operators are beings
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turned out you will find the only
girls in the - mechanical depart-
ment. Boys and girls.-they seem,
to the layman, t.Q. possess an un
canny ability to pick the meaning
Vf the dotsand dashel out of the
air. So great is the demand from
the business " world' for these
young people that those who' fin- .
, ish the course and wish to take
up this line of work are gobbled'
up at once. -Four
Printing Classes.
W. Sf-' Crichton is conducting ,
ah"four printing classesjn which
thaare enrolled 34 boytudentsN
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING?, NOVEMBER 21, 1920.
.problems of the print shop. .
The printing classes are now
runninsr off a 25.000 edition of the
Public Scliool, the official publica
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The students also print each week
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ine xiign cnooi oi . commerce : mere is a lorge wiin Doys ejus'- ,
paper. The boys do all of this tered about if, some of them deal
work themselves under the direc- ing doughty blows with ahammer
tion of tne instructor. They hav
.a linotype machine, a two-revolu-
tion Campbell- press and two job
' presses.' y,- . . ,
The full printing course extends
thro'ugh three years.' It was
started two year ago. Already .
' one of the boys who received his
training in the ' course, Nathan ;
Harris, is employed in" the shop,.,
of the National Printing com
pany of Omaha. :
Autos Rejuvenated.
'. The big shop where autome
chanics is taught is a place filled
with interest even for one uninitat
ed into things mechanical. There
are dozens of auios around the
hops in -"various states of wreck- , ing, mathematics, physics and oth
"age. Around some of thse are . er scientific, studies. .
' gathered little erouDS of bovs bent
intently on diagnosiig the dam-
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f At onoend of the bigshop T.
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on the red hot portions of iron.1
rods and .bars.
Make Own Parts.
Inone corner of the shop are
the machines which cut iron and "'
steel into desired shapes. At each
of these there is a boy -working
out his particular problem i-
' A , room adjoining the big shop -''
is x given to vulcanizing and other
tire work., - . ,'
The auto mechanic course was
started two years ago. It has
propped quite popular. Forty-five
boys are enrolled this year for the
two-year course. In addition to
t auto, mechanics these students are
taking English, mechanical draw-
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"I believechat every man should
be able to' work with his hands
as well as with his brain', declared
H. Orchard, head of the in
dustral department, which in
cludes in addition to auto me
chanics, carpentry, machine and
electrical ' and forge shop work,
carpentry; and mechanical drawing-.
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vvnen tne cepariment is nousna
'" the' new school quarters to 1
erected between .thirtieth, and
Thirty-third . and Cuming and
Burt, an .electrical shop, pattern
-making and a foundry will be in-
' eluded.
William Brewer, secretary of
.the Omaha 'Carpenters' union, has
charge of the carpentry instruc
tion, which coders everything that
those who are to follow this voca
tion should know. j '
Remarkably fine work has been
done by the boys in the carpentry
course in the erection of tne two
buildings in which they are
housed. v
In another building of th small
village of structures which com-'
pose the high school is located the
class room in which the instruc
tion in mechanical drawings is
held. Here the boys are studying
for both commercial and archi
tectural work. Plans are drawn
by the boys ('Which are used in
building various articles in the
carpentry department, i X
Many Are Enrolled
There are 84 boys studying in
the carpentry department and 242f.
enrolled in the free-hand drawing
course. . '
Mr. Orchard.' assistants, in ad
dition to Mr. Brewer, are H.
Robertson, Robert Gait, O! J.
"franklin, H. T. Eddy and E. H.
Snclley. i
Two instructors are training
some 29b young peop!eto become
radio and telegraph operators. Of
TEN CENTS
these some 22S are taking
raphy, the rest the radio
teleg-
work.
the classes are divided between
F. PDurand andH. E. Bennett
" Talk Only on Wire.
The class rooms conducted by
these two instructors present a
! novel appearance. The instructor
sits with a telegraph key on his
desk, on which he transmits ques
tions and tests to the students.
He tcccives replies through a re
sonator and sounder.
Each student has the same sort
of apparatus. There is no talk
ing, i he conversation is solely on
, the wire.
' i here are as
many girlsas
ses.
boys in these courses.
The telegraphy courses extend
, through pine quarters. .They were
' started in 1913 and have become
so , popular that the rooms are
crowded .to capacity. The tele-
taphy courses composed the first
vocational department to be estab-,,
lished in the high, school,
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