Education: Knitting Warrior

In 1936 and 1937 the U. S. War Department coaxed $1,517,850 from Congress to establish new R. O. T. C. units in high schools and colleges. Concentrating on high schools, it has made the greatest headway in Chicago, which today has some 30 junior units in public schools. But in a score of other places the War Department has been rebuffed. Last week it was smartly slapped by an 82-year-old woman in Kenosha, Wis.

Kenosha is a picturesque manufacturing town (pop. 50,262) with many churches, and sufficiently labor-minded to support a weekly, Kenosha...

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