Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-27
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Der the mutile learns to attach a score
OF hooks and clasps, each designed to
perform a particular function. With
these attachments he can hold a pen
and write, hold book for reading,
white with a knife, sweep with a
broom, use his knife at the table for
cutting his food.
An artificial thumb, wonderfully
constructed to replace the lost natural
member, enables him to grasp objects
between thumb and foref1nger.
Farm work is VIGOROUSLY hard
work, calling for skill as well as for a
strong, active body behind it. France
Is returning her wounded soldiers to
the soil at q rate little short Of miracu-
lous.
amputatiOns, enters one of the Red
Cross or French re-educational schools.
Let us say he has lost both legs and
that he was originally a worker in
vineyards in the south of France.
Naturally he wants to go back to his
home section when he has been dis
charged, and the great hope in his
heart is that he will in some way be
able to re-enter the old life.
But l have lost both legs" he tells
the official who is making a preliminary
!! study of his case. "These new ones
are excellent monsieur, but cannot
prune vines again"
"Quite so, but you can be taught
to do useful work sitting down."
'But, monsieur, one cannot prune
vines that way"
Exactly. But / have something
| else in mind. Your grape harvest is
gathered in baskets, is 1t not? How
would you like to learn basket-weav-
ing? There is need for such work in
your home section"
Desires Are Consulted.
1t goes that way. No mutile is set
| to work at a new task without having
his natural desires consulted If he
wants work in agriculture, there is
something which he can be taught to
| do. If it is a factory he longs for, his
| artificial hand will be trained for the
| factory
l have seen French mutiles from
the farming sections of France, who
| before the war plOwed behind q pair
of oxen, being taught the intricacies
| of the mechanical tractor. And | have
seen these same men going out to
pillow once more-not as peasants be-
| ind hTIt G ell f1,ao or
tors, whose false arms or legs equipped
them to compete successfully with
highly trained men who have lost
neither. And | have seen mutile
who had lost both arms in battle climb
| nimbly to his seat on farm cart and
drive off.
Illustrations might be multiplied.
but would be superfiuOus. The re-edu-
cational system in operation abroad
and in America holds a deeper signifi-
canoe and interest than it's application
Of advanced surgery and mechanics in
reequipping men for the tasks of
peace.
The significant feature of it in
France, for instance, is that these men
emerge lEOID TIE WSileT VI nell, IHlnuS
arms and legs, sometimes blind, to
return to civil life better equipped
then in prewar days.
The education of the French peas
ant in the past has been largely 8 mat
ter of utilizing ancient methods. Men
have plowed with oxen because their
grandfathers did; neither had the adj
vantage of training in advanced agri-
culture. But the peasant who leaves
a re-educational school and returns to
the soil is no longer content to farm
in the old way.
The Great Awakening.
He has learned the economy of trac-
tor blowing and of seed drills and of
manure spreaders. He has learned
the principles and practical side of