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seemed very dark He could not go back 70 his old
trade, and he knew other and did dream that
what trade he wanted 10 learn he did understand.
Later he suspicious. He did believe that he
could learn any OF the trades that suggested
m ard g was convinced that somewhere and some
string tied the offer. a long
time and much persuasion 10 induce him TO in
dictate which trade he preferred Then, when at last
the believe that he over. Jean
suddenly turned crusty and refused absolutely go
any further with the matter. Moreover, go percent
his mates the hospital did the same thing on
almost the day.
The hospital star could not understand it. Later
much later-after good many of jeans friends had
perforce been discharged from the hospital the staff
discovered the explanations Jean and his mates thought
they found the string tied TO the offer. As
soon you learn new trade they'll take away your
pension" the whisper that had like wildhre
through the wards Even the most positive denials
failed to counteract its effects altogether and good
many European soldiers still refuse &c learn solely be-
they fear lose their pension. They have no
desire lose bone by swapping at its reflection
in the water
Jean however. was convinced in time He learned
to be a masseur-as a gymnast he had perforce been
something of a "rubber"-and is earning quite
much as he ever did and has far steadier employ
ment than he had.
The United States will OF meet such diff
fculty. soldiers will know all about reeducaon
long before they are wounded: they know .hp
the insurance bill specifically provides that sodic
shall suffer no reduction in his compensation because
he learns to work in spite of permanent injury They
will know that person who had lost his hand. for
instance. reduced by Uncle Sam because ne
learned TO write with the stump.
DOWN AND CUTTERS EXPERIENCE.
Thomas Hopkins, suffered in another way. Thomas
was an anemic down and-outer from the London
slums when he squeezed squeezed into the
army. year in the trenches built him up then
a shrapne mutilated his right badly that it
had be taken of. Hopkins in despair; gifted
with some ambition he had seen way out Of the
Sums and he seemed about forced back in
them with added handicap. He would have
snapped any chance to learn.
But the system not well organized in those days,
and for weeks Hopkins had to sit around in a con
valescent hospital nursing his despair until he had
slipped his old indOlent ways; his muscles
had grown feeble and his joints and tendOns stiff IT
took a long time to his ambition again and still
longer educate the senstveness of his stump and
to teach him how 10 it and how TO some of
the 40 and attachments that have been devised
for stumps. He did learn, however, and now
runs a typesetting machine in a London newspaper
office.
Hopkins wounded nearly two years ago Now
adays he-woud reeduCaton the very earliest
possible moment Nowadays by the way. il has beer.
found necessary 70 restrict the hours that con
valescent may work; the great majority would
their strength.
Americans have one very great advantage over
Europeans in that America makes the artificial