El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-24
BEGGAR holds out in mute ap-

a BEGGAR holds out in mute ap-
- peal two haunting stumps of
arms. Miserable apologies for
arms; both hands are missing Poor
fellow he'll never be able to do any
thing" people think, and he reaps a
toll from the passing crowd
Well. what can he do? More things
than at first seem possible. He can
learn stenography. This is not a flip
pant joke. August Brembe1 of Munich,
Germany, was born without hands.
With the aid Of special apparatus he
writes with a pen and has become
fairly proficient as a stenographer
Other kinds of possible work are tend
ing newsstands or serving as time
keepers and watchmen. If the man is
intelligent he could answer questions
at the information window in a rail-
road station.
When it is realized that every minute
some one in the United States is be-
ing killed or injured, the need for an
agency to find suitable jobs for the
disabled is obvious. Approximately half
a million people a year are injured in
factories, mills and foundries, by acct
dents on ailroads, trolley cars and
boats, and in mines and in other in
dustrial catastrophes
How are we to help the handicapped
to earn a living? The special employ
ment bureaus for the handicapped in
New York and Chicago partially an
swer the question. A porter who has
lost foot must change his work. The
bureau finds him a position minding
a private telephone exchange.
A typesetter lost his right arm from
blood poisoning. His friends pitied
him and thought he would never be
He could not dress himself or cut his
own food His self-reliance was gone
At the bureau he was met with a
bracing contempt you've got two
legs and two eyes and strength. Why,
you might have lost both hands. Then
you would have been in a fix"
The typesetter was sent to a farm
err on trial month later he was seen
driving a fOur-in-hand.
"Sufng the Company"
often it is difficult to get man into
a self-reliant frame of mind. If he is
suing some company for damages he
believes that he will get more if he
can plead that he is unable to work.
While waiting weeks, months, and even
years for the trial, he is acquiring the
habit of not working.
man who loses an arm is indus
trialy more seriously handicapped
than one who lacks a leg. Almost any
trade calls for two hands. There are
possibilities open, however Such
man can serve as a telephone operator
in a small private exchange, or as a
theater usher or messenger, not to
mention tending a news stand or serv-
ing as timekeeper or Waterman one
armed man is one of the telegraph OPP
orators on a great daily in New York;
receiving newspaper copy is one of the
hardest tasks in the photographers
trade outside of work in Wall street
The disability of old age is the heaV-
lest handicap of all. Two years ago
many men who had held steady jobs
for decades lost their work. A clerk
who has labored thirty years in
house dealing in wool is practically un-
able to get out of the rut.
For such men places as errand boys,
elevator operators or hall pOrters are
sometimes secured. The choice is lin
itec and it is depressing to see men
who have held responsible posts reduc-
ed to work that is such contrast to
their past.
Special employment bureaus are not