Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1919 — Care for Crippled Soldiers [ARTICLE]

Care for Crippled Soldiers

Government Plans to Give All Vocational Training and to Find Employment for Them

It is intended by the government that there shall be no crippled soldiers selling pencils and shoe strings on the street corners, and small necessity for “homes”' where crippled men may be cared for. . - . . ■ ' The government has made 'plans to re-educate every disabled soldier and sailor, to secure employment for him, and to watch over his welfare thereafter that he may be^ndependeift~ntiid~serf fCSpbbtfng, The actnal steps which the government will rake are five: ■' 1— Election by the disabled men of a course of training. 2 Preliminary training to fit him for a definite occupation. 4 Placement in suitable position. 5 Follow-up work to safeguard his interests. r The government will support the man while training, will pay his tuition, traveling expenses and any other expenses incident to his training, and will give his family the same support which it has given during his military .service,.. \ .... The disabled man may elect the line of work he wants to take up. He may be retrained for the work he did before the war, or turn to something entirely different. He may take further/ training in his old occupation. . And in addition to his support and- the support of his family he will be given all the medical care he needs, and will be supplied with any artificial contrivances ncceoaary because -of-the-doss-of-ltefiteor-faculties, - The machinery through which this work of rehabilitation will be handled cofefists of a federal board of vocational re-education with brancK~S~lg thg~ principal cities of the country. David F. Houston, secretary of agriculture, IS chairman of the board; William C. Redfield, secretary of commerce, and William B. Wilson, secretary of labor, are also on the hoard, and an executive staff of experts in vocational education have been employed.