Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-07-27
SCHOOL OPEN FOR
BLINDED FIGHTERS
VOCATIONAL INSTRUCTION AND
REHABILITATION At HOSPITAL
..s,.,.-, IN BALTIMORE.
MEN TAUGHT USEFUL TRADES

MEN TAUGHT USEFUL TRADES
Soldiers in Field and Camp Get Man,
Books Secretary Wilson Explains
General Mobilization Of Labor fol
War industries.
(E'rom Committee on Public Information.
MISUNDERSTANDING federal sol
&ers, sailors and marines are being
received now for vocational instruc
ton and rehabilitation at Hospital
Training School, General Hospital No
Z, the former home Of Mrs. I. Har
rison Garrett, at Baltimore. Md. The
hospital is outfitted to accommodate
go men and has large recreation
fields aud 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-
tional director of this army hospital
training school. with Miss Jenny A.
Turner, former designer for the Mas
sachusetts commission for the blind, as
Il 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 practi-
cal seIf-SuppOrting trade. have been
put in good physical condition. and
taught to read standard printing in
raised type. The men will he sent to
their own home communities and
placed in the trades for which they
have been trained. Red Cross work
crs will watch after their welfare.
Cooperating with the army medical
department.. the Red Cross Institute
for the Blind is now making national
survey IF industries open to blinded
soldiers. Instructions will he made
to conform with preparations for these
Industries. The federal board for
vocational education is arranging a
plan for the economic and social SUI
pervision Of all wounded and Haimed
soldiers.
The war service committee of the
American Library association reports
that 435,OOO books were shipped to
American soldiers in France up to
July I. The books went in tonnage
space granted at the request Of Cen
cral Pershing on the decks Of trans
ports, where they were used by the
men on the voyage and unpacked for
use I'm France; in naval vessels for
naval bases abroad; and in Red Cross
tonnage for the hospitals in France
and England.
4 total of more than 100000 books
have been supplied by the American
Library association to the camps and
stations in the United States and over
seas. Approximately 100000 of these
hooks were purchased, others having
come as gifts from the American peO-
pic through the public libraries Of the
country. Nearly 40 library buildings
have been erected, and 600 camps in
America, alone, have received cOllec-
TONS 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 IL France.
Methods of thrift now enforced in
the army quartermaster generals Of
flee, inciuding the repair of clothing
md shoes, where possible, have cut
down the issue of new clothing and
sa,oes 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
1ncnt he turns it in to his supply Off
Ger when the sOles Of his shoes wear
out or the heel runs down. the shoes
gn back to the same officer. These
garments and shoes are taken to the
XIV,
walton and reclamation officer. When
repaired and put in order they are re-
turned 10 the original owner If pos
sibtc, and if the original owner cannot
he located they serve some other sol
der.
Hundreds of women are being en-
ployeti by the war department in the
work of repairing the garments Of sol
dicys and in the laundries at camps
and csntOnments. Preference in this
employment is given the wives. sisters,
and ,nOt11rrs Of men in the service. BY
paying 81 a month a soldier is entitled
to weekly bundle Of laundry in which
the Duml.er of articles is not limited.
Iso not waste Joe, says the United
States food administration. Do not use
as Il luxury to serve with salads,
fruits. and sea foods and do not put
mere than is necessary in glasses Of
water. ees,, and other drinks.
There is to be no curtailment on
the use of ice as necessity, but it
should be used carefully in localities
where any shortage is indicated. 1t
is considered necessity when used to
preserve food and in administering
comfort, and every reasonable effort
will I've made to see that families are