Illinois mobilizes, vol.1, no.2

              ISSUED BY THE ILLINOIS STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE 
          
             Vol. 1—No. 2           *             JULY 1, 1942 
          
                            TRAIN 400 FOR CIVIL DEFENSE 
            Air Raid Warden Instructors School Outstanding Success; Men 
             from All Sections of State Return Home to Instruct Others 
                Illinois has taken another long step forward in defense of civilian 
             lives and property. 
                It was taken at the Illinois Air Raid Warden Instructors School 
             sponsored by the State Council of Defense and the American Legion, 
                                      Department of Illinois, and attended 
                                      by 400 men from every section of the 
                Takes New Command     State. 
                                       No civilian conducted school in the 
                                      country has been productive of more 
                                      sound results than the one held at 
                                      Jacksonville, June 7 to 13. From the 
                                      time the men registered until they 
                                      received their diplomas, they studied, 
                                      studied again, then studied some 
                                      more. 
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              Illinois is as much a part of our na- 
             tion’s battlefield as are the Pacific 
             Ocean, Australia, Burma, England, or 
             wherever America’s armed forces are 
             operating, warned Maj. Gen. Frank 
             Parker, new Executive Director of 
             the State Council, as he entered upon 
             the duties of his first command out— 
             side the army since 1894. 
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                               High Examination Marks 
          
                                       An idea of the quality of instruc- 
                                      tion and of the way students applied 
                                      themselves to their voluntary task is 
                                      found in the fact that almost 90 per 
                                      cent of the examination papers graded 
                                      higher than 85. These were papers 
                                      written by men all over 40, most of 
                                      them between 45 and 55, many of - 
                                      whom had not studied intensively for 
                                      25 years. 
                                       From 82 counties and 211 com- 
                                      munities they came, representing 128 
                                      walks of life. There were educators, 
                                      farmers, businessmen, doctors, law- 
                                      yers, wage earners, newspaper and 
                                      radio men. It is interesting, in view 
                                      of the fact that they were about to 
                                      become instructors, that 72 of them 
                                      are school teachers, school principals 
 
          
 
 
 
 
 
                                      or school superintendents. 
                                      Equally interesting is the fact that 
                                          86 per cent of the students are mem- 
                                          bers of the American Legion. This 
                                          is a splendid commentary on the ea- 
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         MAJ. GEN. FRANK PARKER