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...Americans All" squad from the Recruit Educational Center at Camp Dix gave a demonstration in the Living Room of the Union yesterday afternoon. After a few remarks Professor William B. Munro, who presided, introduced Dr. Charles R. Mann, the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the General Staff of the Army. Dr. Mann spoke about the educational work being done by the Army at the present time, and told why the "Americans All" squads were now touring the country to show the people the results of the Americanization work being done by the Recruit Educational Centers...
...clock this afternoon the "Americans All" squad from the Recruit Educational Center at Camp Dix will give a demonstration at the Union. The meeting is held under the auspices of the Union, the R. O. T. C., and the Shannon Post of the American Legion...
This squad is made up of nine men, two Americans and seven men of foreign birth. None of the men could read or write at the time they joined the Army, and several of them could not even speak English. On joining the Army they were sent to Camp Dix, one of nine camps at which there have been established Recruit Educational Centers. Here they were given a four months course in English, and then were formed into a squad to tour the country and show the progress made by the Army in Americanzation...
...clock tomorrow afternoon the "Americans All" squad from the Recruit Educational Center at Camp Dix will give a military, educational and recreational demonstration at the Union, under the auspices of the Union, the R. O. T. C. and the Shannon Post of the American Legion...
...read nor write when he joined the Army, and eight foreigners, most of whom could not even speak English. There was a Swede, a Finn, a Frenchman; a Serbian, a Czecho Slovakian, a Mexican, a Pole, and a Russian. These men are graduates of the Army School at Camp Dix, one of six Army Schools which take the illiterate and non-English speaking recruits and by means of a thorough course in English and citizenship, coupled with instruction in the fundamental duties of a soldier, turns them out intelligent, patriotic and disciplined Americans...