Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-06
Out of Million Americans Sent to France Only 500
 Lose Arm or a Leg.
CRIPPLED SOLDIER
 IN SMALL MINORITY
Federal Board of Vocation al Education Takes Care
 of All Disabled.
Associated Press.

Associated Press.
 Washington, Sept 28.-There exists a great deal of misapprehension in the public mind regarding the disabled soldiers There are frequent allus- icns to the crippled soldier."( There have been movements on behalf of various undertakings to "help educate the crippled soldiers" They all are misnomers. The word "cripples" means those who have lost an arm or leg or hand. They comprise hard ly per cent of the disabled.
 As matter of fact, says the Fed eral Board on Vocational Education there is scarcely any place for ~Mdi- vidual or organized endeavor in deal ing with the disabled men, except in cooperation with the regular channels eral campaigns have started in var ious parts of the country, their prr- provided by the government. Ser pose being, it has been stated, to assist these men who have been disabled and to teach them to do this, that or the other as preliminary to their return to civil life. To advise' the public so that it may understand the situa- tion the Federal Board authorized this statement:
 "At the outset it should be under stood that the 'cripled" soldier is in the vast minority. Statistics show that out of every million men sent over seas approximately 10000 of of them will be subjects for re-educa- ton.
 "Of the 1000 approximately 500 may be really termed cripples, that is, where a man has lost an arm or leg or most of the fingers of the hand, hand, or lost foot and so on. Thus it may be seen that the word 'chipples' is very largely a misnomer and the crippled and dismembered men con- prise a minority of those who are dis abled.
 Program for Their Care.
 "There has been decided upon by the United States Government, and is now in misnomer and the crippled and dismembered men comprise a mincri- ty of those who are disabled.
 Program for Their Care.
 "There has been decided upon by the United States Government, and is now in operation by the Government a distinct, comprehensive and entirely ample program of completely caring for these men who are disabled. When man is first injured he is, of course, taken charge of by the Surgeon-Gen- erals Department, placed in a hospi- tai and given every consideration and attention that medical and surgical science and the unlimited means of the Government can afford. A great many of these men, almost 80 per cent of them, recover from their in- juries and are able to go back in the ranks and perform military duty.
 "It is in the hospital work that so much misrepresentation and con- While the men are undergoing valescence, steps are taken to keep them busy in various ways, because a man who has some sort of employ ment in which lie is interested makes spedier recovery. Also much of this work is designed in a scientific way, instance, to exercise certain muscles I which have become atrophied by non-use, and so on.
 Much Entertainment. "Some of these have no value what ever aside from affording entertain value. In this sphere in particular the public imagination has run riot; given for sexventy S,OO0-ton cargo and troop ships and on May 90, 1918. l the construction of sixty more r. 500-tOn vessels was ordered a total of 1S0. All are to be completely out l fitted, even to the table linen and sil- 1 erware.
 Construction work was begun on the big plant a week after the contract was signed and five months later | the rough wooded island of 846 acres had been converted into a thriving city of ship6uilders, and the first keel laid.
 Eighty miles of standard railway track have been put down within the ! yard and eighteen miles of roadway built. Three million feet of electric wire has been put underground ana an air compressor plant with capa- 1 city of 75,000 cubic feet minute. the second largest in the world. has been installed.
 In the words of an official of the l American International Corporation, Hog Island, "is a peculiarly Ameri- can achievement, born of great nee, essity. It is American in its colossal size and in the combined simplicity and boldness of it's design; American too. in the thoroughness and speed of it's realization. It stands today py far the greatest shipyard in the world. The Emergency Fleet Corpora tion may we'll pause moment to say that it's work is well done. In days to come, when there is time to take stock of these things. it will pc Wri.. ten that this arm of the government indeed deserved well of it's country in the great war. ..a, I "For the American 1nternationa. :. Corporation and its associates H is enough to say that they nave nau ,, a part in an enterprise which VII na forever be remembered as one or .ne
 great achievemtns or siea' poch."