The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
TO TEACH TROOPS
Government VIII Educate Dis
abled Soldiers and Sailors.
Offices of Board Open in Four
teen Cities Now.

Washington, Nov. 3O.-Offices are
now open in fourteen of the chief cities
of the United States to receive the APP
plications of disab soldiers and sail
ors of the American army and navy
for free education to equip them for
the vocation for which they are most
fitted. These offices have been estab-
lished by the federal board of voea-
lions and are in the following cities:
Washington, Philadelphia, New York,
Boston, Atlanta, New Orleans, Cincin
natl, St Louis, Dallas, Denver. Chicago.
Minnesota, San Francisco and Seattle.
AT each office are stationed men to
advise the disa bled fighters as to what
they are entitled to receive, a medical
officer and man to obtain employ
ment for them when they are ready
to go to work. 1t is promised by the
federal board that applications will be
sympathetically considered with the
best interests of the disabled man in
mind.
While receiving re-education, the
government will pay the disabled man
$65 month and in addition will. pro-
vide him with the funds necessary to
pay educational fees. Each man ac-
cepted for re-education will be sent to
an institution giving special courses in
the line he has chosen, or he will be
given instruction in any industry he
wishes to learn.
Allowances as Well.
During his training period allow
ances will be made by the government
to his dependents, such as wife, chill
dren and mother. These will be fixed
IN proportion to the amount they re-
ce1ved while he was in active service
When the disa bled man has finished
his training the federal board promises
10 nave employment ready for him.
After he has gone to work again his
compensation from the war risk insur-
ance bureau begins and will continue
unaffected by the amount of his earn
ings
In making these announcements the
FEDERAL board of vocational education
states:
Should Secure Trade.
The worst mistake disabled man
can make is to drift into a low grade.
unsKiiled occupation. Without any
training he must compete with The
normal man in line of work where
brute strength and physical fitness
alone count and there can be no doubt
as to the outcome when work becomes
sack. Every consideration REQUIRES
mat a disabled man should obtain per.
manent employment at a desirable age
IN the position for which he is best
Iitted or for which he can become best
1!tted. Otherwise his career will con-
Sist or alternate periods of more or
Iess undesirable employment, idleness,
ing up an occupation. No seif-re-
spectlng veteran of this great war can
aI1ord to be placed in this position.
Ihere is only one escape by which
these men may make their future safe
ana that is If training is necessary to
OBTAIN 1t thru the federal board for
vocational education.
me temptation to take these low
grade, unskilled jobs is very strong
Whlie war prices prevail, especially as
pay is higher because there is a lack
OF help and the quality Of the work is
not looked at too closely; but Jobs
commanding war prices and EMPLOYING
large numbers of particularly skilled
or dnskilled hands are not ALWAYS
going TO exist. They are soon going to
shrink to normal conditions. What
tnen! The answer Is unfortunately
very simple. The law of supply and
demand is not going to stop working
because there have been some men
VINO nave been soldiers and who in
CURED disabilities in defense of the
country. If there is only paying work
for SO many hands, the supply ~
hands must be cut down. When this
happens. the man who cannot turn
out as much or as good work as a
SOUND man is going to lose his Job. be-
cause OF his deficiency, and the sound
man Is going to keep his Job. That
means the disabled man will be ont Of
a job and will drift about from one
temporary employment to the other
meeting rebuff after rebuff and he,
coming OF less value as time goes on
The antidote for such a condition
IS offered free by the United States
government"