The Washington herald., 1917-07-08
College of Arms and Legs
To Aid Wounded of Canada

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piece of workmanship. no doubt; but
SO bills are not left lying around to
be picked up in any great profusion.
so far as l have noticed. A hand
that will make a SO bill is more to
the purpose.
Can Garry Bucket.
The new arm is equipped, inter-
Changeably, with a hand that looks
like a hand" and with a particularly
ingenious and effective hook" 1t is
really much more than a hook. 1t Is
a pair of more or less quadrilateral
nippers. with indentations. so shaped
as to prevent any tool held from slip
ping. A small hook curls up from
each OF the jaws. so that. when these
are opened wide. a bucket of water
can be carried without spilling.
Perfection. of course. has not been
reached. Fresh improvements are to
be expected. and of course to be en-
couraged. But 1t Is hoped that a first
class standard arm has now been Sc
cured, so that its various parts can
be made in quantities and stocked
ready for immediate use in the fac
tory.
Over in London they have a "CoI-
lego OF Arms" 1t is the headquarters
of heraldry. where you so TO discover
your coat-of-arms II you think your
family used to have one. or to get one
invented for you il you banker after
such a decoration.
The OTthopaedic Hospital up the
hill in North Toronto is Canada's Col
lese of Arms and Legs. Built by the
Salvation Army as a training college
for cadets, it is now the home of Cam
adian soldiers waiting to be fitted
with, and learning to use, their arti-
fetal limbs.
Autos for Disabled.
have Just been through that COL
lege. with a critical eye. 1 found 1t
good. What is more to the point, all
the residents 1 have met say that they
also find it good. Its position is mag
nifcent, commanding the finest views
of the country in every direction. /
had had an impression, from some of
those ill-considered and censorious re-
marks that are so easy to print and
so hard to recall, that the new in
stitution was away somewhere in the
backwoods. But a few minutes ride
on the car from the head of Yonge
street brought me almost to the door.
The street car service, by the way.
is supplemented in the most practical
manner by private motor cars. whose
owners or drivers habitually stop to
pick up any disabled men they see
waiting at the corner Of the avenue.
This should be done as a matter of
course.
These boys Of ours who came home
lacking limbs are not lacking in hu-
NOR. They show just the same fine.
manly spirit that animates the great
bulk of their wounded comrades.
They can even turn their loss into
a joke. I'm a man with a foot in the
grave" said one, pulling a long face;
and then, with a broad grin, he add
ed: But I'm five thousand miles from
it myself, so what's the odds?"
No One Need BE Cripple.
This spirit of never say die is
going to carry them far. If they were
of the knuckle- under sort, IL they let
themselves think that from now on
luSy "Oulu pc uSelSSS, VI hdlL use
less, hangers-on OF society, then use
less they would be. But. having firm
ly made up their minds to be capable,
capable they will be.
This is no delusion. Two things have
been proved up to the hilt by ex-
perience.
First, that there is no man who need
remain a cripple, barring, of course,
the extremely rare case of total help
lessness.
And, second, that a mans own ef-
fort to acquire strength and skill does
more than any one else can do I'd
make him skillful and strong. But he
must be helped; he must be shown
how to help himself.
That is what the military hospitals
commission is doing for him, devot-
ing not only the nations money, but
brains and energy also to the task.
There is no more sensible and hope
full and .far-seeing piece of work be-
ing done in the country.
The modest little building beside
this hospital, the limb factory, will
do a great work: that other little
building about to go up, the voca-
tional workshop, will do a greater.
From the one man can get an ar
tifcial limb. From the other he will
go out into the world with skill de-
veloped and powers enlarged, an abler
man often than before disablement
came upon him.