The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-12-27
FREE EDUCATION
FOR SOLDIERS
Government to Train Dis
abled Men for Bet
ter Jobs
PAY CONTINUES
WHILE IN SCHOOL
Men Will Get SOS Month and Allow
ance for Tamily-Most Liberal
Treatment of Disabled In History
Able-Bodied Soldiers Can Train

campaign 10 inform disabled soldiers OF
the advantages of re-edueation to enable |
them to find better jobs than they had
before the war, and of the courses offered |
By the Federal Board for Vocational Ed |
ucation, has been started by the govern.
ment. An information division has been |
established in the Longacre building III
Times square. and the New York Office
where soldiers apply for admission TO the I
courses is at $50 Broadway Soldiers from
Connecticut and New Jersey apply also at
the same office. In the bulletins sent out
by the federal board for distribution among
the soldiers it is emphasized that all dis
abled soldiers, whose applications for re
education are accepted receive minimum
wage of $50 month during training with
additional allowance for dependents. Every
disabled soldier is advised TO take the
training, but no soldier is required toI
take it After the soldiers have finished
their courses the government will find Jobs
for them.
Not only is the United States provld-
ing for the re-education and training of
her wounded soldiers, sailors and marines
on vastly larger and more complete
scale than any other country" said Dir.
| Charles s. Prosser, director OF the federal
| board III a statement issued through the
| division OF information, "but it has done
| vastly more. Il is paying those disabled
| soldiers who undergo vocational tram
| ing a monthly wage which exceeds the
average individual wage earning OF the
people of this country. No other country
in the world has made such liberal and
generous provisions for it's disabled
The federal board for vocational ne.
education is empowered 10 rAv disabled
man a minimum wage OF So a month
| during the period OF re-education, with
proportionately more II he is married and
has children. It you are married you and
Your wife together will receive $50 a
month from the government. provided You
live together while YOU are taking course
Of instruction. Ii your course is such that
you must live apart the government will
pay You $G5 month and your wife $50
a month
! Additional pay tor each child up 70
three. making $50 for three children, also
is paid 10 soldiers who have families. Com
lnissioned officers who undertake courses
receive the same amount of pay as they
drew in their last month OF active service,
but they are expected to maintain their
dependents out of that sum. as was th"
case when they were on active duty with
the army.
Even il disability does not prevent him
from returning to active work as soon
IA he is relieved OF active military duties
and there il no need for re-cducation TO
enable him to earn his living, any veteran
may take the rc-education courses at tn
expense OF the government In additIol
| 10 his instruction he will receive the con-
pensation due him under the War Risk
Insurance act or an amount equal TO hl>
last months pay ON active service If tha
* greater than the insurance It Is the
rule that all soldiers, no matter what their
circumstances receive the largest amount
due them under the regulations but every
soldier taking the training has a guaran
tee Of so month.
There are fourteen branches OF the
board in important cities throughout the
Country said Director Prusser. 'EX
p4erts in every known occupation viii bt
available TO assist these men in finding
the occupation best suited to them, and
officials Of the board are stationed in The
army and navy hospitals to apprise the
disabled Of their opportunity to At them
selves TO so over the top in civil life
'sThc federal board is not only prepared
TO train for all such occupations as those
in which instruction has been given sue
!, cessfully in other countries says mono
graph distributed among disabled soldiers
and sailors in all the hospitals, 'fbut be
cause of the wider variety OF occupation:
, in American life it is prepared to trair
for great many more occupations thar
: have been offered in other countries II
the case of each man the whole m..ttel
, should start with his own interest anC
, preference and previous experience anC
, ability as well as his existing handicap
, This means conference between the mar
and the representatives OF the fedora
, board.
"Many thousands Of wounded and other
. wise disabled men have been trained ant
placed in new occupations in France. Italy
belgium, England, and Canada The lis
lof occupations in which instruction ha
been given iuelnde professional oceupa
: tons, such as those OF law, medicine
teaching, engineering, and even theologr
agricultural occupations, including profeS
sional agriculture, forestry. farm manage
ment, general farming. dairying. beelSee,,
Ing, poultry raising. swine herding. trucl
gardening, horticulture, farm mechanic
and many other lines too numerous II
mention here: commercial occupations. in
+ Guiding not only shorthand. .stenotypr
9 typewritiuc. bookkeeping. and general ae
! counting. but also civil service position
! teleg1aphy, salesmanship, insurance, ant
banking: and trade and industrial occupa
{ tions, including not only those found j,
c the wel-reeo9nized trades like the meta
c trades, the Woodworking trades. the build
ing trades, The electrical trades. the auto
g mobile trades, the textile trades, the trans
> portation trades. the chemical trades tn
u shoe working trades. the clothing trades
and Others, but also many highly special
/; ICED occupations 20 characteristics OF mod
9 ern Industrial lie. such az antogenom
welding, electric Welding, wireless operat