Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-03
PLANNING FOR
FUTURE OF Grip
Piled SOLDIERS

ASSOCIATED Press Correspondence
Berlin, May 3o-Following in the wake
of other municipalities and states. Berlin
now is taking energetic steps to care Ior
and train to civil usefulness Its crippled
soldiers. 1t Is proposed to prevent at
all cost the misfortune of having these
men become dependent charges.
At a recent meeting of that body which
most nearly corresponds to the city
council Of an American municipality,
Mayor Won Wermuth, Berlin's Oberburg-
ermeister. presented plan which IN
cludes tho establishment OF fund OF
SIS 900 and council or committee on
which numerous civic and philanthropic
organizations shall be represented to
carry out the details Of training the men.
At the head of the organization there
Is to be a deputy of the city government.
assisted by counsellor and committee.
This committee shall be composed of
representatives Of the organizations that
in the ordinary course of events bear
the expense of caring for the injured-the
Berlin as we'll as the imperial insurance
companies in which majority Of the
soldiers are insured, the Red Cross, the
military medical administration, and the
central labor bureau.
The counsellor shall be assisted by rep
resentatives of the mayor, the city coun-
Gil, a surgeon. an orthopedist, representa-
tives of the police president of Berlin.
the Women's Association of the Father
land. the National Association of Wo-
mans Aid. and several labor organiza-
so the German Association of Working
men and the Berlin Council of Business
Men will be asked to have a representa-
tive each.
Arrangements already have been made
to transfer invalids from hospitals in
other parts of Germany. whose actual,
bona tide homes are in Greater Berlin,
to hospital provided by the military
medical administration. Here they will
be able to get unsurpas sed medical at
tention preparatory to the training for
some calling.
A most important part in the plans
now under way will be played by the
Central Labor Intelligence Bureau,
which will be charged with finding posi-
tions for men as soon as they are fitted
for new callings or for partial resumption
of their old activities. This organization
already is at work preparing the field.
Before presenting the plan to the city
council Mayor Won Wermuth assured
himself of the support of labor organiza-
lions and trade unions, as well as the
financial aid of the government insurance
bodies in whom most Germen men are
carried.
Even before the men leave the hospital
the question of what TRACE they will take
up will be considered. In charge of this
will be experts, who will pass uniformly
on all cases. The scientific and adj
vanced schools of Berlin will be utilized
to their fullest extent, as well as those
institutions conducted by the insurance
companies.
In urging the necessity for some step
as TINS on the part of Berlin, Mayor Won
Wermuth declared Those injured in
the war are coming to Us in steadily
growing numbers from the hospitals
They need immediate aid in order as
quickly as possible, to take up callinss
and relations which will preserve their
strength and ability. These injured
must not be thrown upon public institu-
tons for the care OF the poor. Thcv
must be spared the expressing feeling
that in the fultillment of their hichesr
patriotic duty they have become worth
less members of human society,""