Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1918 — Public’s Service to Crippled Man Is to Find Him Proper Employment [ARTICLE]

Public’s Service to Crippled Man Is to Find Him Proper Employment

By ALBERT WOODRICKER.

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In the past'the attitude of the public has been a greater handicap to the cripple than his physical disability. People have assumed him to be helpless. Too often than otherwise they have persuaded him to become so. As a certain writer said recently: “For the disabled soldier there has been ‘hero worship,’ for the civilian cripple there has been a futile kind of sympathy, which, in some instances at least, does the cripple more harm than good.” -■ S'Alt that most cripples need, I believe, is the kind of job they are fitted for and perhaps a little training in preparation for it* I have been told there are hundreds of seriously crippled men now holding down job* of importance. - ■ y 4 I think, therefore, the public’s service to the crippled man ia to find for him a godd job. In fact, as idleness is a calamity, society should demand of the cripple that he get back into the work of the world. Int the majority of instances you would find him only too ready to do so.