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to determine exactly the number of boys leaving schools 

 each year than it was to determine the number of returned 

 men which would apply for, and accept training. It should 

 also be an easier matter to allocate these boys in numbers 

 to training, since statistics could be prepared showing the 

 ratio of increase of workers over periods of, say, five years, 

 and to make the necessary adjustments to estimates in view 

 of trade depression or prosperity, since such could be done 

 very deliberately in the ligh t of data especially accumulated. 

 In allotting numbers under the Vocational Training Scheme, 

 a few days only were available for the work, and the 

 statistics available were not exactly of the kind needed. 

 Nevertheless, as has been indicated, a very fair measure 

 of success was met with. 



All but a very small percentage of the men applying for 

 training were essentially of a good type. All had responded 

 to the call of country, and, in this respect, had discharged 

 one of the highest obligations. Travel abroad, even though 

 within the limits of war service, had broadened their out- 

 look. Many of them had distinguished themselves, and 

 most returned with an increased desire to take a useful 

 part in the civil life of the country if they could but be put 

 in the way of so doing. On the other hand, the injured 

 were more or less handicapped according to the nature of 

 their wounds or sickness, and even the fit men were men- 

 tally in an abnormal state as a result of their appalling 

 experience. Further than this, habits, tolerable enough 

 in the rough conditions of war, but incompatible with the 

 conditions of school and college life, were, by a section at 

 any rate of the men, not easily broken. It was, therefore, 

 necessary to deal with all of them thoughtfully and 

 patiently so that they might be put successfully on the 

 road, which, in their hearts, they wished to follow. Success 

 depended more perhaps on the wisdom shown in selecting 



