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The article reports that a Chicago Park District Police Training School recently inaugurated a short-answer testing program in order to measure the effectiveness of its training course in which more than 700 police officers participate. This training course has been in existence since 1936 for all men below the rank of Captain. Each officer attends school two hours a week for alternating months between September and June. The school recesses during the summer months when the demand for police service throughout the park system is at its heaviest. The men go to school while they are off duty, and the time spent by them in school is returned to them by their commanding officers at the convenience of the service. Instruction is given separately to fourteen groups, each comprising fifty-five officers. The officers attending the school range in periods of service from recent induction to forty-two years. Attendance is compulsory until a man is sixty-four years old; at sixty-five he is automatically retired from the force.