rehabilitating their own employees killed that these people ask only for a chance to serve that they quickly prove themselves above average with regard to production safety and that's and p and another important phase of budget rehabilitation work is that  returning wounded soldiers to civil life putting them back into useful gainful satisfying work is a path and an obligation which this program help fulfill the rehabilitation program here includes not only those who supplemented in the case of the handicapped man by a personal interview with the medical director the doctor in cooperation with the personnel director makes a careful sympathetic analysis of the applicant's talents and abilities and places him on that job where he can serve shoulder to shoulder with his fellow workers this man's first assignment that of window man in a pool of crab proved him an able and willing employee he was soon advanced to a machine as a perception tool and cutter grinder a most important job in a factory devoted one hundred percent to war w frank rust money is another handicapped man who asks no favors he lost his leg as an eleven year old youngster playing around railroad yards in by have this he was determined that his life should be youthful and profitable he started here doing hand and mechanical bearing as he progressed in skill and confidence he wasn't then and is now operating a beer cutting machine by having a trade he is  a victim of polio as a child his put his be formed in his left leg paralyzed however he is able to walk with the aid of a brace he had never done any mechanical or factory work yet he is now doing hand and mechanical bearing i have  changes of handicapped men from one job to another i'm not made by supervisors without the approval of the medical department that's the check is get and men are not placed where physical well being or efficiency myself or these men neither ask for nor are given any special privileges they receive no special rates for work performed yet almost without exception they are spending on their job charlie waller had a congenital deformity of both arms yet neither his disposition nor his ability to do certain types of work a suffered charlie was an automobile salesman but with the coming of the lord car sales became less important than work so charlie applied for a job where he could help produce fighting equipment he's a tool crib window man now playing a real part in a huge wa and well this has proved to be the rule rather than the exception with most handicap man here's a man who had his arm amputated at the shoulder the result of an industrial accident in a whirl of mail he was no longer able to continue with the work  doing and the period filled with odd jobs followed when he was accepted for factory employment here he was placed on a tool crib job that they received his first check he was so thrilled that he asked to get away long enough to show it to his wife his first goal was a payment of today he has accomplished this and has put away a substantial nest egg besides this ambitious and energetic employee is bill caldwell before he came to work here he was manager of a super service station he had lost his arm amputation but he had never lost his pleasant disposition his personality and willingness to work make him a valuable employee and he will doubtless give the same splendid account of himself that's become almost traditional with such workmen here is another young man who hasn't committed a congenital deformity of the hand to hinder him in his chosen field he finished a commercial course in school as an expert typist and was employed here as a classroom assistant in the training department he's  realizes that he's feeling an important place in the world of industry but all isn't work with handicap man he okayed for example as one of the regular members of the company baseball team he's playing with the sunday morning league here and doing his customary good job early in life he lost an arm but his determination not to let such a handicap rule him out of the sport he loved coupled with endless hours of practice made us promise not to football and baseball player of him and he's done just as good a job in the factory for the originally started in a tool grab working at one of the windows it wasn't long before he was transferred to the inspection department and recently has been advanced to the position of final inspector on the diesel engine assembly line lloyd smith there's another man who's had an arm amputated at the shoulder but he hasn't let it get him down his foreman in the reclamation department or even placed as a clerk says that he is a conscientious employee that he always does his best and never lets his handicap bother him i thought russell while still attending high school was involved in a train accident which resulted in the education of one hand he didn't want to add to his parents already heavy burden so he attended business college and then went to work for a farm implement theater when the war cut into this business he applied for industrial work and was given a job as a spectator is artificial hand as proven or handicapped and his ambition is likely to carry him for a few years ago george got killed as a first class highline electrician until a hot fire falling across his arms burned them off from the first he was determined that he would never ask anyone for help and he's become a capable self confident reliable when the war slowed down his business of cutting up and selling junk cars he became a valuable member of the plant protection for brian from birth himself george cor full derives particular satisfaction in the work he's doing to protect the eyesight of other industrial workers such a handicap as he is often developed extreme skill and manual dexterity and such is the case here george is able to take safety glasses which have been turned in for repairs and  and adjust them sometimes he finds a land surface to had some welding or grinding wheel spark then he simply takes out the old man and replaces it with a new one one of the most remarkable things you they are an excellent team capable on this important work clooney is also working on a band doing bearing on the hardened transmission years his handicap is in his hearing and he finds it necessary to use a hearing aid this doesn't prevent him however from being an entirely capable employee is foreman's re agrees that they have a steady dependable and always on the job and is willing and anxious to cooperate with this other workers russell burgess is the first of about fifteen destiny was hired at this plant because of their happy disposition and their willingness to cooperate and popular with the federal employees and with their foreman why most of them are on bench work some have already been advanced to machine the absorption of these handicapped men is only the beginning of a much broader program as the war continues and draws to a close soldiers like charles craig who was wounded at pearl harbor will come back physically handicapped and it is the full intent that earnest desire of this company to rehabilitate them whenever and wherever possible charles was given the purple heart our country's award for wounds received in action he is doing useful work here now and is happy to know that he can continue to fight on the production line rather than