Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-08-01
SCHOOL OPEN FOR
BLINDED FIGHTERS
VOCATIONAL INSTRUCTION AND
REHABILITATION AT HOSPITAL
IN BALTIMORE
MEN TAUGHT USEFUL TRADES

Soldiers in Field and Camp Get Many
Booies-seeretary Wilson Explains
General Mobilization OF Labor for
War Industries.
(From Committee Public Information.)
Neutrality-suspicious. federal SOL
diers, sailors and marines are being
received now for vocational instruc-
ton and rehabilitation at Hospital
Training School, General Hospital No
7. the former home of Mrs. L. Har-
rison Garrett. at Baltimore. Md. The
hospital is QUILTED to accommodate
$50 men and has large recreation
fields and an extensive acreage In gar
dens.
Col. James Bordley of the surgeon
generals Office in charge of the re-
education of the blind. has announced
the appointment of o. H. Burritt Of
the Pennsylvania Institute for the In
structiOn of the Blind as the educa-
tonal director of this army hospital
training school, with Miss Jenny A
Turner, former designer for the Mas
Bachusetts commission for the blind, as
n reconstruction aide. Miss Turner
has been working with the returned
wounded soldiers at the Walter Reed
hospital. Washington.
The blinded soldiers from overseas
will be discharged from the hospital
after they have been taught a practi-
cal self-supporting trade. have been
put In good physical condition, and
taught to read standard printing in
raised type. The men will be sent to
their own home communities and
placed in the trades for which they
have been trained. Red Cross work
ers will watch after their welfare.
Cooperating with the army medical
department. the Red Cross Institute
for the Blind is now making a national
survey of industries open to blinded
soldiers. Instructions will be made
to conform with preparation for these
industries. The federal board for
vocational education is arranging a
plan for the economic and social SUI
pervfsion of all wounded and MANNED
soldiers.
The war service committee of the
American Library association reports
that 435. 900 books were shipped to
American soldiers in France up to
July 1. The books went in tonnage
space granted at the request of Cen
eral Pershing on the decks of trans
ports. where they were used by the
men on the voyage and unpacked for
use In France; in naval vessels for
naval bases abroad; and in Red Cross
tonnage for the hospitals in France
and England.
A total of more than 800. 600 books
have been supplied by the American
Library association to the camps and
stations in the United States and over
seas. Approximately 1000 of these
books were purchased. others having
come as gifts from the American peo-
pie through the public libraries of the
country. Nearly 40 library buildings
have been erected. and 600 lamps in
America, alone. have received collec-
lions of books.
Two hundred librarians. including
leaders in their profession in this coun-
try. are giving their time TO library
war service. Most of these are serv-
ing as camp librarians. assistants. and
organizers in the field; others are in
dispatch offices for the shipment of
books to France.
Methods of thrift now enforced in
the army quartermaSter generals Of
iiNc, fACiuUiuS TIE repair VI CiOlHiHS
and shoes, where possible. have cut
down the issue of new clothing and
shoes from 80 to 40 per cent in some
instances.
The plants where the mending is
done are run in connection with forts
and camps by the camp quartermaster.
When a soldier tears or rips gar
ment he turns it in to his supply Off
Ger. When the soles of his shoes wear
out or the heel runs down. the shoes
so back TO the same officer. These
garments and shoes are taken TO the
repair shops managed by the conser-
walton and reclamation officer. When
repaired and put in order they are re-
turned to the original owner If pos
sible. and If the original owner cannot
he located they serve some other sol
der.
Hundreds of women are being en-
ployed by the war department In the
work of repairing the garments of sol
dfers and In the laundries at camps
and environments. Preference in this
employment is given the wives. sisters,
and mothers of men in the service. BY |
paying 81 month a soldier is entitled |
tn a weekly h1,pdfs, Of lsu,drv In, xrh;<l,